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2,023 words match “HAM”

DEGRAS; DEGRAS n.
sh oil, which extracts their soluble albuminoids. It was formerly solely a by-product of chamois leather manufacture, but is now made for its own sake, being valuable as a dressing for hides.
DEICTICALLY adv.
to show or point out; directly; absolutely; definitely. When Christ spake it deictically. Hammond.
DELINEABLE a.
Capable of being, or liable to be, delineated. Feltham.
DELITESCENCE n.
Concealment; seclusion; retirement. The delitescence of mental activities. Sir W. Hamilton.
DELIVER v.
Gower. Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones. Peacham.
DELVE v.
dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge. Delve may I not: I shame to beg. Wyclif (Luke xvi. 3).
DEMENTATE a.
Deprived of reason. Arise, thou dementate sinner! Hammond.
DEMISE n. 2 definitions
ueen [of George II.], in 1737, they [drawing-rooms] were held but twice a week. P. Cunningham.
DEMISSION n.
the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection. "Demission of mind." Hammond. Demission of sovereign authority. L'Estrange.
DEMON n.
a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology. The demon kind is of an inSydenham.
DEMULSION n.
The act of soothing; that which soothes. Feltham.
DENNET n.
eled carriage for one horse; a kind of gig. ("The term and vehicle common about 1825." Latham.)
DENOTATION n.
The marking off or separation of anything. Hammond.
DENOTATIVE a.
bject has such a term to denote it, but telling us nothing as to any single attribute. Latham.
DENOUNCE v.
Denounced for a heretic. Sir T. More. To denounce the immoralities of Julius Cæsar. Brougham.
DEONTOLOGY n.
The science relat J. Bentham.
DEPICT v.
of; to represent by a picture; to paint; to portray. His arms are fairly depicted in his chamber. Fuller.
DEPOSIT v.
hat is written prove useful to you, to the depositing that which i can not deem an error. Hammond.
DEPRAVEDNESS n.
Depravity. Hammond.
DEPRESS a.
aving the middle lower than the border; concave. [Obs.] If the seal be depress or hollow. Hammond.
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