Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DEP'IL-ATE, v.t. [L. depilo; de and pilus, hair.]

To strip of hair.

DEP'IL-A-TED, pp.

Deprived of hair.

DEP'IL-A-TING, ppr.

Depriving of hair.

DEP-I-LA'TION, n.

The act of pulling off the hair. Dryden.

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

Having the quality or power to take off hair and make bald.

DE-PIL'A-TO-RY, n.

Any application which is used to take off the hair of an animal body; such as lime and orpiment. Encyc.

DEP'IL-OUS, a.

Without hair. Brown.

DE-PLANT-A'TION, n. [L. deplanto.]

The act of taking up plants from beds.

DE-PLE'TION, n. [L. depleo; de and pleo, to fill.]

The act of emptying; particularly, in the medical art, the act of diminishing the quantity of blood in the vessels by venesection; bloodletting.

DE-PLE'TO-RY, a.

Calculated to obviate fullness of habit.

DE-PLI-CA'TION, n. [L. de and plico, to fold.]

An unfolding, untwisting or unplaiting. Montague.

DE-PLOR'A-BLE, a. [See Deplore.]

1. That may be deplored or lamented; lamentable; that demands or causes lamentation; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; miserable; wretched; as, the evils of life are deplorable; the Pagan world is in a deplorable condition. [Deplorate, in a like sense, is not used.]
2. In popular use, low; contemptible; pitiable; as, deplorable stupidity.

DE-PLOR'A-BLE-NESS, n.

The state of being deplorable; misery; wretchedness; a miserable state.

DE-PLOR'A-BLY, adv.

In a manner to be deplored; lamentably; miserably; as, manners are deplorably corrupt.

DE-PLOR-A'TION, n.

The act of lamenting. In music, a dirge or mournful strain.

DE-PLORE', v.t. [L. deploro; de and ploro, to howl, to wail; Fr. deplorer; It. deplorare; Sp. deplorar, llorar.]

To lament; to bewail; to mourn; to feel or express deep and poignant grief for. We deplored the death of Washington.

DE-PLOR'ED, pp.

Lamented; bewailed; deeply regretted.

DE-PLOR'ED-LY, adv.

Lamentably. [Not used.] Taylor.

DE-PLOR'ER, n.

One who deplores, or deeply laments; a deep mourner.

DE-PLOR'ING, n.

Act of deploring.

DE-PLOR'ING, ppr.

Bewailing; deeply lamenting.

DE-PLOR'ING-LY, adv.

In a deploring manner.

DE-PLOY', v.i.

To open; to extend; to form a more extended front or line.

DE-PLOY', v.t. [Fr. deployer; de and ployer, or plier, to fold; L. plico; Gr. πλεκω; Arm. plega; Sp. plegar; It. piegare; W. plygu. Hence Sp. desplegar, to display; It. spiegare; Deploy is only a different orthography of deplier, Sp. desplegar, to display.]

To display; to open; to extend; a military term.

DE-PLOY'ED, pp.

Opened; displayed; extended.