deflagrator

[Lat.] IMG:content-2037.png:[blocks in formation] 1 To take away a woman's virginity; to ravish. "As is the lust of an eunuch to deflower a virgin; so is he that executeth judgment with violence."-Ecclesiastic us *2. To cull the most beautiful or best parts from. "The whiche book Robert Bi hop of Herforde de. florede."- Trevis a , i. 39. Elect.: An instrument for producing intense heat. It was generally a form of the voltaic battery. Such was used by Davy in 1807-8, when he decom- posed soda, potash, borax, and lime. ( Knight .) xx. 4. Hare's deflagrator is a simple voltaic arrangement, consisting of two large sheets of copper and zinc rolled together in a spiral, but preserved from direct contact by bands of leather or horsehair, The whole is immersed in a ve el containing acid- ulated water, and the two plates are connected outside the liquid by a conducting-wire. (Ganot.) dě-flect', v . i . & t . [Lat. deflecto : de -away, from and flecto =to turn.] A. Intransitive : *3. To take away, to rob. "For soone comes age, that will her pride deflowre." Spenser: F. Q., II. xii. 75. dě-floured', de-flow-ered, pa . par . or a. [DEFLOUR.] de-fiour-er, de-flowr'-er, s . [Eng. deflour; -er.] to become deflected. IMG:content-2038.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors] "I have often wondered that those deflourers of innocence, are not restrained by humanity." -Add is on . de-fiour-ing, pr . par ., a. & 8. [DEFLOUR.] A. & B. As pr . par. & particip. adj .: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of taking away a woman's virginity; ravishing, defloration. *dě-flow', v . i. [Lat. defluo : de =down, and fluo =to flow.] To flow down. "Superfluous matter deflows from the body unto their proper emunctories."-Browne: Vulgar Errors. *dě-flû-en-çỹ, s. [Lat. defluens , pr. par. of defluo.] A flowing down; a flow. the cold had taken away the defluency of the a straight line. IMG:content-2039.png:[blocks in formation] defluxions from the head."- Bacon. *děf-ly, adv. [DEFTLY.] Dexterously, skillfully. "They dauncen defly, and singen soote, In their merriment." Spenser: Shepherd's Calendar; April. *dě-fœ-da-tion, s . [DEFEDATION.] the defœdation of so many parts by a bad printer, and a worse editor."-Bentley. *dě foil, v . t . [Pref. de away, from, and folium =a leaf.] To strip off the leaves. "Over and beside, in disburgening and def oiling & vine, you must beware how you pluck off those burgeons that are like to beare the grape, or to go with it."- Hol land: Plinie, xvii. 22.