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The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is moved by the force of steam.

One Who fondles; a trifler; as, dalliers with pleasant words. Asham.

Tendency to bring damnation. "The damningness of them [sins]." Hammond.

ffry, in gently spright The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell. Spenser. What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land. Thomson.

fondle; to toy with; to pet. They have put me in a silk gown and gaudy fool's cap; I as ashamed to be dandled thus. Addison. The book, thus dandled into popularity by bishops and good ladies, contained many pieces of nursery eloquence. Jeffrey.

To dash. [Obs.] Till she, o'ercome with anguish, shame, and rage, Danged down to hell her loathsome carriage. Marlowe.

To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress. South. Dash the proud gamesPope.

A female descendant; a woman. This woman, being a daughter of Abraham. Luke xiii. 16. Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughter of the land. Gen. xxxiv. 1.

One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively. And Abraham stood up from before his dead. Gen. xxiii. 3.

Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat. Dead-stroke hammer (Mach.), a power hammer having a spring interposed between the driving mechanism and the hammer head, or helve, to lessen the recoil of the hammer and reduce the shock upon the mechanism.

Deceptiveness; a deception; a sham. [R.] Carlyle.

e; a sloping place. Commodious declivities and channels for the passage of the waters. Derham.

buthnot. In pharmacy decoction is opposed to infusion, where there is merely steeping. Latham.

To bring to shame; to disgrace. [Obs.] Bailey.

to a patron. He complied ten elegant books, and dedicated them to the Lord Burghley. Peacham.

to darken; as, the event deepened the prevailing gloom. You must deepen your colors. Peacham.

One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator. Provinces . . . left without their ancient and puissant defenders. Motley.

guard; a protection. War would arise in defense of the right. Tennyson. God, the widow's champion and defense. Shak.

Definiteness. [R.] Definitude . . . is a knowledge of minute differences. Sir W. Hamilton.

onors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer. Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar. Palfrey.