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Energy in style or action; animation; spirit.

abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words. The coin which was adulterated and debased. Hale. It is a kind of taking God's name in vain to debase religion with such frivolous disputes. Hooker. And to debase the sons, exalts the sires. Pope.…

A Linnæan order of plants characterized by having ten styles.

Belonging to the Decagynia; having ten styles.

One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H20, of the ethylene series.

Deceptiveness; a deception; a sham. [R.] Carlyle.

One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H15, of the acetylene series; -- called also decenylene.

rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style.

To make clear; to free from obscurity. [Obs.] "To declare this a little." Boyle.

Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness. Boyle.

Very; with a tendency to darkness of color. The deeply red juice of buckthorn berries. Boyle.

efalcation; to embezzle money held in trust. "Some partner defalcating, or the like." Carlyle.

s, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine. To defecate the dark and muddy oil of amber. Boyle.

; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment. The style was indeed deficient in ease and variety. Macaulay. Deficient number. (Arith.) See under Abundant. -- De*fi"cient-ly, adv.

The state or quality of being deflagrable. The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle.

developed condition, or lacking certain parts. Some families of plants are degraded dicotyledons. Dana.

To melt or be dissolved; to deliquesce. [Obs.] Boyle.

A melting or maudlin mood. Carlyle.

The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery.

To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse. [Obs.] The water in which it was demerged. Boyle.