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To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth or the horns of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn. "Dehorning cattle." Farm Journal (1886).

ssels, then, which our delicates have, -- those I mean that would seem to be more fine in their houses than their neighbors, -- are only of the Corinth metal. Holland.

A delineated picture; representation; sketch; description in words. Their softest delineations of female beauty. W. Irving.

verpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe. At length corruption, like a general fldeluge all. Pope.

ditch; a den; a cave. Which to that shady delve him brought at last The very tigers from their delves Look out. Moore.

life or death. Shak. They answered . . . that they should demean themselves according to their instructions. Clarendon.

either of good or ill; desert. [Obs.] By many benefits and demerits whereby they obliged their adherents, [they] acquired this reputation. Holland.

relief; sculpture in relief of which the figures project from the background by one half their full roundness.

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

A treatise on demons; a supposititious science which treats of demons and their manifestations. Sir W. Scott.

end judgment concerning; to doubt of or hesitate about. [Obs.] The latter I demur, for in their looks Much reason, and in their actions, oft appears. Milton.

ere called "scholars," young men who partake of the founder's benefaction, and succeed in their order to vacant fellowships. Johnson.

when aggrieved, of denaturalizing themselves, or, in other words, of publicly renouncing their allegiance to their sovereign, and of enlisting under the banners of his enemy. Prescott.

A dweller; an inhabitant. "Denizens of air." Pope. Denizens of their own free, independent state. Sir W. Scott.

Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients. [Obs.] The chymists have a liquor called water of depart. Bacon.

ll not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclined to superstition. Burke.

another; inability to help or provide for one's self. Reduced to a servile dependence on their mercy. Burke.

ave very much dependency each on the other. Sir J. Reynolds. So that they may acknowledge their dependency on the crown of England. Bacon.

; as, a numerous train of dependents. A host of dependents on the court, suborned to play their part as witnesses. Hallam.

The act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in order to extend their front. -Wilhelm. Deployments . . . which cause the soldier to turn his back to the enemy are not suited to war.H.L. Scott.