earthen-ware. A supper worthy of herself; Five nothings in five plates of delph. Swift. DELTOIDE. adj. [from delta, the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet; so called by reason of its resembling this letter.] An epithet applied to a triangular muscle arising from the clavicula, and from the process of the same, whose action is to raise the arm upward. Cut still more of the deltoide muscle, and carry the arm backward. Sharp's Surgery. DELU'DABLE. adj. [from delude.] Liable to be deceived; that is easily imposed on rather deludible. Not well understanding omniscience, he is not so ready to deceive himself, as to falsify unto him whose cogitation is no ways deludable. Brown's Vulgar Errours. To DELU’DE. v. a. [deludo, Lat.] 1. To beguile; to cheat; to deceive; to impose on. O give me leave, I have deluded you; 'T was neither Charles, nor yet the duke. Shakspeare's Heary v1. Let not the Trojans, with a feign'd pretence Of proffer'd peace, delude the Latin prince. Dryden. 2. To disappoint; to frustrate. DELU DER. n. s. [from delude.] A beguil. er; a deceiver; an impostor; a cheat; a false pretender. Say, flatterer, say; all fair deluder, speak; Answer me this, ere yet my heart does break. Granville. And thus the sweet deluders tune their song. Pope. To DELVE. v. a. [delfan, Saxon, delven, Dutch; perhaps from pa, a hog. Junius.] 1. To dig; to open the ground with a spade. It shall go hard Which to that shady delve him brought at last, Where Mammon erst did sun his treasury. Speater, Such a light and mettled dance Saw you never yet in France; And by leadmen, for the nonce, That turn round like grindle-stones, Which they dig out fro' the delves, For their bairns bread, wives, and selves. Ben Farrat DELVE of Coals. A certain quantity of coals dug in the mine or pit. DE'LVER. n. s. [from delve.] A digger; one that opens the ground with a spade. DE'LUGE. n. s. [deluge, Fr. from dilu vium, Latin.] Dict 1. A general inundation; laying entirely under water. The apostle doth plainly intimate, that the old world was subject to perish by a deluge, as this is subject to perish by conflagration. Burnet's Theary. 2. An overflowing of the natural bounds of a river. But if with bays and dams they strive to force Still the battering waves rush in 2. To overwhelm; to cause to sink under the weight of any calamity. At length corruption, like a general flood, Shall delige all. Pept DELUSION. n. s. (delusio, Latin.] 1. The act of deluding; a cheat; guile; deceit; treachery; fraud; collusion; falsehood. 2. The state of one deluded. 3. A false representation; illusion; errour; a chimerical thought. Who therefore seeks in these True wisdom, finds her not, or by delusion. Milton. I, waking, view'd with grief the rising sun, And fondly mourn'd the dear delusion gone. Prie While the base and groveling multitude were listening to the delusive deities, those of a more erect aspect and exalted spirit separated themselves from the rest. Tatler. Phænomena so delusive, that it is very hard to escape imposition and mistake. Woodward. DELU'SORY. adj. [from delusus, Latin.] Apt to deceive. This confidence is founded on no better foundation than a delusory prejudice. Glanvill DE'MAGOGUE. n. s. [Inμœywy.] A ringleader of the rabble; a popular and factious orator. turn his wishes into demands, vill be but a little way from thinking he ought to obtain them. 2. A question; an interrogation. 3. Who were the chief demagogues and patrons of tumults, to send for them, to flatter and embolden them. King Charles. A plausible, insignificant word, in the mouth' of an expert demagogue, is a dangerous and dreadful weapon. South. 4. Demosthenes and Cicero, though each of them a leader, or, as the Greeks called it, a demagogue, in a popular state, yet seem to differ in their practice. Swift. DEMA'IN. DEME'AN. n. s. [domaine, French.] DEME'SNE. 1. That land which a man holds originally of himself, called dominium by the civilians; and opposed to feodum, or fee, which signifies those that are held of a superior lord. It is sometimes used also for a distinction between those lands that the lord of the manor has in his own hands, or in the hands of his lessee, demised or let upon a rent for a term of years or life, and such other lands appertaining to the said manor as belong to free or copyholders. Phillips. 