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500 words match “HALE”

DELETION n.
ction. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. A total deletion of every person of the opposing party. Sir M. Hale.
DELIVERABLE a.
Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered. Hale.
DENTICETE n.
The division of Cetacea in which the teeth are developed, including the sperm whale, dolphins, etc.
DEPENDINGLY adv.
As having dependence. Hale.
DERIVATION n.
. . I do not doubt but many of those truths have had the help of that derivation. Sir M. Hale.
DEROGATE v.
rary customs, . . . many of the civil and canon laws are controlled and derogated. Sir M. Hale.
DESCENDANT n.
motely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant. Our first parents and their descendants. Hale. The descendant of so many kings and emperors. Burke.
DESUME v.
To select; to borrow. [Obs.] Sir. M. Hale.
DEVILFISH n.
The gray whale of the Pacific coast. See Gray whale.
DIGLADIATE v.
ontend fiercely; to dispute violently. [Obs.] Digladiating like Æschines and Demosthenes. Hales.
DIJUDICATE v.
To make a judicial decision; to decide; to determine. [R.] Hales.
DIODON n.
A genus of whales.
DISACCOMMODATION n.
A state of being unaccommodated or unsuited. [R.] Sir M. Hale.
DISCIPLINABLENESS n.
The quality of being improvable by discipline. Sir M. Hale.
DISCONGRUITY n.
Incongruity; disagreement; unsuitableness. Sir M. Hale.
DISCRETE a.
Separate; distinct; disjunct. Sir M. Hale.
DISSIPATION n.
thout loss or dissipation of the matter. Bacon. The famous dissipation of mankind. Sir M. Hale.
DIVERTICLE n.
A turning; a byway; a bypath. [Obs.] Hales.
DOEGLING n.
The beaked whale (Balænoptera rostrata), from which doegling oil is obtained.
DOMITABLE a.
That can be tamed. [R.] Sir M. Hale.
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