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.

One who desecrates.

The loss or obliteration of division into segments; as, a desegmentation of the body.

to eliminate laws, regulations, or customs which prohibit members of a specific racial or national group from using (certain locations, organizations, or facilities); to introduce members of a racial or religious group into (a community, facility, or organization from which they had been barred).

the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community; the elimination of laws, regulations, or customs which prohibit members of a specific racial or national group from using certain locations, organizations, or facilities.

same as desensitization.

same as desensitize.

the process of reducing or eliminating sensitivity.

to rendered insensitive or less sensitive. Opposite of sensitize.

rendered insensitive.

making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli. Opposite of sensitizing.

To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.

having no residents; as, deserted villages.

One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.

Meritorious.

The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service.

Without desert.

Undeservedly.

A deserted condition.

A feminine deserter.

To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise.

To be worthy of recompense; -- usually with ill or with well.

properly earned; warranted; merited. Opposite of undeserved.

According to desert (whether good or evil); justly.

Meritoriousness.

One who deserves.

Meritorious; worthy; as, a deserving person or act.

to make infertile, especially by removing or incapacitating the sexual organs; -- used of both males and females.

to direct one's libidinous urges into another direction.

variant spelling of desiccate.

Drying; desiccative. A medicine or application for drying up a sore.

To become dry.

The act of desiccating, or the state of being desiccated.

Drying; tending to dry. An application for drying up secretions.

One who, or that which, desiccates.

Desiccative.

Desirable.

See Desideratum.

To desire; to feel the want of; to lack; to miss; to want.

Act of desiderating; also, the thing desired.

An object of desire.

Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge.

Idle; lazy.

The state or quality of being desidiose, or indolent.

An unsightly object.

The act of making unsightly; disfigurement.

A preliminary sketch; an outline or pattern of the main features of something to be executed, as of a picture, a building, or a decoration; a delineation; a plan.

Capable of being designated or distinctly marked out; distinguishable.

To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description; to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country; to designate the rioters who are to be arrested.

The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.

Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.

An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies.

Serving to designate; designative; indicating.

By design; purposely; intentionally; -- opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently.

One who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver.

Full of design; scheming.

The act of making designs or sketches; the act of forming designs or plans.

Without design.

Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention.

To deprive of silver; as, to desilver lead.

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

To deprive, or free from, silver; to remove silver from.

Termination; ending.

Ending; forming an end; lowermost.

Terminal.

Foolish; silly; trifling.

The state or quality of being desirable; desirableness.

Worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable.

The quality of being desirable.

In a desirable manner.

The natural longing that is excited by the enjoyment or the thought of any good, and impels to action or effort its continuance or possession; an eager wish to obtain or enjoy.

Filled with desire; eager.

The state of being desireful; eagerness to obtain and possess.

Free from desire.

One who desires, asks, or wishes.

Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; solicitous; eager to obtain; covetous.

With desire; eagerly.

The state of being desirous.

To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from.

The act or state of desisting; cessation.

Final; conclusive; ending.

An end or ending.

A proposition relating to or expressing an end or conclusion.

To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.

Work done at a desk, as by a clerk or writer.

An amphibious, insectivorous mammal found in Russia (Myogale moschata). It is allied to the moles, but is called muskrat by some English writers.

A microscopic plant of the family Desmidi/, a group of unicellular alg/ in which the species have a greenish color, and the cells generally appear as if they consisted of two coalescing halves.

Same as Stilbite. It commonly occurs in bundles or tufts of crystals.

See Microbacteria.