Name Report For First Name DEVY:
DEVY
First name DEVY's origin is Gaelic. DEVY means "servant". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with DEVY below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of devy.(Brown names are of the same origin (Gaelic) with DEVY and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with DEVY - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming DEVY
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES DEVY AS A WHOLE:
devyna devyn devynnNAMES RHYMING WITH DEVY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (evy) - Names That Ends with evy:
chevy sevy slevyRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (vy) - Names That Ends with vy:
davy keavy alvy lavy ogelsvy elvy ivyNAMES RHYMING WITH DEVY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (dev) - Names That Begins with dev:
dev deva devaki devamatar devan devana devaney devanie devanna devansha devany devayani deven devenny devent deveon devera deveral devere devereau devereaux deverel deverell deverick devery devi devika devin devine devinee devion devisser devland devlin devlon devlyn devnet devon devona devondra devonn devonna devonne devony devora devorah devoria devoss devra devri devries devron devryRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (de) - Names That Begins with de:
dea deacon deagan deaglan deagmund deakin dealbeorht dealber dealbert dean deana deanda deandra deandrea deandria deane deann deanna deanne dearbhail dearborn dearbourne deardriu dearg deasach deasmumhan deavon debbee debbie debby debora deborah debra debrah debralee dechtere dechtire decla declan dedr dedre dedric dedrick dedrik dee deeana deeandraNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DEVY:
First Names which starts with 'd' and ends with 'y':
dacey dacy dahy daisey daisy daizy daley daly daney danithy danny dany darby darcey darcy darry dary daudy daveney davey delancy delaney delmy delray delroy dempsey denby denley denney denny derry desirey destiny destrey destry dewey dimitry diondray dolly donaghy donnally donnelly donny dontay dooley dorcey dorothy dorsey dory doy dudley duffy dunley dunly dustyEnglish Words Rhyming DEVY
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES DEVY AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DEVY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (evy) - English Words That Ends with evy:
| bevy | noun (n.) A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies. |
| noun (n.) A flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd of roes. |
| chevy | noun (n.) A cry used in hunting. |
| noun (n.) A hunt; chase; pursuit. | |
| noun (n.) The game of prisoners' base. See Base, n., 24. | |
| verb (v. t.) See Chivy, v. t. |
| levy | noun (n.) A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d. |
| noun (n.) The act of levying or collecting by authority; as, the levy of troops, taxes, etc. | |
| noun (n.) That which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The taking or seizure of property on executions to satisfy judgments, or on warrants for the collection of taxes; a collecting by execution. | |
| verb (v. t.) To raise, as a siege. | |
| verb (v. t.) To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority; as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions. | |
| verb (v. t.) To gather or exact; as, to levy money. | |
| verb (v. t.) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up; as, to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To take or seize on execution; to collect by execution. | |
| verb (v. i.) To seize property, real or personal, or subject it to the operation of an execution; to make a levy; as, to levy on property; the usual mode of levying, in England, is by seizing the goods. |
| replevy | noun (n.) Replevin. |
| verb (v. t.) To take or get back, by a writ for that purpose (goods and chattels wrongfully taken or detained), upon giving security to try the right to them in a suit at law, and, if that should be determined against the plaintiff, to return the property replevied. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bail. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DEVY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (dev) - Words That Begins with dev:
| dev | noun (n.) Alt. of Deva |
| deva | noun (n.) A god; a deity; a divine being; an idol; a king. |
| devanagari | noun (n.) The character in which Sanskrit is written. |
| devaporation | noun (n.) The change of vapor into water, as in the formation of rain. |
| devastating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devastate |
| devastation | noun (n.) The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste. |
| noun (n.) Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator. |
| devastator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, devastates. |
| devastavit | noun (n.) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator. |
| devata | noun (n.) A deity; a divine being; a good spirit; an idol. |
| deve | adjective (a.) Deaf. |
| develin | noun (n.) The European swift. |
| developing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Develop |
| developable | adjective (a.) Capable of being developed. |
| developer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, develops. |
| noun (n.) A reagent by the action of which the latent image upon a photographic plate, after exposure in the camera, or otherwise, is developed and visible. | |
| noun (n.) One that develops | |
| noun (n.) A chemical bath or reagent used in developing photographs. | |
| noun (n.) A reagent used to produce an ingrain color by its action upon some substance on the fiber. |
| development | noun (n.) The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state. |
| noun (n.) The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. | |
| noun (n.) The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another of equivalent value or meaning. | |
| noun (n.) The equivalent expression into which another has been developed. | |
