depredator, depredatour

[Lat. dep rædat or, from deprædat us.] [DEPREDATION.] 1. One who commits depredations; a plunderer, a devourer. †2. Anything which wastes or consumes. "They be both great depredatours of the earth, and one of them starveth the other."-Bacon: Nat. Hist ., § 492. *3. A plagiarist, a copier. IMG:content-2194.png:[blocks in formation] ties, usually altogether beyond human control. which that thing exchanges for some other thing, vii., bk. v., ch. vii. it is obvious that if any one commodity becomes unusually abundant in the market, the ratio in which it exchanges with all other commodities is abnormally scant. When, in the course of these děp-re-cat-Ing-ly, adv . [English deprecating; ly .] In a deprecating or deprecatory manner; with děp-re-ca-tion, s. [Lat. deprecatio ; Fr. dépré- cation ; Sp. deprecacion ; Ital. deprecazione , from altered, and the same may be said if the supply be Lat. deprecatus , pa. par. of deprecor .] IMG:content-2195.png:[blocks in formation] To depre the pole : Navig .: So many degrees as you sail from the pole toward the equator, so many you are said to depre the pole , because the polar star becomes so much lower in the horizon. ( Weale . ) *dě-prě ', a . [Lat. depre us.] Depre ed, hol- low in the center. i. 259. "If the seal be depre or hollow."-Hammond: Works , dě-prě ed, pa . par . & a. [DEPRESS.] IMG:content-2196.png:[blocks in formation] (1) Humbled, abased, reduced in power or in flu unlocks the mystery of the weather. (PRESSURE ence. (2) Dispirited, discouraged. the chief of a great but depre ed and dis heart ened party, and the heir to vast and indefinite preten. sions."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng . , ch. vii. 2. Zool .: Applied to a part or the whole of an ani- mal when its vertical section is le than the trans- verse. 3. Her.: The same as DEBRUISED (q. v.). dě-pre -ing, pr . par . , a . & 8. [DEPRESS, v .] IMG:content-2197.png:[blocks in formation] deprece your prysoun." Gawaine, 1,219. depre ion (dě-prěsh-un), *de-pres-sioun, s . [Fr. dépre ion ; Sp. depresion; Ital, depre i one, from Lat. depre io , from depre us , pa. par. of deprimo to depre (q. v.).] I. Ordinary Language: 1. Literally : (2) The sinking, lowering, or falling of a body. (3) A hollow, a sinking in, an indentation. (3) Depre ion of the sun, or a star : Astron.: [DEPRESSION, II.1 (2).] IMG:content-2198.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2199.png:[blocks in formation] which they adhere. There are a depre or alæ nas i , a depre or anguli or is, and a depre or labii infe- rioris. 2. Surg.: An instrument like a curved spatula, used for reducing or pushing into place an obtrud- involving the use of the trephine, and in couching a cataract. Also used in removing beyond the range of the knife or the ligature-needle a portion intrud- ing within the area of the operation. IMG:content-2200.png:[blocks in formation] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia deprivable I. Ordinary Language: 1347 dě-prived', pa. par. & a. [DEPRIVE.] †dě-prive-měnt, s. [Eng. deprive ; -ment .] The act of depriving; the state of being deprived; deprivation. "The widower may lament and condole the unhappi. ne of so many deprivements."-Ricaut: Greek Church, p. 306.