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a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison.

Making divine; producing a likeness to God; god-making. "A deifical communion." Homilies.

Likeness to deity. [Obs.]

enware made in imitation of the above; any glazed earthenware made for table use, and the like.

te; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like. What choice to choose for delicacy best. Milton.

Fine or slender; minute; not coarse; -- said of a thread, or the like; as, delicate cotton.

The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive. He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives. Luke iv. 18. One death or one deliverance we will share. Dryden.

A tract of land shaped like the letter delta (as, the delta of the Ganges, of the Nile, or of the Mississippi.

Relating to, or like, a delta.

Shaped like the Greek Deltoid leaf (Bot.), a leaf in the form of a triangle with the stem inserted at the middle of the base. -- Deltoid muscle (Anat.), a triangular muscle in the shoulder which serves to move the arm directly upward.

d the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe. At length corruption, like a general fldeluge all. Pope.

Relating to, or like, a demagogue; factious.

To make a demand; to inquire. The soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do Luke iii. 14.

o behave; to comport; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun. They have demeaned themselves Like men born to renown by life or death. Shak. They answered . . . that they should demean themselves according to their instructions. Clarendon.

rriage; bearing; mien. His demeanor was singularly pleasing. Macaulay. The men, as usual, liked her artless kindness and simple refined demeanor. Thackeray.

Cast down; humble; submissive. [Obs.] He down descended like a most demiss And abject thrall. Spenser.

y, as having no protection for the legs below the things, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.

That part of a painting, engraving, or the like, which is neither in full darkness nor full light.

epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands, or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons. Those [qualities] which are classed under the denomination of sublime. Burke.

An ornamental tooling like lace. Knight.