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Deemster (dēmstẽr), n. [Deem + -ster; i. e., doomster. Cf. .] A judge in the Isle of Man who decides controversies without process. Cowell.
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de-energize v. t. to deprive of energy, especially electrical energy; the door locks were de-energized and opened manually.
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Deep (dēp), a. [Compar. Deeper (dēpẽr); superl. Deepest (dēpĕst).] [OE. dep, deop, AS. deóp; akin to D. diep, G. tief, Icel. djūpr, Sw. diup, Dan. dyb, Goth. diups; fr. the root of E. dip, dive. See , .] 1. Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, which is measured upward); far to the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea.
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The water where the brook is deep. Shak.
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2. Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep.
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Shadowing squadrons deep. Milton.
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Safely in harbor
Is the king's ship in the deep nook. Shak.
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3. Low in situation; lying far below the general surface; as, a deep valley.
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4. Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; -- opposed to shallow or superficial; intricate; mysterious; not obvious; obscure; as, a deep subject or plot.
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Speculations high or deep. Milton.
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A question deep almost as the mystery of life. De Quincey.
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O Lord, . . . thy thoughts are very deep. Ps. xcii. 5.
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5. Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning.
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Deep clerks she dumbs. Shak.
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6. Profound; thorough; complete; unmixed; intense; heavy; heartfelt; as, deep distress; deep melancholy; deep horror. “Deep despair.” Milton. “Deep silence.” Milton. “Deep sleep.” Gen. ii. 21. “Deeper darkness.” Hoole. “Their deep poverty.” 2 Cor. viii. 2.
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An attitude of deep respect. Motley.
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7. Strongly colored; dark; intense; not light or thin; as, deep blue or crimson.
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8. Of low tone; full-toned; not high or sharp; grave; heavy. “The deep thunder.” Byron.
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The bass of heaven's deep organ. Milton.
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9. Muddy; boggy; sandy; -- said of roads. Chaucer.
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The ways in that vale were very deep. Clarendon.
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Coloq. A deep line of operations (Military), a long line. -- Coloq. Deep mourning (Costume), mourning complete and strongly marked, the garments being not only all black, but also composed of lusterless materials and of such fashion as is identified with mourning garments.
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Deep, adv. To a great depth; with depth; far down; profoundly; deeply.
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Deep-versed in books, and shallow in himself. Milton.
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Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. Pope.
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☞ Deep, in its usual adverbial senses, is often prefixed to an adjective; as, deep-chested, deep-cut, deep-seated, deep-toned, deep-voiced, “deep-uddered kine.”
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Deep, n. 1. That which is deep, especially deep water, as the sea or ocean; an abyss; a great depth.
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Courage from the deeps of knowledge springs. Cowley.
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The hollow deep of hell resounded. Milton.
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Blue Neptune storms, the bellowing deeps resound. Pope.
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2. That which is profound, not easily fathomed, or incomprehensible; a moral or spiritual depth or abyss.
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Thy judgments are a great deep. Ps. xxxvi. 6.
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Coloq. Deep of night , the most quiet or profound part of night; dead of night.
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The deep of night is crept upon our talk. Shak.
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Deepen (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deepened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Deepening.] 1. To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel.
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It would . . . deepen the bed of the Tiber. Addison.
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2. To make darker or more intense; to darken; as, the event deepened the prevailing gloom.
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You must deepen your colors. Peacham.
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3. To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree; as, to deepen grief or sorrow.
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4. To make more grave or low in tone; as, to deepen the tones of an organ.
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Deepens the murmur of the falling floods. Pope.
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Deepen, v. i. To become deeper; as, the water deepens at every cast of the lead; the plot deepens.
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His blood-red tresses deepening in the sun. Byron.
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deep-eyed adj. having eyes set well behind the brow; characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver.
Syn. -- hollow-eyed, sunken-eyed.
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deep fat n. Hot liquified fat used to deep-fry food. See .
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deep-fat-fry v. t. To fry in deep fat.
