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; 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 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 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 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