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A voracious appetite, like that of a starved dog.

One who works by the day; -- usually applied to a farm laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular trade. Goldsmith.

To decorate; to beautify. [Obs.] To decore and beautify the house of God. E. Hall.

Ornament. [Obs.]

To clear of forests; to dis U. S. Agric. Reports.

A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments, esp. one with dry goods as the principal stock.

and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over. To find her, or forever to deplore Her loss. Milton. As some sad turtle his lost love deplores. Pope.

Lamentably.

The state of being deplored or deplorable. [R.] Bp. Hail.

Deploration. [Obs.]

One who deplores.

Perspiration, or an increase of perspiration.

A medicine or agent which promotes perspiration.

Having the power to increase perspiration.

with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.

A genus of plants. See Yam.

To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to exempt from forest laws. By charter 9 Henry III. many forests were disafforested. Blackstone.

Variegated; of divers colors. [R.] That ever wore discolored arms. Chapman.

One who disfavors. Bacon.

To disafforest. Fuller.