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, or bushes. (b) To damage or destroy; to injure; to wound; as, to cut up a book or its author by severe criticism. "This doctrine cuts up all government by the roots." Locke. (c) To afflict; to discourage; to demoralize; as, the death of his friend cut him up terribly. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

In old authors, the urinary bladder, or the gall bladder. [Written also cystis.]

ft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck. Astratch of her clame, a dab of her beack. Hawthorne.

A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a womam in authority; especially, a lady. Then shall these lords do vex me half so much, As that proud dame, the lord protector's wife. Shak.

Authority; jurisdiction; control. [Obs.] In dangerhad he . . . the young girls. Chaucer.

e dapper ditties that I wont devise. Spenser. Sharp-nosed, dapper steam yachts. Julian Hawthorne.

With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look. Looking darkly at the clerguman. Hawthorne.

The line drawn through a figure in the thorough bass, as a direction to raise the interval a semitone.

Conspicuously; showily. [Colloq.] A dashingly dressed gentleman. Hawthorne.

then sent to the general post office to be opened. (b) That which has lost its force or authority; as, the law has become a dead letter. -- Dead-letter office, a department of the general post office where dead letters are examined and disposed of. -- Dead level, a term applied to a flat country. -- Dead lift, a dir…

alt with him" on the sin of rejecting the aid which Providence so manifestly held out. Hawthorne. Return . . . and I will deal well with thee. Gen. xxxii. 9.

the signal of approaching death. -- Death warrant. (a) (Law) An order from the proper authority for the execution of a criminal. (b) That which puts an end to expectation, hope, or joy. -- Death wound. (a) A fatal wound or injury. (b) (Naut.) The springing of a fatal leak. -- Spiritual death (Scripture), the corrup…

(Acherontia atropos), so called from a figure resembling a human skull on the back of the thorax; -- called also death's-head sphinx.

ch an army. Learning not debauched by ambition. Burke. 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.

and payment of the principal, and the debtor company cannot redeem the stock, except by authority of an act of Parliament. [Eng.]

A member of any body of ten men in authority.

A body of ten men in authority.

ation; to divide and distribute (what has been united or concentrated); -- esp. said of authority, or the administration of public affairs.

In a decided manner; indisputably; clearly; thoroughly.

An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power, deciding what is to be done or to take place; edict, law; authoritative ru "The decrees of Venice." Sh There went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. Luke ii. 1.…