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Webster 1828 Edition

adv.

In a becoming manner.

DECOR'TICATE, v.t. [L. bark.] To strip off bark; to peel; to husk; to take off the exterior coat; as, to decorticate barley.

DECOR'TICATED, pp. Stripped of bark; peeled; husked.

DECOR'TICATING, ppr. Stripping off bark or the external coat; peeling.

DECORTICA'TION, n. The act of stripping off bark or husk.

DECO'RUM, n. [L. to become.]