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A separate thin wooden frame used to form the border of a hand mold, or a curb of India rubber or other material which rests on, and forms the edge of, the mold in a paper machine and determines the width of the paper. [Spelt also deckel, and deckle.]

That part of the process in which the plaintiff sets forth in order and at large his cause of complaint; the narration of the plaintiff's case containing the count, or counts. See Count, n., 3. Declaration of Independence. (Amer. Hist.) See under Independence. -- Declaration of rights. (Eng. Hist) See Bill of rights,…

To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.

The upper border or part of a décolleté corsage.

fically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc. Decoration Day, a day, May 30, appointed for decorating with flowers the graves of the Union soldiers and sailors, who fell in the Civi…

A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them.

An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power, deciding what is to be done or to take place; edict, law; authoritative ru "The decrees of Venice." Sh There went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. Luke ii. 1.…

An authoritative order or decree; especially, a letter of the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. The decretals form the second part of the canon law.

arge; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively. "Such decuman billows." Gauden. "The baffled decuman." Lowell.

ers (usually bright purple), with four petals and eight stamens, -- the only genus of the order Melastomaceæ inhabiting a temperate clime.

The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior. See Defilade.

pret; as, to define a word, a phrase, or a scientific term. They define virtue to be life ordered according to nature. Robynson (More's Utopia).

To disorder; to make shapeless. [Obs.] Shak.

A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.

lled "scholars," young men who partake of the founder's benefaction, and succeed in their order to vacant fellowships. Johnson.

anged in an ornamental band; -- used particularly in the Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders.

Disorder; dissoluteness. [Obs.] Excess of rideordination. Jer. Taylor.

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.

Mutu So dark adependence or order. Sir T. More.

The act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in order to extend their front. -Wilhelm. Deployments . . . which cause the soldier to turn his back to the enemy are not suited to war.H.L. Scott.