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Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing.

A measure of capacity in the metric system; a cubic volume of ten liters, equal to about 610.24 cubic inches, that is, 2.642 wine gallons.

A measure of capacity, equal to ten steres, or ten cubic meters.

A measure of capacity or volume in the metric system; one tenth of a liter, equal to 6.1022 cubic inches, or 3.38 fluid ounces.

A pack or set of playing cards. The king was slyly fingered from the deck. Shak.

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

A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer.

An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.

The triangular space under the beak of many brachiopod shells.

To soothe; to mollify; to pacify; to soften. [R.] Sir T. Elyot.

Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray. To replace the cloudy barrier dense. Cowper.

In a dense, compact manner.

The quality of being dense, close, or thick; compactness; -- opposed to rarity.

Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity. -- n.

Capacity of being odious. [R.] Carlyle.

The gray whale of the Pacific coast. See Gray whale.

A double-walled glass vessel for holding liquid air, etc., having the space between the walls exhausted so as to prevent conduction of heat, and sometimes having the glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat; -- called also, according to the particular shape, Dewar bulb, Dewar tube, etc.

of India. It is remarkable for its propensity to hunt the tiger and other wild animals in packs.

The infield; the square space, 90 feet on a side, having the bases at its angles.

sists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.