Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DECK'ER, n.

1. One who decks or adorns; a coverer; as, a table-decker.
2. Of a ship, we say, she is a two-decker or a three-decker, that is, she has two decks or three decks.

DECK'ING, n.

Ornament; embellishment. Homilies.

DECK'ING, ppr.

Covering; arraying; adorning.

DE-CLAIM', v.i. [L. declamo; de and clamo, to cry out. See Claim and Clamor.]

1. To speak a set oration in public; to speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech, or oration; as, the students declaim twice a week.
2. To harangue; to speak loudly or earnestly, to a public body or assembly, with a view to convince their minds or move their passions.

DE-CLAIM', v.t.

1. To speak in public.
2. To speak in favor of; to advocate. [Not in use.]

DE-CLAIM'ANT, or DE-CLAIM'ER, n.

1. One who declaims; a speaker in public; one who attempts to convince by a harangue.
2. One who speaks clamorously.

DE-CLAIM'ING, n.

A harangue. Bp. Taylor.

DE-CLAIM'ING, ppr.

Speaking rhetorically; haranguing.

DEC-LA-MA'TION, n. [L. declamatio.]

1. A speech made in public, in the tone and manner of an oration; a discourse addressed to the reason or to the passions; a set speech; a harangue. This word is applied especially to the public speaking and speeches of students in colleges, practiced for exercises in oratory. It is applied also to public speaking in the legislature, and in the pulpit. Very often it is used for a noisy harangue, without solid sense or argument; as, mere declamation; empty declamation.
2. A piece spoken in public, or intended for the public.

DEC-LA-MA'TOR, n.

A declaimer. [Not used.] Taylor.

DE-CLAM'A-TO-RY, a. [L. declamatorius.]

1. Relating to the practice of declaiming; pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme. Wotton.
2. Appealing to the passions; noisy; rhetorical without solid sense or argument; as, a declamatory way or style.

DE-CLAR'A-BLE, a. [See Declare.]

That may be declared, or proved.

DE-CLAR'ANT, n.

One who declares.

DEC-LA-RA'TION, n. [L. declaratio.]

1. An affirmation; an open expression of facts or opinions; verbal utterance; as, he declared his sentiments, and I rely on his declaration.
2. Expression of facts, opinions, promises, predictions, &c., in writings; records or reports of what has been declared or uttered. The Scriptures abound in declarations of mercy to penitent sinners.
3. Publication; manifestation; as, the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai. Esth. x.
4. A public annunciation; proclamation; as the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.
5. In law, that part of the process or pleadings in which the plaintif sets forth at large his cause of complaint; the narration or count.

DE-CLAR'A-TIVE, a.

1. Making declaration; explanatory; making show or manifestation; as, the name of a thing may be declarative of its form or nature. Grew.
2. Making proclamation, or publication.

DE-CLAR'A-TO-RI-LY, adv.

By declaration or exhibition.

DE-CLAR'A-TO-RY, a.

Making declaration, clear manifestation, or exhibition; expressive; as, this clause is declaratory of the will of the legislature. The declaratory part of a law, is that which sets forth and defines what is right and what is wrong. A declaratory act, is an act or statute which sets forth more clearly and explains the intention of the legislature in a former act.

DE-CLARE', v.i.

1. To make a declaration; to proclaim or avow some opinion or resolution in favor or in opposition; to make known explicitly some determination; with for or against; as, the prince declared for the allies; the allied powers declared against France. Like fawning courtiers, for success they wait; / And then come smiling, and declare for fate. Dryden.
2. In law, to recite the causes of complaint against the defendant; as, the plaintif declares in debt or trespass.
3. To show or manifest the issue or event; to decide in favor of; as, victory had not declared for either party.

DE-CLARE', v.t. [L. declaro; de and claro, to make clear; Ir. gluair, or gleair; W. eglur, clear, bright; egluraw, to make clear or plain, to manifest, to explain; Fr. declarer; Sp. declarar; It. dichiarare. See Clear and Glory. The sense is to open, to separate, or to spread.]

1. To clear; to free from obscurity; to make plain. Boyle. [In this literal sense, the word is no longer in use.]
2. To make known; to tell explicitly; to manifest or communicate plainly to others by words. I will declare what he hath done for my soul. Ps. lxvi.
3. To make known; to show to the eye or to the understanding; to exhibit; to manifest by other means than words. The heavens declare the glory of God. Ps. xix.
4. To publish; to proclaim. Declare his glory among the heathen. 1 Chron. xvi. Declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. Acts xv.
5. To assert; to affirm; as, he declares the story to be false. To declare one's self, to throw off reserve and avow one's opinion; to show openly what one thinks, or which side he espouses.

DE-CLAR'ED, pp.

Made known; told explicitly; avowed; exhibited; manifested; published; proclaimed; recited.

DE-CLAR'ED-LY, adv.

Avowedly; explicitly.

DE-CLAR'ED-NESS, n.

State of being declared.

DE-CLARE'MENT, n.

Declaration.

DE-CLAR'ER, n.

One who makes known or publishes; that which exhibits.

DE-CLAR'ING, n.

Declaration; proclamation.