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- Degraded - imp. & p. p. - of Degrade
- Degraded - a. - Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base.
- Degraded - a. - Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.
- Degraded - a. - Having steps; -- said of a cross each of whose extremities finishes in steps growing larger as they leave the center; -- termed also on degrees.
- Hangdog - n. - A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.
- Outcast - n. - One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded person; a vagabond.
- Diggers - n. pl. - A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.
- Samoyedes - n. pl. - An ignorant and degraded Turanian tribe which occupies a portion of Northern Russia and a part of Siberia.
- Negritos - n. pl. - A degraded Papuan race, inhabiting Luzon and some of the other east Indian Islands. They resemble negroes, but are smaller in size. They are mostly nomads.
- Utes - n. pl. - An extensive tribe of North American Indians of the Shoshone stock, inhabiting Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and adjacent regions. They are subdivided into several subordinate tribes, some of which are among the most degraded of North American Indians.
- Beast - n. - Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow.
- Hottentot - n. - One of a degraded and savage race of South Africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts.
- Voodooism - n. - A degraded form of superstition and sorcery, said to include human sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. It is prevalent among the negroes of Hayti, and to some extent in the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism.
- Degradation - n. - The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.
- Louse - n. - Any one of numerous small mandibulate insects, mostly parasitic on birds, and feeding on the feathers. They are known as Mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals. They are usually regarded as degraded Pseudoneuroptera. See Mallophaga.
- Louse - n. - Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (Pediculus capitis), the body louse (P. vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthirius pubis), and many others. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under Crab, Dog, etc.