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To hurt; to harm; to injure. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A straight wind without apparent cyclonic tendency, usually accompanied with rain and often destructive, common in the prairie regions of the United States.

Same as Darraign. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands. The affections which these exposed or derelict children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of nature or assiduity but civility and opinion. Jer. Taylor.

ng with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment. Cession or dereliction, actual or tacit, of other powers. Burke.

To make irreligious; to turn from religion. [R.] He would dereligionize men beyond all others. De Quincey.

Darling. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A female dancer in the East Indies. [Written also bajadere.]

A small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect.

Greatly perplexed; as, a bewildered mind.

The state of being bewildered; bewilderment. [R.]

One who is apt to blunder.

A note or memorandum, esp. one containing an enumeration of documents.

ines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region. Borderers of the Caspian. Dyer.

One who embroiders. [Archaic]

She who chides. [Obs.]

One who considers; a man of reflection; a thinker. Milton.

agent or factor, in consideration of an additional premium or commission (called a del credere commission), engages, when he sells goods on credit, to insure, warrant, or guarantee to his principal the solvency of the purchaser, the engagement of the factor being to pay the debt himself if it is not punctually discharg…

Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment.

Shattered; infirm. "A laurel grew, doddered with age." Dryden.