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scorn for social customs and current philosophical opinions. Hence the term Cynic symbolized, in the popular judgment, moroseness, and contempt for the views of others.

t or self-indulgence; as, a cynical man who scoffs at pretensions of integrity; characterized by such opinions; as, cynical views of human nature.

The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, from the development of which the child or other organism is formed. Hæckel.

A native, or a naturalized inhabitant, of Denmark. Great Dane. (Zoöl.) See Danish dog, under Danish.

To become dim-sighted; to become dazed or dazzled. [Obs.] Chauscer.

, Whose sudden visitations daze the world. Sir H. Taylor. He comes out of the room in a dazed state, that is an odd though a sufficient substitute for interest. Dickens.

o low as to debar them, not only from the comforts but from the common decencies of civilized life. Buckle.

Characterized by courteousness, affability, or gentleness; of good appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant. Was never prince so meek and debonair. Spenser.

A Linnæan order of plants characterized by having ten styles.

A Linnæan class of plants characterized by having ten stamens.

To deprive of carbon; as, to decarbonize steel; to decarbonize the blood. Decarbonized iron. See Malleable iron. -- Decarbonized steel, homogenous wrought iron made by a steel process, as that of Bessemer; ingot iron.

Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak.

The action of decentralizing, or the state of being decentralized. "The decentralization of France." J. P. Peters.

Possessed of, or characterized by, a decidua.

ly; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant. Grenville seized the opportunity to declaim on the repeal of the stamp act. Bancroft.

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

To free from inflections. Deflectionized languages are said to be analytic. Earle.

A semisolid emulsion produced by the treatment of certain skins with oxidized fish oil, which extracts their soluble albuminoids. It was formerly solely a by-product of chamois leather manufacture, but is now made for its own sake, being valuable as a dressing for hides.

Characterized by dehiscence; opening in some definite way, as the capsule of a plant.

Earthenware made in imitation of the above; any glazed earthenware made for table use, and the like.