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Any device for stopping or changing a current, as of grain or water in a spout.

The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc.

ollowed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan war and its heroes; -- so called because keeping within the circle of a singe subject. Also, any series or coterie of poets writing on one subject. Milman.

d by a point in the plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plane.

A capping or crowning molding in classic architecture.

The leaping, tripping, or measured stepping of one who dances; an amusement, in which the movements of the persons are regulated by art, in figures and in accord with music.

To drop the bait gently on the surface of the water. To catch a club by dapping with a grasshoper. Walton.

orb of day. [Poetic] So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. Milton.

s stern when sailing. -- Dead weight. (a) A heavy or oppressive burden. Dryden. (b) (Shipping) A ship's lading, when it consists of heavy goods; or, the heaviest part of a ship's cargo. (c) (Railroad) The weight of rolling stock, the live weight being the load. Knight. -- Dead wind (Naut.), a wind directly ahead, or…

To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly. Macaulay.

The act of plucking off; a cropping.

Declining; sloping.

Descending gradually; moderately steep; sloping; downhill.

A descending surface; a sloping place. Commodious declivities and channels for the passage of the waters. Derham.

plant. Arbuthnot. In pharmacy decoction is opposed to infusion, where there is merely steeping. Latham.

as been affected by an electric wave, a process usually accomplished by some method of tapping or shaking, or by rotation of the coherer.

The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.

A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set-off. Abbott.

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

; spruce; neat. [Archaic or Poetic] "The deftest way." Shak. "Deftest feats." Gay. The limping god, do deft at his new ministry. Dryden. Let me be deft and debonair. Byron.