Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DE-RI'SIVE, a.

Containing derision; mocking; ridiculing. Derisive taunts. – Pope.

DE-RI'SIVE-LY, adv.

With mockery or contempt. – Herbert.

DE-RI'SIVE-NESS, n.

The state of being derisive.

DE-RI'SO-RY, a.

Mocking; ridiculing. – Shaftesbury.

DE-RIV'A-BLE, a. [See Derive.]

1. That may be derived; that may be drawn, or received, as from a source. Income is derivable from land, money or stocks.
2. That may be received from ancestors; as, an estate derivable from an ancestor.
3. That may be drawn, as from premises; deducible; as, an argument derivable from facts or preceding propositions.
4. That may be drawn from a radical word; as, a word derivable from an Oriental root.

DE-RIV'A-BLY, adv.

By derivation.

DER'I-VATE, n. [L. derivatus.]

A word derived from another. – Stuart.

DER'I-VATE, v.t. [L. derivo.]

To derive.

DER'I-VA-TED, pp.

Derived.

DER'I-VA-TING, ppr.

Deriving.

DER-I-VA'TION, n. [L. derivatio.]

1. The act of deriving, drawing or receiving from a source; as, the derivation of an estate from ancestors, or of profits from capital, or of truth or facts from antiquity.
2. In grammar, the drawing or tracing of a word from its root or original; as, derivation from the L. derivo, and the latter from rivus, a stream.
3. A drawing from, or turning aside from, a natural course or channel; as, the derivation of water from its channel by lateral drains.
4. A drawing of humors from one part of the body to another; as, the derivation of humors from the eye, by a blister on the neck.
5. The thing derived or deduced. – Glanville.

DE-RIV'A-TIVE, a.

1. Derived; taken or having proceeded from another or something preceding; secondary; as, a derivative perfection; a derivative conveyance, as a release. – Blackstone.
2. A derivative chord, in music, is one derived from a fundamental chord.

DE-RIV'A-TIVE, n.

1. That which is derived; a word which takes its origin in another word, or is formed from it. Thus, depravity is a derivative from the L. depravo, and acknowledge, from knowledge, and this from know, the primitive word.
2. In music, a chord not fundamental.

DE-RIV'A-TIVE-LY, adv.

In a derivative manner; by derivation.

DE-RIV'A-TIVE-NESS, n.

The state of being derivative.

DE-RIVE', v.i.

To come or proceed from. [Not common.] Power from heaven derives. – Prior.

DE-RIVE, v.t. [L. derivo; de and rivus, a stream; Fr. deriver; Sp. derivar; It. derivare.]

1. To draw from, as in a regular course or channel; to receive from a source by a regular conveyance. The heir derives an estate from his ancestors. We derive from Adam mortal bodies and natures prone to sin.
2. To draw or receive, as from a source or origin. We derive ideas from the senses, and instruction from good books.
3. To deduce or draw, as from a root, or primitive word. A hundred words are often derived from a single monosyllabic root, and sometimes a much greater number.
4. To turn from its natural course; to divert; as, to derive water from the main channel or current into lateral rivulets.
5. To communicate from one to another by descent. An excellent disposition is derived to your lordship from your parents. – Felton.
6. To spread in various directions; to cause to flow. The streams of justice were derived into every part of the kingdom. – Davies.

DE-RIV'ED, pp.

Drawn, as from a source; deduced; received; regularly conveyed; descended; communicated; transmitted.

DE-RIV'ER, n.

One who derives, or draws from a source. – South.

DE-RIV'ING, ppr.

Drawing; receiving; deducing; communicating; diverting or turning into another channel.

DERM, n. [Gr. δερμα, skin.]

The organized tegument, or natural covering of an animal.

DERM'AL, a. [Gr. δερμα, skin.]

Pertaining to skin; consisting of skin. – Fleming.

DER-MAT'IC, or DERM'A-TINE, a.

Pertaining to the skin.

DERM'A-TOID, a.

Like the skin, without being skin.

DERM-A-TOL'O-GIST, n.

One who discourses on the skin and its diseases.