2. Estate in land. Having now provided A gentleman of noble parentage, Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly allied. Shakspeare. That earldom indeed had a royal jurisdiction and seigniory, though the lands of that county in demesne were possessed for the most part by the ancient inheritors. Davies. 3. Land adjoining to the mansion, kept in the lord's own hand. Those acts for planting forest-trees have hitherto been wholly ineffectual, except about the demesnes of a few gentlemen: and even there, in general, very unskilfully made. Swift. To DEMAND. v. a. {demander, Fr.] 1. To claim; to ask for with authority. The pound of flesh, which I demand of him, Is dearly bought; 't is mine, and I will have it. Shakspeare. 2. To question; to interrogate. And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered? 2 Samuel. If any friend of Cæsar's demand why Brutus Young one, Shakspeare. The oracle of Apollo being demanded, when the war and misery of Greece should have an end, replied, When they would double the altar in Delos, which was of a cubick form. Peacham on Geometry. 3. [In law.] To prosecute in a real action. DEMAND. n. 3. [demande, Fr.] 1. A claim; a challenging; the asking of any thing with authority. This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones. Daniel. Giving vent, gives life and strength, to our appetites; and he that has the confidence to Locki. The calling for a thing in order to pur chase it. My bookseller tells me, the demand for those my papers increases daily. Addison. [In law.] The asking of what is due. It hath also a proper signification distinguished from plaint; for all civil actions are pursued either by demands or plaints, and the pursuer is called demandant or plaintiff. There are two manners of demands; the one of deed, the other in law: in deed, as in every præcipe, there is express demand; in law, as every entry in land, distress for rent, taking or seising of goods, and › such like acts, which may be done without any words, are demands in law. Blount. DEMA'NDABLE. adj. [from demand.]. That may be demanded, requested, asked for. All sums demandable, for licence of alienation to be made of lands holden in chief, have been stayed in the way to the hanaper. Bacon. DEMANDANT. n. s. [from demand.] 1. He who is actor or plaintiff in a real action, because he demandeth lands. Coke. 2. A plaintiff; one that demands redress. One of the witnesses deposed, that dining on a Sunday with the demandant, whose wife had sat below the squire's lady at church, she the said wife dropped some expressions, as if she thought her husband ought be knighted. Spectator. DEMA'NDER. n. s. [demandeur, Fr.] 1. One that requires a thing with authority. 2. One that asks a question. 3. One that asks for a thing in order to purchase it. They grow very fast and fat; which also bettereth their taste, and delivereth them to the deCarew. mander's ready use at all seasons. 4. A dunner; one that demands a debt. DEME AN. n. 5. [from demener, Fr.] A mien; presence; carriage; demeanour; deportment. At his feet, with sorrowful demean, Spenser. To DEME'AN. v. a. [from demener, Fr.] 1. To behave; to carry one's self. Those plain and legible lines of duty requiring us to demean ourselves to God humbly and devoutly, to our governors obediently, and to our neighbours justly, and to ourselves soberly and temperately. South. A man cannot doubt but that there is a God; and that, according as he demeans himself towards him, he will make him happy or miserable for ever. Tillotson. Strephon had long perplex'd his brains, Demean himself the wedding-night. Swift. 2. To lessen; to debase; to undervalue.Now, out of doubt, Antipholis is mad; Else he would never so demean himself. Shaksp. DEME'ANOUR. n. s. [demener, Fr.] Carriage; behaviour. Of so insupportable a pride he was, that where his deeds might well stir envy, his demeanour did rather breed disdain. Sidney. Angels best like us when we are most like unto them in all parts of decent demeanour. His gestures fierce Hooker. He mark'd, and mad demeanour; then alone, As he suppos'd, all unobserv'd, unseen. Milton. Thus Eve, with sad demeanour meek: Ill worthy I. Milton. He was of a courage not to be daunted: which was manifested in all his actions; especially in his whole demeanour at Rhee, both at the landing and upon the retreat. Clarendon. DEMEANS. . . pl. properly demesnes. An estate in lands; that which a man possesses in his own right. To DEMENTATE. v. n, [demento, Lat.] 1. The opposite to merit; ill-deserving; what makes one worthy of blame or punishment. They should not be able once to stir, or to murmur, but it should be known, and they shortened according to their demerits. Spenser. Thou liv'st by me, to me thy breath resign; Mine is the merit, the demerit thine. Dryden. Whatever they acquire by their industry or ingenuity, should be secure, unless forfeited by any demerit or offence against the custom of the family. Temple. 