My grief, joined with the instant business,
Begs a deferment.
Suckling.
De*fer"rer (?), n. One who defers or puts off.
{ De`fer*ves"cence (?), De`fer*ves"cency (?), } n. [L. defervescere to grow cool.] 1. A subsiding from a state of ebullition; loss of heat; lukewarmness.
A defervescency in holy actions.
Jer. Taylor.
2. (Med.) The subsidence of a febrile process; as, the stage of defervescence in pneumonia.
De*feu"dal*ize (?), v. t. To deprive of the feudal character or form.
De*fi"ance (?), n. [OF. defiance, desfiance, challenge, fr. desfier to challenge, F. défier. See Defy.] 1. The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.
A war without a just defiance made.
Dryden.
Stood for her cause, and flung defiance down.
Tennyson.
2. A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition.
He breathed defiance to my ears.
Shak.
3. A casting aside; renunciation; rejection. [Obs.] "Defiance to thy kindness." Ford.
To bid defiance, To set at defiance, to defy; to disregard recklessly or contemptuously. Locke.
De*fi"ant (?), a. [Cf. F. défiant, p. pr. of défier. See Defy.] Full of defiance; bold; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or act.
In attitude stern and defiant.
Longfellow.
-- De*fi"ant*ly, adv. -- De*fi"ant*ness, n.
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De*fi"a*to*ry (?), a. [See Defy.] Bidding or manifesting defiance. [Obs.] Shelford.
De*fi"bri*nate (?), v. t. To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.
De*fi`bri*na"tion (?), n. The act or process of depriving of fibrin.
De*fi"bri*nize (?), v. t. To defibrinate.
De*fi"cience (?), n. Same as Deficiency.
Thou in thyself art perfect, and in thee
Is no deficience found.
Milton.
De*fi"cien*cy (?), n.; pl. Deficiencies (#). [See Deficient.] The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect. "A deficiency of blood." Arbuthnot.
[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.
Buckle.
Deficiency of a curve (Geom.), the amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
De*fi"cient (?), a. [L. deficiens, -entis, p. pr. of deficere to be wanting. See Defect.] Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment.
The style was indeed deficient in ease and variety.
Macaulay.
Deficient number. (Arith.) See under Abundant.
-- De*fi"cient-ly, adv.
Def"i*cit (?), n. [Lit., it is wanting, 3d person pres. indic. of L. deficere, cf. F. déficit. See Defect.] Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc. Addison.
De*fi"er (?), n. [See Defy.] One who dares and defies; a contemner; as, a defier of the laws.
De*fig`u*ra"tion (?), n. Disfiguration; mutilation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.