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One of the Crinoidea.

Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous. -- n.

Relating to the Ctenoidei. -- n.

A woman whose husband is unfaithful to her. [Obs.]

Having an azure color. Pennant.

yclops; characteristic of the Cyclops; huge; gigantic; vast and rough; massive; as, Cyclopean labors; Cyclopean architecture.

One of the Cystidea.

Same as Cystidean.

Pertaining to the goddess Venus.

Pertaining to Daguerre, or to his invention of the daguerreotype.

Relatingto, emanating from or resembling, the poet Dante or his writings.

clesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop. Dean of cathedral church, the chief officer of a chapter; he is an ecclesiastical magistrate next in degree to bishop, and has immediate charge of the cathedral and its estates. -- Dean of peculiars, a dean holding a preferment wh…

The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3.

The office of a dean. I dont't value your deanship a straw. Swift.

To manage; to conduct; to treat. [Our] clergy have with violence demeaned the matter. Milton.

Demeanor. [Obs.] Skelton.

eatment; conduct. [Obs.] God commits the managing so great a trust . . . wholly to the demeanor of every grown man. Milton.

Behavior. [Obs.] Spenser.

Disagreement. [Obs.]

Containing two trochees.