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.

To scatter; to disparkle.

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.

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.

An instrument formerly used in removing the lamin/ of exfoliated bones.

Of, pertaining to, or attended with, desquamation.

Dais.

A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner.

variant spelling of desiccate.

A kind of painting. See Distemper.

Destiny.

Determined by destiny; fated.

In a destinable manner.

Determined by destiny; fated.

To destine, design, or choose.

The act of destining or appointing.

To determine the future condition or application of; to set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny or by an authoritative decree; to doom; to ordain or preordain; to appoint; -- often with the remoter object preceded by to or for.

A believer in destiny; a fatalist.

That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.

Deficient; wanting; as, a destituent condition.

To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon.

In destitution.

Destitution.

The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.

To destroy.

To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.

Destructible.

p. p. of destroy. Also See: damaged.

One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.

To destroy.

The quality of being capable of destruction; destructibleness.

Liable to destruction; capable of being destroyed.

The quality of being destructible.

The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.

One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing institutions; a destructive.

One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.

energy-releasing (prenominal); same as catabolic.

In a destructive manner.

The quality of destroying or ruining.

A destroyer.

To destroy.

A sweating; a profuse or morbid sweating, often succeeded by an eruption of small pimples.

Disused; out of use.