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Bidding or manifesting defiance. [Obs.] Shelford.

Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming. Some delicious landscape. Coleridge. One draught of spring's delicious air. Keble. Were not his words delicious Tennyson.

Highly pleasing; affording great pleasure and satisfaction. "Delightful bowers." Spenser. "Delightful fruit." Milton.

would be as demure and coquettish, as if ten winters more had gone over her head. Miss Mitford.

A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. [Written also demi.] He was elected into Magdalen College as a demy; a term by which that society denominates those elsewhere called "scholars," young men who partake of the founder's benefaction, and succeed in their order to vacant fellowships. Johnson.

y deposited (as the mud, gravel, etc., deposits of a river). The deposit already formed affording to the succeeding portion of the charged fluid a basis. Kirwan.

Passing over the borders. [R.] Mitford.

Affording a free passage to heat; as, diathermic substances. Melloni.

e act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing; also that which is dictated. It affords security against the dictation of laws. Paley.

a funeral hymn. The raven croaked, and hollow shrieks of owls Sung dirges at her funeral. Ford.

can they never Toss into air the freedom of my birth, Or disavow my blood Plantagenet's. Ford.

ake from a cradle. [R.] This airy apparition first discradled From Tournay into Portugal. Ford.

y, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter disorder; to disarrange. Lyford . . . attempted to disorganize the church. Eliot (1809).

require; not assigned to any service or use. The great of this kingdom . . . has easily afforded a disposable surplus. Burke.

To place at a distance or remotely. I heard nothing thereof at Oxford, being then miles distanced thence. Fuller.

To make (one) a doctor. He was bred . . . in Oxford and there doctorated. Fuller.

Sorrowful. [Obs.] Ford.

That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down When in the down I sink my head, Sleep, Death's twin brother, times my breath. Tennyson. Thou bosom softness, down of all my cares! Southern.

Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction. The Hertfordshire wheel plow . . . is of the easiest draught. Mortimer.

In South Africa, a ford in a river.