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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Dē'mar-cā'tion, n.p. 351See DEMARKATION.
  2. De-märch’, n.p. 351March; walk; gait. [Obs.]
  3. Dē'march (-märk), n.p. 351A chief or ruler, as the mayor of a town among the modern Greeks.
  4. Dē'mar-kā'tion, n.p. 351The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit; division; separation. 2. A limit or bound ascertained and fixed; quality of serving as a dividing limit. The speculative line of…
  5. Dē'ma-tē'ri-al-īze, v. t.p. 351To deprive of material qualities or characteristics. Dematerializing matter by stripping it of every thing which ... has distinguished matter. Milman.
  6. Dēme, n.p. 351(Gr. Antiq.) A territorial subdivision of Attica, corresponding to a township. “The eponymous hero of a deme in Attica.” Grote.
  7. De-mēan', v. t.p. 351To manage; to conduct; to treat. Our obdurate clergy have with violence demeaned the matter. Milton.
  8. De-mēan', v. t.p. 351To carry or conduct; to behave; — followed by the reflexive pronoun. They answered . . . that they should demean themselves according to their instructions. Clarendon. 2. [From de and mean, q. v.] To…
  9. De-mēan', n.p. 352Management; treatment. [Obs.] “Ville demean and usage bad.” Spenser. 2. Behavior; carriage; conduct; demeanor. [Obs.] “Grave demean and solemn vanity.” West.
  10. De-méan’, n.p. 352Property; means. [Obs.] You know How narrow our demeans are. Massinger.
  11. De-mēan'ance, n.p. 352Demeanor. [Obs.] “Royal demeanance.” Skelton.
  12. De-méaned', p. p.p. 352Behaved well;— in a good sense. Lessened; debased;— in a bad sense.
  13. De-mēan'or, n.p. 352Management; conduct. [Obs.] God commits the managing so great a trust ... wholly to the demeanor of every grown man. Milton. 2. Behavior; deportment; carriage; bearing; mien. His demeanor was…
  14. De-mēan'ūre, n.p. 352Behavior. [Obs.] Barret.
  15. Dē'men-cy, n.p. 352Dementia; temporary or permanent suspension of the exercise of the reason; insanity.
  16. De-mĕnt’, v. t.p. 352To deprive of reason; to make mad. [Rare.] Bale.
  17. De-mĕn'tate, a.p. 352Deprived of reason. Hammond.
  18. De-mĕn’tāte, v. t.p. 352[Lat. dementatus, p. p. of dementare. To deprive of reason. Barton.
  19. Dé′men-tā′tion, n.p. 352The act of depriving of reason, or the state of being so deprived. Whitlock.
  20. De-mĕn’ti-ā, n.p. 352Insanity. See INSANITY. 2. (Med.) A total loss of thought and reason; idiocy.
  21. De-mĕph′i-ti-zā′tion, n.p. 352(Med.) The act of purifying from mephitic or foul air.
  22. De-mēph'i-tīze, v. t.p. 352To purify from foul, unwholesome air.
  23. De-mĕrge', v. t.p. 352To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse. [Obs.] “The water in which it was demerged.” Boyle.
  24. De-mĕr'it, n.p. 352That which one deserves or merits, either of good or ill; desert. [Obs.] Hers be the blame for her demerit. Chaucer. By many benefits and demerits whereby they obliged their adherents, [they]…
  25. De-mĕr'it, v. t.p. 352To deserve;—said in reference to both praise and blame. [Obs.] “If I have demerited any love or thanks.” Udal. “Executed as a traitor . . . as he well demerited.” State Trials.
  26. De-mĕr'it, v. i.p. 352To deserve praise or blame.
  27. De-mĕrse', v. t.p. 352To cause to sink; to immerse. [Obs.] Boyle.
  28. De-mĕrsed’, a.p. 352Situated or growing under water, as leaves.
  29. De-mĕr'sion, n.p. 352The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning. 2. The state of being overwhelmed in water or earth. Ray.
  30. De-mĕs'mer-īze, v. t.p. 352To relieve from mesmeric influence. See MESMERIZE.
  31. De-mēsne', n.p. 352(Law.) The chief manor-place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy, but the possession of which has been retained by the lord in his own manual…
  32. De-mēsn'i-al, a.p. 352Pertaining to a demesne.
  33. Dĕm'ip. 352A prefix, signifying half, used in composition.
  34. Dē-mī', n.p. 352A half-fellow at Magdalen college, Oxford. See DEMY.
  35. Dēm'i-bāin, n.p. 352See DEMI-BATH.
  36. Dēm'i-bāst'ion, n.p. 352(Fort.) A half bastion, or that part of a bastion cut off by the capital, consisting of one face and one front.
  37. Dēm'i-bāth, n.p. 352A bath in which only the lower half of the body is immersed;—called also demi-bath. Gilbert.
  38. Dēm'i-brī-gāde', n.p. 352A half brigade.
  39. Dēm'i-cā'dence, n.p. 352(Mus.) An imperfect cadence, or one that falls on any other than the key-note.
  40. Dēm'i-cāūn/non, n.p. 352A kind of ordnance, anciently used, carrying a ball of from 30 to 36 pounds in weight.
  41. Dēm'i-kŭl'ver-in, n.p. 352A kind of ordnance, anciently used, carrying a ball of 9 or 10 pounds in weight.
  42. Dēm'i-dē'i-fy, v. t.p. 352To deify in part.
  43. Dēm'i-dēv'il, n.p. 352Half a devil.
  44. Dēm'i-dis/tan'ce, n.p. 352(Fort.) The distance between the outward polygons and the flank. [Obs.]
  45. Dēm'i-dī'tōne, n.p. 352(Mus.) A minor third.
  46. Dēm'i-gāunt/let, n.p. 352(Surg.) A kind of bandage for disjointed fingers.
  47. Dēm'i-gōd, n.p. 352Half a god; one partaking of the divine nature; a fabulous hero, produced by the cohabitation of a deity with a mortal.
  48. Dēm'i-gōd/dess, n.p. 352A female demi-god.
  49. Dĕm'i-gôrge, n.p. 352(Fort.) That part of the interior polygon which remains after the flank is raised, extending from the curtain to the angle of the polygon. It is half of the vacant space or entrance into a bastion.…
  50. Dēm'i-grāte, v. i.p. 352To emigrate; to leave one's country. [Obs.] Cockeram.
  51. Dēm'i-grā'tion, n.p. 352Emigration. [Obs.] Cockram.
  52. Dēm’i-grōat, n.p. 352A half-groat.
  53. Dēm'i-jŏhn, n.p. 352A glass vessel or bottle with a large body and small neck, inclosed in wicker-work.
  54. Dēm'i-lānçe, n.p. 352A light lance; a short spear; a half-pike.
  55. Dēm'i-lūne, n.p. 352(Fort.) A work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin. See RAVELIN.
  56. Dēm'i-mān, n.p. 352Half a man;—used contemptuously.
  57. Dĕm'i-prēm'i-seş, n. pl.p. 352Half-premises.
  58. Dēm'i-quā'ver, n.p. 352(Mus.) A note of half the length of the quaver; a semi-quaver. [Rare.]
  59. Dēm'i-rĕp, n.p. 352A woman of suspicious chastity.
  60. Dēm'i-rī'lī-e'vo, n.p. 352(Sculp.) Half relief, or the standing out of a figure from the background by half its thickness.