DPage 66
- English Word Defy Definition To provoke to combat or strife; to call out to combat; to challenge; to dare; to brave; to set at defiance; to treat with contempt; as, to defy an enemy; to defy the power of a magistrate; to defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy public opinion.
- English Word Defy Definition A challenge.
- English Word Defying Definition of Defy
- English Word Degarnish Definition To strip or deprive of entirely, as of furniture, ornaments, etc.; to disgarnish; as, to degarnish a house, etc.
- English Word Degarnish Definition To deprive of a garrison, or of troops necessary for defense; as, to degarnish a city or fort.
- English Word Degarnished Definition of Degarnish
- English Word Degarnishing Definition of Degarnish
- English Word Degarnishment Definition The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison.
- English Word Degender Definition Alt. of Degener
- English Word Degener Definition To degenerate.
- English Word Degeneracy Definition The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse.
- English Word Degeneracy Definition The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness.
- English Word Degenerate Definition Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low.
- English Word Degenerate Definition To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate.
- English Word Degenerate Definition To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type.
- English Word Degenerated Definition of Degenerate
- English Word Degenerately Definition In a degenerate manner; unworthily.
- English Word Degenerateness Definition Degeneracy.
- English Word Degenerating Definition of Degenerate
- English Word Degeneration Definition The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.
- English Word Degeneration Definition That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver.
- English Word Degeneration Definition A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
- English Word Degeneration Definition The thing degenerated.
- English Word Degenerationist Definition A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state.
- English Word Degenerative Definition Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate.
- English Word Degenerous Definition Degenerate; base.
- English Word Degenerously Definition Basely.
- English Word Deglazing Definition The process of giving a dull or ground surface to glass by acid or by mechanical means.
- English Word Degloried Definition Deprived of glory; dishonored.
- English Word Deglutinate Definition To loosen or separate by dissolving the glue which unties; to unglue.