Dictionary: DEATH'-DO-ING – DE-BAR'RAS

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DEATH'-DO-ING, a.

Inflicting death. [Kirby. 1841]

DEATH'-DOOM-ED, a.

Doomed to death. Coleridge.

DEATH'FUL, a.

Full of slaughter; murderous; destructive. These eyes behold / The deathful scene. Pope.

DEATH'FUL-NESS, n.

Appearance of death. Taylor.

DEATH'LESS, a.

Immortal; not subject to death, destruction or extinction; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.

DEATH'LIKE, a.

  1. Resembling death; gloomy; still; calm; quiet; peaceful; motionless, like death in horror or in stillness; as, deathlike slumbers.
  2. Resembling death; cadaverous.

DEATH'S'-DOOR, n.

A near approach to death; the gates of death. Taylor.

DEATH'SHAD-OW-ED, a.

Surrounded by the shades of death. More.

DEATH'S-MAN, n.

An executioner; a hangman. Shak.

DEATH'-STROKE, n.

The stroke of death.

DEATH'-TO-KEN, n.

That which indicates approaching death. Shak.

DEATH'WARD, adv.

Toward death. Beaum.

DEATH'-WATCH, n.

A small insect whose ticking is weakly supposed, by superstitious and ignorant people, to prognosticate death. Gay.

DE-AU'RATE, a.

Gilded.

DE-AU'RATE, v.t. [L. deauro.]

To gild. [Little used.]

DE-BAC'CHATE, v.i.

To rave and bluster, as a bacchanal.

DE-BAC-CHA'TION, n.

A raving.

DE-BAC'LE, n. [Fr.]

A breaking or bursting forth. Buckland. The geological deluge, which is supposed to have swept the surface of the earth, and to have conveyed the fragments of rocks, and the remains of animals and vegetables, to a distance from their native localities. Ed. Encyc.

DE-BAR', v.t. [de and bar.]

To cut off from entrance; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; as, we are not debarred from any rational enjoyment; religion debars us from no real pleasure.

DE-BARK', v.i.

To leave a ship or boat and pass to the land; as, the troops debarked at four o'clock.

DE-BARK', v.t. [Fr. debarquer; de and barque, a boat or vessel.]

To land from a ship or boat; to remove from on board any water-craft, and place on land; to disembark; as, to debark artillery. [It is less used, especially in a transitive sense, than disembark.]

DE-BARK-A'TION, n.

The act of disembarking.

DE-BARK'ED, pp.

Removed to land from on board a ship or boat.

DE-BARK'ING, ppr.

Removing from a ship to the land; going from on board a vessel.

DE-BAR'RAS, v.t. [Fr. débarrasser.]

To disembarrass; to extricate from difficulty. [Little used.] Jefferson.