Dec″u‐man (?), a. [L. decumanus of the tenth, and by metonymy, large, fr. decem ten.] Large; chief; — applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. Also used substantively. “Such decuman billows.” Gauden. “The baffled decuman.” Lowell.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.