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which can not be seen or defended from behind the parapet. -- Dead block, either of two wooden or iron blocks intended to serve instead of buffers at the end of a freight car. -- Dead calm (Naut.), no wind at all. -- Dead center, or Dead point (Mach.), either of two points in the orbit of a crank, at which the cran…

A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; -- used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called also deadman's eye. Totten.

Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal. Deal tree, a fir tree. Dr. Prior.

tle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death.

A kind of woolen or mixed dress goods. [Written also debage.]

To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue. Battalions debouching on the plain. Prescott.

To reduce from civilization to a savage state. [R.] Blackwood's Mag.

A separate thin wooden frame used to form the border of a hand mold, or a curb of India rubber or other material which rests on, and forms the edge of, the mold in a paper machine and determines the width of the paper. [Spelt also deckel, and deckle.]

ration of some of the ingredients of a compound; disintegration; as, the decomposition of wood, rocks, etc.

A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.

rd. Rocks, mountains, and the other elevations of the earth suffer a continual decrement. Woodward.

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

who defends; a defender. The rampiers and ditches which the defendants had cast up. Spotswood.

To remove grease or fatty matter from, as wool or silk.

To clear or strip of wood (by cutting down trees). [R.] Fuller.

A sinking away; a swooning. [Obs.] Bacon.

A wandering of the mind; a crazy fancy. [Obs.] Heywood.

To depreciate or cry down. [R.] Bp. Woolton.

r pasture. [R.] Cattle, to graze and departure in his grounds. Blackstone. A right to cut wood upon or departure land. Washburn.

To let fall; to deposit. [Obs.] Additional mud deposed upon it. Woodward.