The act of making heavy.

To remove grease or fatty matter from, as wool or silk.

A step, stair, or staircase.

possessing a college degree or degrees.

going down by steps.

A small South American rodent (Octodon Cumingii), of the family Octodontid/.

To deprive of, or free from, gum; as, to degum ramie.

To taste.

Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs.

To gape; to open by dehiscence.

The act of gaping.

Characterized by dehiscence; opening in some definite way, as the capsule of a plant.

To disparage.

A dishonoring; disgracing.

To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth of the horns of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn.

All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover.

To urge to abstain or refrain; to dissuade.

Dissuasion; advice against something.

Dissuasive.

Fitted or designed to dehort or dissuade.

A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary.

To divest of human qualities, such as pity, tenderness, etc.; as, dehumanizing influences.

to remove the moisture from (air or another gas); to reduce the humidity of; as, The air conditioner dehumidifies the air in the summer.

To remove the husk from.

to lose water or moisture.

thoroughly dried out.

The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.

To deprive of, or free from, hydrogen.

The act or process of freeing from hydrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of hydrogen.

to remove ice or frost from.

a devie that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane).

The act of killing a being of a divine nature; particularly, the putting to death of Jesus Christ.

Direct; proving directly; -- applied to reasoning, and opposed to elenchtic or refutative.

In a manner to show or point out; directly; absolutely; definitely.

Making divine; producing a likeness to God; god-making.

The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis; excessive praise.

Honored or worshiped as a deity; treated with supreme regard; godlike.

One who deifies.

Godlike, or of a godlike form.

Likeness to deity.

To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius C/sar was deified.

To think worthy; to vouchsafe; to condescend; - - followed by an infinitive.

Haughty; disdainful.

Devil; -- spelt also deel.

See Dinoceras.

See Dinornis.

See Dinosaur.

See Dinotherium.

To disintegrate.

Rare; excellent; costly.

the act or process of removing ions.

to remove ions from (a solution).

freed from ions by a process of deionization; as, deionized water.

an apparatus used to remove ions from a solution; a common variant contains a mixture of cation exchange resin in the acid form and anion exchange resin in the hydroxyl form inside a replaceable cartridge; ions in aqueous solution are exchanged for the elements of water by passing the solution through the mixed resin.

Bearing or bringing forth a god; -- said of the Virgin Mary.

One of an ancient sect of philosophers, who cultivated learned conversation at meals.

See Dais.

The doctrine or creed of a deist; the belief or system of those who acknowledge the existence of one God, but deny revelation.

One who believes in the existence of a God, but denies revealed religion; a freethinker.

Pertaining to, savoring of, or consisting in, deism; as, a deistic writer; a deistical book.

State of being deistical.

Deified.

The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in his works.

the function or operation of a deictic word; the function of pointing or specifying from the perspective of a participant in an act of speech or writing; aspects of a communication whose interpretation depends on knowledge of the context in which the communication occurs.

Dejected.

Excrements; as, the dejecta of the sick.

Cast down; afflicted; low-spirited; sad; as, a dejected look or countenance.

One who casts down, or dejects.

A casting down; depression.

Dejectedly.

Having power, or tending, to cast down.

That which is voided; excrements.

To swear solemnly; to take an oath.

The act of swearing solemnly.

A d/jeuner.

A breakfast; sometimes, also, a lunch or collation.

A Decembrist.

Same as Decagram.

Same as Decaliter.

Same as Decameter.

Same as Decastere.

See Deckle.

Share; portion; part.

a differential operator which, operating on a function of several variables, gives the sum of the partial derivatives of the function with respect to the three orthogonal spatial coordinates; -- also called the gradient or grad. It is represented by an inverted Greek capital delta (/), and is thus because of its shape also called nabla, meaning harp in Hebrew.

A tearing in pieces.

An involuntary discharge of watery humors from the eyes; wateriness of the eyes.

The act of weaning.

A kind of fabric for women's dresses.

Formation and separation of lamin/ or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated.

See Delapsion.

To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.

A falling down, or out of place; prolapsion.

Fatigue.

To dilate.

Conveyance.

An accuser; an informer.

one of the thirteen original states of the United States of America.

a resident of Delaware.

A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian Territory.

a resident of Delaware.

To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.

One who delays; one who lingers.

By delays.

Hindrance.

To deal; to divide; to distribute.

Capable of being blotted out or erased.

Highly pleasing; delightful.

To delight; to charm.

Great pleasure; delight.

A name given to an elementary book for learners of Latin or Greek.

The act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power.

To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize.

the act or process of authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions.

The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.

Holding a delegated position.

Things to be erased or blotted out.

Assuaging pain.

To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.

Hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a deleterious plant or quality; a deleterious example.

That which destroys.