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Daily occurence. [R.]

The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear.

The hypothetical line on the surface of the earth fixed by international or general agreement as a boundary on one side of which the same day shall have a different name and date in the calendar from its name and date on the other side.

The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a daughter.

The quality of being deadly.

The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.

ariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend. "With declining head." Shak. He . . . would decline even to the lowest of his family. Lady Hutchinson. Disdaining to decline, Slowly he falls, amidst triumphant cries. Byron. The ground at length became broken and declined rapidly. Sir W. Scott.

Declinate.

He who declines or rejects. A studious decliner of honors. Evelyn.

To delineate. [Obs.]

Capable of being, or liable to be, delineated. Feltham.

Delineation; sketch. Dr. H. More.

Delineated; portrayed. [R.]

The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from representation by means of tints shades; accurate and minute representation, as disting…

One who, or that which, delineates; a sketcher.

That delineates; descriptive; drawing the outline; delineating.

Delineation. [Obs.]

cise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral. Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity. Bacon. Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience. C. J. Smith.

One who disciplines.

To incline away the affections of; to excite a slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate. Careful . . . to disincline them from any reverence or affection to the Queen. Clarendon. To social scenes by nature disinclined. Cowper.