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One who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other. Swift.

A diminutive of the chevron, containing one fourth of its surface. Couple-closes are generally borne one on each side of a chevron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two couple-closes or chevron cottised.

A mill for grinding tin ore.

A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.

A passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap.

A slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail.

Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed.

A reckless fellow. Also used adjectively; as, dare-devil excitement. A humorous dare-devil -- the very man To suit my prpose. Ld. Lytton.

Reckless mischief; the action of a dare-devil.

A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to Latin dis- apart, away; or sometimes to de. Cf. Dis-. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform, destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare, desolate, etc.…

Having a deckle edge; as, deckle-edged paper; a deckle-edged book.

Having the margin dentate and also ciliate or fringed with hairs.

Having a form intermediate between dentate and sinuate.

In a dangling manner.

A chart of previous performances, etc., of race horses. [Race- track Slang]

operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a double-acting engine or pump.

To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart. To double-bank an oar, to set two men to pulling one oar.

Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart.

Having two barrels; -- applied to a gun.

See under Valve.