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A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. [Written also demi.] He was elected into Magdalen College as a demy; a term by which that society denominates those elsewhere called "scholars," young men who partake of the founder's benefaction, and succeed in their order to vacant fellowships. Johnson.

ormerly by of. The truth of God's word dependeth not of the truth of the congregation. Tyndale. The conclusion . . . that our happiness depends little on political institutions, and much on the temper and regulation of our own minds. Macaulay. Heaven forming each on other to depend. Pope.

Twenty doctors expound one text twenty ways, as children make descant upon plain song. Tyndale. She [the nightingale] all night long her amorous descant sung. Milton.

To sound with a din; a ding. The gay viol dinning in the dale. A. Seward.

A narrow dale; a small dell; a small, secluded, and embowered valley.

pray you, unto my sepulture To sing my dirige with great devotion. Lamentation of Mary Magdalene.

To treat of; to expose or set forth in language. [Obs.] The life of William Tyndale . . . is sufficiently and at large discoursed in the book. Foxe.

To degrade; to reduce in rank. [Obs.] Tyndale.

To put at a distance; to remove. [Obs.] Low-looking dales, disloigned from common gaze. Spenser.

A dotard. [R.] Tyndale.

ts, as they must needs acknowledge who have been on the downs of Sussex. Ray. She went by dale, and she went by down. Tennyson.

Drought. [Obs.] Tyndale.

ep of a castle, these being used as prisons. Down with him even into the deep dungeon. Tyndale. Year after year he lay patiently in a dungeon. Macaulay.

rial thing.] When thou receivest money for thy labor or ware, thou receivest thy duty. Tyndale.

An example; a pattern or model for imitation. [Obs.] Tyndale. Being ensamples to the flock.

entailed. Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force. R. L. Dugdale.

The epidermal cells of rootlets, specially adapted to absorb liquids. Goodale.

me. Shak. I have given more exhibitions to scholars, in my days, than to the priests. Tyndale.

anner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly. Even the nature of Mr. Dimmesdale's disease had never fairly been revealed to him. Hawthorne.

The fourth part of an acre of land. [Obs.] [Written also farding dale, fardingale, etc.]