A petrified or fossil shrub, plant, or part of a plant.

One versed in the natural history of trees.

Relating to dendrology.

the branch of botany studying trees and shrubs; the natural history of trees.

a genus having only one species, the bush poppy.

An instrument to measure the height and diameter of trees.

To deny.

Denial.

A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.

Capable of being, or liable to be, denied.

The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation.

Denial.

A small copper coin of insignificant value.

To blacken thoroughly; to make very black.

harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign; -- used of statements.

The act of making black.

One who, or that which, blackens.

same as denigrating.

A coarse cotton drilling used for overalls, etc.

A disengaging, or removal, of nitric acid.

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

To deprive of, or free from, nitrogen.

The act of making one a denizen or adopted citizen; naturalization.

To make a denizen; to confer the rights of citizenship upon; to naturalize.

To constitute (one) a denizen; to admit to residence, with certain rights and privileges.

Denization; denizening.

To constitute (one) a denizen; to denizen.

State of being a denizen.

A light, open, two-wheeled carriage for one horse; a kind of gig.

Capable of being denominated or named.

Having a specific name or denomination; specified in the concrete as opposed to abstract; thus, 7 feet is a denominate quantity, while 7 is mere abstract quantity or number. See Compound number, under Compound.

The act of naming or designating.

Pertaining to a denomination, especially to a sect or society.

A denominational or class spirit or policy; devotion to the interests of a sect or denomination.

One imbued with a denominational spirit.

In a denominational manner; by denomination or sect.

A denominative name or term; denominative verb.

By denomination.

One who, or that which, gives a name; origin or source of a name.

Capable of being denoted or marked.

To mark off; to denote.

The marking off or separation of anything.

Having power to denote; designating or marking off.

the actual object referred to by a linguistic expression.

To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the hour.

Sign; indication.

Serving to denote.

The unraveling or discovery of a plot; the catastrophe, especially of a drama or a romance.

To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).

Solemn, official, or menacing announcement; denunciation.

One who denounces, or declares, as a menace.

Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog.

In a dense, compact manner.

The quality of being dense; density.

an increase in the density of something.

An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity or density of a substance.

an instrument for determining optical or photographic density. A variety capable of measuring optical density of a sample at a number of different wavelengths, is called a spectrophotometer.

measuring the optical density of a substance by shining light through it and measuring the intensity of the transmitted light.

The quality of being dense, close, or thick; compactness; -- opposed to rarity.

A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.

An articulation or letter formed by the aid of the teeth.

The quality of being formed by the aid of the teeth.

A genus of marine mollusks belonging to the Scaphopoda, having a tubular conical shell.

a genus usually included in genus Cardamine; in some classifications considered a separate genus.

Pertaining to, or bearing, teeth. The distal bone of the lower jaw in many animals, which may or may not bear teeth.

Having the margin dentate and also ciliate or fringed with hairs.

Having a form intermediate between dentate and sinuate.

Toothed; especially, with the teeth projecting straight out, not pointed either forward or backward; as, a dentate leaf.

In a dentate or toothed manner; as, dentately ciliated, etc.

Formation of teeth; toothed form.

Indented; impressed with little hollows.

Same as Dentil.

An ornamental tooling like lace.

Modillions.

An edible European marine fish (Sparus dentex, or Dentex vulgaris) of the family Percid/.

The division of Cetacea in which the teeth are developed, including the sperm whale, dolphins, etc.

A small tooth or projecting point.

Furnished with denticles; notched into little toothlike projections; as, a denticulate leaf of calyx.

The state of being set with small notches or teeth.

Bearing teeth; dentigerous.

Having the form of a tooth or of teeth; tooth-shaped.

A powder or other substance to be used in cleaning the teeth; tooth powder.

Bearing teeth or toothlike structures.

A small square block or projection in cornices, a number of which are ranged in an ornamental band; -- used particularly in the Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders.

Formed by the teeth and the lips, or representing a sound so formed. A dentilabial sound or letter.

Toothed.

Dentition.

A wash for cleaning the teeth.

A small tooth, like that of a saw.

Produced by applying the tongue to the teeth or to the gums; or representing a sound so formed. A dentilingual sound or letter.

One who speaks through the teeth, that is, with the teeth closed.

The habit or practice of speaking through the teeth, or with them closed.

Of or pertaining to dentine.

The dense calcified substance of which teeth are largely composed. It contains less animal matter than bone, and in the teeth of man is situated beneath the enamel.

An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve; an audiphone.

A dentirostral bird.

Having a toothed bill; -- applied to a group of passerine birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrikes and vireos. See Illust. (N) under Beak.

Dentirostral.

An instrument for scraping the teeth.

One whose business it is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon.

Pertaining to dentistry or to dentists.

The art or profession of a dentist; dental surgery.

The development and cutting of teeth; teething.

To breed or cut new teeth.

Shaped like a tooth; tooth-shaped.

Dentilingual.

An artificial tooth, block, or set of teeth.

To denude.

The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.

To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands; the hurricane denuded the trees.

that can be counted.

To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly.

Proclamation; announcement; a publishing.

Same as Denunciatory.

One who denounces, publishes, or proclaims, especially intended or coming evil; one who threatens or accuses.

Characterized by or containing a denunciation; minatory; accusing; threatening; as, severe and denunciatory language.

The opposition of nutrition; the failure of nutrition causing the breaking down of tissue.

To answer in /// negative; to declare an assertion not to be true.

In the manner of one denies a request.

To remove obstructions or impediments in; to clear from anything that hinders the passage of fluids; as, to deobstruct the pores or lacteals.