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Smeary; viscous; glutinous; adhesive. "Dauby wax."

Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall. "The ground is a dead flat." C. Reade.

. [Obs.] The image of a deadly man. Wyclif (Rom. i. 23). Deadly nightshade (Bot.), a poisonous plant; belladonna. See under Nightshade.

carbonize the blood. Decarbonized iron. See Malleable iron. -- Decarbonized steel, homogenous wrought iron made by a steel process, as that of Bessemer; ingot iron.

s. The public listened with little emotion, but with much civility, to five acts of monotonous declamation. Macaulay.

Destructive; poisonous. [Obs.] "Deletery medicines." Hudibras.

A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder.

A substance, usually of a mucilaginous or oily nature, supposed to be capable of soothing an inflamed nervous membrane, or protecting i

Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars.

Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth. Time's destructive power. Wordsworth. Destructive distill…

To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon. Some evil beast hath devoured him. Gen. xxxvii. 20.

or causing to turn, toward the right hand; esp., turning the plane of polarization of luminous rays toward the right hand; as, dextrorotatory crystals, sugars, etc. Cf. Levorotatory.

The quality of being diaphanous; transparency; pellucidness.

Having power to transmit light; transparent; diaphanous.

The muscular and tendinous partition separating the cavity of the chest from that of the abdomen; the midriff.

A soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar.

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

A red crystalline nitrogenous substance or artificial production, which by reduction passes directly to indigo.

Not bright or distinct; wanting luminousness or clearness; obscure in luster or sound; dusky; darkish; obscure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished. The dim magnificence of poetry. Whewell. How is the gold become dim! Lam. iv. 1. I never saw The heavens so dim by day. Shak. Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, T…

sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.