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One accused of, or ar An author is in the condition of a culprit; the public are his judges. Prior.

The red oxide of copper; red copper; an important ore of copper, occurring massive and in isometric crystals.

The state of being curvilinear or of being bounded by curved lines.

A kind of Muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.

A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury, Conn. It is near the topaz in form. Dana.

Debonairness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert. [Obs.] By many benefits and demerits whereby they obliged their adherents, [they] acquired this reputation. Holland.

Demureness; also, one who is demure. Sir T. Browne.

A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.

Pertaining to a dendrite, or to arborescent crystallization; having a form resembling a shrub or tree; arborescent.

The opposition of nutrition; the failure of nutrition causing the breaking down of tissue.

See Depuration.

Worse state or quality; inferiority. "The deteriority of the diet." [R.] Ray.

Pertaining to, or composed of, detritus.

Worn out.

A wearing off or away. Phonograms which by process long-continued detrition have reached a step of extreme simplicity. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus.

physical activity; skill and ease in using the hands; expertness in manual acts; as, dexterity with the chisel. In youth quick bearing and dexterity. Shak.

ers of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, a, â, ä, o, ô, etc. "Diacritical points." Sir W. Jones. A glance at this typography will reveal great difficulties, which diacritical marks necessarily throw in the way of both printer and writer. A. J. Ellis.

An igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. It includes part of what was called greenstone.