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DECAMP v.
Hence, to depart suddenly; to run away; -- generally used disparagingly. The fathers were ordered to decamp, and the house was once again converted into a tavern. Goldsmith.
DECANDRIAN; DECANDROUS a.
Belonging to the Decandria; having ten stamens.
DECAPODAL; DECAPODOUS a.
Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.
DECLARATION n.
ll. -- Declaration of trust (Law), a paper subscribed by a grantee of property, acknowledging that he holds it in trust for the purposes and upon the terms set forth. Abbott.
DECLENSIONAL a.
Belonging to declension. Declensional and syntactical forms. M. Arnold.
DEIPAROUS a.
Bearing or bringing forth a god; -- said of the Virgin Mary. [Obs.] Bailey.
DELAY v.
To allay; to temper. [Obs.] The watery showers delay the raging wind. Surrey.
DELENIFICAL a.
Assuaging pain. [Obs.] Bailey.
DELIGATION n.
A binding up; a bandaging. Wiseman.
DELIVERANCE n.
Act of bringing forth children. [Archaic] Shak.
DEMAND n.
The act of demanding; an asking with authority; a peremptory urging of a claim; a claiming or challenging as due; requisition; as, the demand of a creditor; a note payable on demand. The demand [is] by the word of the holy ones. Dan. iv. 17. He that has confidence to turn his wishes into demands will be but a little wa…
DEMEANOR n.
Management; treatment; conduct. [Obs.] God commits the managing so great a trust . . . wholly to the demeanor of every grown man. Milton.
DEMERSION n.
The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning.
DEMESNE n.
A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use. [Written also demain.] Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill. Ancient demesne. (Eng. Law) See under Ancient.
DEMURELY adv.
show of gravity or modesty. They . . . looked as demurely as they could; for 't was a hanging matter to laugh unseasonably. Dryden.
DENITRATION n.
A disengaging, or removal, of nitric acid.
DENTALIUM n.
A genus of marine mollusks belonging to the Scaphopoda, having a tubular conical shell.
DEPENDENCE n.
The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support.
DEPENDENCY n.
A thing hanging down; a dependence.
DEPENDENT a.
Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.
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