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Decuman

Decuman \Dec"u*man\, a. [L. decumanus of the tenth, and by metonymy, large, fr. decem ten.] Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively. ``Such decuman billows.''
--Gauden. ``The baffled decuman.''
--Lowell.

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decuman

a. (context obsolete English) large; chief; applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. n. (context obsolete English) An extraordinarily large billow.

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Decuman

Decuman (; ; died ) was one of the Celtic saints who came to Somerset from South Wales during the seventh century, arriving on a raft (or his cloak) with a cow for a companion. There he was a pastor and physician to the local inhabitants.

Usage examples of "decuman".

I drew him closer, and it seemed to weaken the net Decuman was knotting about my mind.

As soon as I touched it, the invisible glare Decuman had created in my mind fell almost to nothing.

Red Verthandi became Decuman, his skin eaten away, turning in his own blood.

I summoned the memory of it, as I had seen it when it killed Decuman, and tried to estimate its weight: it must have been as heavy as several men, and perhaps as heavy as a destrier.

We call powers of the first kind dark, though they may use a species of deadly light as Decuman did.

For Pompey's legion, encouraged by the hope of speedy support, attempted to make a stand at the Decuman gate, and made a bold charge on our men.

Then suddenly, one morning ordering eight veteran legions with part of the cavalry to follow him by the Decuman gate, he sent forward the rest of the cavalry.

So many needles to ponk out to as many noodles as are company, they noddling all about it tutti to tempo, decumans numbered too, (a) well, that the secretary bird, better known as Pandoria Paullabucca, whom they thought was more like a solicitor general, indiscriminatingly made belief mid authorsagastions from Schelm the Pelman to write somewords to Senders about her chilikin puck, laughing that Poulebec would be the death of her, (b) that, well, that Madges Tighe, the postulate auditressee, when her daremood's a grownian, is always on the who goes where, hoping to Michal for the latter to turn up with a cupital tea before her ephumeral comes off without any much father which is .