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s to a patron. He complied ten elegant books, and dedicated them to the Lord Burghley. Peacham.

; to darken; as, the event deepened the prevailing gloom. You must deepen your colors. Peacham.

One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator. Provinces . . . left without their ancient and puissant defenders. Motley.

guard; a protection. War would arise in defense of the right. Tennyson. God, the widow's champion and defense. Shak.

honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer. Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar. Palfrey.

ish oil, which extracts their soluble albuminoids. It was formerly solely a by-product of chamois leather manufacture, but is now made for its own sake, being valuable as a dressing for hides.

Gower. Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones. Peacham.

of; to represent by a picture; to paint; to portray. His arms are fairly depicted in his chamber. Fuller.

A member of the Chamber of Deputies. [France] Chamber of Deputies, one of the two branches of the French legilative assembly; -- formerly called Corps Législatif. Its members, called deputies, are elected by the people voting in districts.

To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth. "If you diaper on folds." Peacham.

Discontent. [Obs.] Ascham.

bs.] He went into Poland, being in displeasure with the pope for overmuch familiarity. Peacham.

Disposed to discord; contentious; dissentious. [R.] Ascham. -- Dis*sen"sious*ly, adv. Chapman.

which is kept level by pumping water out of, or letting it into, the compartments of side chambers. -- Dry dock, a dock from which the water may be shut or pumped out, especially, one in the form of a chamber having walls and floor, often of masonry and communicating with deep water, but having appliances for excludin…

ling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.

Decayed. "Some old dotterel trees." [Obs.] Ascham.

One who dribs; one who shoots weakly or badly. [Obs.] Ascham.

he hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn. Byron. The chaise drives to Mr. Draper's chambers. Thackeray.

til the early part of the 18th, and occasionally as late as the 19th century. Blackstone. Chambers.

A blockhead; a dolt. Ascham.