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Belonging to the Decandria; having ten stamens.

Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.

o error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud. Making the ephah small and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit. Amos viii. 5. Friendly to man, far from deceit or guile. Milton.…

To lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to insnare. Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 2 Tim. iii. 13. Nimble jugglers that deceive the eye. Shak. What can 'scape the e…

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.

Belonging to declension. Declensional and syntactical forms. M. Arnold.

Growing in pairs, each of which is at right angles to the next pair above or below; as, decussated leaves or branches.

Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, which is measured upward); far to the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea. The water where the brook is deep. Shak.

At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply.

A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state.

The doctrine or creed of a deist; the belief or system of those who acknowledge the existence of one God, but deny revelation.

One who believes in the existence of a God, but denies revealed religion; a freethinker.

A poison which occasions a persistent delirium, or mental aberration (as belladonna).

That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief. And fondly mourned the dear delusion gone. Prior.

A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use. [Written also demain.] Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill. Ancient demesne. (Eng. Law) See under Ancient.

it of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the things, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.

The belief in demons or false gods. The established theology of the heathen world . . . rested upon the basis of demonism. Farmer.

A believer in, or worshiper of, demons.

eing demonstrated; that can be proved beyond doubt or question. The grand articles of our belief are as demonstrable as geometry. Glanvill.

To live in, or as in, a den. The sluggish salvages that den below. G. Fletcher.