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at Slavic family of nations, numbering now more than 6,000,000, and found principally in Bohemia and Moravia.

A dagger; a poniard. [Obs.] Johnson.

To wander about; to saunter; to talk incoherently. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

One of the Plymouth Brethren, or of a sect among them; -- so called from John N. Darby, one of the leaders of the Brethren.

ckedness; impurity. Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. John. iii. 19. Pursue these sons of darkness: drive them out From all heaven's bounds. Milton.

matic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis. John Wilson.

loyment; to trifle; to saunter. Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me. Johnson. We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall. Thackeray.

re, May turn, and take me by the hand, and more -May strengthen my decays. Herbert. His [Johnson's] failure was not to be ascribed to intellectual decay. Macaulay. Which has caused the decay of the consonants to follow somewhat different laws. James Byrne.

To take the tenth part of; to tithe. Johnson.

To sever from the neck; to behead; to decapitate. The decollated head of St. John the Baptist. Burke.

he act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.

ey days decrease in length from June to December. He must increase, but I must decrease. John iii. 30.

Act or process of deducing or inferring. The deduction of one language from another. Johnson. This process, by which from two statements we deduce a third, is called deduction. J. R. Seely.

To prohibit; to forbid. [Obs.] Chaucer. Which God defend that I should wring from him. Shak.

Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance. [Obs.] Severe defenses . . . against wearing any linen under a certain breadth. Sir W. Temple.

The act of deflouring; as, the defloration if a virgin. Johnson.

To deprive of water; to render free from water; as, to dehydrate alcohol.

A state in which the thoughts, expressions, and actions are wild, irregular, and incoherent; mental aberration; a roving or wandering of the mind, -- usually dependent on a fever or some other disease, and so distinguished from mania, or madness.

t; to surrender; to resign; -- often with up or over, to or into. Thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand. Gen. xl. 13. The constables have delivered her over. Shak. The exalted mind All sense of woe delivers to the wind. Pope.

To deprive of current value; to withdraw from use, as money. They [gold mohurs] have been completely demonetized by the [East India] Company. R. Cobden.