Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DENT'ATE, or DENT'A-TED, a. [L. dentatus, from dens.]

Toothed. Having sharp teeth, with concave edges. Lindley. A dentated root is a fleshy branched root having tooth-like prolongations. DeCand. Willd.

DEN'TATE-SIN'U-ATE, a.

A form intermediate between dentate and sinuate.

DENT'ED, a.

Indented; impressed with little hollows.

DEN-TEL'LI, n. [It. dentello. See Dentil.]

Modillions. Spectator.

DENT'I-CLE, n. [L. denticulus.]

A small tooth or projecting point. Lee.

DEN-TIC'U-LATE, or DEN-TIC'U-LA-TED, a. [L. denticulatus, from dens, a tooth.]

Having small teeth; as, a denticulate leaf, calyx or seed. Botany.

DEN-TIC-U-LA'TION, n.

The state of being set with small teeth. Grew.

DENT'I-FORM, a. [L. dens, a tooth, and forma, form.]

Having the form of a tooth. Kirwan.

DENT'I-FRICE, n. [Fr. from L. dens, a tooth, and frico, to rub.]

A powder or other substance to be used in cleaning the teeth. Burnt shells and charcoal pulverized make an excellent dentrifrice.

DENT'IL, n. [L. dens, a tooth.]

In architecture, an ornament in cornices bearing some resemblance to teeth; used particularly in the Ionic and Corinthian order.

DENT'ING, ppr. [See INDENTING.]

DEN-TI-ROS'TRATE, a.

Having the beak like a tooth, as in certain birds.

DENT'IST, n.

One whose occupation is to clean and extract teeth, or repair them when diseased.

DEN'TIST-RY, n.

The art or practice of a dentist.

DEN-TI'TION, n. [L. dentitio, from dentio, to breed teeth, from dens.]

1. The breeding or cutting of teeth in infancy.
2. The time of breeding teeth.

DENT'IZE, v.t. [or i.; L. dens, tooth.]

To renew the teeth, or have them renewed. Bacon.

DENT'IZ-ED, pp.

Having the teeth renewed.

DENT'IZ-ING, ppr.

Renewing the teeth.

DE-NUD'ATE, or DE-NUDE', v.t. [L. denudo; de and nudo, to make bare; nudus, naked.]

To strip; to divest of all covering; to make bare or naked. Ray. Sharp.

DE-NU-DA'TION, n.

1. The act of stripping off covering; a making bare.
2. In geology, the act of washing away the surface of the earth by the deluge or other flood; strata exposed. Buckland.

DE-NUD'ED, pp.

Stripped; divested of covering; laid bare.

DE-NUD'ING, ppr.

Stripping of covering; making bare.

DE-NUN'CIATE, v.t. [L. denuncio.]

To denounce, – which see.

DE-NUN-CI-A'TION, n. [L. denunciatio, from denuncio. See Denounce.]

1. Publication; proclamation; annunciation; preaching; as, a faithful denunciation of the Gospel. Milner.
2. Solemn or formal declaration, accompanied with a menace; or the declaration of intended evil; proclamation of a threat; a public menace; as, a denunciation of war, or of wrath.

DE-NUN-CI-A'TOR, n.

1. He that denounces; one who publishes or proclaims, especially intended evil; one who threatens.
2. An accuser; one who informs against another. Ayliffe.