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<p><b>1.</b> <def>To become clear, pure, or free.</def>

<i>Goldsmith.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To void excrement.</def>

<h1>Defecation</h1> <Xpage=381>

<hw>Def`e*ca"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>defaecatio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>d\'82f\'82cation</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of separating from impurities, as lees or dregs; purification.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>The act or process of voiding excrement.</def>

<h1>Defecator</h1> <Xpage=381>

<hw>Def"e*ca`tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>That which cleanses or purifies; esp., an apparatus for removing the feculencies of juices and sirups.</def>

<i>Knight.</i>

<h1>Defect</h1> <Xpage=381>

<hw>De*fect"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>defectus</ets>, fr. <ets>deficere</ets>, <ets>defectum</ets>, to desert, fail, be wanting; <ets>de-</ets> + <ets>facere</ets> to make, do. See <er>Fact</er>, <er>Feat</er>, and cf. <er>Deficit</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to <i>superfluity</i>.</def>

<blockquote>Errors have been corrected, and <b>defects</b> supplied. <i>Davies.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; <as>as, a <ex>defect</ex> in the ear or eye; a <ex>defect</ex> in timber or iron; a <ex>defect</ex> of memory or judgment.</as></def>

<blockquote>Trust not yourself; but, your <b>defects</b> to know, Make use of every friend -- any every foe. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal <b>defects</b>. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Deficiency; imperfection; blemish. See <er>Fault</er>.</syn>

<h1>Defect</h1> <Xpage=381>

<hw>De*fect"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To fail; to become deficient.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "<i>Defected</i> honor."

<i>Warner.</i>

<-- 2. Abandon one country or faction, and join another. -->

<h1>Defect</h1> <Xpage=381>

<hw>De*fect"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To injure; to damage.</def> "None can my life <i>defect</i>." <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Troubles of Q. Elizabeth (1639).</i>

<h1>Defectibility</h1> <Xpage=381>

<hw>De*fect`i*bil"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Deficiency; imperfection.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Ld. Digby. Jer. Taylor.</i>