Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Deathful

Death″ful (?), a. 1. Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody.These eyes beholdThe deathful scene. Pope.2. Liable to undergo death; mortal.The deathless gods a...

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Deathfulness

Death″ful‐ness, n. Appearance of death. Jer. Taylor.

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Deathless

Death″less, a. Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.

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Deathlike

Death″like′ (?), a. 1. Resembling death.A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope.2. Deadly. “Deathlike dragons.” Shak.

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Deathliness

Death″li‐ness (?), n. The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.

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Deathly

Death″ly, a. Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.

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Deathly (2)

Death″ly, adv. Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.

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Deathsman

Deaths″man (?), n. An executioner; a headsman or hangman. Shak.

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Deathward

Death″ward (?), adv. Toward death.

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Deathwatch

Death″watch′ (?; 224), n. 1. (Zoöl.) (a) A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, ...

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Deaurate

De‐au″rate (?), a. [L. deauratus, p. p. of deaurare to gild; de- + aurum gold.] Gilded.

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Deaurate (2)

De‐au″rate (?), v. t. To gild. Bailey.

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Deauration

De′au‐ra″tion (?), n. Act of gilding.

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Deave

Deave (?), v. t. [See Deafen.] To stun or stupefy with noise; to deafen.

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Debacchate

De‐bac″chate (?), v. i. [L. debacchatus, p. p. of debacchari to rage; de- + bacchari to rage like a bacchant.] To rave as a bacchanal. Cockeram.

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Debacchation

De′bac‐cha″tion (?), n. [L. debacchatio.] Wild raving or debauchery. Prynne.

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Debacle

De‐ba″cle (?), n. [F. débâcle, fr. débâcler to unbar, break loose; pref. dé- (prob. = L. dis) + bâcler to bolt, fr. L. baculum a stick.] (Geol.) A breaking or bursting forth; a ...

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Debacle (2)

De‐ba″cle (?), n. A sudden breaking up or breaking loose; a violent dispersion or disruption; impetuous rush; outburst.

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Debar

De‐bar″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Debarred (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Debarring.] [Pref. de- + bar.] To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from appr...

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Debarb

De‐barb″ (?), v. t. [Pref. de- + L. barba beard.] To deprive of the beard. Bailey.

561

Debark

De″bark″ (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p.Debarked (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Debarking.] [F. débarquer; pref. dé- (L. dis-) + barque. See Bark the vessel, and cf. Disbark.] To go ashore f...

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Debarkation

De′bar‐ka″tion (?), n. Disembarkation.The debarkation, therefore, had to take place by small steamers. U. S. Grant.

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Debarment

De‐bar″ment (?), n. Hindrance from approach; exclusion.

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Debarrass

De‐bar″rass (?), v. t. [Cf. F. débarrasser. See Embarrass.] To disembarrass; to relieve.

565

Debase

De‐base″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Debased (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Debasing.] [Pref. de- + base. See Base, a., and cf. Abase.] To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of wor...

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Debased

De‐based″ (?), a.(Her.) Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.

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Debasement

De‐base″ment (?), n. The act of debasing or the state of being debased. Milton.