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The striped quagga, or Burchell's zebra, of South Africa (Asinus Burchellii); -- called also peechi, or peetsi.

o trade; to do business; 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.

The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.

s conscience thoroughly debauched and hardened before he can arrive to the height of sin. South. Her pride debauched her judgment and her eyes. Cowley.

s placed. -- Decanal stall, the stall allotted to the dean in the choir, on the right or south side of the chancel. Shipley.

The act of deceiving or misleading. South.

One who decimates. South.

To defend by declamation; to advocate loudly. [Obs.] "Declaims his cause." South.

ination of atoms in their descent. Bentley. Every declination and violation of the rules. South.

ablished by a decree; definitive; settled. The decretory rigors of a condemning sentence. South.

Degenerate; base. [Obs.] "Degenerous passions." Dryden. "Degenerous practices." South.

adation of a needy man of letters. Macaulay. Deplorable is the degradation of our nature. South. Moments there frequently must be, when a sidegradation of his state. Blair.

A small South American rodent (Octodon Cumingii), of the family Octodontidæ.

d which prevented British troops from assisting in the expulsion of the French from Rome. Southey.

To lay down. [R.] Southey.

The authority of conscience stands founded upon its vicegerency and deputation under God. South.

rom a radical; as, income is derivable from various sources. All honor derivable upon me. South. The exquisite pleasure derivable from the true and beautiful relations of domestic life. H. G. Bell. The argument derivable from the doxologies. J. H. Newman.

To move toward the south, or to the southward.

ing constellations or signs (Astron.), those through which the planets descent toward the south. -- Descending node (Astron.), that point in a planet's orbit where it intersects the ecliptic in passing southward. -- Descending series (Math.), a series in which each term is numerically smaller than the preceding one;…

andonment by God; spiritual despondency. The spiritual agonies of a soul under desertion. South.