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A clay tablet on which was inscribed a contract, for safe keeping. Such tablets were inclosed in an outer case (often called the envelope), on which was inscribed a duplicate of the inscription on the inclosed tablet.

A floret in an aggregate flower. [Obs.] Martyn.

Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece.

A corselet. [Obs.] Hakluyt.

To counterplead. [Obs.] Chaucer.

a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other. A sudden couplet rushes on your mind. Crabbe.

The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.

See Crosslet.

A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses.

Crossed again; -- said of a cross the arms of which are crossed. SeeCross-crosslet.

A coronet. [Poetic] Sir W. Scott.

A small central plane in the back of a cut gem. See Collet, 3 (b).

A piece of meat, especially of veal or mutton, cut for broiling.

A dactyl. [Obs.]

The upper border or part of a décolleté corsage.

Leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the neck, or low-necked, as a dress.

A chevrotain. See Kanchil, and Napu.

. . inserted eleven stanzas which do not appear in Sir Walter Scott's version, and have deleted eight. Aytoun.

Hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a deleterious plant or quality; a deleterious example. -- Del`e*te"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Del`e*te"ri*ous*ness, n.

Destructive; poisonous. [Obs.] "Deletery medicines." Hudibras.