Declination

dek-lm-a's hun, n. act of declining: deviation: decay. astr the distance fiom the celestial equator. Decline, de-klln', v to bend or turn away from (a straight line) to deviate to refuse, to hend down to fail or decay to draw to an end.— 7\/ to bend down to turn away from to refuse to avoid \gram.) to give the changes of a won! m the oblique cases —«. a falling off deviation decay a gradual sinking of the — buddy faculties, consumption [Fr dtcliner L dr, down, away trom, chno, to bend. See Lean Declivity, de-kli v a place that d, dines or slopes down waid, opp of Acclivity, mclination downward a gradual descent. [L. dccli- — vitas de, downward, clivus, sloping, akin to chno] Decoct, de-kokt'. v to digest by heat [L. — dccoguo, decortus de, down, cogue, to cook.) Decoction, dc-hukMmn, «. an extract of anything got bv foiling ad/. Decoc'tivo Decollate de-kol'.»i v t to behead [L decollo de, hum, colhan, the neck [ing.