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Same as Deficiency. Thou in thyself art perfect, and in thee Is no deficience found. Milton.

by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.

Same as Defilade.

he essential law of chemical combination that every definite compound always contains the same elements in the same proportions by weight; and, if two or more elements form more than one compound with each other, the relative proportions of each are fixed. Compare Law of multiple proportions, under Multiple.…

right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; deviation. The other leads to the same point, through certain deflections. Lowth.

Same as Deflour. An earthquake . . . deflowering the gardens. W. Montagu. If a man had deflowered a virgin. Milton.

Same as Deforciant. [Obs.]

Same as Deforcement, n.

Same as Decagram.

Same as Decaliter.

Same as Decameter.

Same as Decastere.

Same as Delftware.

Same as Delftware.

Same as Demarcation.

To let fall; to depress. [R.] They [peacocks] demit and let fall the same [i. e., their train]. Sir T. Browne.

An evil spirit; a devil. That same demon that hath gulled thee thus. Shak.

Demur; delay in acting or deciding. The same causes of demurral existed which prevented British troops from assisting in the expulsion of the French from Rome. Southey.

A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect; as, a denomination of Christians.

Same as Dentil.