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.

That can be derived; obtainable by transmission; capable of being known by inference, as from premises or data; capable of being traced, as from a radical; as, income is derivable from various sources.

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.

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.

Daring or warlike.

brave and heroic deeds.

A kind of short-barreled pocket pistol, of very large caliber, often carrying a half-ounce ball.

Dearth; scarcity.

The horny covering of the end of the bill of birds.

A Turkish or Persian monk, especially one who professes extreme poverty and leads an austere life.

Precious.

to remove the salt from, especially from water; as, it is necessary to desalinate sea water to make it fit to drink.

same as desalinization.

same as desalinization.

the removal of salt (especially from sea water); the act or process of desalinating.

same as desalinate.

to remove the salt from (a solution of salt).

to remove the scales from; -- e.g. of fish, or water boilers.

To sing a variation or accomplishment.

One who descants.

Ren/ Descartes, a French philosopher and mathematician, born 159, died 1650. See biography, below.

To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder.

One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant.

all of the offspring of a given progenitor.

Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source.

One who descends.

The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate.

Admitting descent; capable of being descended.

Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards.

In a descending manner.

The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation.

Pertaining to descension.

Tending to descend; tending downwards; descending.

A vessel used in alchemy to extract oils.

The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

That can be described; capable of description.

To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty.

Same as Generatrix.

One who describes.

One who descries.

The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.

Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age.

To describe.

Discovery or view, as of an army seen at a distance.

To cut, as with a scythe; to mow.

To divest of a sacred character or office; to divert from a sacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an unworthy use; -- the opposite of consecrate.

One who desecrates; a profaner.

The act of desecrating; profanation; condition of anything desecrated.