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Pertaining to Daguerre, or to his invention of the daguerreotype.

To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture.

One who takes daguerreotypes.

The art or process of producing pictures by method of Daguerre.

A day's work; also, a fixed amount of work, whether more or less than that of a day. [Local, Eng. & Scott]

According to strictness (of etiquette, rule, or the like); obligatory; strictly required.

The Ten Commandments or precepts given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, and originally written on two tables of stone.

A plant (Liatris odoratissima) whose fleshy leaves give out a fragrance compared to vanilla. Wood.

A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader.

A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.

wo or more persons are represented as conversing or reasoning on some topic; as, the Dialogues of Plato.

A bank; a dike. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

am; to vent; to discharge into an ocean, a lake, etc. Rolling down, the steep Timavdisembogues his waves. Addison.

The act of disemboguing; discharge. Mease.

Hound's-tongue.

Deceit; duplicity. Now cometh the sin of double-tongue, such as speak fair before folk and wickedly behind. Chaucer.

rations on the same subject; deceitful. Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued. 1 Tim. iii. 8.

See Drag, n.,

A fungus of the genus Geoglossum.

A small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel, usually in the form of a projecting turret, or the like. See Castle.