Part 2827

<h1>Decorement</h1> <Xpage=378>

<hw>De*core"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Ornament.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Decorous</h1> <Xpage=378>

<hw>De*co"rous</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>dec<?/rus</ets>, fr. <ets>decor</ets> comeliness, beauty; akin to <ets>decere</ets>. See <er>Decent</er>, and cf. <er>Decorum</er>.]</ety> <def>Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion; marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; <as>as, a <ex>decorous</ex> speech; <ex>decorous</ex> behavior; a <ex>decorous</ex> dress for a judge.</as></def>

<blockquote>A <b>decorous</b> pretext the war. <i>Motley.</i></blockquote>

-- <wordforms><wf>De*co"rous*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>De*co"rous*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Decorticate</h1> <Xpage=378>

<hw>De*cor"ti*cate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Decorticated</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Decorticating</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>decorticatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>decorticare</ets> to bark; <ets>de-</ets> + <ets>cortex</ets> bark.]</ety> <def>To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull.</def> "Great barley dried and <i>decorticated</i>."

<i>Arbuthnot.</i>

<h1>Decortication</h1> <Xpage=378>

<hw>De*cor`ti*ca"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>decorticatio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>d\'82cortication</ets>.]</ety> <def>The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.</def>

<h1>Decorticator</h1> <Xpage=378>

<hw>De*cor"ti*ca`tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.</def>

<h1>Decorum</h1> <Xpage=378>

<hw>De*cor"um</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>dec<?/rum</ets>, fr. <ets>dec<?/rus</ets>. See <er>Decorous</er>.]</ety> <def>Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one's own character, or to the place and occasion; decency of conduct; seemliness; that which is seemly or suitable.</def>

<blockquote>Negligent of the duties and <b>decorums</b> of his station. <i>Hallam.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>If your master Would have a queen his beggar, you must tell him, That majesty, to keep <b>decorum</b>, must No less beg than a kingdom. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- <er>Decorum</er>, <er>Dignity</er>.</syn> <usage> <i>Decorum</i>, in accordance with its etymology, is that which is <i>becoming</i> in outward act or appearance; <as>as, the <ex>decorum</ex> of a public assembly</as>. <i>Dignity</i> springs from an inward elevation of soul producing a corresponding effect on the manners; <as>as, <ex>dignity</ex> of personal appearance</as>.</usage>

<h1>Decoy</h1> <Xpage=378>

<hw>De*coy"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Decoyed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Decoying</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Pref. <ets>de-</ets> + <ets>coy</ets>; orig., to quiet, soothe, caress, entice. See <er>Coy</er>.]</ety> <def>To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; <as>as, to <ex>decoy</ex> troops into an ambush; to <ex>decoy</ex> ducks into a net.</as></def>

<blockquote>Did to a lonely cot his steps <b>decoy</b>. <i>Thomson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>E'en while fashion's brightest arts <b>decoy</b>, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy. <i>Goldsmith.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To entice; tempt; allure; lure. See <er>Allure</er>.</syn>

<h1>Decoy</h1> <Xpage=378>

<hw>De*coy"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them.</def>