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

To inscribe or address, as to a patron. He complied ten elegant books, and dedicated them to the Lord Burghley. Peacham.

application, including, whatever is done, good or bad, great or small. And Joseph said to them, What deed is this which ye have done Gen. xliv. 15. We receive the due reward of our deeds. Luke xxiii. 41. Would serve his kind in deed and word. Tennyson.

The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.

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

to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected. Sitting with their knees deflected under them. Lord (1630).

A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer.

Conveyance. [Obs. or Archaic] In delation of sounds, the inclosure of them preserveth them. Bacon.

One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting.

Obs.] The delfts would be so flown with waters, that no gins or machines could . . . keep them dry. Ray.

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

luxurious; effeminate. [Obs.] Others, lastly, of a more delicious and airy spirit, retire themselves to the enjoyments of ease and luxury. Milton.

te representation, as distinguished from art that is careless of details, or subordinates them excessively.

to turn his wishes into demands will be but a little way from thinking he ought to obtain them. Locke.

conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun. They have demeaned themselves Like men born to renown by life or death. Shak. They answered . . . that they should demean themselves according to their instructions. Clarendon.

to denationalize. [R.] They also claimed the privilege, when aggrieved, of denaturalizing themselves, or, in other words, of publicly renouncing their allegiance to their sovereign, and of enlisting under the banners of his enemy. Prescott.

admitted by favor to all or a part of the rights of citizenship, where he did not possess them by birth; an adopted or naturalized citizen.

ed by the aid of the teeth; -- said of certain articulations and the letters representing them; as, d t are dental letters. Dental formula (Zoöl.), a brief notation used by zoölogists to denote the number and kind of teeth of a mammal. -- Dental surgeon, a dentist.

The habit or practice of speaking through the teeth, or with them closed.

rocks by the washing away of the overlying earth, etc.; or the excavation and removal of them by the action of running water.