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o be guilty of neglect of; to omit; as, to default a dividend. What they have defaulted towards him as no king. Milton.

right heir of his succession. Hallam. In one instance he defeated his own purpose. A. W. Ward.

To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel. [A Latinism & Obs.] Th' other strove for to defend The force of Vulcan with his might and main. Spenser.

That which defends or protects; anything employed to oppose attack, ward off violence or danger, or maintain security; a guard; a protection. War would arise in defense of the right. Tennyson. God, the widow's champion and defense. Shak.

Bent downward; deflexed.

of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; deviation. The other leads to the same point, through certain deflections. Lowth.

Bent abruptly downward.

Downward flow. [Obs.] Bacon.

One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison.

tain or refrain; to dissuade. [Obs.] The apostles vehemently dehort us from unbelief. Bp. Ward. "Exhort" remains, but dehort, a word whose place neither "dissuade" nor any other exactly supplies, has escaped us. Trench.

An uninstructed bowler . . . thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward. Sir W. Scott.

scle (Anat.), a triangular muscle in the shoulder which serves to move the arm directly upward.

An expression, as of the feelings, by outward signs; a manifestation; a show. Did your letters pierce the queen to any demonstration of grief Shak. Loyal demonstrations toward the prince. Prescott.

conclusion of an affair. Upon this rub, the English embassadors thought fit to demur. Hayward.

To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression. His look denounced desperate. Milton.

Toothed; especially, with the teeth projecting straight out, not pointed either forward or backward; as, a dentate leaf.

To some men, it is more agreeable to deny a vicious inclination, than to gratify it. J. Edwards.

To lay down; to divest one's self of; to lay aside. [Obs.] Thus when the state one Edward did depose, A greater Edward in his room arose. Dryden.

Naut.), to cause the sidereal pole to appear lower or nearer the horizon, as by sailing toward the equator.

the atmosphere. -- Depression of the pole, its apparent sinking, as the spectator goes toward the equator. -- Depression of the visible horizon. (Astron.) Same as Dip of the horizon, under Dip.