![]() If he felt obliged to expostulate, he might have dressed his censures in a kinder form. Dressing their hair with the white sea flower. When he dresseth the lamps he shall burn incense. And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it. To adjust to put in good order to arrange specifically: (a) To prepare for use to fit for any use to render suitable for an intended purpose to get ready as, to dress a slain animal to dress meat to dress leather or cloth to dress or trim a lamp to dress a garden to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing to dress grain, by cleansing it in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them. (Med.) To treat methodically with remedies, bandages, or curative appliances, as a sore, an ulcer, a wound, or a wounded or diseased part. (Mil.) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance to align as, to dress the ranks. Note: Dress is used reflexively in Old English, in sense of “to direct one’s step to addresss one’s self.” To Grisild again will I me dresse. At all times thou shalt bless God and pray Him to dress thy ways. To direct to put right or straight to regulate to order. Potent enemies tempt and deter us from our duty. Deter : To prevent by fear hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc.Dessert-spoonfuls, as much as a dessert spoon will hold, usually reckoned at about two and a half fluid drams. Dessert spoon, a spoon used in eating dessert a spoon intermediate in size between a teaspoon and a tablespoon. “An ‘t please your honor,” quoth the peasant, “This same dessert is not so pleasant.” Pope. Dessert : A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner.To abandon forsake leave relinquish renounce quit depart from abdicate. (Mil.) To abandon (the service) without leave to forsake in violation of duty to abscond from as, to desert the army to desert one’s colors.nnTo abandon a service without leave to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one’s term to abscond. To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support) to leave in the lurch to abandon to forsake - implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one’s country. Desert mouse (Zoöl.), an American mouse (Hesperomys eremicus), living in the Western deserts.nn1. Arizonæ) inhabiting the deserts of the Western United States. Desert hare (Zoöl.), a small hare (Lepus sylvaticus, var. Desert flora (Bot.), the assemblage of plants growing naturally in a desert, or in a dry and apparently unproductive place. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. went aside privately into a desert place. Longfellow.nnOf or pertaining to a desert forsaken without life or cultivation unproductive waste barren wild desolate solitary as, they landed on a desert island. Before her extended Dreary and vast and silent, the desert of life. He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord. A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated a wilderness a solitary place. A deserted or forsaken region a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are destitute and vegetation. His reputation falls far below his desert. Andronicus, surnamed Pius For many good and great deserts to Rome. According to their deserts will I judge them. Desert : That which is deserved the reward or the punishment justly due claim to recompense, usually in a good sense right to reward merit.can find leisure for the chase of such small deer.” G. (See citation from Shakespeare under the first definition, above.) “Minor critics. Small deer, petty game, not worth pursuing - used metaphorically. Deer mouse (Zoöl.), the white-footed mouse (Hesperomys leucopus) of America. Note: Deer is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound as, deerkiller, deerslayer, deerslaying, deer hunting, deer stealing, deerlike, etc. See Axis, Fallow deer, Mule deer, Reindeer. Columbianus and the mule deer of the same region is C. Virginianus the blacktailed deer of Western North America is C. Note: The deer hunted in England is Cervus elaphus, called also stag or red deer the fallow deer is C. Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison. The males, and in some species the females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually. (Zoöl.) A ruminant of the genus Cervus, of many species, and of related genera of the family Cervidæ. ![]()
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