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CRY'STAL, _s._ crystals are hard, pellucid, and naturally colourless bodies, of regular angular figures
CU'LPABLE, _a._ criminal; guilty; blamable
CU'LTIVATE, _v.a._ forward or improve the product of the earth by manual industry; improve
CULTIVA'TION, _s._ improvement in general
CU'POLA, _s._ a dome
CU'RFEW, _s._ an evening peal, by which the Conqueror willed that every man should rake up his fire and put out his light
CURIO'SITY, _s._ inquisitiveness; nice experiment; an object of curiosity; rarity
CU'RIOUS, _a._ inquisitive; desirous of information; difficult to please; diligent about; elegant; neat; artful
CU'RRENT, _a._ pa.s.sing from hand to hand; authoritative; common; what is now pa.s.sing
CU'STOM, _s._ habit; fas.h.i.+on; practice of buying of certain persons
CY'MBAL, _s._ a kind of musical instrument
CY'PRESS, _s._ a tall straight tree. It is the emblem of mourning
DALMA'TIA, _s._ a province of Austria
DALMA'TIAN, _a._ belonging to Dalmatia
DA'MAGE, _s._ mischief; hurt; loss
DA'NGER, _s._ risk; hazard; peril
DA'NGEROUS, _a._ hazardous; perilous
DA'STARDLY, _ad._ cowardly; mean; timorous
DA'UNTED, _a._ discouraged
DECE'PTION, _s._ the act or means of deceiving; cheat; fraud; the state of being deceived
DECLI'NE, _v.a._ shun; avoid; refuse; bring down
DE'CORATE, _v.a._ adorn; embellish; beautify
DECORA'TION, _s._ ornament; added beauty
DE'DICATE, _v.a._ to inscribe
DEFA'CE, _v.a._ destroy; raze; ruin; disfigure
DEFE'CTIVE, _a._ wanting the just quant.i.ty; full of defects; imperfect; faulty
DEFE'NCE, _s._ guard; protection; resistance
DEFI'CIENCY, _s._ want; something less than is necessary; imperfection
DEGE'NERACY, _s._ departure from the virtue of our ancestors
DEGE'NERATE, _a._ unworthy; base
DE'ITY, _s._ divinity; the nature and essence of G.o.d; fabulous Rod; the supposed divinity of a heathen G.o.d
DE'LICACY, _s._ daintiness; softness; feminine beauty; nicety; gentle treatment; smallness
DE'LICATE, _s._ fine; soft; pure; clear; unable to bear hards.h.i.+ps; effeminate
DELI'CIOUS, _a._ sweet; delicate; agreeable
DELI'GHT, _v.a._ please; content; satisfy
DELI'NEATE, _v.a._ to paint; to represent; to describe
DELI'VER, _v.a._ set free; release; give; save; surrender
DE'LUGE, _v.a._ flood
DE'LUGE, _v.a._ drown; lay totally under water; overwhelm; cause to sink
DEME'ANOUR, _s._ carriage; behaviour
DEMO'LISH, _v.a._ raze; destroy; swallow up
DEMONSTRA'TION, _s._ the highest degree of argumental evidence
DENO'MINATE, _v.a._ to name anything
DEPA'RTMENT, _s._ separate allotment; province or business a.s.signed to a particular person
DEPO'RTMENT, _s._ carriage; bearing
DEPO'SIT, _s._ a pledge; anything given as a security
DEPO'SIT, _v.a._ lay up; lay aside
DEPRA'VITY, _s._ corruption
DE'PREDA'TION, _s._ a robbing; a spoiling; waste