2. Anciently the same with merit; desert. I fetch my life and being From men of royal siege; and my demerits May speak, unbonnetting, to as proud a fortune As this that I have reach'd. Shakspeare. To DEME'RIT. v. a. [demeriter, Fr.] To deserve blame or punishment. DEME'RSED. adj. [from demersus, of demergo, Latin.] Plunged; drowned. Dict. DEMERSION. . s. [demersio, Lat.] 1. A drowning. Dict. 2. [In chymistry.] The putting any medicine in a dissolving liquor. DEME'SNE. See DEMAIN. DE'MI. inseparable particle. [demi, Fr. dimidium, Latin.] Half; one of two equal parts. This word is only used in composition: as demi-god; that is, half human, half divine. DEMI-CANNON, n. s. [demi and cannon.] DEMI-CANNON Lowest. A great gun that carries a ball of thirty pounds weight and six inches diameter. The diameter of the bore is six inches two eighth parts. Dict. DEMI-CANNON Ordinary. A great gun six inches four eighths diameter in the bore, twelve foot long. It carries a shot six inches one sixth diameter, and thirtytwo pounds weight. Dict. DEMI-CANNON of the greatest Size. A gun six inches and six eighth parts diameter in the bore, twelve foot long. It carries a ball of six inches five eighths diameter, and thirty-six pounds weight. Dict, What! this a sleeve? 't is like a demi-cannt. Ten engines, that shall be of equal force either to a cannon or demi-cannon, culverin or demiculverin, may be framed at the same price that. one of these will amount to. Wilkins. DEMI-CULVERIN. n. s. [demi and cal verin.] DEMI-CULVERIN of the lowest Size. A gun four inches two eighths diameter in the bore, and ten foot long. It carries a ball four inches diameter, and nine DEMI-CULVERIN Ordinary. A gun four pounds weight. inches four eighths diameter in the bore, ten foot long. It carries a ball four inches two eighths diameter, and ten DEMI-CULVERIN, elder Sort. A gun four pounds eleven ounces weight. inches and six eighths diameter in the bore, ten foot one third in length. It carries a ball four inches four eighth parts diameter, and twelve pounds eleven. ounces weight. Military Dict. They continue a perpetual volley of demieulverins. Raleigh, The army left two demi-culverins, and two other good guns. Clarendon. DEMI-DEVIL. n. s. [demi and devil] Partaking of infernal nature; half a devil. Will you, I pray, demand that demi-devil, Why he hath thus ensnar'd my soul and body? Shakspeart. DEMI-GOD. n. s. [demi and god.] Partaking of divine nature; half a god; an hero produced by the cohabitation of divinities with mortals. He took his leave of them; whose eyes bade him farewell with tears, making temples to him as to a demi-god. Be gods, or angels, demi-gods. Transported demi-gods stood round; And men grew heroes at the sound, Enflam'd with glory's charms. Sidney Milton, Pape Nay, half in heav'n; except (what 's miginy odd) A fit of vapours clouds this demi-god. Pope. DEMI-LANCE. n. s. [demi and lance.] A light lance; a short spear; a half-pike. On their steel'd heads their demi-lances wore Small pennons, which their ladies colours bore. Dryden. Light demi-lances from afar they throw, Fasten'd with leathern thongs, to gall the foe. DEMI-MAN. n. s. [demi and man.] Halfa Dryden. man: a term of reproach. We'must adventure this battle, lest we perish by the complaints of this barking demi-man. Kaelles. DEMI-WOLF. n. s. [demi and wolf.] Half a wolf; a mongrel dog between a dog and wolf: lycisca. Spaniels, curs, Showghs, water-rugs, and demi-toolves, are 'cleped All by the name of dogs. Shakspeare's Macbeth. DEMISE. n. s. [from demetre, demis, demise, Fr.] Death; decease. It is sel dom used but in formal and ceremonious language. About a month before the demise of queen Anne, the author retired. Swift. To DEMI'SE. v. a. [demis, demise, Fr.] To grant at one's death; to grant by will; to bequeath. My executors shall not have power to demise my lands to be purchased. Swift's Last Will. DEMISSION. n. s. [demissio, Lat.] Degradation; diminution of dignity; depression. Inexorable rigour is worse than a lasche demission of sovereign authority. L'Estrange. To DEMIT. v. a, [demitto, Lat.] To depress; to hang down; to let fall. same. Dict. When they are in their pride, that is, advancing their train, if they decline their neck to the ground, they presently demit and let fall the Brown's Vulgar Errours. DEMOCRACY. n. s. [dnpongreqi.] One of the three forms of government; that in which the sovereign power is neither lodged in one man, nor in the nobles, but in the collective body of the people. While many of the servants, by industry and virtue, arrive at riches and esteem, then the na ture of the government inclines to a democracy. Temple. The majority, having the whole power of the community, may employ all that power in making laws, and executing those laws; and there the form of the government is a perfect democracy. Locke. DEMOCRATICAL. adj. [from democracy.] Pertaining to a popular government; popular. They are still within the line of vulgarity, and are democratical enemies to truth. Brown. As the government of England has a mixture of democratical in it, so the right is partly in the people. Arbuthnot. To DEMOLISH. v. a. [demolir, Fr. demolior, Lat.] To throw down buildings; to raze; to destroy. I expected the fabrick of my book would long since have been demolished, and laid even with the ground. Tillotson. Red lightning play'd along the firmament, Dryden. DEMO'LISHER. n. s. [from demolish.] One that throws down buildings; a destroyer; a layer waste. DEMOLITION. n.s. [from demolish.] The act of overthrowing or demolishing buildings; destruction. Two gentlemen should have the direction in the demolition of Dunkirk. Swift. DE'MON. n. s. [damon, Latin; da.] A spirit, generally an evil spirit; devil. I felt him strike, and now I see him fly: 2. Influenced by the devil; produced by diabolical possession. Demoniack phrensy, moping melancholy, Milton. DEMO'NIACK. n. s. [from the adjective.] One possessed by the devil; one whose mind is disturbed and agitated by the power of wicked and unclean spirits. Those lunaticks and demoniacks that were restored to their right mind, were such as sought after him, and believed in him. Bentley. DEMO'NIAN. adj. [from demon.] Devilish; of the nature of devils. Demonian spirits now, from the element Each of his reign allotted; rightlier call'd Powers of fire, air, water. DEMONOCRACY. Dict. Dict. Milton 1. n. s. [uipv and xgorix.] The power of the devil. DEMONO'LATRY. n.s.[daív and AάTE The worship of the devil. DEMONO'LOGY. n. s. [daiwy and λóy] Discourse of the nature of devils. Thus king James entitled his book concerning witches. DEMO'NSTRABLE. adj. [demonstrabilis, Lat.] That may be proved beyond doubt or contradiction; that may be made not only probable but evident. The grand articles of our belief are as demonGlanville. strable as geometry. DEMONSTRABLY. adv. [from demonstrable.] In such a manner as admits of certain proof; evidently; beyond possibility of contradiction. He should have compelled his ministers to execute the law, in cases that demonstrably concerned the publick peace. Clarendon. To DEMONSTRATE. v. a. [demonstro, Lat.] To prove with the highest degree of certainty; to prove in such a manner as reduces the contrary position to evident absurdity. We cannot demonstrate these things so as to shew that the contrary often involves a contraDEMONSTRA'TION. n. s. [demonstratio, diction. Tillotson. Latin.] 1. The highest degree of deducible or argumental evidence; the strongest degree of proof; such proof as not only evinces the position proved to be true, but shows the contrary position to be absurd and impossible. What appeareth to be true by strong and invincible demonstration, such as wherein it is not by any way possible to be deceived, thereunto the mind doth necessarily yield. Hooker. Where the agreement or disagreement of any thing is plainly and clearly perceived, it is called demonstration. Locke. 