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The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.

The act or process or freeing from hydrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of hydrogen.

To condescend to give or bestow; to stoop to furnish; to vouchsafe; to allow; to grant. Nor would we deign him burial of his men. Shak.

A low condition; weakness; inability. [R.] A dejection of appetite. Arbuthnot.

To carry on; to conduct. Warner.

The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like. What choice to choose for delicacy best. Milton.

Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; -- said of manners, conduct, or feelings; as, delicate behavior; delicate attentions; delicate thoughtfulness.

A melting or dissolution in the air, or in a moist place; a liquid condition; as, a salt falls into a deliquium. [R.]

a demand for certain goods; a person's company is in great demand. In 1678 came forth a second edition [Pilgrim's Progress] with additions; and the demand became immense. Macaulay.

To manage; to conduct; to treat. [Our] clergy have with violence demeaned the matter. Milton.

Management; treatment; conduct. [Obs.] God commits the managing so great a trust . . . wholly to the demeanor of every grown man. Milton.

That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of Ant: merit. They see no merit or demerit in any man or any action. Burke. Secure, unless forfeited by any demerit or offense. Sir W. Temple.

A short note, equal in time to the half of a semiquaver, or the thirty-second part of a whole note.

The act of demonetizing, or the condition of being demonetized.

To damn; to condemn. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The act or process of freeing from nitrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of nitrogen.

To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. [R.] To denunciate this new work. Burke.

To rely for support; to be conditioned or contingent; to be connected with anything, as a cause of existence, or as a necessary condition; -- followed by on or upon, formerly by of. The truth of God's word dependeth not of the truth of the congregation. Tyndale. The conclusion . . . that our happiness depends little on…

ng, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining; contingent or conditioned; subordinate; -- often with on or upon; as, dependent on God; dependent upon friends. England, long dependent and degraded, was again a power of the first rank. Macaulay. Dependent covenant or contract (Law), one not b…

ched; as, life's evils are deplorable. Individual sufferers are in a much more deplorable conditious than any others. Burke.