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ning is nothing but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles already known. Locke. See what regard will be paid to the pedigree which deduces your descent from kings and conquerors. Sir W. Scott.

gle depend on, and are deducible from, the complex idea of three lines including a space. Locke.

To bid defiance, To set at defiance, to defy; to disregard recklessly or contemptuously. Locke.

on being nothing but making another understand by words what the term defined stands for. Locke.

s of the succession of those ideas, . . . beyond which they can neither delay nor hasten. Locke.

t of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit. The delegated administration of the law. Locke. Delegated executive power. Bancroft. The power exercised by the legislature is the people's power, delegated by the people to the legislative. J. B. Finch.

n his wishes into demands will be but a little way from thinking he ought to obtain them. Locke.

The act of depriving of reason; madness. Whitlock.

disagreement is by this means plainly and clearly perceived, it is called demonstration. Locke.

e sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the hour. The better to denote her to the doctor. Shak.

A small square block or projection in cornices, a number of which are ranged in an ornamental band; -- used particularly in the Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders.

An artificial tooth, block, or set of teeth.

complex ideas which . . . are considered as dependencies on or affections of substances. Locke.

One who deputes, or makes a deputation. [R.] Locke.

on; -- followed by of, from, or to. I hope it is no derogation to the Christian religion. Locke. He counted it no derogation of his manhood to be seen to weep. F. W. Robertson.

the designs of a besotted woman. Hallam. A . . . settled design upon another man's life. Locke. How little he could guess the secret designs of the court! Macaulay.

to be attributed primarily, in their first designation, only to those things have parts. Locke.

. Scott's Letters. Others depress their own minds, [and] despond at the first difficulty. Locke. We wish that . . . desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that foundations of our national power still stand strong. D. Webster.

notes, designed to enable persons to discriminate between them. -- Detector l. See under Lock.

That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking.