deficient number

deficient hyperbola, s. Math.: A curve having one asymptote. deficient year, s . An epithet applied to the Jewish year, when the month Cisleu is twenty-nine days, instead of thirty. de-ficient-ly, adv. [Eng. deficient; -ly.] In a deficient or defective manner. *dě-fi-cient-ne , s. [Eng. deficient ; -ne .] The quality or state of being deficient. def-1-çit, s . [Lat. it is wanting; third pers. sing. pr. indic. of deficio =to be wanting; Fr. déficit .] A deficiency falling short. (Specially used when the revenue of a country falls short of the estimate or expenditure.) "The corn he has imported betrays his deficit in grains."- Lord Aukland Consid., pt. i. 42. *dě fide', v . t . [Lat. difido .] To distrust. [ DIF FIDE.] de-fied', pa. par. or a. [DEFY.] dě-fi-er, s . [Eng. defy : er.] One who defies or challenges; a challenger; one who acts in defiance of any authority, power, or law. ". Til lots on. those bold and insolent defiers of Heaven." *de-fig-u-rā-tion, s. [Pref. de away from, and Eng. figuration (q. v.).] A disfiguring. "These traditions are defi gur a tions and deformations of Christ exhibited."- Bp . Hall : Rem ., p. 30. figure (s.). To figure, to delineate. *dě-fig-ûre (1), v . t . [Pref. de = down, and Eng. "On the pavement of the said chapel be these two stones as they are here defigured." -Weever: Funer. Mon.. p. 844. urer; Fr. défigurer.] To disfigure. *de-fig'-ure (2), *defygure, v. t. [O. Fr. desfig "Fowle devels of helle, and horribely defygurd." Hampole: Prick of Conscienсе, 2,340. de-fi-lā de, v. t. [Fr, from défiler.] Fort.: To raise the defenses so as to shelter the commanded by guns placed on some higher point. interior works when they are in danger of being MENT (2).] de-fi-lad-ing, pr . par . & s. [DEFILADE, DEFILE A. As pr . par .: (See the verb.) B. As substantive: Fort .: That branch of the science the object of which is to determine when the intended work would be commanded by eminences within range, the directions or heights of the lines of rampart or parapet, so that the interior of the work may not heights. be incommoded by a fire directed to it from such pref. de (intens.), and A. S. fylan to make foul; de-file (1), *de-foil, *de-foyle, v . t . & i. [Lat. fúl foul.] [DEFOUL.] IMG:content-2024.png:[blocks in formation] (1) To soil, sully, or tarnish; to disgrace, to stain. "No sour, pedantical, abusive rage, No vicious rant defiles her freest page." Byron: Dulces ante omnia Muse. rupt, to taint. (2) To make morally impure or unclean; to cor "God requires rather that we should die than defile ourselves with impieties."- Stilling fleet . (3) To debauch, to violate; to corrupt the chastity of. "Every object his offense revil'd, The husband murder'd, and the wife defil'd ."-Prior. II. Mosaic Law : To make ceremonially unclean. dead body of a man, that they could not keep the pa "And there were certain men, who were defiled by the over on that day."-Num., ix. 7. , pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot IMG:content-2025.png:[blocks in formation] defile B. In trans.: To befoul, to soil, to make foul or filthy. "This pitch, as ancient writers do report, doth defile ; so doth the company thou keepest..."- Shakesp .: Henry IV ., Pt . I. , ii. 4.