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Deep-fet (dēpfĕt), a. Deeply fetched or drawn. [Obs.] “Deep-fet groans.” Shak.
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deep-fried adj. Fried in fat or oil deep enough to cover the object.
Syn. -- fried.
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deep-fry v. to cook by immersing in hot fat or oil.
Syn. -- french-fry.
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Deep-laid (?), a. Laid deeply; formed with cunning and sagacity; secretly and carefully planned; as, deep-laid plans.
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Deeply, adv. 1. At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply.
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2. Profoundly; thoroughly; not superficially; in a high degree; intensely; as, deeply skilled in ethics.
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He had deeply offended both his nobles and people. Bacon.
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He sighed deeply in his spirit. Mark viii. 12.
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3. Very; with a tendency to darkness of color.
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The deeply red juice of buckthorn berries. Boyle.
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4. Gravely; with low or deep tone; as, a deeply toned instrument.
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5. With profound skill; with art or intricacy; as, a deeply laid plot or intrigue.
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deep-mined adj. taken from an undergrround mine; -- as contrasted with coal obtained from a strip mine; as, deep-mined coal.
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Deep-mouthed (?), a. Having a loud and sonorous voice. “Deep-mouthed dogs.” Dryden.
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Deepness, n. 1. The state or quality of being deep, profound, mysterious, secretive, etc.; depth; profundity; -- opposed to shallowness.
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Because they had no deepness of earth. Matt. xiii. 5.
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2. Craft; insidiousness. [R.] J. Gregory.
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Deep-read (?), a. Profoundly book- learned. “Great writers and deep-read men.” L'Estrange.
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deep-rooted adj. well-established; as, deep-rooted prejudice.
Syn. -- deep-seated, fundamental, ingrained.
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Deep-sea (?), a. Of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea; as, a deep-sea line (i. e., a line to take soundings at a great depth); deep-sea lead; deep-sea soundings, explorations, etc.
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2. at some distance from the shore; as, deep-sea fishing.
Syn. -- offshore.
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3. taking place in the deeper parts of the sea; as, deep-sea exploration.
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deep-seated adj. same as .
Syn. -- deep-rooted, fundamental, ingrained.
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deep-set adj. having a sunken area.
Syn. -- sunken, recessed.
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deep-six v. t. 1. to discard in a deep body of water; -- also used figuratively, to discard contemptuously.
Syn. -- deep six, give it the deep six.
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2. to throw from a boat into the water.
Syn. -- deep six, throw overboard.
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Deep-waisted (?), a. (Naut.) Having a deep waist, as when, in a ship, the poop and forecastle are much elevated above the deck.
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deep-water adj. 1. having waters of great depth; as, a deep-water port.
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2. carried on in waters of great depth.
Syn. -- deep-sea.
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Deer (dēr), n. sing. & pl. [OE. der, deor, animal, wild animal, AS. deór; akin to D. dier, OFries. diar, G. thier, tier, Icel. dȳr, Dan. dyr, Sw. djur, Goth. dius; of unknown origin. √71.] 1. Any animal; especially, a wild animal. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Mice and rats, and such small deer. Shak.
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The camel, that great deer. Lindisfarne MS.
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2. (Zoöl.) A ruminant of the genus Cervus, of many species, and of related genera of the family Cervidæ. The males, and in some species the females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually. Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison.
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☞ The deer hunted in England is Cervus elaphus, called also stag or red deer; the fallow deer is Cervus dama; the common American deer is Cervus Virginianus; the blacktailed deer of Western North America is Cervus Columbianus; and the mule deer of the same region is Cervus macrotis. See , , , .
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☞ Deer is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, deerkiller, deerslayer, deerslaying, deer hunting, deer stealing, deerlike, etc.
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Coloq. Deer mouse (Zoöl.), the white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus, formerly Hesperomys leucopus) of America. -- Coloq. Small deer , petty game, not worth pursuing; -- used metaphorically. (See citation from Shakespeare under the first definition, above.) “Minor critics . . . can find leisure for the chase of such small deer.” G. P. Marsh.
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Deerberry (?), n. (Bot.) A shrub of the blueberry group (Vaccinium stamineum); also, its bitter, greenish white berry; -- called also squaw huckleberry.
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Deergrass (?), n. (Bot.) An American genus (Rhexia) of perennial herbs, with opposite leaves, and showy flowers (usually bright purple), with four petals and eight stamens, -- the only genus of the order Melastomaceæ inhabiting a temperate clime.
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Deerhound (?), n. (Zoöl.) One of a large and fleet breed of hounds used in hunting deer; a staghound.
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Deerlet (?), n. [Deer + - let.] (Zoöl.) A chevrotain. See , and .
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Deer-neck (?), n. A deerlike, or thin, ill-formed neck, as of a horse.
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deer's-ear n. any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus Frasera; it is widely distributed in warm dry upland areas of the US Pacific states.
Syn. -- columbo, American columbo, deer's-ears, pyramid plant, American gentian.
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Deerskin (?), n. The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it. Hakluyt. Longfellow.
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Deerstalker (?), n. 1. One who practices deerstalking.
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2. A close-fitting cap, usually woolen, such as is worn in deerstalking, having a low crown and visors both in front and back, and having earflaps which are usually worn tied together over the top; also called fore-and-after, deerstalker hat and deerstalker cap; a hunter's cap; formerly also used for any stiff, round hat. [Eng.]
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Deerstalking, n. The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.
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Deer's-tongue (?), n. (Bot.) A plant (Liatris odoratissima) whose fleshy leaves give out a fragrance compared to vanilla. Wood.
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dee (dē), n. (Physics) an electrode with a large interior cavity, shaped like the letter D, used in opposed pairs to accelerate particles in a cyclotron.
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Dees (dēs), n. pl. Dice. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Dees, n. A dais. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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de-escalate v. t. to reduce in intensity (a crisis or a war).
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de-escalation n. a reduction in intensity (of a crisis or a war).
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Deesis (d�ēsĭs), n. [NL., fr. Gr. dehsis supplication.] (Rhet.) An invocation of, or address to, the Supreme Being.
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Deess (d�ĕs), n. [F. déesse, fem. of dieu god.] A goddess. [Obs.] Croft.
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Deev (?), n. (Hind. & Pers. Myth.) See .
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Deface (d�fās), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Defaced (d�fāst); p. pr. & vb. n. Defacing.] [OE. defacen to disfigure, efface, OF. desfacier; L. dis- + facies face. See , and cf. .] 1. To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record. “This high face defaced.” Emerson.
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So by false learning is good sense defaced. Pope.
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2. [Cf. F. défaire.] To destroy; to make null. [Obs.]
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[Profane scoffing] doth . . . deface the reverence of religion. Bacon.
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For all his power was utterly defaste [defaced]. Spenser.

Syn. -- See .
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defaced adj. having the external appearance impaired, usually deliberately.
Syn. -- marred.
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Defacement (?), n. 1. The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.
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2. That which mars or disfigures. Bacon.
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Defacer (?), n. One who, or that which, defaces or disfigures.
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De facto (?). [L.] Actually; in fact; in reality; as, a king de facto, -- distinguished from a king de jure, or by right.
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Defail (?), v. t. [F. défaillir to fail; pref. dé- (L. de) + faillir. See , and cf. .] To cause to fail. [Obs.]
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Defailance (?), n. [F. défaillance.] Failure; miscarriage. [Obs.]
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Possibility of defailance in degree or continuance. Comber.
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Defailure (?), n. Failure. [Obs.] Barrow.
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Defalcate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Defalcated; p. pr. & vb. n. Defalcating.] [LL. defalcatus, p. p. of defalcare to deduct, orig., to cut off with a sickle; L. de- + falx, falcis, a sickle. See .] To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; -- used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc.
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To show what may be practicably and safely defalcated from them [the estimates]. Burke.
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Defalcate, v. i. To commit defalcation; to embezzle money held in trust. “Some partner defalcating, or the like.” Carlyle.
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Defalcation (?), n. [LL. defalcatio: cf. F. défalcation.] 1. A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set- off. Abbott.
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2. That which is lopped off, diminished, or abated.
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3. An abstraction of money, etc., by an officer or agent having it in trust; an embezzlement.
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Defalcator (?), n. A defaulter or embezzler. [Modern]
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Defalk (?), v. t. [F. défalquer. See .] To lop off; to abate. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
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Defamation (?), n. [OE. diffamacioun, F. diffamation. See .] Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion.
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☞ In modern usage, written defamation bears the title of libel, and oral defamation that of slander. Burrill.
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Defamatory (?), a. Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings.
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Defame (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Defamed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Defaming.] [OE. defamen, diffamen, from F. diffamer, or OF. perh. defamer, fr. L. diffamare (cf. defamatus infamous); dis- (in this word confused with de) + fama a report. See .] 1. To harm or destroy the good fame or reputation of; to disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calumniate; to asperse.
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2. To render infamous; to bring into disrepute.
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My guilt thy growing virtues did defame;
My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name. Dryden.
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3. To charge; to accuse. [R.]
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Rebecca is . . . defamed of sorcery practiced on the person of a noble knight. Sir W. Scott.

Syn. -- To asperse; slander; calumniate; vilify. See .
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Defame, n. Dishonor. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Defamer (?), n. One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.
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Defamingly, adv. In a defamatory manner.
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Defamous (?), a. Defamatory. [Obs.]
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Defatigable (?), a. [See .] Capable of being wearied or tired out. [R.] Glanvill.
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Defatigate (?), v. t. [L. defatigatus, p. p. of defatigare; de- + fatigare to weary. See .] To weary or tire out; to fatigue. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.
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Defatigation (?), n. [L. defatigatio.] Weariness; fatigue. [R.] Bacon.
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Default (?), n. [OE. defaute, OF. defaute, defalte, fem., F. défaut, masc., LL. defalta, fr. a verb meaning, to be deficient, to want, fail, fr. L. de- + fallere to deceive. See .] 1. A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires; as, this evil has happened through the governor's default.
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2. Fault; offense; ill deed; wrong act; failure in virtue or wisdom.
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And pardon craved for his so rash default. Spenser.
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Regardless of our merit or default. Pope.
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3. (Law) A neglect of, or failure to take, some step necessary to secure the benefit of law, as a failure to appear in court at a day assigned, especially of the defendant in a suit when called to make answer; also of jurors, witnesses, etc.
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Coloq. In default of , in case of failure or lack of.
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Cooks could make artificial birds and fishes in default of the real ones. Arbuthnot.
-- Coloq. To suffer a default (Law), to permit an action to be called without appearing to answer.
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Default, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Defaulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Defaulting.] 1. To fail in duty; to offend.
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That he gainst courtesy so foully did default. Spenser.
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2. To fail in fulfilling a contract, agreement, or duty.
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3. To fail to appear in court; to let a case go by default.
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Default, v. t. 1. To fail to perform or pay; to be guilty of neglect of; to omit; as, to default a dividend.
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What they have defaulted towards him as no king. Milton.
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2. (Law) To call a defendant or other party whose duty it is to be present in court, and make entry of his default, if he fails to appear; to enter a default against.
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3. To leave out of account; to omit. [Obs.]
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Defaulting unnecessary and partial discourses. Hales.
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Defaulter (?), n. 1. One who makes default; one who fails to appear in court when court when called.
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2. One who fails to perform a duty; a delinquent; particularly, one who fails to account for public money intrusted to his care; a peculator; a defalcator.
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Defeasance (?), n. [OF. defesance, fr. defesant, F. défaisant, p. pr. of defaire, F. défaire, to undo. See .] 1. A defeat; an overthrow. [Obs.]
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After his foes' defeasance. Spenser.
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2. A rendering null or void.
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3. (Law) A condition, relating to a deed, which being performed, the deed is defeated or rendered void; or a collateral deed, made at the same time with a feoffment, or other conveyance, containing conditions, on the performance of which the estate then created may be defeated.
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