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Befitting the common people; -- opposed to aristocratic. The Democratic party, the name of one of the chief political parties in the United States.

Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common. Demotic alphabet or character, a form of writing used in Egypt after six or seven centuries before Christ, for books, deeds, and other such writings; a simplified form of the hieratic character; -- called also epistolographic character, and enchorial character. See Encho…

In a demure manner; soberly; gravely; -- now, commonly, with a mere show of gravity or modesty. They . . . looked as demurely as they could; for 't was a hanging matter to laugh unseasonably. Dryden.

A light, open, two-wheeled carriage for one horse; a kind of gig. ("The term and vehicle common about 1825." Latham.)

ive a name to; to characterize by an epithet; to entitle; to name; to designate. Passions commonly denominating selfish. Hume.

without apparent cyclonic tendency, usually accompanied with rain and often destructive, common in the prairie regions of the United States.

substances. They are very destructive to dries meats, skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is D. lardarius, known as the bacon beetle.

To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty.

Same as Stilbite. It commonly occurs in bundles or tufts of crystals.

even though the original taking may have been lawful. Forcible detainer is indictable at common law.

ess; to diverge; to vary. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track. Pope.

The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or the path of duty.

ning-needle. (Zoöl.) See under Darn, v. t. -- Devil's fingers, Devil's hand (Zoöl.), the common British starfish (Asterias rubens); -- also applied to a sponge with stout branches. [Prov. Eng., Irish & Scot.] -- Devil's riding-horse (Zoöl.), the American mantis (Mantis Carolina). -- The Devil's tattoo, a drumming wit…

Going out of the right or common course; going astray; erring; wandering; as, a devious step.

To free from what is vulgar, common, or narrow. Shakespeare and Plutarch's "Lives" are very devulgarizing books. E. A. Abbott.

left to the right, in the ascending line, as in the spiral inclination of the stem of the common morning-glóry.

A dark green or bronze-colored laminated variety of pyroxene, common in certain igneous rocks.

A dividing membrane or thin partition, commonly with an opening through it.

A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing.

A small difference in rates which competing railroad lines, in establishing a common tariff, allow one of their number to make, in order to get a fair share of the business. The lower rate is called a differential rate. Differentials are also sometimes granted to cities.