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Assigned end; conclusion. [R.] What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date. Pope.

pear or to expand. "In dawning youth." Dryden. When life awakes, and dawns at every line. Pope. Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid. Heber,

y bright; to excite admiration by brilliancy. Ah, friend! to dazzle, let the vain design. Pope.

Stillborn. Pope.

count I my life dear unto myself. Acts xx. 24. And the last joy was dearer than the rest. Pope. Dear as remember'd kisses after death. Tennyson.

announcing a death. -- Death rate, the relation or ratio of the number of deaths to the population. At all ages the death rate is higher in towns than in rural districts. Darwin. -- Death rattle, a rattling or gurgling in the throat of a dying person. -- Death's door, the boundary of life; the partition dividing lif…

death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody. These eyes behold The deathful scene. Pope.

Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope.

religion with such frivolous disputes. Hooker. And to debase the sons, exalts the sires. Pope.

as, the debates in Parliament or in Congress. Heard, noted, answer'd, as in full debate. Pope.

lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Milton. By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed. Pope.

as, the court decided in favor of the defendant. Who shall decide, when doctors disagree Pope.

or publication; explanatory; assertive; declaratory. "Declarative laws." Baker. The "vox populi," so declarative on the same side. Swift.

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.

out of. O goddess, say, shall I deduce my rhymes From the dire nation in its early times Pope. Reasoning is nothing but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles already known. Locke. See what regard will be paid to the pedigree which deduces your descent from kings and conquerors. Sir W. Scott.…

culating; to subtract; -- often with from or out of. Deduct what is but vanity, or dress. Pope. Two and a half per cent should be deducted out of the pay of the foreign troops. Bp. Burnet. We deduct from the computation of our years that part of our time which is spent in . . . infancy. Norris.

s of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion. Make fair deductions; see to what they mount. Pope.

ed in books, and shallow in himself. Milton. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. Pope.

w in tone; as, to deepen the tones of an organ. Deepens the murmur of the falling floods. Pope.

a record. "This high face defaced." Emerson. So by false learning is good sense defaced. Pope.