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{ } n. [ AS. &unr_;ht, fr. āgan to own, p. p. āhte. ] Property; possession. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Debauched p. pr. & vb. n. Debauching. ] [ F. débaucher, prob. originally, to entice away from the workshop; pref. dé- (L. dis- or de) + OF. bauche, bauge, hut, cf. F. bauge lair of a wild boar; prob. from G. or Icel., cf. Icel. bālkr. See Balk, n. ] To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army. [ 1913 Webster ]

Learning not debauched by ambition. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man must have got his conscience thoroughly debauched and hardened before he can arrive to the height of sin. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her pride debauched her judgment and her eyes. Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. débauche. ] 1. Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery. [ 1913 Webster ]

The first physicians by debauch were made. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An act or occasion of debauchery. [ 1913 Webster ]

Silenus, from his night's debauch,
Fatigued and sick. Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dissolute; dissipated. “A coarse and debauched look.” Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a profligate manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being debauched; intemperance. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. débauché, n., properly p. p. of débaucher. See Debauch, v. t. ] One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who debauches or corrupts others; especially, a seducer to lewdness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Debaucheries 1. Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance. [ 1913 Webster ]

The republic of Paris will endeavor to complete the debauchery of the army. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Oppose . . . debauchery by temperance. Sprat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Debauchedness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Falchion. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] 1. Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geom.) Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Lacking grace and perceptivity in social situations; crude; tactless; socially inept.
Syn. -- graceless; unsophisticated. [ PJC ]

4. (Chem.) Not planar; -- of molecules or molecular conformations. [ PJC ]

n. an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement.
Syn. -- crudeness, crudity. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ F. ] An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n., pl. Gauchos /plu> [ Sp. ] One of the native inhabitants of the South American pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle. Hence, a South American cowboy, especially on the pampas. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A member of an Indian population, somewhat affected by Spanish blood, in the archipelagoes off the Chilean coast. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F., the left hand. ] (Ancient Armor) The dagger held in the left hand, while the rapier is held in the right; -- used to parry thrusts of the adversary's rapier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girls.
Syn. -- nautch, nautch dance. [ WordNet 1.5 ]