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To deprive of the beard. [Obs.] Bailey.

can arrive to the height of sin. South. Her pride debauched her judgment and her eyes. Cowley.

The outward opening of a river, of a valley, or of a strait.

A bubbling or boiling over. [Obs.] Bailey.

Having the point or top cut off. [Obs.] Bailey.

e stall allotted to the dean in the choir, on the right or south side of the chancel. Shipley.

Having ten feet; decapodal. [R.] Bailey.

e representation; artifice; cheat; fraud. There was of course room for vast deception. Motley.

That may be plucked off, cropped, or torn away. [Obs.] Bailey.

de; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal. The declination of atoms in their descent. Bentley. Every declination and violation of the rules. South.

Ornament. [Obs.] Bailey.

llishment; ornament. The hall was celebrated for . . . the richness of its decoration. Motley.

s speech; decorous behavior; a decorous dress for a judge. A decorous pretext the war. Motley. -- De*co"rous*ly, adv. -- De*co"rous*ness, n.

To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull. "Great barley dried and decorticated." Arbuthnot.

worn out. "Beggary or decrepit age." Milton. Already decrepit with premature old age. Motley.

To bring to shame; to disgrace. [Obs.] Bailey.

Disgrace; dishonor. [Obs.] Bailey.

Disgraceful; unbecoming. [R.] Bailey.

dress, as to a patron. He complied ten elegant books, and dedicated them to the Lord Burghley. Peacham.

Low in situation; lying far below the general surface; as, a deep valley.