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g needle for mending holes or rents, especially in stockings. (b) (Zoöl.) Any species of dragon fly, having a long, cylindrical body, resembling a needle. These flies are harmless and without stings.

To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to dastardize my courage. Dryden.

Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage.

A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber.

To repress or subdue the courage of; to check by fear of danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten. Some presences daunt and discourage us. Glanvill.

Deadly. [Obs.] "Deathlike dragons." Shak.

Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.

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.

That which is plucked off or rent away; a fragment; a piece. Glanvill.

aulty, mean, or worthless; to clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage. For small errors they whole plays decry. Dryden. Measures which are extolled by one half of the kingdom are naturally decried by the other. Addison.

at which is deep, especially deep water, as the sea or ocean; an abyss; a great depth. Courage from the deeps of knowledge springs. Cowley. The hollow deep of hell resounded. Milton. Blue Neptune storms, the bellowing deeps resound. Pope.

A plant (Liatris odoratissima) whose fleshy leaves give out a fragrance compared to vanilla. Wood.

One who advocates or encourages defection.

Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive. [Obs.] With men of courage and with means defendant. Shak.

That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a come in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help combustion).

To disparage. [Obs.]

To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten. Nor think, to die dejects my lofty mind. Pope.

To allay; to temper. [Obs.] The watery showers delay the raging wind. Surrey.

ry deluge fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed. Milton. As I grub up some quaint old fragment of a [London] street, or a house, or a shop, or tomb or burial ground, which has still survived in the deluge. F. Harrison. After me the deluge. (Aprés moi le déluge.) Madame de Pompadour.

A beautiful, small dragon fly of the genus Agrion.