Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DEN'DRO-LITE, n. [Gr. δενδρον, a tree, and λιθος, a stone.]

A petrified or fossil shrub, plant, or part of a plant. Dict. of Nat. Hist.

DEN-DROL'O-GY, n. [Gr. δενδρον, a tree, and λογος, a discourse.]

A discourse or treatise on trees; the natural history of trees. Dict.

DEN-DROM'E-TER, n. [Gr. δενδρον, a tree, and μετρεω, measure.]

An instrument to measure the height and diameter of trees. Encyc.

DEN'E-GATE, v.t. [L. denego.]

To deny. [Not used.]

DEN-E-GA'TION, n.

Denial. [Not in use.]

DEN'GUE, n. [The word dandy, a ninny, mistaken by the Spanish for their word dengue, prudery.]

A peculiar sort of fugitive and erratic epidemic rheumatism.

DE-NI'A-BLE, a. [See Deny.]

That may be denied or contradicted. Brown.

DE-NI'AL, n. [See Deny.]

1. An affirmation to the contrary; an assertion that a declaration or fact stated is not true; negation; contradiction. It is often expressed by no or not, simply.
2. Refusal to grant; the negation of a request or petition; the contrary to grant, allowance, or concession; as, his request or application met with a direct denial.
3. A rejection, or refusing to acknowledge; a disowning; as, a denial of God; or a refusing to receive or embrace; as a denial of the faith or the truth.
4. A denial of one's self, is a declining of some gratification; restraint of one's appetites or propensities.

DE-NI'ER, n.¹

One who denies, or contradicts; one who refuses or rejects; a disowner; one who does not own, avow, or acknowledge; as, a denier of a fact, or of the faith, or of Christ. [It would be better written denyer.]

DEN-I'ER, n.² [Fr. from L. denarius; It. danaio, danaro; Sp. dinero.]

A small denomination of French money, the twelfth part of a sol; a small copper coin.

DEN'I-GRATE, v.t. [L. denigro; de and nigro, from niger, black.]

To blacken; to make black. Boyle.

DEN-I-GRA'TION, n.

The act of making black; a blackening.

DEN-I-TRA'TION, n.

A disengaging of nitric acid. [Obs.]

DEN-I-ZA'TION, n. [See Denizen.]

The act of making one a denizen, subject, or citizen. This in England is done by the king's letters patent.

DEN'I-ZEN, n. [den'izn; In W. dinaswr is a citizen, from dinas, din, a fortress or fortified town, a city. But in denizen, the last syllable seems to be the same as in citizen.]

1. In England, an alien who is made a subject by the king's letters patent, holding a middle state between an alien and a natural born subject. He may take land by purchase or devise, which an alien can not; but he can not take by inheritance. Encyc. English Law.
2. A stranger admitted to residence and certain rights in a foreign country. Ye gods, Natives, or denizens, of blest abodes. Dryden.
3. A citizen.

DEN'I-ZEN, v.t.

To make a denizen; to admit to residence with certain rights and privileges; to infranchise.

DEN'I-ZEN-ED, pp.

Infranchised.

DEN'I-ZEN-SHIP, n.

State of being a denizen.

DE-NOM'IN-A-BLE, a. [See Denominate.]

That may be denominated, or named. Brown.

DE-NOM'IN-ATE, v.t. [L. denomino; de and nomino, to name. See Name.]

To name; to give a name or epithet to; as, a race of intelligent beings denominated man. Actions are denominated virtuous or vicious, according to their character.

DE-NOM'IN-A-TED, pp.

Named; called.

DE-NOM'IN-A-TING, ppr.

Naming.

DE-NOM-IN-A'TION, n.

1. The act of naming.
2. A name or appellation; a vocal sound, customarily used to express a thing or a quality, in discourse; as, all men fall under the denomination of sinners; actions fall under the denomination of good or bad.
3. A class, society or collection of individuals, called by the same name; as, a denomination of Christians.

DE-NOM-IN-A'TION-AL, a.

Pertaining to a denomination, or a number of individuals called by the same name.

DE-NOM'IN-A-TIVE, a.

That gives a name, that confers a distinct appellation.