Indented; impressed with little hollows.

Same as Dentil.

An ornamental tooling like lace.

Modillions.

An edible European marine fish (Sparus dentex, or Dentex vulgaris) of the family Percid/.

The division of Cetacea in which the teeth are developed, including the sperm whale, dolphins, etc.

A small tooth or projecting point.

Furnished with denticles; notched into little toothlike projections; as, a denticulate leaf of calyx.

The state of being set with small notches or teeth.

Bearing teeth; dentigerous.

Having the form of a tooth or of teeth; tooth-shaped.

A powder or other substance to be used in cleaning the teeth; tooth powder.

Bearing teeth or toothlike structures.

A small square block or projection in cornices, a number of which are ranged in an ornamental band; -- used particularly in the Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders.

Formed by the teeth and the lips, or representing a sound so formed. A dentilabial sound or letter.

Toothed.

Dentition.

A wash for cleaning the teeth.

A small tooth, like that of a saw.

Produced by applying the tongue to the teeth or to the gums; or representing a sound so formed. A dentilingual sound or letter.

One who speaks through the teeth, that is, with the teeth closed.

The habit or practice of speaking through the teeth, or with them closed.

Of or pertaining to dentine.

The dense calcified substance of which teeth are largely composed. It contains less animal matter than bone, and in the teeth of man is situated beneath the enamel.

An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve; an audiphone.

A dentirostral bird.

Having a toothed bill; -- applied to a group of passerine birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrikes and vireos. See Illust. (N) under Beak.

Dentirostral.

An instrument for scraping the teeth.

One whose business it is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon.

Pertaining to dentistry or to dentists.

The art or profession of a dentist; dental surgery.

The development and cutting of teeth; teething.

To breed or cut new teeth.

Shaped like a tooth; tooth-shaped.

Dentilingual.

An artificial tooth, block, or set of teeth.

To denude.

The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.

To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands; the hurricane denuded the trees.

that can be counted.

To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly.

Proclamation; announcement; a publishing.

Same as Denunciatory.

One who denounces, publishes, or proclaims, especially intended or coming evil; one who threatens or accuses.

Characterized by or containing a denunciation; minatory; accusing; threatening; as, severe and denunciatory language.

The opposition of nutrition; the failure of nutrition causing the breaking down of tissue.

To answer in /// negative; to declare an assertion not to be true.

In the manner of one denies a request.

To remove obstructions or impediments in; to clear from anything that hinders the passage of fluids; as, to deobstruct the pores or lacteals.

Removing obstructions; having power to clear or open the natural ducts of the fluids and secretions of the body; aperient. A medicine which removes obstructions; an aperient.

A personal chattel which had caused the death of a person, and for that reason was given to God, that is, forfeited to the crown, to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high almoner. Thus, if a cart ran over a man and killed him, it was forfeited as a deodand.

A kind of cedar (Cedrus Deodara), growing in India, highly valued for its size and beauty as well as for its timber, and also grown in England as an ornamental tree.

A gift or offering to God.

A deodorizer.

The act of depriving of odor, especially of offensive odors resulting from impurities.

To deprive of odor, especially of such as results from impurities.

He who, or that which, deodorizes; esp., an agent that destroys offensive odors.

To unload; to disburden.

Pertaining to deontology.

The science which relates to duty or moral obligation.

Having the lid removed; -- said of the capsules of mosses.

To free from obstructions; to clear a passage through.

Removal of whatever stops up the passages.

Deobstruent; aperient.

Disorder; dissoluteness.

To kiss warmly.

To deoxidize.

The act or process of reducing from the state of an oxide.

Deoxidation.

To deprive of oxygen; to reduce from the state of an oxide.

That which removes oxygen; hence, a reducing agent; as, nascent hydrogen is a deoxidizer.

To deoxidize.

The act or operation of depriving of oxygen.

To deoxidize.

a nucleic acid, usually of very high molecular weight, consisting of a linear sequence of monomer units of deoxyribonucleotides, occurring in most organisms in pairs of strands, wound together in the form of a double helix; it is the main component of chromosomes and contains the genetic information which is the basis of heredity, transmitted from parent to progeny, and found in all living organisms except for certain viruses which have RNA as their basic genetic material; -- usually referred to by the acronym DNA.

an organic molecule consisting of a hereocyclic base attached to the 1-carbon of a deoxyribose ring, with a phosphate group esterified at the 5 position of the deoxyribose. Deoxyribonuceotides are the monomer units which make up deoxyribonucleic acid, the molecule carrying the hereditary information in most organisms. The most common forms of deoxyribonuceotide are thymidine-5/-phosphate (abbreviated TMP), deoxyadenosine-5/-phosphate (abbreviated dAMP), deoxyguanosine-5/-phosphate (abbreviated dGMP), and deoxycytidine-5/-phosphate (abbreviated dCMP).

a pentose (C5H10O4) in which one of the hydroxyl groups of ribose has been replaced by a hydrogen. In deoxyribonucleic acids, the deoxyribose is D-2-deoxyribose, in which the hydroxyl at the 2 position of ribose is the one which is replaced by hydrogen.

same as deoxyribonucleic acid.

To paint; to picture; hence, to describe; to delineate in words; to depict.

One who depaints.

In God's name; certainly.

Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients.

Divisible.

past; -- used of time; as, departed summers.

One who refines metals by separation.

leaving a starting or stopping point on a journey; as, Departing flights were delayed by the snowstorm. Opposite of arriving.

Act of departing; departure.

Pertaining to a department or division.

Division; separation; putting away.

Feeding.

To pasture; to feed; to graze; also, to use for pasture.

To withdraw, or cause to withdraw, from one's country; to banish.

Falling short of the natural size, from being impoverished or starved.

To free from paupers; to rescue from poverty.

To discharge.

Tough; thick; capable of extension.

A robbing or embezzlement.

To paint.

To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.

the trait of being dependable or reliable.

Worthy of being depended on; trustworthy.

See Dependent, Dependence, Dependency.

The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support.

State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust.

One who depends; one who is sustained by another, or who relies on another for financial support or favor; a hanger-on; a retainer; as, a numerous train of dependents.

In a dependent manner.

One who depends; a dependent.

As having dependence.

To depopulate.

That which is lost or destroyed.

Hopelessly; despairingly; in the manner of one ruined; as, deperditely wicked.

Loss; destruction.

Divisible.

To put out of phase, as two parts of a single alternating current.

To rid of phlegm or water; to dephlegmate.

To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation; to clear of aqueous matter; to rectify; -- used of spirits and acids.

The operation of separating water from spirits and acids, by evaporation or repeated distillation; -- called also concentration, especially when acids are the subject of it.

An instrument or apparatus in which water is separated by evaporation or distillation; the part of a distilling apparatus in which the separation of the vapors is effected.

Pertaining to, or producing, dephlegmation.