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1,912 words match “SCOT”

DEPARTURE n.
ule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose. Any departure from a national standard. Prescott.
DEPLOY; DEPLOYMENT n.
ts . . . which cause the soldier to turn his back to the enemy are not suited to war.H.L. Scott.
DEPONE v. 2 definitions
To assert under oath; to depose. [A Scotticism] Sprot deponeth that he entered himself thereafter in conference. State Trials(1606).
DEPRECATE v.
was deprecated by all round him, and he was with difficulty induced to adandon it. Sir W. Scott.
DEPUTE n.
A person deputed; a deputy. [Scot.]
DERELICTION n.
or omission as if by willful abandonment. A total dereliction of military duties. Sir W. Scott.
DERNE v.
To hide; to skulk. [Scot.] He at length escaped them by derning himself in a foxearth. H. Miller.
DESERT v.
as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country. "The deserted fortress." Prescott.
DESPOND v.
ispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view. I should despair, or at least despond. Scott's Letters. Others depress their own minds, [and] despond at the first difficulty. Locke. We wish that . . . desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that foundations of our national power still stan…
DEUTEROSCOPY n.
, whom their gift of deuteroscopy compels to witness things unmeet for mortal eye. Sir W. Scott.
DEVIL n. 2 definitions
busy in baking, broiling, roasting oysters, and preparing devils on the gridiron. Sir W. Scott.
DEVOTO n.
A devotee. Dr. J. Scott.
DIALECT n.
e. [Charles V.] could address his subjects from every quarter in their native dialect. Prescott.
DIALECTIC n.
Same as Dialectics. Plato placed his dialectic above all sciences. Liddell & Scott.
DIFFERENCE v.
te and individual characters that we at once acknowledge them as distinct persons. Sir W. Scott.
DIKE n.
A wall of turf or stone. [Scot.]
DIKER n.
One who builds stone walls; usually, one who builds them without lime. [Scot.]
DILIGENT a.
shall stand before kings. Prov. xxii. 29. Diligent cultivation of elegant literature. Prescott.
DIN n. 2 definitions
r. Think you a little din can daunt mine ears Shak. He knew the battle's din afar. Sir W. Scott. The dust and din and steam of town. Tennyson.
DINE v.
red men. A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. Sir W. Scott.
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