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Decau, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight.

To decay; to disappear; to vanish. Gilded clouds, while we gaze upon them, faint before the eye. Pope.

Corrupted; decayed; moldy. See Vinnewed. [Obs.] Dr. Favour.

Dead or decaying grass remaining on land through the winter; -- called also foggage. [Prov.Eng.] Halliwell.

rsued; token; mark; as, the footsteps of divine wisdom. How on the faltering footsteps of decay Youth presses. Bryant.

The state of being foxed or discolored, as books; decay; deterioration.

, as, to be full of some project. Every one is full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions. Locke.

The decay and dissolution of the organic tissues and of the blood.

Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within.

Occurring once an hour; continuing an hour; hourly; ephemeral. Horary, or soon decaying, fruits of summer. Sir T. Browne. Horary circles. See Circles.

rns! Shak. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Goldsmith.

One who will never cease to be; one exempt from death, decay, or annihilation. Bunyan.

er. A violent, sudden, and impatient necessity. Jer. Taylor. Fame, impatient of extremes, decays Not more by envy than excess of praise. Pope. The impatient man will not give himself time to be informed of the matter that lies before him. Addison. Dryden was poor and impatient of poverty. Macaulay.

Not perisha ble; not subject to decay; indestructible; enduringpermanently; as, an imperishable monument; imperishable renown. -- Im*per"ish*a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*per"ish*a*bly, adv.

is a design of publishing the history of architecture, with its several improvements and decays. Addison. Those vices which more particularly receive improvement by prosperity. South.

ation. Bacon. Marked with vivacity of inception, apathy of progress, and prematureness of decay. Rawle.

Not affected with corruption or decay; unimpaired; not marred or spoiled.

Not corruptible; incapable of corruption, decay, or dissolution; as, gold is incorruptible. Our bodies shall be changed into incorruptible and immortal substances. Wake.

Incorruptible; not liable to decay. Akenside.

Freedom or exemption from decay or corruption.