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Feeding upon dung, as certain insects.

Belonging to cosmogony. B. Powell. Gladstone.

One who treats of the origin of the universe; one versed in cosmogony.

ion of the world or universe; a theory or account of such creation; as, the poetical cosmogony of Hesoid; the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaxagoras, and Plato. The cosmogony or creation of the world has puzzled philosophers of all ages. Goldsmith.

Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces. Farrow.

The bark of a South American vine (Gonolobus Condurango) of the Milkweed family. It has been supposed, but erroneously, to be a cure for cancer. [Written also condurango.]

A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent. [U. S.]

A dome-shaped structure built over relics of Buddha or some Buddhist saint. [East Indies]

The national god of the Philistines, represented with the face and hands and upper part of a man, and the tail of a fish. W. Smith. This day a solemn feast the people hold To Dagon, their sea idol. Milton. They brought it into the house of Dagon. 1 Sam. v. 2.

plane figure having ten sides and ten angles; any figure having ten angles. A regular decagon is one that has all its sides and angles equal.

Pertaining to a decagon; having ten sides.

Demagogue.

Relating to, or like, a demagogue; factious.

The practices of a demagogue.

A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader.

Demagogism.

A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal.

A female demigod.

Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion.

thers as a great magician who was supposed to command the spirits of the lower world. See Gorgon. Orcus and Ades, and the dreaded name Of Demogorgon. Milton.