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A short, spirited effort or trial of speed upon a race course; -- used in horse racing, when a single trial constitutes the race.

Dead trees or branches; useless material.

The act or process of rendering impervious to sound, as a floor or wall; also, the material with which the spaces are filled in this process; pugging.

The territorial jurisdiction of a dean. Each archdeaconry is divided into rural deaneries, and each deanery is divided into parishes. Blackstone.

Pertaining to a dean or deanery. His rectorial as well as decanal residence. Churton. Decanal side, the side of the choir on which the dean's tall is placed. -- Decanal stall, the stall allotted to the dean in the choir, on the right or south side of the chancel. Shipley.

A tithing. [Obs.] State Trials (1630).

oden frame used to form the border of a hand mold, or a curb of India rubber or other material which rests on, and forms the edge of, the mold in a paper machine and determines the width of the paper. [Spelt also deckel, and deckle.]

e. Declinatory plea (O. Eng. Law), the plea of sanctuary or of benefit of clergy, before trial or conviction; -- now abolished.

es of the Union soldiers and sailors, who fell in the Civil War in the United States; Memorial Day. [U.S.]

= Memorial Day. [U. S.]

able of being brought down. [Obs.] As if God [were] deducible to human imbecility. State Trials (1649).

rongly marked, the garments being not only all black, but also composed of lusterless materials and of such fashion as is identified with mourning garments.

To free from extraneous or polluting matter; to clear; to purify, as from that which materializes. We defecate the notion from materiality. Glanvill. Defecated from all the impurities of sense. Bp. Warburton.

defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy public opinion. I once again Defy thee to the trial of mortal fight. Milton. I defy the enemies of our constitution to show the contrary. Burke.

r bestow; to stoop to furnish; to vouchsafe; to allow; to grant. Nor would we deign him burial of his men. Shak.

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

rub up some quaint old fragment of a [London] street, or a house, or a shop, or tomb or burial ground, which has still survived in the deluge. F. Harrison. After me the deluge. (Aprés moi le déluge.) Madame de Pompadour.

A territorial subdivision of Attica (also of modern Greece), corresponding to a township. Jowett (Thucyd).

rited any love or thanks. Udall. Executed as a traitor . . . as he well demerited. State Trials (1645).

ccording to the Gnostics, an agent or one employed by the Supreme Being to create the material universe and man.