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DECUBITUS n.
An attitude assumed in lying down; as, the dorsal decubitus.
DECUMBITURE n. 2 definitions
Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness. Boyle.
DISCUBITORY a.
Leaning; fitted for a reclining posture. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
DISEMBITTER v.
To free from
DISHABIT v.
dislodge. [Obs.] Those sleeping stones . . . from their fixed beds of lime Had been dishabited. Shak.
DISHABITED p.
Rendered uninhabited. "Dishabited towns." R. Carew.
DISHABITUATE v.
To render unaccustomed.
DISIMBITTER v.
To free from bitterness.
DISINHABITED a.
Uninhabited. [Obs.]
DUBITABLE a.
Liable to be doubted; uncertain. [R.] Dr. H. More. -- Du"bi*ta*bly, adv. [R.]
DUBITANCY n.
Doubt; uncertainty. [R.] Hammond.
DUBITATE v.
To doubt. [R.] If he . . . were to loiter dubitating, and not come. Carlyle.
DUBITATION n.
Act of doubting; doubt. [R.] Sir T. Scott.
DUBITATIVE a.
Tending to doubt; doubtful. [R.] -- Du"bi*ta*tive*ly, adv. [R.] . Eliot.
EMBITTER v.
To make bitter or sad. See Imbitter.
EMBITTERMENT n.
The act of embittering; also, that which embitters.
EPISTILBITE n.
A crystallized, transparent mineral of the Zeolite family. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.
EXCUBITORIUM n.
A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night.
EXHIBIT v. 5 definitions
how, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to display; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery. Exhibiting a miserable example of the weakness of mind and body. Pope.
EXHIBITER n.
One who exhibits; one who presents a petition, charge or bill. Shak.
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