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make darker or more intense; to darken; as, the event deepened the prevailing gloom. You must deepen your colors. Peacham.

Funereal. [Obs.] "Defunctive music." Shak.

The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing. The muscles employed in the act of deglutition. Paley.

s. Macaulay. Deplorable is the degradation of our nature. South. Moments there frequently must be, when a sidegradation of his state. Blair.

A déjeuner. Take a déjeuné of muskadel and eggs. B. Jonson.

ptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite; as, a delicate taste; a delicate ear for music.

Concealment; seclusion. The mental organization of the novelist must be characterized, to speak craniologically, by an extraordinary development of the passion for delitescency. Sir W. Scott.

erned on the theories of François Delsarte (1811 -- 71), a French teacher of dramatic and musical expression.

f in the form of a triangle with the stem inserted at the middle of the base. -- Deltoid muscle (Anat.), a triangular muscle in the shoulder which serves to move the arm directly upward.

inction. The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable. Burke.

h the correct conclusion is an inference from the demonstration that any other hypothesis must be incorrect.

or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity. -- n.

A muscle that depresses or tends to draw down a part. Depressor nerve (Physiol.), a nerve which lowers the activity of an organ; as, the depressor nerve of the heart.

Serving to depress. [R.] "Depriment muscles." Derham.

Hidden; concealed; secret. [Obs.] "Ye must be full dern." Chaucer.

The upper voice in part music.

hat which is descended; descendants; issue. If care of our descent perplex us most, Which must be born to certain woe. Milton.

orous mammal found in Russia (Myogale moschata). It is allied to the moles, but is called muscrat by some English writers. [Written also dæsman.]

nd; to terminate. [Obs.] He who has vented a pernicious doctrine or published an ill book must know that his life determine not together. South. Estates may determine on future contingencies. Blackstone.

To advance; to further; to prefect; to make to increase; to promote the growth of. We must develop our own resources to the utmost. Jowett (Thucyd).