To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by prayer; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to desire the removal of.

In a deprecating manner.

The act of deprecating; a praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented.

Serving to deprecate; deprecatory.

One who deprecates.

Tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic.

To fall in value; to become of less worth; to sink in estimation; as, a paper currency will depreciate, unless it is convertible into specie.

The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation.

Tending, or intended, to depreciate; expressing depreciation; undervaluing.

One who depreciates.

Tending to depreciate; undervaluing; depreciative.

Liable to depredation.

To take plunder or prey; to commit waste; as, the troops depredated on the country.

The act of depredating, or the state of being depredated; the act of despoiling or making inroads; as, the sea often makes depredation on the land.

One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.

Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion.

To proclaim; to celebrate.

To take unawares or by surprise; to seize, as a person commiting an unlawful act; to catch; to apprehend.

That may be caught or discovered; apprehensible.

A catching; discovery.

Having the middle lower than the border; concave.

An agent or remedy which lowers the vital powers.

Pressed or forced down; lowed; sunk; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled.

In a depressing manner.

The act of depressing.

Able or tending to depress or cast down.

Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity. Any agent that depresses the activity of the motor centers, as bromides, etc.

One who, or that which, presses down; an oppressor.

Serving to depress.

Low estimation; disesteem; contempt.

Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived; liable to be deposed.

The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.

To take away; to put an end; to destroy.

marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental or social influences; as, a childhood that was unhappy and deprived, the family living off charity; boys from a deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation, and disregard for law.

Deprivation.

One who, or that which, deprives.

Fully prostrate; humble; low; rude.

To divest of provincial quality or characteristics.

The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops.

To deepen.

Having no depth; shallow.

To deflour; to deprive of virginity.

To deflour; to dishonor.

To drive away.

A driving or thrusting away.

Driving or thrusting away; averting.

Depurative.

To free from impurities, heterogeneous matter, or feculence; to purify; to cleanse.

The act or process of depurating or freeing from foreign or impure matter, as a liquid or wound.

Purifying the blood or the humors; depuratory. A depurative remedy or agent; or a disease which is believed to be depurative.

One who, or that which, cleanses.

Depurating; tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.

To depurate; to purify.

Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.

See Depuration.

Fit to be deputed; suitable to act as a deputy.

The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.

One who deputes, or makes a deputation.

A person deputed; a deputy.

same as deputize.

One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc.

To diminish the quantity of; to disquantity.

To remove the queen from (a hive of bees).

To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.

The act of pulling up by the roots; eradication.

To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive.

The act of going off, or the state of being off, the rails of a railroad.

To prove or to refute by proof; to clear (one's self).

The act of deraigning.

To put out of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation.

Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane.

The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity.

One who deranges.

Disorder; merriment.

A large European food fish (Lichia glauca).

A race for three-old horses, run annually at Epsom (near London), for the Derby stakes. It was instituted by the 12th Earl of Derby, in 1780.

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.