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Destruction; death. [Obs.] Spenser.

he whilst you mourn for his decease, Will with my mourning plaints your plaint increase. Spenser.

another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation.

Thomson. And now fair Phoebus gan decline in haste His weary wagon to the western vale. Spenser.

To decrease. [Obs.] Spenser.

Illustrious act; achievement; exploit. "Knightly deeds." Spenser. Whose deeds some nobler poem shall adorn. Dryden.

To pass judgment. [Obs.] Spenser.

To make more grave or low in tone; as, to deepen the tones of an organ. Deepens the murmur of the falling floods. Pope.

eface the reverence of religion. Bacon. For all his power was utterly defaste [defaced]. Spenser.

deed; wrong act; failure in virtue or wisdom. And pardon craved for his so rash default. Spenser. Regardless of our merit or default. Pope.

A defeat; an overthrow. [Obs.] After his foes' defeasance. Spenser.

nism & Obs.] Th' other strove for to defend The force of Vulcan with his might and main. Spenser.

or policy; practice in self defense, as in fencing, boxing, etc. A man of great defense. Spenser. By how much defense is better than no skill. Shak.

Deftly. [Obs.] Spenser.

To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc. For the discharge of his expenses, and defraying his cost, he allowed him . . . four times as much. Usher.

One who pays off expenses.

To degenerate. [Obs.] "Degendering to hate." Spenser. He degenereth into beastliness. Joye.

Delicacies; delights. [Obs.] "Dainty delices." Spenser.

Highly pleasing; affording great pleasure and satisfaction. "Delightful bowers." Spenser. "Delightful fruit." Milton.

to communicate; to utter; to speak; to impart. Till he these words to him deliver might. Spenser. Whereof the former delivers the precepts of the art, and the latter the perfection. Bacon.