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A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the Decapoda. Also used adjectively.

A division of the dibranchiate cephalopods including the cuttlefishes and squids. See Decacera.

Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.

A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal.

A female demigod.

ersonal chattel which had caused the death of a person, and for that reason was given to God, that is, forfeited to the crown, to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high almoner. Thus, if a cart ran over a man and killed him, it was forfeited as a deodand.

A kind of cedar (Cedrus Deodara), growing in India, highly valued for its size and beauty as well as for its timber, and also grown in England as an ornamental tree.

A gift or offering to God. [Obs.] Wherein that blessed widow's deodate was laid up. Hooker.

A deodorizer.

The act of depriving of odor, especially of offensive odors resulting from impurities.

To deprive of odor, especially of such as results from impurities.

He who, or that which, deodorizes; esp., an agent that destroys offensive odors.

A member of a group of South American blood-sucking bats, of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire.

A kind of tree (Osmanthus Americanus), allied to the European olive.

A sirup made of poppies.

Relating to diarthrosis, or movable articulations.

ct reptiles having the jaws armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon, supporting also a pair of powerful tusks. Their remains are found in triassic strata of South Africa and India.

A compound of a binary type containing two atoms of iodine; -- called also biniodide.

the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. fishes, and sea hedgehogs.

Like or pertaining to the genus Diodon. -- n.