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ted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings.

penalty. [Obs.] See In one's danger, below. You stand within his danger, do you not Shak. Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in dangerof this statute. Robynson (More's Utopia).

To challenge; to provoke; to defy. Time, I dare thee to discover Such a youth and such a lover. Dryden.

ark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverable dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! milton. In the dark and silent grave. Sir W. Raleigh.

make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.

Those birds whose young are covered with down when hatched.

To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal. So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue. Shak.

A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber.

tion of coal tar, and containing phenol, naphthalus, etc. -- Dead plate (Mach.), a solid covering over a part of a fire grate, to prevent the entrance of air through that part. -- Dead pledge, a mortgage. See Mortgage. -- Dead point. (Mach.) See Dead center. -- Dead reckoning (Naut.), the method of determining the…

A covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory.

An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due. Burrill. Bond debt, Book debt, etc. See under Bond, Book, etc. -- Debt of nature, death.

To stamp; to detect; to discover. [R.] You are both deciphered, . . . For villains. Shak.

To cover; to overspread. To deck with clouds the uncolored sky. Milton.

One who, or that which, decks or adorns; a coverer; as, a table decker.

Leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the neck, or low-necked, as a dress.

ect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made.

The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side.

ities; deterioration; meanness. Degeneracy of spirit in a state of slavery. Addison. To recover mankind out of their universal corruption and degeneracy. S. Clarke.

works in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover. Farrow.

To discover; to show. [Poetic] I 'll deliver Myself your loyal servant. Shak.