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A challenge. [Obs.] Dryden.

Degenerate; base. [Obs.] "Degenerous passions." Dryden. "Degenerous practices." South.

o which a person has arrived; rank or station in life; position. "A dame of high degree." Dryden. "A knight is your degree." Shak. "Lord or lady of high degree." Lowell.

The delfts would be so flown with waters, that no gins or machines could . . . keep them dry. Ray.

A choice dainty; a delicacy. [R.] With abstinence all delicates he sees. Dryden.

ach deliverance to the captives. Luke iv. 18. One death or one deliverance we will share. Dryden.

To frustrate or disappoint. It deludes thy search. Dryden.

o dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade. Delve of convenient depth your thrashing flooDryden.

demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or conclusively. "Demonstrative figures." Dryden. An argument necessary and demonstrative. Hooker.

. . looked as demurely as they could; for 't was a hanging matter to laugh unseasonably. Dryden.

mitted to residence in a foreign country. Ye gods, Natives, or denizens, of blest abodes. Dryden.

One who denounces, or declares, as a menace. Here comes the sad denouncer of my fate. Dryden.

keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments, esp. one with dry goods as the principal stock.

ike a large cluster of black grapes they show And make a large dependence from the bough. Dryden.

Act of pulling out or removing the hair; unhairing. Dryden.

de. [Obs.] Thus when the state one Edward did depose, A greater Edward in his room arose. Dryden.

A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use.

Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction. Dryden.

ray. Desert flora (Bot.), the assemblage of plants growing naturally in a desert, or in a dry and apparently unproductive place. -- Desert hare (Zoöl.), a small hare (Lepus sylvaticus, var. Arizonæ) inhabiting the deserts of the Western United States. -- Desert mouse (Zoöl.), an American mouse (Hesperomys eremicus),…

Drying; desiccative. -- n.