DEMARCH
DEMARCH, noun March; walk; gait.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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DEMARKATION
DEMARKATION, noun1. The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit.2. A limit or bound ascertained and fixed; line of separation marked or determined.The speculative...
DEMEAN
DEMEAN, verb transitive1. To behave; to carry; to conduct; with the reciprocal pronoun; as, it is our duty to demean ourselves with humility.2. To treat.DEMEAN, verb transitive ...
DEMEANOR
DEMEANOR, noun Behavior; carriage; deportment; as decent demeanor; sad demeanor
DEMEANURE
DEMEANURE, noun Behavior.
DEMENCY
DEMENCY, noun Madness.
DEMENTATE
DEMENTATE, adjective Mad; infatuated.DEMENTATE, verb transitive To make mad.
DEMENTATION
DEMENTATION, noun The act of making frantic.
DEMEPHITIZATION
DEMEPHITIZATION, noun The act of purifying from mephitic or foul air.
DEMEPHITIZE
DEMEPHITIZE, verb transitive To purify from foul unwholesome air.
DEMEPHITIZED
DEMEPHITIZED, participle passive Purified; freed from foul air.
DEMEPHITIZING
DEMEPHITIZING, participle present tense Purifying from foul air.
DEMERIT
DEMERIT, noun [Latin To earn or deserve.]1. That which deserves punishment, the opposite of merit; an ill-deserving; that which is blamable or punishable in moral conduct; vice ...
DEMERSED
DEMERSED, adjective Plunged; situated or growing under water.
DEMERSION
DEMERSION, noun [Latin To plunge or drown.]1. A plunging into a fluid; a drowning.2. The state of being overwhelmed in water or earth.3. The putting of a medicine in a dissolvin...
DEMESNE
DEMESNE, [See Demain.]
DEMI
DEMI, a prefix, Fr. demi from the Latin Dimidium, signifies half. It is used only in composition.
DEMI-BRIGADE
DEMI-BRIGADE, noun A half-brigade.
DEMI-CADENCE
DEMI-CADENCE, noun In music, an imperfect cadence, or one that falls on any other than the key note.
DEMI-CANNON
DEMI-CANNON, noun A cannon of different sizes; the lowest carries a ball of thirty pounds weight, and six inches diameter; the ordinary is twelve feet long, and carries a shot o...
DEMI-CROSS
DEMI-CROSS, noun An instrument for taking the altitude of the sun and stars.
DEMI-CULVERIN
DEMI-CULVERIN, noun A large gun, or piece of ordnance; the least is ten feet long, and carries a ball of nine pounds weight and four inches diameter; that of ordinary size carri...
DEMI-DEVIL
DEMI-DEVIL, noun Half a devil.
DEMI-DISTANCE
DEMI-DISTANCE, noun In fortification, the distance between the outward polygons and the flank.
DEMI-DITONE
DEMI-DITONE, noun In music, a minor third.
DEMI-GOD
DEMI-GOD, noun Half a god; one partaking of the divine nature; a fabulous hero, produced by the cohabitation of a deity with a mortal.
DEMI-GORGE
DEMI-GORGE, noun In fortification, that part of the polygon which remains after the flank is raised, and goes from the curtain to the angle of the polygon. It is half of the vac...