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nt rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other débris.

Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.

The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness. The queen's declination from marriage. Stow.

To cross at an acute angle; to cut or divide in the form of X; to intersect; -- said of lines in geometrical figures, rays of light, nerves, etc.

Crossed; intersected.

Act of crossing at an acute angle, or state of being thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an X; as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc.

Intersecting at acute angles. Sir T. Browne.

To a great depth; with depth; far down; profoundly; deeply. Deep-versed in books, and shallow in himself. Milton. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. Pope.

ly, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calumniate; to asperse.

To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow.

he was delivered safe and soon. Gower. Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones. Peacham.

To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse. [Obs.] The water in which it was demerged. Boyle.

to the Gnostics, an agent or one employed by the Supreme Being to create the material universe and man.

One versed in demonology. R. North.

One who writes on, or is versed in, demonology.

One versed in the natural history of trees.

aying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation. You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. Bp. Stillingfleet.

One versed in deontology.

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.

lace of deposit storing of goods; a warehouse; a storehouse. The islands of Guernsey and Jersey are at present the great depots of this kingdom. Brit Critic (1794).