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Having the nature of a cyme, or derived from a cyme; bearing, or pertaining to, a cyme or cymes.

e or black, the latter being most common, and used for mourning. [Obs.] Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow. Shak.

race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called Sioux. [Written also Dacotahs.]

Pertainingto, or bordering on, the river Danube.

Deprived of sight; blind. [Obs.] He was, I think, at this time quite dark, and so had been for some years. Evelyn.

To render dim; to deprive of vision. Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Rom. xi. 10.

than light, because their deeds were evil. John. iii. 19. Pursue these sons of darkness: drive them out From all heaven's bounds. Milton.

s or favors, cognizable in foro externo, such as appointments to benefices. The name is derived from the word datum, given or dated (with the indications of the time and place of granting the gift or favor).

Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man. "The queen, my lord, is dead." Shak. The crew, all except himself, were dead of hunger. Arbuthnot. Seek him with cand…

To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.

Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened. Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight. Dryden.

To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly. Deafened and stunned with their promiscuous cries. Addison.

ness; as, he deals in flour. They buy and sell, they deal and traffic. South. This is to drive to wholesale trade, when all other petty merchants deal but for parcels. Dr. H. More.

To deprive of the beard. [Obs.] Bailey.

To engage in combat for; to strive for. Volunteers . . . thronged to serve under his banner, and the cause of religion was debated with the same ardor in Spain as on the plains of Palestine. Prescott.

rke. A man must have got his conscience thoroughly debauched and hardened before he can arrive to the height of sin. South. Her pride debauched her judgment and her eyes. Cowley.

To deprive of bitumen.

The outward opening of a river, of a valley, or of a strait.

To deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to decalcify bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin.

To deprive of carbonic acid.