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a. Decked with feathers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ko`rh pupil + -plasty. ] (Med.) A plastic operation on the pupil, as for forming an artificial pupil. -- Cor`e*plas"tic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

v. t. [ Countre- + plete to plead. ] To counterplead. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Cripple. ] 1. A creeping creature; a reptile. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There is one creeping beast, or long creeple (as the name is in Devonshire), that hath a rattle at his tail that doth discover his age. Morton (1632). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who is lame; a cripple. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou knowest how lame a creeple this world is. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Profoundly; thoroughly; not superficially; in a high degree; intensely; as, deeply skilled in ethics. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had deeply offended both his nobles and people. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

He sighed deeply in his spirit. Mark viii. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Very; with a tendency to darkness of color. [ 1913 Webster ]

The deeply red juice of buckthorn berries. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Gravely; with low or deep tone; as, a deeply toned instrument. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. With profound skill; with art or intricacy; as, a deeply laid plot or intrigue. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. deplanetus, p. p. of deplanare to make level. See Plane, v. t. ] (Bot.) Flattened; made level or even. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. de- + plan: cf. F. déplanter, L. deplantare to take off a twig. See Plant, v. t. ] To take up (plants); to transplant. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. déplantation. ] Act of taking up plants from beds. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Depleted; p. pr. & vb. n. Depleting. ] [ From L. deplere to empty out; de- + plere to fill. Forined like replete, complete. See Fill, Full, a. ] 1. (Med.) To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine. Copland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc. Saturday Review. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. no longer sufficient; as, our funds are depleted.
Syn. -- low. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. having resources completely depleted.
Syn. -- drained. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. déplétion. ] 1. The act of depleting or emptying. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) the act or process of diminishing the quantity of fluid in the vessels by bloodletting or otherwise; also excessive evacuation, as in severe diarrhea. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. déplétif. ] Able or fitted to deplete. -- n. A substance used to deplete. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving to deplete. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. deplicare to unfold; L. de- + plicare to fold. ] An unfolding, untwisting, or unplaiting. [ Obs. ] W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Exploitation, Deploy. ] Same as Exploitation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Deplorableness. Stormonth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. déplorable. ] Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Individual sufferers are in a much more deplorable conditious than any others. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being deplorable. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a deplorable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. deploratus, p. p. of deplorare. See Deplore. ] Deplorable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A more deplorate estate. Baker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. deploratio: cf. F. déploration. ] The act of deploring or lamenting; lamentation. Speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To lament. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Deplored p. pr. & vb. n. Deploring. ] [ L. deplorare; de- + plorare to cry out, wail, lament; prob. akin to pluere to rain, and to E. flow: cf. F. déplorer. Cf. Flow. ] 1. To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over. [ 1913 Webster ]

To find her, or forever to deplore
Her loss. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

As some sad turtle his lost love deplores. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To complain of. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To regard as hopeless; to give up. [ Obs. ] Bacon.

Syn. -- To Deplore, Mourn, Lament, Bewail, Bemoan. Mourn is the generic term, denoting a state of grief or sadness. To lament is to express grief by outcries, and denotes an earnest and strong expression of sorrow. To deplore marks a deeper and more prolonged emotion. To bewail and to bemoan are appropriate only to cases of poignant distress, in which the grief finds utterance either in wailing or in moans and sobs. A man laments his errors, and deplores the ruin they have brought on his family; mothers bewail or bemoan the loss of their children. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Lamentably. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being deplored or deplorable. [ R. ] Bp. Hail. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Deploration. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who deplores. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a deploring manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Deployed p. pr. & vb. n. Deploying. ] [ F. déployer; pref. dé&unr_; = dés (L. dis) + ployer, equiv. to plier to fold, fr. L. plicare. See Ply, and cf. Display. ] (Mil.) To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy; as, to deploy a column of troops into line of battle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To place (people or other resources) into a position so as to be ready to for action or use. [ PJC ]

{ } n. (Mil.) The act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in order to extend their front. Wilhelm. [ 1913 Webster ]

Deployments . . . which cause the soldier to turn his back to the enemy are not suited to war. H. L. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the arrangement or distribution (of resources such as people or equipment), in preparation for battle or work. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ LL. diplumatus, p. p. of deplumare. See Deplume. ] (Zool.) Destitute or deprived of features; deplumed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Deplumate. ] 1. The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers. Bp. Stillingfleet [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes. Thomas. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Deplumed p. pr. & vb. n. Depluming. ] [ LL. deplumare; L. de- + plumare to cover with feathers, pluma feather: cf. deplumis featherless, and F. déplumer. ] 1. To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage. [ 1913 Webster ]

On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own feather. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lay bare; to expose. [ 1913 Webster ]

The exposure and depluming of the leading humbugs of the age. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biochem.) the process of testing samples of mixtures which are active in a screening process, so as to recognize and eliminate from consideration those active substances already studied; -- a stage subsequent to the preliminary screening in the process of discovery of new pharmacologically active substances in mixtures of natural products; -- also called counterscreening. See screening. In the process of pharmaceutical screening (testing a large number of substances to find those having desirable pharmacological activity), the testing of samples of substances extracted from living organisms (plants, microorganisms, etc.) often detects substances already detected in prior screening. Such “known” or “replicate” activities must be recognized at an early stage to avoid duplicating previous efforts at purification and structural identification. The process of testing an sample which is active in a primary screen, to determine if the activity is due to a previously known substance, is called dereplication or counterscreening. [ PJC ]

n. The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an upright hydrant that can supply large volumes of water to use in fighting a fire. They are commonly placed at intervals at the street edge of a sidewalk for convenience in suppressing fires in towns.
Syn. -- fire hydrant, plug. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. Rude, boisterous play. [ 1913 Webster ]

Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. (Law) Not capable of being replevied. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. paene, pene, almost + E. plain. ] (Phys. Geog.) A land surface reduced by erosion to the general condition of a plain, but not wholly devoid of hills; a base-level plain. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ L., a kind of plant, Gr. pepli`s. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants including water purslane. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. E. -lumus, L. -la. [ L. ] A peplos. Hence: An overskirt hanging like an ancient peplos; also, a short fitted skirt attached to a waist or coat. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. pe`plos. ] 1. An upper garment worn by Grecian and Roman women. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of kerchief formerly worn by Englishwomen. [ Obs. ] Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. faeino`s shining + pe`plos robe. ] (Zool.) A small crested passerine bird (Phaïnopepla nitens), native of Mexico and the Southern United States. The adult male is of a uniform glossy blue-black; the female is brownish. Called also black flycatcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant (Rheum Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. re- + place: cf. F. replacer. ] 1. To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The earl . . . was replaced in his government. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document. [ 1913 Webster ]

With Israel, religion replaced morality. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of. [ 1913 Webster ]

This duty of right intention does not replace or supersede the duty of consideration. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To put in a new or different place. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The propriety of the use of replace instead of displace, supersede, take the place of, as in the third and fourth definitions, is often disputed on account of etymological discrepancy; but the use has been sanctioned by the practice of careful writers. [ 1913 Webster ]

Replaced crystal (Crystallog.), a crystal having one or more planes in the place of its edges or angles. [ 1913 Webster ]