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In general, the literature or history of the art.

To make declaration of; to assert; to affirm; to set forth; to avow; as, he declares the story to be false. I the Lord . . . declare things that are right. Isa. xlv. 19.

Beheading. [R.] By a speedy dethroning and decolling of the king. Parliamentary History (1648).

One versed in the natural history of trees.

A discourse or treatise on trees; the natural history of trees.

Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.

g description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age. Descriptive anatomy, that part of anatomy which treats of the forms and relations of parts, but not of their textures. -- Descriptive geometry, that branch of geometry. which treats of the graphic so…

A narrative or history; a recital or relation.

artifice, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. J. Adams.

ng, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit.

ngle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion. Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison.

Relating to divinity or theology. Church history and other divine learning. South.

sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. Also used figuratively. The domain of authentic history. E. Everett. The domain over which the poetic spirit ranges. J. C. Shairp.

tale, that which is assumed as to characters, situation, etc., as a basis for the plot or story. W. E. Henley.

e inclined not to believe; to withhold confidence from; to distrust; as, I have heard the story, but I doubt the truth of it. To admire superior sense, and doubt their own! Pope. I doubt not that however changed, you keep So much of what is graceful. Tennyson. To doubt not but. I do not doubt but I have been to blame.…

ons; to deduce from premises; to derive. We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history. Burke.

Scarcity; lack. A drought of Christian writers caused a dearth of all history. Fuller.

or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day. Along life's dullest, dreariest walk. Keble.

plicable dumb shows and noise." Shak. (b) Signs and gestures without words; as, to tell a story in dumb show. -- To strike dumb, to confound; to astonish; to render silent by astonishment; or, it may be, to deprive of the power of speech.

A framework on which dishes, food, etc., are passed from one room or story of a house to another; a lift for dishes, etc.; also, a piece of furniture with movable or revolving shelves.