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Serving to depress. [R.] "Depriment muscles." Derham.

A member of the Chamber of Deputies. [France] Chamber of Deputies, one of the two branches of the French legilative assembly; -- formerly called Corps Législatif. Its members, called deputies, are elected by the people voting in districts.

ily prevailed, so as to seize upon the vacant, unoccupied, and derelict minds of his [Chatham's] friends; and instantly they turned the vessel wholly out of the course of his policy. Burke. A government which is either unable or unwilling to redress such wrongs is derelict to its highest duties. J. Buchanan.…

nd; sort. A difference . . . between them and another description of public creditors. A. Hamilton. The plates were all of the meanest description. Macaulay.

many good and great deserts to Rome. Shak. His reputation falls far below his desert. A. Hamilton.

Lost to shame; dissolute. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ming desperate; a giving up of hope. This desperation of success chills all our industry. Hammond.

Destructible. [R.] Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.

ng detected or found out; as, parties not detectable. "Errors detectible at a glance." Latham.

To turn form the original or plain meaning; to pervert; to wrest. Hammond.

A little devil. [R.] Barham.

A deflouring. [R.] Feltham.

ic to denote the operation of the discursive, elaborative, or comparative faculty. Sir W. Hamilton.

The science of the dianoetic faculties, and their operations. Sir W. Hamilton.

To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth. "If you diaper on folds." Peacham.

delve. Dig for it more than for hid treasures. Job iii. 21. I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed. Luke xvi. 3.

One who marries a second time; a deuterogamist. Hammond.

In a dilated manner. Feltham.

d or ring. To ding (anything) in one's ears, to impress one by noisy repetition, as if by hammering.

nd the like. Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted. Milton. Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability. Bancroft.