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The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting.

inary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively. "Such decuman billows." Gauden. "The baffled decuman." Lowell.

, the garments being not only all black, but also composed of lusterless materials and of such fashion as is identified with mourning garments.

Any animal; especially, a wild animal. [Obs.] Chaucer. Mice and rats, and such small deer. Shak. The camel, that great deer. Lindisfarne MS.

; dirtiness; uncleanness. Defilements of the flesh. Hopkins. The chaste can not rake into such filth without danger of defilement. Addison.

A word used to define or limit the extent of the signification of a common noun, such as the definite article, and some pronouns.

To divest of human qualities, such as pity, tenderness, etc.; as, dehumanizing influences.

to inform against; to accuse; to denounce. As men were delated, they were marked down for such a fine. Bp. Burnet.

admiralty. It is now abolished, and the privy council is the immediate court of appeal in such cases. [Eng.]

Of such a nature that anything may be erased from it; -- said of paper.

ing used in Egypt after six or seven centuries before Christ, for books, deeds, and other such writings; a simplified form of the hieratic character; -- called also epistolographic character, and enchorial character. See Enchorial.

The allowance made to the master or owner of the ship for such delay or detention. The claim for demurrage ceases as soon as the ship is cleared out and ready for sailing. M`Culloch.

ffered by the opposite party, and an objecting to proceed further, on the allegation that such evidence is not sufficient in law to maintain the issue, and a reference to the court to determine the point. Bouvier.

te; designating or marking off. Proper names are preëminently denotative; telling us that such as object has such a term to denote it, but telling us nothing as to any single attribute. Latham.

To deprive of odor, especially of such as results from impurities.

dinate, satellite, and the like. This earth and its dependencies. T. Burnet. Modes I call such complex ideas which . . . are considered as dependencies on or affections of substances. Locke.

To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy; as, to deploy a column of troops into line of battle.

The act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition. Depolarization of light (Opt.), a change in the plane of polarization of rays, especially by a crystalline medium, such that the light which had been extinguished by the analyzer reappears as if the polarization had b…

ck up by the roots; to extirpate. [R.] While that the colter rusts That should deracinate such savagery. Shak.

course of his policy. Burke. A government which is either unable or unwilling to redress such wrongs is derelict to its highest duties. J. Buchanan.