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The act of defiling, or state of being defiled, whether physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness. Defilements of the flesh. Hopkins. The chaste can not rake into such filth without danger of defilement. Addison.

One who defiles; one who corrupts or violates; that which pollutes.

A small tooth, like that of a saw.

One who despoils.

One who details.

A she-devil. [R.] Sterne.

A little devil. [R.] Barham.

One celebrated upon the completion of sixty, or, according to some, seventy-five, years from the beginning of the thing commemorated.

Difficult; hard to manage; stubborn. [Obs.] -- Dif"fi*cile*ness, n. [Obs.] Bacon.

Love; choice. [Obs.] T. Martin.

pursue; a vexatious alternative or predicament; a difficult choice or position. A strong dilemma in a desperate case! To act with infamy, or quit the place. Swift. Horns of a dilemma, alternatives, each of which is equally difficult of encountering.

Of or pertaining to dilettanteism; amateur; as, dilettant speculation. Carlyle.

An admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only.

Somewhat like a dilettante.

The state or quality of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.

Dilettanteish.

Same as Dilettanteism. F. Harrison.

To deprive of a privilege or privileges. [R.]

Comparison or illustration by contraries.

Tending or serving to draw apart.