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aving power to clear or open the natural ducts of the fluids and secretions of the body; aperient. -- n.

Deobstruent; aperient. [Obs.] Harvey.

To pass away; to perish. The glory is departed from Israel. 1 Sam. iv. 21.

istinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature. Macaulay.

thing is deposited; a depositary. I am the sole depository of my own secret, and it shall perish with me. Junius.

To detect; to discover; to find out. The motion . . . are to be deprehended by experience. Bacon.

absconding from military or naval service. Such a resignation would have seemed to his superior a desertion or a reproach. Bancroft.

Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune.

To put an end to the existence, prosperity, or beauty of; to kill. If him by force he can destroy, or, worse, By some false guile pervert. Milton.

that the will is not free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives. Its superior suitability to produce courage, as contrasted with scientific physical determinism, is obvious. F. P. Cobbe.

y headlong stream Devolves its winding waters to the main. Akenside. Devolved his rounded periods. Tennyson.

red color. The small, longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen.

Of or pertaining to Devon or Devonshire in England; as, the Devonian rocks, period, or system. Devonian age (Geol.), the age next older than the Carboniferous and later than the Silurian; -- called also the Age of fishes. The various strata of this age compose the Devonian formation or system, and include the old red s…

A colored photograph produced by superimposing a translucent colored positive over a strong uncolored one.

To speak as a superior; to command; to impose conditions (on). Who presumed to dictate to the sovereign. Macaulay.

Characteristic of a dictator; imperious; dogmatical; overbearing; as, a dictatorial tone or manner. -- Dic`ta*to"ri*al*ly, adv. -- Dic`ta*to"ri*al*ness, n.

The curve which on a given surface and with a given perimeter contains the greatest area. Tait.

otal and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought. T…

Shak. Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. Wordsworth.

A wild dog found in Australia, but supposed to have introduced at a very early period. It has a wolflike face, bushy tail, and a reddish brown color.