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Decimosexto
- - A book consisting of sheets, each of which is folded into sixteen leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of book; -- usually written 16mo or 16
Decipherers
- noun - a reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text
- the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text
Deciphering
- verb - convert code into ordinary language
- read with difficulty; "Can you decipher this letter?"; "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs"
Deck Tennis
- noun - game played mainly on board ocean liners; players toss a ring back and form over a net that is stretched across a small court
- game played mainly on board ocean liners; players toss a ring back and forth over a net that is stretched across a small court
Deckle Edge
- noun - rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper
Declamation
- noun - recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric
- The action or art of declaiming
- vehement oratory
Declamatory
- adjective - ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
Declaration
- noun - (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
- (law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction; "his declaration of innocence"
- a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote
- a formal public statement; "the government made an announcement about changes in the drug war"; "a declaration of independence"
- a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties
- a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written)
Declarative
- adjective - a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
- relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements; "indicative mood"
- relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration