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- English Word Demersed Definition Situated or growing under water, as leaves; submersed.
- English Word Demersion Definition The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning.
- English Word Demersion Definition The state of being overwhelmed in water, or as if in water.
- English Word Demesmerize Definition To relieve from mesmeric influence. See Mesmerize.
- English Word Demesne Definition A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use.
- English Word Demesnial Definition Of or pertaining to a demesne; of the nature of a demesne.
- English Word Demi Definition See Demy, n.
- English Word Demi- Definition A prefix, signifying half.
- English Word Demi-island Definition Peninsula.
- English Word Demi-rilievo Definition Half relief; sculpture in relief of which the figures project from the background by one half their full roundness.
- English Word Demi-rilievo Definition A work of sculpture of the above character. See Alto-rilievo.
- English Word Demibastion Definition A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank.
- English Word Demibrigade Definition A half brigade.
- English Word Demicadence Definition An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the key note.
- English Word Demicannon Definition A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds.
- English Word Demicircle Definition An instrument for measuring angles, in surveying, etc. It resembles a protractor, but has an alidade, sights, and a compass.
- English Word Demiculverin Definition A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from nine to thirteen pounds.
- English Word Demideify Definition To deify in part.
- English Word Demidevil Definition A half devil.
- English Word Demies Definition of Demy