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A low stool [Scot.]

The chief police officer of a large city. [East Indies]

The fore part of a ship's prow, which cuts the water.

An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.

at off the flower buds. During the day, they conceal themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larvæ of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths.

The free-swimming, bivalve larva of certain Bryozoa.

iled the acquire the power of speech, or has lost it. [See Illust. of Dactylology.] Deaf-mutes are still so called, even when, by artificial methods, they have been taught to speak imperfectly.

The condition of being a deaf-mute.

A beginning or first attempt; hence, a first appearance before the public, as of an actor or public speaker.

A person who makes his (or her) first appearance before the public.

Having a loud and sonorous voice. "Deep-mouthed dogs." Dryden.

To loosen or separate by dissolving the glue which unties; to unglue.

The act of ungluing.

ocess of swallowing food; the power of swallowing. The muscles employed in the act of deglutition. Paley.

Pertaining to deglutition. [R.]

Serving for, or aiding in, deglutition.

The opposition of nutrition; the failure of nutrition causing the breaking down of tissue.

Fit to be deputed; suitable to act as a deputy. Carlyle.

The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency. The authority of conscience stands founded upon its vicegerency and deputation under God. South.

One who deputes, or makes a deputation. [R.] Locke.