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.

A member of a group of South American blood-sucking bats, of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire.

a natural family comprisng the true vampire bats.

the type genus of the Desmodontidae, consisting of vampire bats.

Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds (Desmognath/), including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.

Resembling, or having the characteristics of, a ligament; ligamentous.

The science which treats of the ligaments.

The division of Tunicata which includes the Salp/. See Salpa.

To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood.

reduced to a barren and lifeless state.

In a desolate manner.

The state of being desolate.

One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste.

The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.

Same as Desolater.

Causing desolation.

To clear from sophism or error.

Made or derived from oxalic acid; as, desoxalic acid.

same as deoxyribonucleic acid.

Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.

One who despairs.

Hopeless.

Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless.

Same as Dispatch.

To discriminate; to separate according to specific signification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize.

Discrimination.

Contempt.

A looking down; a despising.

To send hastily.

To spend; to squander. See Dispend.

A reckless, furious man; a person urged by furious passions, and regardless of consequence; a wild ruffian.

One desperate or hopeless.

In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately.

Desperation; virulence.

The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.

Despicableness.

Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift.

The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.

In a despicable or mean manner; contemptibly; as, despicably stingy.

A looking down; despection.

Despicable; contemptible.

A despising; contempt.

To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of.

The state of being despised.

A despising.

One who despises; a contemner; a scorner.

Contemptuously.

In spite of; against, or in defiance of; notwithstanding; as, despite his prejudices.

Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate; malicious.

Feeling or showing despite; malicious; angry to excess; cruel; contemptuous.

Despitefully.

Despiteous; very angry; cruel.

To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe.

Spoil.

having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence.

One who despoils.

Despoliation.

the daughter of Zeus and Demeter; made queen of the underworld by Pluto in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Proserpina.

A stripping or plundering; spoliation.

To give up the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view.

Despondency.

Despondency.

The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind.

Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner.

One who desponds.

In a desponding manner.

Betrothal.

To betroth.

A betrothing; betrothal.

A written pledge of marriage.

See Disport.

A master; a lord; especially, an absolute or irresponsible ruler or sovereign.

The station or government of a despot; also, the domain of a despot.

Having the character of, or pertaining to, a despot; absolute in power; possessing and abusing unlimited power; evincing despotism; tyrannical; arbitrary.

The power, spirit, or principles of a despot; absolute control over others; tyrannical sway; tyranny.

A supporter of despotism.

To act the despot.

See Dispread.

To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to foam.

The act of throwing up froth or scum; separation of the scum or impurities from liquids; scumming; clarification.

To free from spume or scum.

To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases.

The separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones.