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Deodand
- - A personal chattel which had caused the death of a person, and for that reason was given to God, that is, forfeited to the crown, to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high almoner. Thus, if a cart ran over a man and killed him, it was forfeited as a deodand.
Descend
- verb - come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell"
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins"
- do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- Go down
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"
Despend
- - To spend; to squander. See Dispend.
Despond
- verb - lose confidence or hope; become dejected; "The supporters of the Presidential candidate desponded when they learned the early results of the election"
Diamond
- noun - a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram
- a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more red rhombuses on it; "he led a small diamond"; "diamonds were trumps"
- a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
- the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate
- the baseball playing field
- very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem
Disband
- verb - cause to break up or cease to function; "the principal disbanded the political student organization"
- stop functioning or cohering as a unit; "The political wing of the party dissolved after much internal fighting"