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Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope.

A bubbling or boiling over. [Obs.] Bailey.

An ancient Greek musical instrument of ten strings, resembling the harp.

Subject to deceit; capable of being misled. Blind, and thereby deceivable. Milton.

e to, the breechblock of a gun; also, a removal of the breechblock for the purpose of disabling the gun.

The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson.

rium of the preceding session (of Parliament). Motley. Delirium tremens (. Etym: [L., trembling delirium] (Med.), a violent delirium induced by the excessive and prolonged use of intoxicating liquors. -- Traumatic delirium (Med.), a variety of delirium following injury.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the dolphin.

An East Indian carnivorous mammal (Prionodon gracilis), resembling the civets, but without scent pouches. It is handsomely spotted.

Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.

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.

Pertaining to a dendrite, or to arborescent crystallization; having a form resembling a shrub or tree; arborescent.

Resembling a shrub or tree in form; treelike.

ttended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.

A marine mollusk of the genus Dentalium, with a curved conical shell resembling a tooth. See Dentalium.

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Pertaining to or resembling the genus Dermestes. The carpet beetle, called the buffalo moth, is a dermestoid beetle. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

Resembling, or having the characteristics of, a ligament; ligamentous.

Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme. "Devilish wickedness." Sir P. Sidney. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. James iii. 15.

Pertaining to dew; resembling, consisting of, or moist with, dew. A dewy mist Went and watered all the ground. Milton. When dewy eve her curtain draws. Keble.