2. Indubitable evidence of the senses or reason. Which way soever we turn ourselves, we are encountered with clear evidences and sensible demonstrations of a Deity. Tillotson. DEMONSTRATIVE. adj. [demonstrativus, Latin.] 1. Having the power of demonstration; invincibly conclusive; certain. An argument necessary and demonstrative, is such as, being proposed unto any man, and un DEMU'LCENT. adj. [demulcens, Latin.] Softening; mollifying; assuasive. Pease, being deprived of any aromatick parts, are mild and demulcent in the highest degree; but, being full of aerial particles, are flatulent, when dissolved by digestion. Arbuthnot. To DEMUR. v. n. [demeurer, French; dimorare, Italian; demorari, Latin.] 3. To delay a process in law by doubts and objections. See DEMURRER. To this plea the plaintiff demurred. Walton. To pause in uncertainty; to suspend determination; to hesitate; to delay the conclusion of an affair. Upon this rub the English ambassadours rought fit to demur, and so sent into England to eceive directions from the lords of the council. Hayward. Running into demands, they expect from us a sudden resolution in things wherein the devil of Brown. Delphos would demar. He must be of a very sluggish or querulous umour, that shall demur upon setting out, or mand higher encouragements than the hope of heaven. Decay of Picty. News of my death from rumour he receiv'd, And what he wish'd he easily believ'd; But long demurr'd, though from my hand he knew liv'd, so loth he was to think it true. Dryden. 3. To doubt; to have scruples or difficulties; to deliberate. There is something in our composition that thinks and apprehends, and reaccts and deliberates, determines and doubts, consents and denies; that wills and demars, and resolves, and chuses, and rejects. To DUMU'R. v. a. To doubt of. Bentley. Certainly the highest and dearest concerns of a temporal life are infinitely less valuable than those of an eternal; and consequently ought, without any demur at all, to be sacrificed to them, whensoever they come in competition with them. South. All my demurs but domble his attacks; At last he whispers, Do, and we'll snacks. DEMU'RE. adj. [des meurs, French.] Pope. 1. Sober; decent. 2. Lo! two most lovely virgins came in place; With countenance demure, and modest grace. Spenser, Milton. Grave; affectedly modest: it is now generally taken in a sense of contempt. After a demure travel of regard, I tell them I know my place, as I would they should do theirs. Shakspeare. » There be many wise men, that have secret hearts and transparent countenances; yet this would be done with a demure abasing of your eye sometimes. Bacon. A cat lay, and looked so demure as if there had been neither life nor soul in her. L'Estrangt. So cat, transform'd, sat gravely and demure; Till mouse appear'd, and thought himself secure. Dryden. Jove sent and found, far in a country scene, Truth, innocence, good-nature, look serene; From which ingredients, first, the dextrous boy Pick'd the demure, the aukward, and the coy. Swift. To DEMU'RF. v. n. [from the noun.]. To look with an affected modesty : not used. Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes And still conclusion, shall acquire no honour, Demuring upon me. Shakspeare. DEMU'RELY. adv. [from demure.] 1. With affected modesty; solemnly; with pretended gravity. Put on a sober habit, Talk with respect, and swear but now and then, Wear prayer-books in my pocket, look demurely, Shakspeare. Esop's damsel, turned from a cat to a woman, sat very demurely at the board's end, till a mouse Bacon ran before her." Next stood hypocrisy with holy leer, Soft smiling, and demurely looking down; But hid the dagger underneath the gown. Dryla 2. In the following line it is the same with solemnly. Warburton. Hark, how the drums demurely wake the sleepers! Shakspeare DEMU'RENESS. 7. S. [from demure., 1. Modesty; soberness; gravity of aspect. Her eyes having in them such a cheerfulness, as nature seemed to smile in them; though her mouth and cheeks obeyed to that pretty dare neas, which the more one marked, the more one would judge the poor soul apt to believe. Sidney. 2. Affected modesty; pretended gravity. DEMURRAGE. 7.s.[from demur.] An allowance made by merchants to masters of ships, for their stay in a port beyond the time appointed. DEMU'RRER. . s. [demeurer, French; i. e. manere in aliquo loco, vel morari.] A kind of pause upon a point of dif |