| noun (n.) The elaboration of a theme or subject; the unfolding of a musical idea; the evolution of a whole piece or movement from a leading theme or motive. |
| developmental | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ. |
| devergence | noun (n.) Alt. of Devergency |
| devergency | noun (n.) See Divergence. |
| devesting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devest |
| devex | noun (n.) Devexity. |
| adjective (a.) Bending down; sloping. |
| devexity | adjective (a.) A bending downward; a sloping; incurvation downward; declivity. |
| devi | noun (n.) ; fem. of Deva. A goddess. |
| deviant | adjective (a.) Deviating. |
| deviating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deviate |
| deviation | noun (n.) The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or the path of duty. |
| noun (n.) The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense. | |
| noun (n.) The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility. |
| deviator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, deviates. |
| deviatory | adjective (a.) Tending to deviate; devious; as, deviatory motion. |
| device | noun (n.) That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. |
| noun (n.) Power of devising; invention; contrivance. | |
| noun (n.) An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance. | |
| noun (n.) Improperly, an heraldic bearing. | |
| noun (n.) Anything fancifully conceived. | |
| noun (n.) A spectacle or show. | |
| noun (n.) Opinion; decision. |
| deviceful | adjective (a.) Full of devices; inventive. |
| devil | noun (n.) The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind. |
| noun (n.) An evil spirit; a demon. | |
| noun (n.) A very wicked person; hence, any great evil. | |
| noun (n.) An expletive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation. | |
| noun (n.) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper. | |
| noun (n.) A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil. | |
| verb (v. t.) To grill with Cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper. |
| deviling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devil |
| noun (n.) A young devil. |
| devil bird | noun (n.) A small water bird. See Dabchick. |
| deviless | noun (n.) A she-devil. |
| devilet | noun (n.) A little devil. |
| devilfish | noun (n.) A huge ray (Manta birostris / Cephaloptera vampyrus) of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species take the same name. See Cephaloptera. |
| noun (n.) A large cephalopod, especially the very large species of Octopus and Architeuthis. See Octopus. | |
| noun (n.) The gray whale of the Pacific coast. See Gray whale. | |
| noun (n.) The goosefish or angler (Lophius), and other allied fishes. See Angler. |
| devilish | adjective (a.) Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme. |
| adjective (a.) Extreme; excessive. |
| devilism | noun (n.) The state of the devil or of devils; doctrine of the devil or of devils. |
| devilkin | noun (n.) A little devil; a devilet. |
| devilment | noun (n.) Deviltry. |
| devilry | noun (n.) Conduct suitable to the devil; extreme wickedness; deviltry. |
| noun (n.) The whole body of evil spirits. |
| devilship | noun (n.) The character or person of a devil or the devil. |
| deviltry | noun (n.) Diabolical conduct; malignant mischief; devilry. |
| devilwood | noun (n.) A kind of tree (Osmanthus Americanus), allied to the European olive. |
| devious | adjective (a.) Out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way. |
| adjective (a.) Going out of the right or common course; going astray; erring; wandering; as, a devious step. |
| devirginate | adjective (a.) Deprived of virginity. |
| verb (v. t.) To deprive of virginity; to deflour. |
| devirgination | noun (n.) A deflouring. |
| devisable | adjective (a.) Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived. |
| adjective (a.) Capable of being bequeathed, or given by will. |
| devisal | noun (n.) A devising. |
| devising | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devise |
| devise | noun (n.) The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; -- sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate. |
| noun (n.) A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property. | |
| noun (n.) Property devised, or given by will. | |
| noun (n.) Device. See Device. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument. | |
| verb (v. t.) To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain. | |
| verb (v. t.) To say; to relate; to describe. | |
| verb (v. t.) To imagine; to guess. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels. | |
| verb (v. i.) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DEVY:
English Words which starts with 'd' and ends with 'y':
| dacoity | noun (n.) The practice of gang robbery in India; robbery committed by dacoits. |
| dactyliography | noun (n.) The art of writing or engraving upon gems. |
| noun (n.) In general, the literature or history of the art. |
| dactyliology | noun (n.) That branch of archaeology which has to do with gem engraving. |
| noun (n.) That branch of archaeology which has to do with finger rings. |
| dactyliomancy | noun (n.) Divination by means of finger rings. |
| dactylology | noun (n.) The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb. |
| dactylomancy | noun (n.) Dactyliomancy. |
| dactylonomy | noun (n.) The art of numbering or counting by the fingers. |
| daddy | noun (n.) Diminutive of Dad. |
| daguerreotypy | noun (n.) The art or process of producing pictures by method of Daguerre. |
| daily | noun (n.) A publication which appears regularly every day; as, the morning dailies. |
| adjective (a.) Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal; as, daily labor; a daily bulletin. | |
| adverb (adv.) Every day; day by day; as, a thing happens daily. |
| dainty | noun (n.) Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything. |
| noun (n.) That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy. | |
| noun (n.) A term of fondness. | |
| superlative (superl.) Rare; valuable; costly. | |
| superlative (superl.) Delicious to the palate; toothsome. | |
| superlative (superl.) Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender. | |
| superlative (superl.) Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious. |
| dairy | noun (n.) The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese. |
| noun (n.) That department of farming which is concerned in the production of milk, and its conversion into butter and cheese. | |
| noun (n.) A dairy farm. |
| daisy | noun (n.) A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositae. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays. |
| noun (n.) The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed. |
| dakoity | noun (n.) See Dacoit, Dacoity. |
| damnability | noun (n.) The quality of being damnable; damnableness. |
| damnatory | adjective (a.) Dooming to damnation; condemnatory. |
| dampy | adjective (a.) Somewhat damp. |
| adjective (a.) Dejected; gloomy; sorrowful. |
| dancy | adjective (a.) Same as Dancette. |
| dandy | noun (n.) One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb. |
| noun (n.) A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set. | |
| noun (n.) A small sail carried at or near the stern of small boats; -- called also jigger, and mizzen. | |
| noun (n.) A dandy roller. See below. |
| dangleberry | noun (n.) A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward. |
| daphnomancy | noun (n.) Divination by means of the laurel. |
| darby | noun (n.) A plasterer's float, having two handles; -- used in smoothing ceilings, etc. |
| darky | noun (n.) A negro. |
| dashy | adjective (a.) Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy. |
| dastardly | adjective (a.) Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage. |
| dastardy | noun (n.) Base timidity; cowardliness. |
| datary | noun (n.) An officer in the pope's court, having charge of the Dataria. |
| noun (n.) The office or employment of a datary. |
| daubery | noun (n.) Alt. of Daubry |
| daubry | noun (n.) A daubing; specious coloring; false pretenses. |
| dauby | adjective (a.) Smeary; viscous; glutinous; adhesive. |
| daughterly | adjective (a.) Becoming a daughter; filial. |
| day | noun (n.) The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine. |
| noun (n.) The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day, below. | |
| noun (n.) Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work. | |
| noun (n.) A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time. | |
| noun (n.) (Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of contest, some anniversary, etc. |
| dayfly | noun (n.) A neuropterous insect of the genus Ephemera and related genera, of many species, and inhabiting fresh water in the larval state; the ephemeral fly; -- so called because it commonly lives but one day in the winged or adult state. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral. |
| deaconry | noun (n.) See Deaconship. |
| deadly | adjective (a.) Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound. |
| adjective (a.) Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies. | |
| adjective (a.) Subject to death; mortal. | |
| adverb (adv.) In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death. | |
| adverb (adv.) In a manner to occasion death; mortally. | |
| adverb (adv.) In an implacable manner; destructively. | |
| adverb (adv.) Extremely. |
| deafly | adjective (a.) Lonely; solitary. |
| adverb (adv.) Without sense of sounds; obscurely. |
| deambulatory | noun (n.) A covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory. |
| adjective (a.) Going about from place to place; wandering; of or pertaining to a deambulatory. |
| deanery | noun (n.) The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3. |
| noun (n.) The residence of a dean. | |
| noun (n.) The territorial jurisdiction of a dean. |
| deary | noun (n.) A dear; a darling. |
| deathly | adjective (a.) Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive. |
| adverb (adv.) Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick. |
| debauchery | noun (n.) Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance. |
| noun (n.) Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness. |
| debility | adjective (a.) The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor. |
| debonairity | noun (n.) Debonairness. |
| decadency | noun (n.) A falling away; decay; deterioration; declension. "The old castle, where the family lived in their decadence." |
| decay | noun (n.) Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline; deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay. |
| noun (n.) Destruction; death. | |
| noun (n.) Cause of decay. | |
| verb (v. i.) To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to decay; to impair. | |
| verb (v. t.) To destroy. |
| decency | noun (n.) The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty. |
| noun (n.) That which is proper or becoming. |
| decennary | noun (n.) A period of ten years. |
| noun (n.) A tithing consisting of ten neighboring families. |
| decennovary | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the number nineteen; of nineteen years. |
| deceptivity | noun (n.) Deceptiveness; a deception; a sham. |
| deceptory | adjective (a.) Deceptive. |
| deciduity | noun (n.) Deciduousness. |
| decipiency | noun (n.) State of being deceived; hallucination. |
| decisory | adjective (a.) Able to decide or determine; having a tendency to decide. |
| declamatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme. |
| adjective (a.) Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style. |
| declaratory | adjective (a.) Making declaration, explanation, or exhibition; making clear or manifest; affirmative; expressive; as, a clause declaratory of the will of the legislature. |
| declinatory | adjective (a.) Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence. |
| declivity | noun (n.) Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity. |
| noun (n.) A descending surface; a sloping place. |
| decoy | noun (n.) Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait. |
| noun (n.) A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot. | |
| noun (n.) A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them. | |
| noun (n.) A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net. |
| decretory | adjective (a.) Established by a decree; definitive; settled. |
| adjective (a.) Serving to determine; critical. |
| decumbency | noun (n.) The act or posture of lying down. |
| decury | noun (n.) A set or squad of ten men under a decurion. |
| dedicatory | noun (n.) Dedication. |
| adjective (a.) Constituting or serving as a dedication; complimental. |
| deducibility | noun (n.) Deducibleness. |
| deedy | adjective (a.) Industrious; active. |
| deerberry | noun (n.) A shrub of the blueberry group (Vaccinium stamineum); also, its bitter, greenish white berry; -- called also squaw huckleberry. |
| defamatory | adjective (a.) Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings. |
| defectibility | noun (n.) Deficiency; imperfection. |
| defectuosity | noun (n.) Great imperfection. |
| defensibility | noun (n.) Capability of being defended. |
| defensory | adjective (a.) Tending to defend; defensive; as, defensory preparations. |
| defervescency | noun (n.) A subsiding from a state of ebullition; loss of heat; lukewarmness. |
| noun (n.) The subsidence of a febrile process; as, the stage of defervescence in pneumonia. |
| defiatory | adjective (a.) Bidding or manifesting defiance. |
| deficiency | noun (n.) The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect. |
| deflagrability | noun (n.) The state or quality of being deflagrable. |
| deformity | adjective (a.) The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness. |
| adjective (a.) Anything that destroys beauty, grace, or propriety; irregularity; absurdity; gross deviation from order or the established laws of propriety; as, deformity in an edifice; deformity of character. |
| defy | noun (n.) A challenge. |
| verb (v. t.) To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce. | |
| verb (v. t.) To provoke to combat or strife; to call out to combat; to challenge; to dare; to brave; to set at defiance; to treat with contempt; as, to defy an enemy; to defy the power of a magistrate; to defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy public opinion. |
| degeneracy | adjective (a.) The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse. |
| adjective (a.) The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness. |
| deglutitory | adjective (a.) Serving for, or aiding in, deglutition. |
| dehortatory | adjective (a.) Fitted or designed to dehort or dissuade. |
| deiformity | noun (n.) Likeness to deity. |
| deity | noun (n.) The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in his works. |
| noun (n.) A god or goddess; a heathen god. |
| dejectory | adjective (a.) Having power, or tending, to cast down. |
| adjective (a.) Promoting evacuations by stool. |
| delay | noun (n.) To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before. |
| noun (n.) To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow. | |
| noun (n.) To allay; to temper. | |
| verb (v.) A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry. |
| delegacy | adjective (a.) The act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power. |
| adjective (a.) A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation. |
| delegatory | adjective (a.) Holding a delegated position. |
| deletery | noun (n.) That which destroys. |
| adjective (a.) Destructive; poisonous. |
| deletory | noun (n.) That which blots out. |
| delicacy | adjective (a.) The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like. |
| adjective (a.) Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a thread; delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy of the skin; delicacy of frame. | |
| adjective (a.) Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action. | |
| adjective (a.) Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment. | |
| adjective (a.) Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy. | |
| adjective (a.) The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance. | |
| adjective (a.) That which is alluring, delicate, or refined; a luxury or pleasure; something pleasant to the senses, especially to the sense of taste; a dainty; as, delicacies of the table. | |
| adjective (a.) Pleasure; gratification; delight. |
| delineatory | adjective (a.) That delineates; descriptive; drawing the outline; delineating. |
| delinquency | noun (n.) Failure or omission of duty; a fault; a misdeed; an offense; a misdemeanor; a crime. |
| deliracy | noun (n.) Delirium. |
| delirancy | noun (n.) Delirium. |
| delitescency | noun (n.) Concealment; seclusion. |
| delivery | noun (n.) The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon. |
| noun (n.) The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters. | |
| noun (n.) The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery. | |
| noun (n.) The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes. | |
| noun (n.) The act of exerting one's strength or limbs. | |
| noun (n.) The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery. |
| delusory | adjective (a.) Delusive; fallacious. |
| demagogy | noun (n.) Demagogism. |
| demency | noun (n.) Dementia; loss of mental powers. See Insanity. |
| demisability | noun (n.) The state of being demisable. |
| demissionary | adjective (a.) Pertaining to transfer or conveyance; as, a demissionary deed. |
| adjective (a.) Tending to lower, depress, or degrade. |
| democracy | noun (n.) Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people. |
| noun (n.) Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic. | |
| noun (n.) Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of government. | |
| noun (n.) The principles and policy of the Democratic party, so called. |
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