DPage 58
- English Word Defecated Definition of Defecate
- English Word Defecating Definition of Defecate
- English Word Defecation Definition The act of separating from impurities, as lees or dregs; purification.
- English Word Defecation Definition The act or process of voiding excrement.
- English Word Defecator Definition That which cleanses or purifies; esp., an apparatus for removing the feculencies of juices and sirups.
- English Word Defect Definition Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.
- English Word Defect Definition Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment.
- English Word Defect Definition To fail; to become deficient.
- English Word Defect Definition To injure; to damage.
- English Word Defectibility Definition Deficiency; imperfection.
- English Word Defectible Definition Liable to defect; imperfect.
- English Word Defection Definition Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding.
- English Word Defectionist Definition One who advocates or encourages defection.
- English Word Defectious Definition Having defects; imperfect.
- English Word Defective Definition Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied either to natural or moral qualities; as, a defective limb; defective timber; a defective copy or account; a defective character; defective rules.
- English Word Defective Definition Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb.
- English Word Defectuosity Definition Great imperfection.
- English Word Defectuous Definition Full of defects; imperfect.
- English Word Defedation Definition The act of making foul; pollution.
- English Word Defence Definition See Defense.
- English Word Defence Definition The act of defending, or the state of being defended; protection, as from violence or danger.
- English Word Defence Definition That which defends or protects; anything employed to oppose attack, ward off violence or danger, or maintain security; a guard; a protection.
- English Word Defence Definition Protecting plea; vindication; justification.
- English Word Defence Definition The defendant's answer or plea; an opposing or denial of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's or prosecutor's case; the method of proceeding adopted by the defendant to protect himself against the plaintiff's action.
- English Word Defence Definition Act or skill in making defense; defensive plan or policy; practice in self defense, as in fencing, boxing, etc.
- English Word Defence Definition Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
- English Word Defend Definition To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.
- English Word Defend Definition To prohibit; to forbid.
- English Word Defend Definition To repel danger or harm from; to protect; to secure against; attack; to maintain against force or argument; to uphold; to guard; as, to defend a town; to defend a cause; to defend character; to defend the absent; -- sometimes followed by from or against; as, to defend one's self from, or against, one's enemies.
- English Word Defend Definition To deny the right of the plaintiff in regard to (the suit, or the wrong charged); to oppose or resist, as a claim at law; to contest, as a suit.