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Law), a sum of money paid by a person who charters a whole vessel but fails to make out a full cargo. The payment is made for the unoccupied capacity. Abbott. -- Dead ground (Mining), the portion of a vein in which there is no ore. -- Dead hand, a hand that can not alienate, as of a person civilly dead. "Serfs held i…

Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody. These eyes behold The deathful scene. Pope.

controversy; as, the debates in Parliament or in Congress. Heard, noted, answer'd, as in full debate. Pope.

Full of contention; contentious; quarrelsome. [Obs.] Spenser.

debted; -- correlative to creditor. [I 'll] bring your latter hazard back again, And thankfully rest debtor for the first. Shak. In Athens an insolvent debtor became slave to his creditor. Mitford. Debtors for our lives to you. Tennyson.

To withdraw. [Obs.] Fuller.

Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak.

ate. [Obs.] Our seat denies us traffic here; The sea, too near, decides us from the rest. Fuller.

Free from doubt or wavering; determined; of fixed purpose; fully settled; positive; resolute; as, a decided opinion or purpose.

n, a fraction in which the denominator is some power of 10, as -- Decimal point, a dot or full stop at the left of a decimal fraction. The figures at the left of the point represent units or whole numbers, as 1.05.

To make full statement of, as goods, etc., for the purpose of paying taxes, duties, etc. To declare off, to recede from an agreement, undertaking, contract, etc.; to renounce. -- To declare one's self, to avow one's opinion; to show openly what one thinks, or which side he espouses.

To decompose. [R.] Fuller.

Full of deeds or exploits; active; stirring. [R.] "A deedful life." Tennyson.

Of low tone; full-toned; not high or sharp; grave; heavy. "The deep thunder." Byron. The bass of heaven's deep organ. Milton.

Full of defects; imperfect. [Obs.] Barrow.

Full of defiance; bold; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or act. In attitude stern and defiant. Longfellow. -- De*fi"ant*ly, adv. -- De*fi"ant*ness, n.

To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold.

eprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld. We have defrauded no man. 2 Cor. vii. 2. Churches seem injured and def…

ects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look. Fuller.

Capable of being blotted out or erased. "An impression easily deleble." Fuller.