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  • English Word Default Definition To fail to appear in court; to let a case go by default.
  • English Word Default Definition To fail to perform or pay; to be guilty of neglect of; to omit; as, to default a dividend.
  • English Word Default Definition 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.
  • English Word Default Definition To leave out of account; to omit.
  • English Word Defaulted Definition of Default
  • English Word Defaulter Definition One who makes default; one who fails to appear in court when court when called.
  • English Word Defaulter Definition 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.
  • English Word Defaulting Definition of Default
  • English Word Defeasance Definition A defeat; an overthrow.
  • English Word Defeasance Definition A rendering null or void.
  • English Word Defeasance Definition 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.
  • English Word Defeasanced Definition Liable to defeasance; capable of being made void or forfeited.
  • English Word Defeasible Definition Capable of being annulled or made void; as, a defeasible title.
  • English Word Defeat Definition To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.
  • English Word Defeat Definition To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate.
  • English Word Defeat Definition To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow.
  • English Word Defeat Definition To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault.
  • English Word Defeat Definition An undoing or annulling; destruction.
  • English Word Defeat Definition Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design.
  • English Word Defeat Definition An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory.
  • English Word Defeated Definition of Defeat
  • English Word Defeating Definition of Defeat
  • English Word Defeature Definition Overthrow; defeat.
  • English Word Defeature Definition Disfigurement; deformity.
  • English Word Defeatured Definition Changed in features; deformed.
  • English Word Defecate Definition Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.
  • English Word Defecate Definition To clear from impurities, as lees, dregs, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine.
  • English Word Defecate Definition To free from extraneous or polluting matter; to clear; to purify, as from that which materializes.
  • English Word Defecate Definition To become clear, pure, or free.
  • English Word Defecate Definition To void excrement.