Part 2859

<blockquote>A war without a just <b>defiance</b> made. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Stood for her cause, and flung <b>defiance</b> down. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition.</def>

<blockquote>He breathed <b>defiance</b> to my ears. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A casting aside; renunciation; rejection.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "<i>Defiance</i> to thy kindness."

<i>Ford.</i>

<cs><mcol><col>To bid defiance</col>, <col>To set at defiance</col></mcol>, <cd>to defy; to disregard recklessly or contemptuously.</cd></cs>

<i>Locke.</i>

<h1>Defiant</h1> <Xpage=381>

<hw>De*fi"ant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>d\'82fiant</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>d\'82fier</ets>. See <er>Defy</er>.]</ety> <def>Full of defiance; bold; insolent; <as>as, a <ex>defiant</ex> spirit or act</as>.</def>

<blockquote>In attitude stern and <b>defiant</b>. <i>Longfellow.</i></blockquote>

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

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<h1>Defiatory</h1> <Xpage=382>

<hw>De*fi"a*to*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Defy</er>.]</ety> <def>Bidding or manifesting defiance.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shelford.</i>

<h1>Defibrinate</h1> <Xpage=382>

<hw>De*fi"bri*nate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.</def>

<h1>Defibrination</h1> <Xpage=382>

<hw>De*fi`bri*na"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act or process of depriving of fibrin.</def>

<h1>Defibrinize</h1> <Xpage=382>

<hw>De*fi"bri*nize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To defibrinate.</def>

<h1>Deficience</h1> <Xpage=382>

<hw>De*fi"cience</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Deficiency</er>.</def>

<blockquote>Thou in thyself art perfect, and in thee Is no <b>deficience</b> found. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Deficiency</h1> <Xpage=382>

<hw>De*fi"cien*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Deficiencies</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[See <er>Deficient</er>.]</ety> <def>The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.</def> "A <i>deficiency</i>of blood."

<i>Arbuthnot.</i>