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ackdaw. The loud daw, his throat displaying, draw The whole assembly of his fellow daws. Waller.

rome. -- Dead door (Shipbuilding), a storm shutter fitted to the outside of the quarter-gallery door. -- Dead flat (Naut.), the widest or midship frame. -- Dead freight (Mar. Law), a sum of money paid by a person who charters a whole vessel but fails to make out a full cargo. The payment is made for the unoccupied c…

by tens; having a tenfold increase or decrease, each unit being ten times the unit next smaller; as, decimal notation; a decimal coinage. Decimal arithmetic, the common arithmetic, in which numeration proceeds by tens. -- Decimal fraction, a fraction in which the denominator is some power of 10, as -- Decimal point, a…

on of monarchy." Bacon. Summer . . . is not looked on as a time Of declination or decay. Waller.

business declines. That empire must decline Whose chief support and sinews are of coin. Waller. And presume to know . . . Who thrives, and who declines. Shak.

reas"ing*ly, adv. Decreasing series (Math.), a series in which each term is numerically smaller than the preceding term.

kward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep. Shadowing squadrons deep. Milton. Safely in harbor Is the king's ship in the deep nook. Shak.

mson, who betrayed him (Judges xvi.); hence, a harlot; a temptress. Other Delilahs on a smaller scale Burns met with during his Dumfries sojourn. J. C. Shairp.

in which the digestive cavity gives off lateral branches, which are often divided into smaller branchlets.

ng southward. -- Descending series (Math.), a series in which each term is numerically smaller than the preceding one; also, a series arranged according to descending powers of a quantity.

el lines, with other lines crossing them obliquely, so that their intersections furnish smaller subdivisions of the unit of measure than could be conveniently marked on a plain scale. -- Diagonal stratification. (Geol.) Same as Cross bedding, under Cross, a.

he colored dispersion produced by a single object lens of crown glass is corrected by a smaller concave lens, or combination of lenses, of high dispersive power, placed at a distance in the narrower part of the converging cone of rays, usually near the middle of the tube.

To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase. Not diminish, but rather increase, the debt. Barrow.

rom inclosure. Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark them all. Waller.

disposed of her to a man of business. Tatler. A rural judge disposed of beauty's prize. Waller.

Political disorder; tumult. Waller.

es of names, etc., to save repetition. A spacious table in the center, and a variety of smaller dittos in the corners. Dickens.

A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.

A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson.