Dictionary
Found: 6,960 words.
Deanery
3 defs
The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3.
The office of a dean.
Dear
9 defs
A dear one; lover; sweetheart.
Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience.
Greatly beloved.
A four-wheeled carriage, with curtained sides.
variant of Dere, v. t. & n.
Same as Deary.
A darling.
Dearly
3 defs
At a high rate or price; grievously.
Dearn
2 defs
Same as Darn.
Dearness
2 defs
Fondness; preciousness; love; tenderness.
Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.
To disjoint.
Precious.
A dear; a darling.
See Dais.
Death
9 defs
Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death.
The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna).
The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness.
Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.
A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys.
Deathful
2 defs
Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody.
Appearance of death.
Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.
Deathlike
2 defs
Deadly.
The quality of being deathly; deadliness.
Deathly
2 defs
Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.
An executioner; a headsman or hangman.
Toward death.
Deathwatch
3 defs
A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, ...
Deaurate
2 defs
Gilded.
Act of gilding.
To stun or stupefy with noise; to deafen.
To rave as a bacchanal.
Wild raving or debauchery.
A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other debris.
To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; -- with from, and sometim...
To deprive of the beard.
To go ashore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to put ashore.
Disembarkation.
of Debark
of Debark
Hindrance from approach; exclusion.
To disembarrass; to relieve.
of Debar
of Debar
To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to...
Debased
2 defs
of Debase