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The office or ministry of a deacon or deaconess.

e dead letters are examined and disposed of. -- Dead level, a term applied to a flat country. -- Dead lift, a direct lift, without assistance from mechanical advantage, as from levers, pulleys, etc.; hence, an extreme emergency. "(As we say) at a dead lift." Robynson (More's Utopia). -- Dead line (Mil.), a line draw…

cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; -- with from, and sometimes with of. Yet not so strictly hath our Lord imposed Labor, as to debar us when we need Refreshment. Milton. Their wages were so low as to deb…

A debt; an entry on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; -- mostly used adjectively; as, the debit side of an account.

To call a defendant or other party whose duty it is to be present in court, and make entry of his default, if he fails to appear; to enter a default against.

it the boundaries of; to mark the limits of; as, to define the extent of a kingdom or country.

The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness. To make an envious mountain on my back, Where sits deformity to mock my body. Shak.

] "The deftest way." Shak. "Deftest feats." Gay. The limping god, do deft at his new ministry. Dryden. Let me be deft and debonair. Byron.

To carry; to convey. Try exactly the time wherein sound is delated. Bacon.

Sent to act for a represent another; deputed; as, a delegate judge. "Delegate power." Strype.

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

ed beyond doubt or question. The grand articles of our belief are as demonstrable as geometry. Glanvill.

naturalize. [Obs.] There was a private act made for denizing the children of Richard HillStrype.

One admitted to residence in a foreign country. Ye gods, Natives, or denizens, of blest abodes. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry; as, dental surgery.

Pertaining to dentistry or to dentists. [R.]

., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire.

To withdraw, or cause to withdraw, from one's country; to banish. [Obs.] A subject born in any state May, if he please, depatriate. Mason.

To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc. Saturday Review.

To become dispeopled. [R.] Whether the country be depopulating or not. Goldsmith.