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a person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes cast; -- said of a candidate really elected. [Colloq.]

nter brace, in Vocabulary. -- Counter deed (Law), a secret writing which destroys, invalidates, or alters, a public deed. -- Counter distinction, contradistinction. [Obs.] -- Counter drain, a drain at the foot of the embankment of a canal or watercourse, for carrying off the water that may soak through. -- Counter e…

g the appearance of a tuft of hair; having a hairlike tail or train. "Comate, crinite, caudate stars."

To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to dastardize my courage. Dryden.

That may be dated; having a known or ascertainable date. "Datable almost to a year." The Century.

rno, such as appointments to benefices. The name is derived from the word datum, given or dated (with the indications of the time and place of granting the gift or favor).

To repress or subdue the courage of; to check by fear of danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten. Some presences daunt and discourage us. Glanvill.

To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm. The deluged earth would useless grow. Blackmore.

The act of depredating, or the state of being depredated; the act of despoiling or making inroads; as, the sea often makes depredation on the land.

Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion.

n descended, and the floods came. Matt. vii. 25. We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.

an end; to determine. See Determine. [Obs.] The sly, slow hours shall not determinate The dateless limit of thy dear exile. Shak.

A register of daily events or transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a diary of the weather; a physician's diary.

The faculty of multiplying in two ways; -- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. See Parthenogenesis.

The act of dilapidating, or the state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined, or squandered. Tell the people that are relived by the dilapidation of their public estate. Burke.

The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates without any nominating convention, and, loosely, to the nomination effe…

A primary by which direct nominations of candidates for office are made.

A state of being unaccommodated or unsuited. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

To invalidate the consecration of; as, to disanoint a king. [Obs.] Milton.

Given; executed; issued; made public; -- used chiefly in the clause giving the date of a proclamation or public act.