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An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury.

ted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings.

To challenge; to provoke; to defy. Time, I dare thee to discover Such a youth and such a lover. Dryden.

ark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverable dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! milton. In the dark and silent grave. Sir W. Raleigh.

make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.

Those birds whose young are covered with down when hatched.

To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal. So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue. Shak.

A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber.

tion of coal tar, and containing phenol, naphthalus, etc. -- Dead plate (Mach.), a solid covering over a part of a fire grate, to prevent the entrance of air through that part. -- Dead pledge, a mortgage. See Mortgage. -- Dead point. (Mach.) See Dead center. -- Dead reckoning (Naut.), the method of determining the…

A covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory.

An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due. Burrill. Bond debt, Book debt, etc. See under Bond, Book, etc. -- Debt of nature, death.

To stamp; to detect; to discover. [R.] You are both deciphered, . . . For villains. Shak.

To cover; to overspread. To deck with clouds the uncolored sky. Milton.

One who, or that which, decks or adorns; a coverer; as, a table decker.

Leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the neck, or low-necked, as a dress.

ect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made.

The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side.

ities; deterioration; meanness. Degeneracy of spirit in a state of slavery. Addison. To recover mankind out of their universal corruption and degeneracy. S. Clarke.

works in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover. Farrow.

To discover; to show. [Poetic] I 'll deliver Myself your loyal servant. Shak.