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The action or process of depriving a substance of carbon.

tion, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation.

suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty. Observances of time, place, and of decency in general. Burke. Immodest words admit of no defense, For…

The action of decentralizing, or the state of being decentralized. "The decentralization of France." J. P. Peters.

The state of being deceived or misled. There is one thing relating either to the action or enjoyments of man in which he is not liable to deception. South.

al arithmetic, the common arithmetic, in which numeration proceeds by tens. -- Decimal fraction, a fraction in which the denominator is some power of 10, as -- Decimal point, a dot or full stop at the left of a decimal fraction. The figures at the left of the point represent units or whole numbers, as 1.05.…

Naut.), to remove every unnecessary incumbrance in preparation for battle; to prepare for action. -- To sweep the deck (Card Playing), to clear off all the stakes on the table by winning them.

A form of action by which some right or interest is sought to be judicially declared.

To state the plaintiff's cause of action at law in a legal form; as, the plaintiff declares in trespass.

Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend.

That which is done or effected by a responsible agent; an act; an action; a thing done; -- a word of extensive application, including, whatever is done, good or bad, great or small. And Joseph said to them, What deed is this which ye have done Gen. xliv. 15. We receive the due reward of our deeds. Luke xxiii. 41. Would…

An abstraction of money, etc., by an officer or agent

written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion.

fishes in default of the real ones. Arbuthnot. -- To suffer a default (Law), to permit an action to be called without appearing to answer.

A person required to make answer in an action or suit; -- opposed to plaintiff. Abbott.

method of proceeding adopted by the defendant to protect himself against the plaintiff's action.

subsiding from a state of ebullition; loss of heat; lukewarmness. A defervescency in holy actions. Jer. Taylor.

Abstraction of a child from its parents. Lamb.

To cause to burn with sudden and sparkling combustion, as by the action of intense heat; to burn or vaporize suddenly; as, to deflagrate refractory metals in the oxyhydrogen flame.

A deviation of the rays of light toward the surface of an opaque body; inflection; diffraction.