Deluge (v. t.) To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
Deluge (v. t.) To overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread; to overpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe.
Delundung (n.) An East Indian carnivorous mammal (Prionodon gracilis), resembling the civets, but without scent pouches. It is handsomely spotted.
Delusion (n.) The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind.
Delusion (n.) The state of being deluded or misled.
Delusion (n.) That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
Delusional (a.) Of or pertaining to delusions; as, delusional monomania.
Delusive (a.) Apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind; deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive dream.
Delusory (a.) Delusive; fallacious.
Delved (imp. & p. p.) of Delve
Delving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Delve
Delve (v. t.) To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.
Delve (v. t.) To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom.
Delve (v. i.) To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge.
Delve (v. t.) A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave.
Delver (n.) One who digs, as with a spade.
Demagnetize (v. t.) To deprive of magnetic properties. See Magnetize.
Demagnetize (v. t.) To free from mesmeric influence; to demesmerize.
Demagog (n.) Demagogue.
Demagogic (a.) Alt. of Demagogical
Demagogical (a.) Relating to, or like, a demagogue; factious.
Demagogism (n.) The practices of a demagogue.
Demagogue (n.) A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader.
Demagogy (n.) Demagogism.
Demain (n.) Rule; management.
Demain (n.) See Demesne.
Demanded (imp. & p. p.) of Demand
Demanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Demand
Demand (v. t.) To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience.
Demand (v. t.) To inquire authoritatively or earnestly; to ask, esp. in a peremptory manner; to question.
Demand (v. t.) To require as necessary or useful; to be in urgent need of; hence, to call for; as, the case demands care.
Demand (v. t.) To call into court; to summon.
Demand (v. i.) To make a demand; to inquire.
Demand (v. t.) The act of demanding; an asking with authority; a peremptory urging of a claim; a claiming or challenging as due; requisition; as, the demand of a creditor; a note payable on demand.
Demand (v. t.) Earnest inquiry; question; query.
Demand (v. t.) A diligent seeking or search; manifested want; desire to possess; request; as, a demand for certain goods; a person's company is in great demand.
Demand (v. t.) That which one demands or has a right to demand; thing claimed as due; claim; as, demands on an estate.
Demand (v. t.) The asking or seeking for what is due or claimed as due.
Demand (v. t.) The right or title in virtue of which anything may be claimed; as, to hold a demand against a person.
Demand (v. t.) A thing or amount claimed to be due.
Demandable (a.) That may be demanded or claimed.
Demandant (n.) One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any plaintiff.
Demander (n.) One who demands.
Demandress (n.) A woman who demands.
Demantoid (n.) A yellow-green, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name.
Demarcate (v. t.) To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate.
Demarcation (n.) The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit; separation; distinction.
Demarch (n.) March; walk; gait.
Demarch (n.) A chief or ruler of a deme or district in Greece.
Demarkation (n.) Same as Demarcation.
Dematerialize (v. t.) To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics.
Deme (n.) A territorial subdivision of Attica (also of modern Greece), corresponding to a township.
Deme (n.) An undifferentiated aggregate of cells or plastids.
Demeaned (imp. & p. p.) of Demean
Demeaning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Demean
Demean (v. t.) To manage; to conduct; to treat.
Demean (v. t.) To conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
Demean (v. t.) To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
Demean (v. t.) Management; treatment.
Demean (v. t.) Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.
Demean (n.) Demesne.
Demean (n.) Resources; means.
Demeanance (n.) Demeanor.
Demeanor (v. t.) Management; treatment; conduct.
Demeanor (v. t.) Behavior; deportment; carriage; bearing; mien.
Demeanure (n.) Behavior.
Demency (n.) Dementia; loss of mental powers. See Insanity.
Dement (v. t.) To deprive of reason; to make mad.
Dement (a.) Demented; dementate.
Dementate (v. t.) Deprived of reason.
Dementate (v. t.) To deprive of reason; to dement.
Dementation (n.) The act of depriving of reason; madness.
Demented (a.) Insane; mad; of unsound mind.
Dementia (n.) Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.
Demephitized (imp. & p. p.) of Demephitize
Demephitizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Demephitize
Demephitize (v. t.) To purify from mephitic or foul air.
Demerge (v. t.) To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse.
Demerit (n.) That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert.
Demerit (n.) That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of merit.
Demerit (n.) The state of one who deserves ill.
Demerit (n.) To deserve; -- said in reference to both praise and blame.
Demerit (n.) To depreciate or cry down.
Demerit (v. i.) To deserve praise or blame.
Demerse (v. t.) To immerse.
Demersed (a.) Situated or growing under water, as leaves; submersed.
Demersion (n.) The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning.
Demersion (n.) The state of being overwhelmed in water, or as if in water.
Demesmerize (v. t.) To relieve from mesmeric influence. See Mesmerize.
Demesne (n.) A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use.
Demesnial (a.) Of or pertaining to a demesne; of the nature of a demesne.
Demi- () A prefix, signifying half.
Demi (n.) See Demy, n.
Demibastion (n.) A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank.
Demibrigade (n.) A half brigade.
Demicadence (n.) An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the key note.
Demicannon (n.) A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds.
Demicircle (n.) An instrument for measuring angles, in surveying, etc. It resembles a protractor, but has an alidade, sights, and a compass.
Demiculverin (n.) A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from nine to thirteen pounds.
Demideify (v. t.) To deify in part.