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Any plant of the natural order Cycadeceæ, as the sago palm, etc.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants like the palms, but having exogenous wood. The sago palm is an example.

A decade. Averill was a decad and a half his elder. Tennyson.

Pertaining to ten; consisting of tens.

A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy. [Written also decad.] During this notable decade of years. Gladstone.

way; decay; deterioration; declension. "The old castle, where the family lived in their decadence.' Sir W. Scott.

Decaying; deteriorating.

A writer of a book divided into decades; as, Livy was a decadist. [R.]

An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the key note.

A dike of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to check the approach of an enemy.

incipal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its facade unfinished, though the interior may be in use.

The action of a horse, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending himself, as it were, in very quick curvets. Harris.

A cool walk; shady place. [R.] Maunder.

A large ship of burden, in ancient Greece. Mitford.

Cloth of silver or of gold. [R.]

A genus of evergreen shrubs from the Cape of Good Hope, having handsome foliage. Leucadendron argenteum is the silverboom of the colonists.

A macadamized road.

The process or act of macadamizing.

To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.

A part of a bridle, the slavering bit. [Written also mastigador.]