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Belonging to the Decagynia; having ten styles.

Having ten sides.

A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces. [Written also, less correctly, decaedron.]

A measure of capacity in the metric system; a cubic volume of ten liters, equal to about 610.24 cubic inches, that is, 2.642 wine gallons.

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

A celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related in ten days; -- written in the 14th century, by Boccaccio, an Italian.

A measure of length in the metric system; ten meters, equal to about 393.7 inches.

A Linnæan class of plants characterized by having ten stamens.

Belonging to the Decandria; having ten stamens.

Having ten angles.

Having ten leaves.

A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the Decapoda. Also used adjectively.

Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.

A measure of capacity, equal to ten steres, or ten cubic meters.

A poem consisting of ten lines.

Having ten columns in front; -- said of a portico, temple, etc. -- n.

Having, or consisting of, ten syllables.

rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Goldsmith.

ie; to pass away. She's dead, deceased, she's dead. Shak. When our summers have deceased. Tennyson. Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him, he so far deceases from nature. Emerson.

Tendency to mislead or deceive. "The deceitfulness of riches." Matt. xiii. 22.