Part 2833

<h1>Decuman</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>Dec"u*man</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>decumanus</ets> of the tenth, and by metonymy, large, fr. <ets>decem</ets> ten.]</ety> <def>Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. <mark>[R.]</mark> Also used substantively.</def> "Such <i>decuman</i> billows." <i>Gauden</i>. "The baffled <i>decuman</i>."

<i>Lowell.</i>

<h1>Decumbence, Decumbency</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw><hw>De*cum"bence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>De*cum"ben*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act or posture of lying down.</def>

<blockquote>The ancient manner of <b>decumbency</b>. <i>Sir T. Browne.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Decumbent</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>De*cum"bent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>decumbens</ets>, <ets>-entis</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>decumbere</ets>; <ets>de-</ets> + <ets>cumbere</ets> (only in comp.), <ets>cubare</ets> to lie down.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>decumbent</b> portraiture of a woman. <i>Ashmole.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; <as>as, a <ex>decumbent</ex> stem</as>.</def>

<i>Gray.</i>

<h1>Decumbently</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>De*cum"bent*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a decumbent posture.</def>

<h1>Decumbiture</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>De*cum"bi*ture</hw> <tt>(?; 135)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness.</def>

<i>Boyle.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Astrol.)</fld> <def>Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made.</def>

<h1>Decuple</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>Dec"u*ple</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>d\'82cuple</ets>, L. <ets>decuplus</ets>, fr. <ets>decem</ets> ten.]</ety> <def>Tenfold.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Decuple</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>Dec"u*ple</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A number ten times repeated.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Decuple</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>Dec"u*ple</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Decupled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Decupling</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <def>To make tenfold; to multiply by ten.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Decurion</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>De*cu"ri*on</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>decurio</ets>, <ets>decurionis</ets>, fr. <ets>decuria</ets> a squad of ten, fr. <ets>decem</ets> ten.]</ety> <fld>(Rom. Antiq.)</fld> <def>A head or chief over ten; especially, an officer who commanded a division of ten soldiers.</def>

<h1>Decurionate</h1> <Xpage=379>