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e larvæ of which feed animal substances. They are very destructive to dries meats, skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is D. lardarius, known as the bacon beetle.

uncovering of anything buried or covered with earth; a taking out of the earth or ground. Woodward.

The act of rolling down. [R.] The devolution of earth down upon the valleys. Woodward.

arly ten hides or skins; a dakir; as, a dicker of gloves. [Obs.] A dicker of cowhides. Heywood.

g the old warden and the young constable to compose their difference as they could. T. Ellwood.

One who dijudicates. [R.] Wood.

aste and abuse; to squander. The patrimony of the bishopric of Oxon was much dilapidated. Wood.

To invest with a title o [R.] Wood.

s found in the East Indies, some species of which produce a fragrant resin, other species wood oil. The fruit has two long wings.

To raise the anchor of, as a ship; to weigh anchor. [Obs.] Heywood.

s being broken, . . . the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty. Woodward.

One who discusses; one who sifts or examines. Wood.

To unlade. [Obs.] Heywood.

e your bones. Shak. After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated. Woodward. And thus the archbishop's see, dislocated or out of joint for a time, was by the hands of his holiness set right again. Fuller.

To disfurnish; to strip. [Obs.] Heywood.

To disarrange. [Obs.] Wood.

A nearly uniform and constant fire or heat disseminated throughout the body of the earth. Woodward.

eing dissolved; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid. Woodward.

The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand. I will the distaff hold; come thou and spin. Fairfax.

ally requiring a high degree of heat; as, the destructive distillation of soft coal or of wood. -- Dry distillation, the distillation of substances by themselves, or without the addition of water or of other volatile solvent; as, the dry distillation of citric acid. -- Fractional distillation. (Chem.) See under Fract…