Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DE-FIN'I-TIVE-LY, adv.

1. Determinately; positively; expressly.
2. Finally; conclusively; unconditionally; as, the points between the parties are definitively settled.

DE-FIN'I-TIVE-NESS, n.

Determinateness; decisiveness; exclusiveness.

DE-FIX', v.t. [L. defigo.]

To fit; to fasten. [not used.] Herbert.

DEF-LA-GRA-BIL'I-TY, n. [See Deflagrate.]

Combustibility; the quality of taking fire and burning away, as a metallic wire; a chimical term. Boyle.

DEF-LA'GRA-BLE, a.

Combustible; having the quality of taking fire and burning, as alcohol, oils, &c. Boyle.

DEF'LA-GRATE, v.t. [L. deflagro; de and flagro, to burn.]

To set fire to; to burn; to consume; as, to deflagrate oil or spirit.

DEF'LA-GRA-TED, pp.

Burned; consumed.

DEF'LA-GRA-TING, ppr.

Burning; consuming.

DEF-LA-GRA'TION, n.

A kindling or setting fire to a substance; burning; combustion. The strength of spirit is proved by deflagration. Encyc. A rapid combustion of a mixture, attended with much evolution of flame and vapor, as of niter and charcoal. Cyc. This term is also applied to the rapid combustion of metals by galvanism.

DEF'LA-GRA-TOR, n.

A galvanic instrument for producing combustion, particularly the combustion of metallic substances. Hare.

DE-FLECT', v.i. [L. deflecto; de and flecto, to turn or bend.]

To turn from or aside; to deviate from a true course or right line; to swerve. The needle deflects from the meridian. Brown.

DE-FLECT', v.t.

To turn aside; to turn or bend from a right line or regular course.

DE-FLECT'ED, pp.

Turned aside, or from a direct line or course. In botany, bending downward archwise.

DE-FLECT'ING, ppr.

Turning aside; turning from a right line or regular course.

DE-FLEC'TION, n.

1. Deviation; the act of turning aside; a turning from a true line or the regular course.
2. The departure of a ship from its true course.
3. A deviation of the rays of light toward the surface of an opake body; inflection. Hooke.

DE-FLEX'URE, n.

A bending down; a turning aside; deviation.

DEF'LO-RATE, a. [L. defloratus, from defloro, to deflour; de and floreo, flos. See Flower.]

In botany, having cast its farin, pollen, or fecundating dust. Martyn.

DEF-LO-RA'TION, n. [Fr. See Deflour.]

1. The act of deflouring; the act of depriving of the flower, or prime beauties; particularly, the act of taking away a woman's virginity.
2. A selection of the flower, or of that which is most valuable. The laws of Normandy are, in a great measure, the defloration of the English laws. Hale.

DE-FLOUR', v.t. [L. defloro; de and floreo, or flos, a flower; Fr. deflorer; It. deflorare, or defiorare; Sp. desflorar. See Flower.]

1. To deprive a woman of her virginity, either by force or with consent. When by force, it may be equivalent to ravish or violate.
2. To take away the prime beauty and grace of any thing. The sweetness of his soul was defloured. Taylor.
3. To deprive of flowers. Montagu.

DE-FLOUR'ED, pp.

Deprived of maidenhood; ravished; robbed of prime beauty.

DE-FLOUR'ER, n.

One who deprives a woman of her virginity.

DE-FLOUR'ING, ppr.

Depriving of virginity or maidenhood; robbing of prime beauties.

DE-FLOW', v.i. [L. defluo.]

To flow down. [Not in use.] Brown.

DEF'LU-OUS, a. [L. defluus; de and fluo, to flow.]

Flowing down; falling off. [Little used.]

DE-FLUX', n. [L. defluxus; de and fluo, fluxus. See Flow.]

A flowing down; a running downward; as, a deflux of humors. [See Defluxion.] Bacon.