marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental or social influences; as, a childhood that was unhappy and deprived, the family living off charity; boys from a deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation, and disregard for law.

Deprivation.

One who, or that which, deprives.

Fully prostrate; humble; low; rude.

To divest of provincial quality or characteristics.

The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops.

To deepen.

Having no depth; shallow.

To deflour; to deprive of virginity.

To deflour; to dishonor.

To drive away.

A driving or thrusting away.

Driving or thrusting away; averting.

Depurative.

To free from impurities, heterogeneous matter, or feculence; to purify; to cleanse.

The act or process of depurating or freeing from foreign or impure matter, as a liquid or wound.

Purifying the blood or the humors; depuratory. A depurative remedy or agent; or a disease which is believed to be depurative.

One who, or that which, cleanses.

Depurating; tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.

To depurate; to purify.

Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.

See Depuration.

Fit to be deputed; suitable to act as a deputy.

The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.

One who deputes, or makes a deputation.

A person deputed; a deputy.

same as deputize.

To appoint as one's deputy; to empower to act in one's stead; to appoint as one's substitute; to depute.

One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc.

To diminish the quantity of; to disquantity.

To remove the queen from (a hive of bees).

To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.

The act of pulling up by the roots; eradication.

To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive.

The act of going off, or the state of being off, the rails of a railroad.

To prove or to refute by proof; to clear (one's self).

The act of deraigning.

To put out of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation.

Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane.

The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity.

One who deranges.

Disorder; merriment.

A large European food fish (Lichia glauca).

A race for three-old horses, run annually at Epsom (near London), for the Derby stakes. It was instituted by the 12th Earl of Derby, in 1780.

Doing daring or chivalrous deeds.

Harm.

A straight wind without apparent cyclonic tendency, usually accompanied with rain and often destructive, common in the prairie regions of the United States.

A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea. A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use.

The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment.

To make irreligious; to turn from religion.

Darling.

the process of testing samples of mixtures which are active in a screening process, so as to recognize and eliminate from consideration those active substances already studied; -- a stage subsequent to the preliminary screening in the process of discovery of new pharmacologically active substances in mixtures of natural products; -- also called counterscreening. See screening.

Same as Darraign.

Strong; powerful; fierce.

To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at.

One who derides, or laughs at, another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer.

By way of derision or mockery.

The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule.

Expressing, serving for, or characterized by, derision.

Derisive; mocking.

By derivation.

Derivation.

To derive.

A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.

Relating to derivation.

That which is derived; anything obtained or deduced from another.

to alter the chemical composition [of a compound] by a chemical reaction which changes some part of the molecule, leaving most of the molecule unchanged; to prepare a derivative{6} from.

To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced.

That which is derived; deduction; inference.

One who derives.

Dark.

The integument of animal; the skin.

See Dermis.

a genus comprising vectors of important diseases of man and animals.

Pertaining to the integument or skin of animals; dermic; as, the dermal secretions.

See Dermoptera, Dermopteran.

Of or pertaining to the skin.

Inflammation of the skin.

Nascent epidermis, or external cuticle of plants in a forming condition.

An anatomical description of, or treatise on, the skin.

Resembling skin; skinlike.

of or pertaining to dermatology.

One who discourses on the skin and its diseases; one versed in dermatology a physician with specialized training in dermatology, licensed to practise as a specialist in treating diseases of the skin.

The science which treats of the skin, its structure, functions, and diseases.

Of or pertaining to skin diseases, or their cure.

A fungus infecting and parasitic on the skin, especially one which causes disease; as, ringworm is caused by a dermatophyte.

A genus of coleopterous insects, the larv/ of which feed animal substances. They are very destructive to dries meats, skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is Dermestes lardarius, known as the bacon beetle.

Pertaining to or resembling the genus Dermestes.

Relating to the derm or skin.

The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and enderon. See Skin, and Illust. in Appendix.

A group of nudibranch mollusks without special gills.

Having the skin modified to serve as a gill.

Pertaining to, or in relation with, both dermal and h/mal structures; as, the dermoh/mal spines or ventral fin rays of fishes.

Same as Dermatoid.

Pertaining to, or in relation with, both dermal and neural structures; as, the dermoneural spines or dorsal fin rays of fishes.

Dermatopathic.

A dermatophyte.

The division of insects which includes the earwigs (Forticulid/).

An insect which has the anterior pair of wings coriaceous, and does not use them in flight, as the earwig.

Same as Dermopterygii.

A group of fishlike animals including the Marsipobranchiata and Leptocardia.

See Exoskeleton.

Ossification of the dermis.

Hidden; concealed; secret.

To hide; to skulk.

Secret; hence, lonely; sad; mournful.

Last; final.

Secretly; grievously; mournfully.

Derogatory.

Diminished in value; dishonored; degraded.

In a derogatory manner.

The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of, from, or to.

Derogatory.

A detractor.

In a derogatory manner; disparagingly.

Quality of being derogatory.

Tending to derogate, or lessen in value; expressing a low opinion; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious; -- with from, to, or unto.

The tribe of aquatic Amphibia which includes Amphiuma, Menopoma, etc. They have permanent gill openings, but no external gills; -- called also Cryptobranchiata.

Dearer.

A mast, spar, or tall frame, supported at the top by stays or guys, and usually pivoted at the base, with suitable tackle for hoisting heavy weights, such as stones in building.