deuced

& adv. [Eng. deuce (2); -ed.] Con founded, devilish. *deuch, s. [Gael. deoch.] 1. A draught, a drink. 2. Drink in general. doris, dock-an-dorach, dok-and-doris, s. [Gael. deuch-an-dorach, deuch-an-doris, doch-an- deoch an doruis .] A drink taken at the door of a house at parting; a parting or stirrup cup. [Greek deuteros = 1. Ord. Lang.: The act of cutting or lopping off; excision. "This can never prove either any interpolations in the former or detruncations in the latter." Biblioth . Bibl . (Oxf. 1720), p. 58. 2. Surg .: The separation of the trunk from the head of the fœtus, the latter remaining in the uterus. *dě-trunk', v . t . [Lat. detrunco=to lop off.] To lop or cut off; to detruncate. "She the head detruncte dyd bear about." Drant: Horace, sat. ii. 3. dě-tru-şion, s . [Lat. detrusio , from detrusus, pa. par. of detrudo =to thrust or push down.] The act of pushing or thrusting down. "From this detrusion of the waters toward the side, the parts toward the pole must be much increased."-Keil: Against Burnet.