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he custody of another; to intrust; esp., to place in a bank, as a sum of money subject to order.

Having the middle lower than the border; concave. [Obs.] If the seal be depress or hollow. Hammond.

Concave on the upper side; -- said of a leaf whose disk is lower than the border.

To put out of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation.

Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.

The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity.

Disorder; merriment. [Obs.]

An order of Mammalia; the Cheiroptera. [Written also Dermaptera, and Dermatoptera.]

followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy. The United Provinces . . . ordered public prayer to God, when they feared that the French and English fleets would make a descent upon their coasts. Jortin.

The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole. Arts of design, those into which the designing of artistic forms and figures enters as a principal part, as architecture, painting, engraving, sculpture. -- School of design, one in which are taught the inventi…

very case followed by desistance . . . then would the system be but seldom out of working order. H. Spencer.

Determined by destiny; fated. [Obs.] "The order destinal." Chaucer.

The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual. But who can turn the stream of destiny Spenser. Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. Longfellow. The Dest…

The quality of being desultory or without order or method; unconnectedness. The seeming desultoriness of my method. Boyle.

Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order or rational connection; without logical sequence; disconnected; immethodical; aimless; as, desultory minds. Atterbury. He [Goldsmith] knew nothing accurately; his reading had been desultory. Macaulay.

t minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order.

mine. Explanatory determinatives . . . were placed after words phonetically expressed, in order to serve as an aid to the reader in determining the meaning. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

Passing over the borders. [R.] Mitford.

the lower part of the shaft of a column, used as a standard measure for all parts of the order. See Module. Conjugate diameters. See under Conjugate.

An order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda.