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The act of defraying; payment; as, the defrayal of necessary costs.

The division of Tunicata which includes the Salpæ. See Salpa.

Destructible. [R.] Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.

A compound of a binary type containing two cyanogen groups or radicals; -- called also bicyanide.

An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve.

Like or pertaining to the Dimya. -- n.

Same as Dimyarian.

Not loyal; not true to a sovereign or lawful superior, or to the government under which one lives; false where allegiance is due; faithless; as, a subject disloyal to the king; a husband disloyal to his wife. Without a thought disloyal. Mrs. Browning.

In a disloyal manner.

Want of loyalty; lack of fidelity; violation of allegiance.

Want of provisions; [Obs.] Spenser.

A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding.

Lady; mistress; madam; -- a title of respect used in Spain, prefixed to the Christian name of a lady.

A yard in front of a house or around the door of a house.

Use of a dray.

A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.

A genus of shrubs growing in Australia, having beautiful, hard, dry, evergreen leaves.

A dryad.

See Doña.

A yard where dung is collected.