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rity or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience. This, in our foresaid holy father's name, Pope Innocent, I do demand of thee. Shak.

That may be demanded or claimed. "All sums demandable." Bacon.

One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any plaintiff.

One who demands.

A woman who demands.

A yellow-green, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name.

A half man. [R.] Knolles.

A form of madness in which the patient conceives himself possessed of devils.

t is allied to the moles, but is called muscrat by some English writers. [Written also dæsman.]

Yielding diamonds.

Adamantine. [Obs.]

The property of transmitting radiant heat; the quality of being diathermous. Melloni.

The doctrine or the phenomena of the transmission of radiant heat. Nichol.

Having the property of transmitting radiant heat; diathermal; - - opposed to athermanous.

A morbid an uncontrollable craving (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism.

One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks.

Of or pertaining to dipsomania.

Overthrow or annulment by the decision of a superior tribunal; as, disaffirmance of judgment.

To unman. [Obs.] Feltham.

equipments, guns, etc.; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as, to dismantle a fort, a town, or a ship. A dismantled house, without windows or shutters to keep out the rain. Macaulay.