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For things of tender kind for pleasure made Shoot up with swift increase, and sudden are decay'd. Dryden.

Not defectible; unfailing; not liable to defect, failure, or decay. An indefectible treasure in the heavens. Barrow. A state of indefectible virtue and happiness. S. Clarke.

To prevent or hinder oxidation, rust, or decay; as, inoxidizing oils or varnishes.

e found upon Cleopatra's arm. Sir T. Browne. They fall away, And languish with insensible decay. Dryden.

Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance. Some great catastrophe or . . . instauration. T. Burnet.

To render (wood) proof against decay by saturating with a solution of corrosive sublimate in open tanks, or under pressure.

The act of labefying or making weak; the state of being weakened; decay; ruin. There is in it such a labefaction of all principles as may be injurious to morality. Johnson.

oach and distress. Like her who missed her name in a lampoon, And grieved to find herself decayed so soon. Dryden.

sh. ii. 1. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Goldsmith.

A morbid condition produced by exhalations from decaying vegetable matter in contact with moisture, giving rise to fever and ague and many other symptoms characterized by their tendency to recur at definite and usually uniform intervals.

land productive; a fertilizing substance, as the contents of stables and barnyards, dung, decaying animal or vegetable substances, etc. Dryden.

A wasting away of flesh; decay. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

tributed. Its larva lives in ripening oranges, peaches, and other fruits, causing them to decay and fall.

n first gathered the flesh is hard and austere, and it is not eaten until it has begun to decay. Japan medlar (Bot.), the loquat. See Loquat. -- Neapolitan medlar (Bot.), a kind of thorn tree (Cratægus Azarolus); also, its fruit.

To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.

nute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.

kinds, esp. those of the great groups Hyphomycetes, and Physomycetes, forming on damp or decaying organic matter.

To crumble into small particles; to turn to dust by natural decay; to lose form, or waste away, by a gradual separation of the component particles, without the presence of water; to crumble away. The moldering of earth in frosts and sun. Bacon. When statues molder, and when arches fall. Prior. If he had sat still, the…

To be subdued; to decay, as appetites, desires, etc.

Consisting of mud or earth; gross; impure. This muddy vesture of decay. Shak.