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g down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above. And ever-living lamps depend in rows. Pope.

pendents. A host of dependents on the court, suborned to play their part as witnesses. Hallam.

To deprive of phlogiston, or the supposed principle of inflammability. Priestley. Dephlogisticated air, oxygen gas; -- so called by Dr. Priestly and others of his time. -- De`phlo*gis`ti*ca"tion, n.

Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable. Individual sufferers are in a much more deplorable conditious than any others. Burke.

The act of deploring or lamenting; lamentation. Speed.

To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over. To find her, or forever to deplore Her loss. Milton. As some sad turtle his lost love deplores. Pope.

Lamentably.

; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.

An object of derision or scorn; a laughing-stock. I was a derision to all my people. Lam. iii. 14.

Inflammation of the skin.

should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country. "The deserted fortress." Prescott.

sTennyson. The leaders of that assembly who withstood the designs of a besotted woman. Hallam. A . . . settled design upon another man's life. Locke. How little he could guess the secret designs of the court! Macaulay.

An instrument formerly used in removing the laminæ of exfoliated bones.

an by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. Shak. Destruction of venerable establishment. Hallam.

archduke Philip . . . found himself in a sort of honorable detention at Henry's court. Hallam.

usion formed; fixed resolution. So bloodthirsty a determination to obtain convictions. Hallam.

To cause to explode; to cause to burn or inflame with a sudden report.

st Babylon, to destroy it. Jer. li. 11. Their recent device of demanding benevolences. Hallam. He disappointeth the devices of the crafty. Job v. 12.

of authority; -- used adjectively. Longfellow. -- Devil's apron (Bot.), the large kelp (Laminaria saccharina, and L. longicruris) of the Atlantic ocean, having a blackish, leathery expansion, shaped somewhat like an apron. -- Devil's coachhorse. (Zoöl.) (a) The black rove beetle (Ocypus olens). [Eng.] (b) A large, p…

onsign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction; the city was devoted to the flames. No devoted thing that a man shall devote unto the Lord . . . shall be sold or redeemed. Lev. xxvii. 28.