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o dash paint upon a picture. I take care to dash the character with such particular circumstance as may prevent ill-natured applications. Addison. The very source and fount of day Is dashed with wandering isles of night. Tennyson.

A rare metallic element found in platinum ore. It is a white malleable substance. Symbol Da. Atomic weight 154.

nsion; first appearance; beginning; rise. "The dawn of time." Thomson. These tender circumstances diffuse a dawn of serenity over the soul. Pope.

- Dead level, a term applied to a flat country. -- Dead lift, a direct lift, without assistance from mechanical advantage, as from levers, pulleys, etc.; hence, an extreme emergency. "(As we say) at a dead lift." Robynson (More's Utopia). -- Dead line (Mil.), a line drawn within or around a military prison, to cross…

The substances which inclose the ore on every side.

The action or process of depriving a substance of carbon.

He who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.

Marked by promptness and decision. A noble instance of this attribute of the decisive character. J. Foster.

The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward.

A substance which removes color, or bleaches.

The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound; disintegration; as, the decomposition of wood, rocks, et…

parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection.

llotson. The escheators . . . defeated the right heir of his succession. Hallam. In one instance he defeated his own purpose. A. W. Ward.

ensive, To stand on the defensive, to be or stand in a state or posture of defense or resistance, in opposition to aggression or attack.

A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third cousins might marry, being in the seventh degree according to the civil…

All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover. Farrow.

A perambulator which records distances and delineates a profile, as of a road.

Any substance which tends to cause delirium.

The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters.

A fatty substance contained in the oil of the dolphin and the porpoise; -- called also phocenin.