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e is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments. Shenstone.

To delineate. [Obs.] These two stones as they are here defigured. Weever.

-- followed by an infinitive. O deign to visit our forsaken seats. Pope. Yet not Lord Cranstone deigned she greet. Sir W. Scott. Round turned he, as not deigning Those craven ranks to see. Macaulay.

The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.

formerly given to certain Silurian brachiopod shells of the genus Spirifer. Delthyris limestone (Geol.), one of the divisions of the Upper Silurian rocks in New York.

A half-vill, consisting of five freemen or frankpledges. Blackstone.

A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.

graze; also, to use for pasture. [R.] Cattle, to graze and departure in his grounds. Blackstone. A right to cut wood upon or departure land. Washburn.

to. Acts of Parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent Parliaments bind not. Blackstone. His language was severely censured by some of his brother peers as derogatory to their other. Macaulay. Derogatory clause in a testament (Law), a sentence of secret character inserted by the testator alone, of which he rese…

upported at the top by stays or guys, with suitable tackle for hoisting heavy weights, as stones in building. Derrick crane, a combination of the derrick and the crane, having facility for hoisting and also for swinging the load horizontally.

Detention. [R.] Blackstone.

s life determine not together. South. Estates may determine on future contingencies. Blackstone.

Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator. Blackstone.

strata of this age compose the Devonian formation or system, and include the old red sandstone of Great Britain. They contain, besides plants and numerous invertebrates, the bony portions of many large and remarkable fishes of extinct groups. See the Diagram under Geology.

often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone.

A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness.

uish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc. His heart died within, and he became as a stone. 1 Sam. xxv. 37. The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that they died for Rebecca. Tatler.

A wall of turf or stone. [Scot.]

One who builds stone walls; usually, one who builds them without lime. [Scot.]

or vicar, etc., dilapidates the buildings, or cuts down the timber of the patrimony. Blackstone.