Search the Dictionary

deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity. Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied. Davies.

falling away from God." Sir W. Raleigh. The general defection of the whole realm. Sir J. Davies.

n of problems involving three dimensions, by means of projections upon auxiliary planes. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. ) -- De*scrip"tive*ly, adv. -- De*scrip"tive*ness, n.

A bending downward; a sloping; incurvation downward; declivity. [R.] Davies (Wit's Pilgr.)

n; characteristic quality; specific attribute. The marks and differences of sovereignty. Davies.

nsions; marking dimensions or the limits. Who can draw the soul's dimensive lines Sir J. Davies.

To eject from a post; to displace. [R.] Davies (Holy Roode).

taste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them. Sir J. Davies.

To strike or sound through. [R.] Davies (Holy Roode).

human. In this application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir J. Davies. "The divine Desdemona." Shak. A divine sentence is in the lips of the king. Prov. xvi. 10. But not to one in this benighted age Is that diviner inspiration given. Gray.

s gifted or endowed; endowment; gift. How great, how plentiful, how rich a dower! Sir J. Davies. Man in his primeval dower arrayed. Wordsworth.

ely of big guns all of one caliber. Since the Dreadnought was built, the caliber of the heaviest guns has increased from 12 in. to 13½ in., 14 in., and 15 in., and the displacement of the largest batteships from 18,000 tons to 30,000 tons and upwards. The term superdreadnought is popularly applied to battleships with s…

nguish; -- said especially of sound. Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned. Sir J. Davies. My private voice is drowned amid the senate. Addison. To drown up, to swallow up. [Obs.] Holland.

fairs. And doth employ her economic art And busy care, her household to preserve. Sir J. Davies.

Admitted to a state of paradisaic happiness. [R.] Davies (Wit's Pilgr. ).

To deprive of the tongue. [Obs.] Davies (Holy Roode).

passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing.

s of elutriating; a decanting or racking off by means of water, as finer particles from heavier.

To carry in a coach. [R.] Davies (Wit's Pilgr.)

To fester. [Obs.] "Enfestered sores." Davies (Holy Roode).