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To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree; as, to deepen grief or sorrow.

To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record. "This high face defaced." Emerson. So by fa…

nds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes. Tillotson. The escheators . . . defeated the right heir of his succession. Hallam. In one instance he defeated his own purpose. A. W. Ward.

o postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold. Defer the spoil of the city until night. Shak. God . . . will not long defer To vindicate the glory of his name. Milton.

poraries. Buckle. Deficiency of a curve (Geom.), the amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.

To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.

ith reference to the protection of the interior from exposure to an enemy's fire from any point within range, or from any works which may be erected. Farrow.

t line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; deviation. The other leads to the same point, through certain deflections. Lowth.

To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure. Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world. Shak.

The point or step of progression to 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.

In a manner to show or point out; directly; absolutely; definitely. When Christ spake it deictically. Hammond.

The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.

Destructive; poisonous. [Obs.] "Deletery medicines." Hudibras.

cacy of character that unfits for earnest action. You know your mother's delicacy in this point. Cowper.

A poison which occasions a persistent delirium, or mental aberration (as belladonna).

A fatty substance contained in the oil of the dolphin and the porpoise; -- called also phocenin.

A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder.

The division of Cetacea which comprises the dolphins, porpoises, and related forms.

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

The Numidian crane (Antropoides virgo); -- so called on account of the grace and symmetry of its form and movements.