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Bending down; sloping. [Obs.]

A bending downward; a sloping; incurvation downward; declivity. [R.] Davies (Wit's Pilgr.)

printing office, who runs on errands, does dirty work (as washing the ink rollers and sweeping), etc. "Without fearing the printer's devil or the sheriff's officer." Macaulay. -- Tasmanian devil (Zoöl.), a very savage carnivorous marsupial of Tasmania (Dasyurus, or Diabolus, ursinus). -- To play devil with, to molest…

An avoiding or escaping; also, a warning. [Obs.] Bailey.

y with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses. Longing they look, and gaping at the sight, Devour her o'er with vast delight. Dryden.

A towel or napkin for wiping the hands, etc. Let one attend him with a silver basin, . . . Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper. Shak.

An engraver of dies for stamping coins, medals, etc.

To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water.

rent, or momentary current of the same direction as the inducing current, produced by stopping or removing the latter; also, a similar current produced by removal of a magnet.

Of Eden stood disconsolate. Moore. The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh, Were dropping wet, disconsolate and wan. Dryden.

Disconsolate. [Obs.] A poor, disconsolated, drooping creature. Sterne.

Exhibiting a dissolution of continuity; gaping. "Discontinuous wound." Milton. Discontinuous function (Math.), a function which for certain values or between certain values of the variable does not vary continuously as the variable increases. The discontinuity may, for example, consist of an abrupt change in the value…

Degradation; a stripping of titles and honors.

To dislodge. [Obs.] Those sleeping stones . . . from their fixed beds of lime Had been dishabited. Shak.

of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk.

A friction clutch in which the gripping surfaces are disks or more or less resemble disks.

The act of leaping or starting asunder. Johnson.

The condition of sleeping or becoming dormant by day, as is the case of the bats.

The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.

on, which is that of the past participle done. "Ere summer half be done." "I have done weeping." Shak.