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To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb. While flashing beams do daze his feeble eyen. Spenser. Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world. Sir H. Taylor. He comes out of the room in a dazed state, that is an odd though a sufficient substitute for interest.…

To overpower with light; to confuse the sight of by brilliance of light. Those heavenly shapes Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze Insufferably bright. Milton. An unreflected light did never yet Dazzle the vision feminine. Sir H. Taylor.

Dazzling flash, glare, or burst of light. Donne.

Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened. Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight. Dryden.

at announces a death. The death bell thrice was heard to ring. Mickle. -- Death candle, a light like that of a candle, viewed by the superstitious as presaging death. -- Death damp, a cold sweat at the coming on of death. -- Death fire, a kind of ignis fatuus supposed to forebode death. And round about in reel and ro…

mposition of forces. Same as Resolution of forces, under Resolution. -- Decomposition of light, the division of light into the prismatic colors.

r divide in the form of X; to intersect; -- said of lines in geometrical figures, rays of light, nerves, etc.

Delight; pleasure. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Strongly colored; dark; intense; not light or thin; as, deep blue or crimson.

A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition. He breathed defiance to my ears. Shak.

Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt.

To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt.

To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected. Sitting with their knees deflected under them. Lord (1630).

A deviation of the rays of light toward the surface of an opaque body; inflection; diffraction.

Highly pleasing; delightful. Delectable both to behold and taste. Milton. -- De*lec"ta*ble*ness, n. -- De*lec"ta*bly, adv.

To delight; to charm. [R.]

Great pleasure; delight.

Act of tasting; a slight trial. [Obs.] Berkeley.

The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like. What choice to choose for delicacy best. Milton.

Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful; as, "a delicate creature." Shak.