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To withdraw from concentration; to decentralize. [R.]

Act of deconcentrating. [R.]

Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a decrescent moon.

Characterized by dehiscence; opening in some definite way, as the capsule of a plant.

air; capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid; as, deliquescent salts.

Lying hid; concealed.

Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent.

Feeding. [R.]

especially, hostile invasion from sea; - - often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy. The United Provinces . . . ordered public prayer to God, when they feared that the French and English fleets would make a descent upon their coasts. Jortin.

A genus of herbaceous plants, with racemes of two-spurred or heart-shaped flowers, including the Dutchman's breeches, and the more showy Bleeding heart (D. spectabilis). [Corruptly written dielytra.]

Serving to instruct; teaching. [Obs.]

Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion.

See Eccentric.

In an eccentric manner. Drove eccentrically here and there. Lew Wallace.

The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.

Gently boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of gas

That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt.

Coming into being; nascent. [Obs.] Bp. Warburton.

Arising from the centrum of a vertebra. Owen.

Increasing by equal increments; as, an equicrescent variable.