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Fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune or gentleman. -- De*cay"ed*ness, n.

A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass. Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit, Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread. R. Jago.

Affected with, or inclined to, consumption. The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed. Dryden.

Decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. If the season be unkindly and intemperate, they [peppers] will catch a blast; and then the seeds will be deaf, void, light, and naught. Holland. Deaf and dumb, without the sense of hearing or the faculty of speech. See Deaf-mute.…

To get out of repair; to fall into partial ruin; to become decayed; as, the church was suffered to dilapidate. Johnson.

Decayed; fallen into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or neglect. A deserted and dilapidated buildings. Cooper.

An old, decayed tree. [R.] Bacon.

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

Having decayed spots or streaks of a whitish color; -- said of timber. Weale.

Perished; decayed. [Obs.] I deem thy brain emperished be. Spenser.

Corrupted; decayed; moldy. See Vinnewed. [Obs.] Dr. Favour.

, as, to be full of some project. Every one is full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions. Locke.

Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within.

oach and distress. Like her who missed her name in a lampoon, And grieved to find herself decayed so soon. Dryden.

To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.

Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood.

Indicating or proceeding from a decayed state of animal or vegetable matter; as, a putrid smell. Putrid fever (Med.), typhus fever; -- so called from the decomposing and offensive state of the discharges and diseased textures of the body. -- Putrid sore throat (Med.), a gangrenous inflammation of the fauces and pharyn…

Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat. Hence:

To fall to ruins; to go to ruin; to become decayed or dilapidated; to perish. [R.] Though he his house of polished marble build, Yet shall it ruin like the moth's frail cell. Sandys. If we are idle, and disturb the industrious in their business, we shall ruin the faster. Locke.

A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth. Prior.