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To render dim; to deprive of vision. Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Rom. xi. 10.

A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or dabed; a smear.

Smeary; viscous; glutinous; adhesive. "Dauby wax."

e of good comfort. Matt. ix. 22. Daughter cell (Biol.), one of the cells formed by cell division. See Cell division, under Division.

e beginning. Milton. The tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us. Luke i. 78.

o benumb. While flashing beams do daze his feeble eyen. Spenser. Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world. Sir H. Taylor. He comes out of the room in a dazed state, that is an odd though a sufficient substitute for interest. Dickens.

th their blaze Insufferably bright. Milton. An unreflected light did never yet Dazzle the vision feminine. Sir H. Taylor.

Of well being; of formal sufficiency for the time; conditionally; provisionally. Abbott.

The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end.

The division of Cephalopoda which includes the squids, cuttlefishes, and others having ten arms or tentacles; -- called also Decapoda. [Written also Decacera.] See Dibranchiata.

A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy. [Written also decad.] During this notable decade of years. Gladstone.

A division of the dibranchiate cephalopods including the cuttlefishes and squids. See Decacera.

Cutting off; division; detachment of a part. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

forces. Same as Resolution of forces, under Resolution. -- Decomposition of light, the division of light into the prismatic colors.

A head or chief over ten; especially, an officer who commanded a division of ten soldiers.

A division, at one end of a tennis court, for spectators.

The division of that which is morphologically one organ into two or more, as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluster.

icest ornament. He died innocent and before the sweetness of his soul was defloured and ravished from him. Jer. Taylor.

One who deflours; a ravisher.

A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer.