Part 2801

<hw>Dec"a*pod</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>d\'82capode</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the Decapoda. Also used adjectively.</def>

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<h1>Decapoda</h1> <Xpage=375>

<hw>De*cap"o*da</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ ten + <?/, <?/, foot.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc.</def>

<note>&hand; They have a carapace, covering and uniting the somites of the head and thorax and inclosing a gill chamber on each side, and usually have five (rarely six) pairs of legs. They are divided into two principal groups: Brachyura and Macrura. Some writers recognize a third (Anomura) intermediate between the others.</note>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A division of the dibranchiate cephalopods including the cuttlefishes and squids. See <er>Decacera</er>.</def>

<h1>Deccapodal, Deccapodous</h1> <Xpage=375>

<hw><hw>Dec*cap"o*dal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Dec*cap"o*dous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.</def>

<h1>Decarbonate</h1> <Xpage=375>

<hw>De*car"bon*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To deprive of carbonic acid.</def>

<h1>Decarbonization</h1> <Xpage=375>

<hw>De*car`bon*i*za"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The action or process of depriving a substance of carbon.</def>

<h1>Decarbonize</h1> <Xpage=375>

<hw>De*car"bon*ize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Decarbonized</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Decarbonizing</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To deprive of carbon; <as>as, to <ex>decarbonize</ex> steel; to <ex>decarbonize</ex> the blood.</as></def>

<cs><col>Decarbonized iron</col>. <cd>See <er>Malleable iron</er>.</cd> -- <col>Decarbonized steel</col>, <cd>homogenous wrought iron made by a steel process, as that of Bessemer; ingot iron.</cd></cs>

<h1>Decarbonizer</h1> <Xpage=375>

<hw>De*car"bon*i`zer</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>He who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.</def>

<h1>Decarburization</h1> <Xpage=375>

<hw>De*car`bu*ri*za"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act, process, or result of decarburizing.</def>

<h1>Decarbuize</h1> <Xpage=375>

<hw>De*car"bu*ize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To deprive of carbon; to remove the carbon from.</def>

<h1>Decard</h1> <Xpage=375>

<hw>De*card"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To discard.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>You have cast those by, <b>decarded</b> them. <i>J. Fletcher.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Decardinalize</h1> <Xpage=375>

<hw>De*car"di*nal*ize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To depose from the rank of cardinal.</def>

<h1>Decastere</h1> <Xpage=375>