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._ passing from hand to hand; authoritative; common; what is now passing CU'STOM, _s._ habit; fashion; 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 quantity; 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 God; fabulous Rod; the supposed divinity of a heathen god DE'LICACY, _s._ daintiness; softness; feminine beauty; nicety; gentle treatment; smallness DE'LICATE, _s._ fine; soft; pure; clear; unable to bear hardships; 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 assigned 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 DEPRI'VE, _v.a._ bereave one of a thing; hinder; debar from DE'RVISE, _s._ a Turkish priest DESCE'NDANT, _s._ the offspring of an ancestor DESCRI'BE, _v.a._ mark out; define DESCRI'PTION, _s._ the sentence or passage in which anything is described DESCRY', _v.a._ give notice of anything suddenly discovered; detect; discover DE'SERT, _s._ a wilderness; solitude; waste country DESE'RVE, _v.a._ be entitled to reward or punishment DESI'GN, _s._ an intention; a purpose; a scheme DESIGNA'TION, _s._ appointment; direction; intention to design