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- English Word Decorticated Definition of Decorticate
- English Word Decorticating Definition of Decorticate
- English Word Decortication Definition The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.
- English Word Decorticator Definition A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.
- English Word Decorum Definition Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one's own character, or to the place and occasion; decency of conduct; seemliness; that which is seemly or suitable.
- English Word Decoy Definition To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net.
- English Word Decoy Definition Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait.
- English Word Decoy Definition A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot.
- English Word Decoy Definition A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them.
- English Word Decoy Definition A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection.
- English Word Decoy-duck Definition A duck used to lure wild ducks into a decoy; hence, a person employed to lure others into danger.
- English Word Decoy-man Definition A man employed in decoying wild fowl.
- English Word Decoy-men Definition of Decoy-man
- English Word Decoyed Definition of Decoy
- English Word Decoyer Definition One who decoys another.
- English Word Decoying Definition of Decoy
- English Word Decrease Definition To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
- English Word Decrease Definition To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
- English Word Decrease Definition A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
- English Word Decrease Definition The wane of the moon.
- English Word Decreased Definition of Decrease
- English Word Decreaseless Definition Suffering no decrease.
- English Word Decreasing Definition of Decrease
- English Word Decreasing Definition Becoming less and less; diminishing.
- English Word Decreation Definition Destruction; -- opposed to creation.
- English Word Decree Definition An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power, deciding what is to be done or to take place; edict, law; authoritative ru// decision.
- English Word Decree Definition A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty.
- English Word Decree Definition A determination or judgment of an umpire on a case submitted to him.
- English Word Decree Definition An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils.
- English Word Decree Definition To determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a restoration of property.