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One given to draydreams.

t often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described. Thackeray.

s, as the person; to clothe; especially, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish. Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency. Job xl. 10. And deck my body in gay ornaments. Shak. The dew with spangles decked the ground. Dryden.

To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals. Yet do I not decline from thy testimonies. Ps. cxix. 157.

honors. Her fat neck was ornamented with jewels, rich bracelets decorated her arms. Thackeray.

on of ecclesiastical decrees and decisions made, by order of Gregory IX., in 1234, by St. Raymond of Pennafort.

s if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem. Gray.

to cut or divide in the form of X; to intersect; -- said of lines in geometrical figures, rays of light, nerves, etc.

To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected. Sitting with their knees deflected under them. Lord (1630).

A deviation of the rays of light toward the surface of an opaque body; inflection; diffraction.

Past the flowering state; having shed its pollen. Gray.

Aptly; fitly; dexterously; neatly. "Deftly dancing." Drayton. Thyself and office deftly show. Shak.

The quality of being deft. Drayton.

Fæces; excrement. Ray.

See Delapsion. Ray.

Which Anne derived alone the right, before all other, Of the delapsed crown from Philip. Drayton.

Fatigue. Able to continue without delassation. Ray.

delfts would be so flown with waters, that no gins or machines could . . . keep them dry. Ray.

The mistress of Samson, who betrayed him (Judges xvi.); hence, a harlot; a temptress. Other Delilahs on a smaller scale Burns met with during his Dumfries sojourn. J. C. Shairp.

Delineated; portrayed. [R.]