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The pilot whale or blackfish.

urning (Costume), mourning complete and strongly marked, the garments being not only all black, but also composed of lusterless materials and of such fashion as is identified with mourning garments.

To render infamous; to bring into disrepute. My guilt thy growing virtues did defame; My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name. Dryden.

lled to make answer; also of jurors, witnesses, etc. In default of, in case of failure or lack of. Cooks could make artificial birds and fishes in default of the real ones. Arbuthnot. -- To suffer a default (Law), to permit an action to be called without appearing to answer.

Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied either to natural or moral qualities; as, a defective limb; defective timber; a defective copy or account; a defective character; defective rules.

, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment. The style was indeed deficient in ease and variety. Macaulay. Deficient number. (Arith.) See under Abundant. -- De*fi"cient-ly, adv.…

Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc. Addison.

Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts. Some families of plants are degraded dicotyledons. Dana.

Endowed with delight. If virtue no delighted beauty lack. Shak.

certain salts, acids, and alkalies. In very moist air crystals of strontites deliquesce. Black.

To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm. The deluged earth would useless grow. Blackmore.

A small cup for, or of, black coffee.

A half-vill, consisting of five freemen or frankpledges. Blackstone.

Magic in which the aid of demons is invoked; black or infernal magic. Bp. Hurd.

demure way, and that delight showed itself in her face and in her clear bright eyes. W. Black.

To blacken thoroughly; to make very black. Boyle.

The act of making black. Boyle.

One who, or that which, blackens.

to graze; also, to use for pasture. [R.] Cattle, to graze and departure in his grounds. Blackstone. A right to cut wood upon or departure land. Washburn.

ing attached a subordinate to, or contingent on, something else. Like a large cluster of black grapes they show And make a large dependence from the bough. Dryden.