DEFICIENCY
De*fi"cien*cy, n.; pl. Deficiencies. Etym: [See Deficient.]
Defn: The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect. "A deficiencyof blood." Arbuthnot. [Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. Buckle. Deficiency of a curve (Geom.), the amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
DEFICIENT De*fi"cient, a. Etym: [L. deficiens, -entis, p. pr. of deficere to be wanting. See Defect.]
Defn: Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment. The style was indeed deficient in ease and variety. Macaulay. Deficient number. (Arith.) See under Abundant. — De*fi"cient-ly, adv.
DEFICIT
Def"i*cit, n. Etym: [Lit., it is wanting, 3d person pres. indic. of
L. deficere, cf. F. déficit. See Defect.]
Defn: Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc. Addison.
DEFIER
De*fi"er, n. Etym: [See Defy.]
Defn: One who dares and defies; a contemner; as, a defier of the laws.
DEFIGURATION
De*fig`u*ra"tion, n.
Defn: Disfiguration; mutilation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.