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Weighing facts and arguments with a view a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor. "These deliberate fools." Shak.

Delightfully; as, to feed deliciously; to be deliciously entertained.

To clear or strip of wood (by cutting down trees). [R.] Fuller.

issolve; to consume; to waste. [Obs.] Dilapidating, or rather deliquating, his bishopric. Fuller.

f; sculpture in relief of which the figures project from the background by one half their full roundness.

That part of a painting, engraving, or the like, which is neither in full darkness nor full light.

To divide in order to share; to apportion. [Obs.] And here is gold, and that full great plentee, That shall departed been among us three. Chaucer.

epresent by a picture; to paint; to portray. His arms are fairly depicted in his chamber. Fuller.

f; to deprive of of plumage. On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own feather. Fuller.

Fully prostrate; humble; low; rude. [Obs.] How may weak mortal ever hope to file His unsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate style. G. Fletcher.

A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.

Hidden; concealed; secret. [Obs.] "Ye must be full dern." Chaucer.

Secretly; grievously; mournfully. [Obs.] Spenser.

To comment freely; to discourse with fullness and particularity; to discourse at large. A virtuous man should be pleased to find people descanting on his actions. Addison.

ended, and the floods came. Matt. vii. 25. We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.

anded on a desert island. He . . . went aside privately into a desert place. Luke ix. 10. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Gray. Desert flora (Bot.), the assemblage of plants growing naturally in a desert, or in a dry and apparently unproductive place. -- Desert ha…

ervice, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service. Such a resignation would have seemed to his superior a desertion or a reproach. Bancroft.

Full of design; scheming. [R.] -- De*sign"ful*ness, n. [R.] Barrow.

r qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize. [R.] Inaptitude and ineptitude have been usefully despecificated. Fitzed. Hall.

Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate; malicious. -- De*spite"ful*ly, adv. -- De*spite"ful*ness, n. Haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters. Rom. i. 30. Pray for them which despitefully use you. Matt. v. 44. Let us examine him with despitefulness and fortune. Book of Wisdom ii. 19.…