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An involuntary discharge of watery humors from the eyes; wateriness of the eyes. [Obs.] Bailey.

railty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a thread; delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy of the skin; delicacy of frame.

A small, retired valley; a ravine. In dells and dales, concealed from human sight. Tickell.

Cast down; humble; submissive. [Obs.] He down descended like a most demiss And abject thrall. Spenser.

Downcast; submissive; humble. [R.] They pray with demissive eyelids. Lord (1630).

In a humble manner. [Obs.]

To yield or submit; to humble; to lower; as, to demit one's self to humble duties. [R.]

A human being possessed by a demon or evil spirit; one whose faculties are directly controlled by a demon. The demoniac in the gospel was sometimes cast into the fire. Bates.

by an epithet; to entitle; to name; to designate. Passions commonly denominating selfish. Hume.

. Liming does not depauperate; the ground will last long, and bear large grain. Mortimer. Humility of mind which depauperates the spirit. Jer. Taylor.

To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine. Copland.

To lay bare; to expose. The exposure and depluming of the leading humbugs of the age. De Quincey.

il; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented; strong expression of disapprobation. Humble deprecation. Milton.

Serving to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic. Humble and deprecatory letters. Bacon.

To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride.

Pressed or forced down; lowed; sunk; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled.

Humiliation; abasement, as of pride.

Fully prostrate; humble; low; rude. [Obs.] How may weak mortal ever hope to file His unsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate style. G. Fletcher.

Purifying the blood or the humors; depuratory. -- n.

A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.