Index of English words, starting with "de"

(1) - Default (v. t.) To leave out of account; to omit.
(2) - Default (v. t.) To call a defendant or other party whose duty it is to be present in court, and make entry of his default, if he fails to appear; to enter a default against.
(3) - Default (v. t.) To fail to perform or pay; to be guilty of neglect of; to omit; as, to default a dividend.
(4) - Default (v. i.) To fail to appear in court; to let a case go by default.
(5) - Default (v. i.) To fail in fulfilling a contract, agreement, or duty.
(6) - Default (v. i.) To fail in duty; to offend.
(7) - Default (n.) A neglect of, or failure to take, some step necessary to secure the benefit of law, as a failure to appear in court at a day assigned, especially of the defendant in a suit when called to make answer; also of jurors, witnesses, etc.
(8) - Default (n.) Fault; offense; ill deed; wrong act; failure in virtue or wisdom.
(9) - Default (n.) A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires; as, this evil has happened through the governor's default.

(1) - Defaulter (n.) One who fails to perform a duty; a delinquent; particularly, one who fails to account for public money intrusted to his care; a peculator; a defalcator.
(2) - Defaulter (n.) One who makes default; one who fails to appear in court when court when called.

(1) - Defeasance (n.) A condition, relating to a deed, which being performed, the deed is defeated or rendered void; or a collateral deed, made at the same time with a feoffment, or other conveyance, containing conditions, on the performance of which the estate then created may be defeated.
(2) - Defeasance (n.) A rendering null or void.
(3) - Defeasance (n.) A defeat; an overthrow.

(1) - Defeasible (a.) Capable of being annulled or made void; as, a defeasible title.

(1) - Defeat (v.) An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory.
(2) - Defeat (v.) Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design.
(3) - Defeat (v.) An undoing or annulling; destruction.
(4) - Defeat (v. t.) To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault.
(5) - Defeat (v. t.) To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow.
(6) - Defeat (v. t.) To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate.
(7) - Defeat (v. t.) To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.