DEPRI"VE, _v.a._ bereave one of a thing; hinder; debar from

DE"RVISE, _s._ a Turkish priest

DESCE"NDANT, _s._ the offspring of an ancestor

DESCRI"BE, _v.a._ mark out; define

DESCRI"PTION, _s._ the sentence or pa.s.sage in which anything is described



DESCRY", _v.a._ give notice of anything suddenly discovered; detect; discover

DE"SERT, _s._ a wilderness; solitude; waste country

DESE"RVE, _v.a._ be ent.i.tled to reward or punishment

DESI"GN, _s._ an intention; a purpose; a scheme

DESIGNA"TION, _s._ appointment; direction; intention to design

DESI"RE, _v.a._ wish; long for; intreat

DE"SOLATE, _a._ without inhabitants; solitary; laid waste

DESPA"TCH, _s._ to send away hastily; to do business quickly; to put to death

DE"SPERATE, _a._ without hope; rash; mad; furious

DE"SPICABLE, _a._ worthy of scorn; contemptible

DESPI"SE, _v.a._ scorn; condemn; slight; abhor

DE"SPOTISM, _s._ absolute power

DESTINA"TION, _s._ the place where it was our destiny to go; fate; doom

DE"STINE, _v.a._ doom; devote

DE"STINY, _s._ doom; fate

DE"St.i.tUTE, _a._ forsaken; abject; in want of

DESTRO"Y, _v.a._ lay waste; make desolate; put an end to

DESTRU"CTION, _s._ the act of destroying; the state of being destroyed; ruin

DETA"CH, _v.a._ separate; disengage

DETA"CHMENT, _s._ a body of troops sent out from the main army

DETE"R, _v.a._ fright from anything

DETERMINA"TION, _s._ absolute direction to a certain end; the result of deliberation; judicial decision

DETE"RMINE, _v.a._ fix; settle; resolve; decide

DETE"STABLE, _a._ hateful; abominable; odious

DETRA"CTION, _s._ the withdrawing or taking off from a thing

DETRU"DE, _v.a._ thrust down; force into a lower place

DEVASTA"TION, _s._ waste; havoc; desolation; destruction

DEVE"LOP, _v.a._ to disentangle; to disengage from something that enfolds and conceals

DEVIA"TION, _s._ the act of quitting the right way; wandering

DEVO"TE, _v.a._ dedicate; consecrate

DE"VOTEE, _s._ one erroneously or superst.i.tiously religious; a bigot

DEVO"TION, _s._ piety; prayer; strong affection; power

DE"XTEROUS, _a._ subtle; full of expedients; expert; active; ready

DIABO"LICAL, _a._ devilish

DI"ADEM, _s._ the mark of Royalty worn on the head

DI"AL, _s._ a plate marked with lines, where a hand or shadow shows the hour

DI"ALECT, _s._ subdivision of a language; style; manner of expression

DI"ALOGUE, _s._ a discussion between two persons

DIA"METER, _s._ the straight line which, pa.s.sing through the centre of a circle, divides it into two equal parts

DI"AMOND, _s._ the most valuable and hardest of all the gems; a brilliant

DI"FFER, _v.n._ be distinguished from; contend; be of a contrary opinion

DI"FFERENT, _a._ distinct; unlike; dissimilar

DIFFICULTY, _s._ hardness; something hard to accomplish; distress; perplexity in affairs

DI"GNITY, _s._ rank of elevation; grandeur of mien; high place

DILA"TE, _v n._ widen; grow wide; speak largely

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