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A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury, Conn. It is near the topaz in form. Dana.

A borosilicate of lime commonly occuring in glassy,, greenish crystals. [Written also datholite.]

To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear. She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch. Ex. ii. 3.

.; dullness; inertness; languor; coldness; vapidness; indifference; as, the deadness of a limb, a body, or a tree; the deadness of an eye; deadness of the affections; the deadness of beer or cider; deadness to the world, and the like.

stole of cyprus lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Milton. By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed. Pope.

ally, one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron, or to one whom he desires to compliment.

Constituting or serving as a dedication; complimental. "An epistle dedicatory." Dryden.

ls and eight stamens, -- the only genus of the order Melastomaceæ inhabiting a temperate clime.

ient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied either to natural or moral qualities; as, a defective limb; defective timber; a defective copy or account; a defective character; defective rules.

ell. Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments. Shenstone.

Capable of being defined, limited, or explained; determinable; describable by definition; ascertainable; as, definable limits; definable distinctions or regulations; definable words. -- De*fin"a*bly, adv.

To determine or clearly exhibit the boundaries of; to mark the limits of; as, to define the extent of a kingdom or country.

Having certain or distinct; determinate in extent or greatness; limited; fixed; as, definite dimensions; a definite measure; a definite period or interval. Elements combine in definite proportions. Whewell.

The act of defining; determination of the limits; as, the telescope accurate in definition.

Limiting; determining; as, a definitive word.

ndy; spruce; neat. [Archaic or Poetic] "The deftest way." Shak. "Deftest feats." Gay. The limping god, do deft at his new ministry. Dryden. Let me be deft and debonair. Byron.

e; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment. And to those dainty limbs which Nature lent For gentle usage and soft delicacy Milton.

The act of exerting one's strength or limbs. Neater limbs and freer delivery. Sir H. Wotton.

ame formerly given to certain Silurian brachiopod shells of the genus Spirifer. Delthyris limestone (Geol.), one of the divisions of the Upper Silurian rocks in New York.

To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate. Wilkinson.