Part 2846

<hw>Deer's"-tongue`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A plant (<spn>Liatris odoratissima</spn>) whose fleshy leaves give out a fragrance compared to vanilla.</def>

<i>Wood.</i>

<h1>Dees</h1> <Xpage=380>

<hw>Dees</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <def>Dice.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Dees</h1> <Xpage=380>

<hw>Dees</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A dais.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Deesis</h1> <Xpage=380>

<hw>De*e"sis</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ supplication.]</ety> <fld>(Rhet.)</fld> <def>An invocation of, or address to, the Supreme Being.</def>

<h1>Deess</h1> <Xpage=380>

<hw>De"ess</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>d\'82esse</ets>, fem. of <ets>dieu</ets> god.]</ety> <def>A goddess.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Croft.</i>

<h1>Deev</h1> <Xpage=380>

<hw>Deev</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Hind. & Pers. Myth.)</fld> <def>See <er>Dev</er>.</def>

<h1>Deface</h1> <Xpage=380>

<hw>De*face"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Defaced</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Defacing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>defacen</ets> to disfigure, efface, OF. <ets>desfacier</ets>; L. <ets>dis-</ets> + <ets>facies</ets> face. See <er>Face</er>, and cf. <er>Efface</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; <as>as, to <ex>deface</ex> a monument; to <ex>deface</ex> an edifice; to <ex>deface</ex> writing; to <ex>deface</ex> a note, deed, or bond; to <ex>deface</ex> a record.</as></def> "This high face <i>defaced</i>."

<i>Emerson.</i>

<blockquote>So by false learning is good sense <b>defaced</b>. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>d\'82faire</ets>.]</ety> <def>To destroy; to make null.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>[Profane scoffing] doth . . . <b>deface</b> the reverence of religion. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>For all his power was utterly <b>defaste</b> [<b>defaced</b>]. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- See <er>Efface</er>.</syn>

<h1>Defacement</h1> <Xpage=380>

<hw>De*face"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which mars or disfigures.</def>