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The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from representation by means of tints shades; accurate and minute representation, as disting…

Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees. Gray.

xive pronoun. Her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter. Thackeray.

acaulay. The men, as usual, liked her artless kindness and simple refined demeanor. Thackeray.

The state of being overwhelmed in water, or as if in water. Ray.

Downcast; submissive; humble. [R.] They pray with demissive eyelids. Lord (1630).

vilish; as, a demoniac being; demoniacal practices. Sarcastic, demoniacal laughter. Thackeray.

crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray. To replace the cloudy barrier dense. Cowper.

Falling short of the natural size, from being impoverished or starved. Gray.

To form a colored likeness of; to represent by a picture; to paint; to portray. His arms are fairly depicted in his chamber. Fuller.

To lament. Gray.

rized condition. Depolarization of light (Opt.), a change in the plane of polarization of rays, especially by a crystalline medium, such that the light which had been extinguished by the analyzer reappears as if the polarization had been anulled. The word is inappropriate, as the ray does not return to the unpolarized…

A natural occurrence of a useful mineral under the conditions to invite exploitation. Raymond.

To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by player; to desire the removal of; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to disapprove of strongly. His purpose was deprecated by all round him, and he was with difficulty induced to adandon it. Sir W. Scott.

The act of deprecating; a praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented; strong expression of disapprobation. Humble deprecation. Milton.

Serving to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic. Humble and deprecatory letters. Bacon.

relation with, both dermal and hæmal structures; as, the dermohæmal spines or ventral fin rays of fishes.

elation with, both dermal and neural structures; as, the dermoneural spines or dorsal fin rays of fishes. Owen.

n or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy. The United Provinces . . . ordered public prayer to God, when they feared that the French and English fleets would make a descent upon their coasts. Jortin.

. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Gray. Desert flora (Bot.), the assemblage of plants growing naturally in a desert, or in a dry and apparently unproductive place. -- Desert hare (Zoöl.), a small hare (Lepus sylvaticus, var. Arizonæ) inhabiting the deserts of the…