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Ornament. [Obs.] Bailey.

Ornament. [Obs.]

tate of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss. Twit me with the decrements of my pendants. Ford. Rocks, mountains, and the other elevations of the earth suffer a continual decrement. Woodward.

An accidental blowing off of, or other serious damage to, the breechblock of a gun; also, a removal of the breechblock for the purpose of disabling the gun.

Inference; deduction; thing deduced. [R.] Dryden.

The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.

The act of delaying; postponement. [R.] My grief, joined with the instant business, Begs a deferment. Suckling.

efiled, whether physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness. Defilements of the flesh. Hopkins. The chaste can not rake into such filth without danger of defilement. Addison.

The act of defining; definition; description. [Obs.] Shak.

A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.

Privation by fraud; defrauding. [Obs.] Milton.

Payment of charges.

The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison. [R.]

Deprivation of rank or office; degradation. [R.] Milton.

Hindrance. [Obs.] Gower.

Delineation; sketch. Dr. H. More.

A wandering of the mind; a crazy fancy. [Obs.] Heywood.

Dementia; loss of mental powers. See Insanity.

Demented; dementate. [R.] J. H. Newman.

Deprived of reason. Arise, thou dementate sinner! Hammond.