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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,256 words match “ROWN”

d the death of a person, and for that reason was given to God, that is, forfeited to the crown, to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high almoner. Thus, if a cart ran over a man and killed him, it was forfeited as a deodand.

wing in India, highly valued for its size and beauty as well as for its timber, and also grown in England as an ornamental tree.

DEOPPILATION n.

Removal of whatever stops up the passages. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

each on the other. Sir J. Reynolds. So that they may acknowledge their dependency on the crown of England. Bacon.

Loss; destruction. [Archaic] Sir T. Browne.

Hairless. Sir t. Browne.

That is deposited, or laid or thrown down; as, a deposit in a flue; especially, matter precipitated from a solution (as the siliceous deposits of hot springs), or that which is mechanically deposited (as the mud, gravel, etc., deposits of a river). The deposit already formed affording to the succeeding portion of the c…

DEPOSITION n. 2 definitions

The act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation. The deposition of rough sand and rolled pebbles. H. Miller.

The act of depositing; deposition. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

DEQUANTITATE v.

To diminish the quantity of; to disquantity. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A stiff felt hat with a dome-shaped crown.

Derogatory. -- De*rog"a*tive*ly, adv. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

ransmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir.

To discover; to disclose; to reveal. [R.] His purple robe he had thrown aside, lest it should descry him. Milton.

DETECTOR BAR n.

to 50 feet), laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.

DETERIORATION n.

The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.

DETERMINATOR n.

One who determines. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious. Sir T. Browne.

DEUTEROSCOPY n.

a meaning beyond the literal sense; the second intention; a hidden signification. Sir T. Browne.

velops year by year. Nor poets enough to understand That life develops from within. Mrs. Browning.