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act of malice, hatred, or defiance; contemptuous defiance; a deed of contempt. A despite done against the Most High. Milton. In despite, in defiance of another's power or inclination. -- In despite of, in defiance of; in spite of. See under Spite. "Seized my hand in despite of my efforts to the contrary." W. Irving.…

A written pledge of marriage. Clarendon.

To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon. [Obs.] To forsake or destitute a plantation. Bacon.

To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train. [Eng.] London Graphic.

Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful. Neither dangerous nor detrimental to the donor. Addison.

; a laying waste. Even now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done. Goldsmith.

A devotee. [Obs.] Sheldon.

Done with dexterity; skillful; artful; as, dexterous management. "Dexterous sleights of hand." Trench.

A Ceylonese boat. See Doni.

ascribed diabolical qualities to; to change into, or to represent as, a devil. [R.] Farindon.

A plant with netveined leaves, and monocotyledonous embryos, belonging to the class Dictyogenæ, proposed by Lindley for the orders Dioscoreaceæ, Smilaceæ, Trilliaceæ, etc.

t affliction grew heavy upon me, and weighed me down even to a diffidence of God's mercy. Donne.

two bellies; biventral; -- applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw.

Of or performance to the fingers, or to digits; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination.

ce; preferment; exaltation. Macaulay. And the king said, What honor and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this Esth. vi. 3. Reuben, thou art my firstborn, . . . the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power. Gen. xlix. 3.

Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dilatory servant.

To make a mark or cavity on or in, by a blow or by pressure; to dent. Donne. Tennyson.

s brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you. Burke. Abandoned by their great patron, the faction henceforward acted at disadvantage. Palfrey.

iendliness. They had attempted to disaffect and discontent his majesty's late army. Clarendon.

rner of truth, of right and wrong. A great observer and discerner of men's natures. Clarendon.