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on. Every headlong stream Devolves its winding waters to the main. Akenside. Devolved his rounded periods. Tennyson.

In any animal, esp. of the Herbivora, a rudimentary claw or small hoof not reaching the ground. Some cut off the dewclaws [of greyhounds]. J. H. Walsh.

dew; resembling, consisting of, or moist with, dew. A dewy mist Went and watered all the ground. Milton. When dewy eve her curtain draws. Keble.

The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls of the blood vessels.

A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which no set out plants or to plant seeds.

One who, or that which, dibbles, or makes holes in the ground for seed.

er sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade. Be first to dig the ground. Dryden.

To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.

The state of being dimpled, or marked with gentle depressions. [R.] The ground's most gentle dimplement. Mrs. Browning.

To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to exempt from forest laws. By charter 9 Henry III. many forests were disafforested. Blackstone.

A flat round plate; (Biol.)

Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative. Reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive. Milton. -- Dis*cur"sive*ly, adv. -- Dis*cur"sive*ness, n.

A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil.

To go from a place of rest. [R.] Where Light and Darkness in perpetual round Lodge and dislodge by turns. Milton.

s, a dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place. Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith. A dismal description of an English November. Southey.

To strive or contend about; to contest. To dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards. Prescott.

p the roots of, or by the roots; hence, to tear from a foundation; to uproot. A piece of ground disrooted from its situation by subterraneous inundations. Goldsmith.

Disadvantageous. [Obs.] "Disadvantageous ground." Drayton.

To surround with a ditch. Shak.

and in the houses of the richer citizens. Cushions on the floor or on benches are ranged round the room.