Dictionary: DE-TRU'SION – DE-VEST'

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DE-TRU'SION, n. [s as z; See Detrude.]

The act of thrusting or driving down.

DE-TUR'PATE, v.t. [L. deturpo.]

To defile. [Little used.] – Taylor.

DEUCE, n.1 [Fr. deux, two.]

Two; a card with two spots; a die with two spots; a term used in gaming.

DEUCE, n.2

A demon. [See Duse.]

DEU-TER-OG'A-MIST, n. [Infra.]

One who marries the second time. – Goldsmith.

DEU-TER-OG'A-MY, n. [Gr. δευτερος, second, and γαμος, marriage.]

A second marriage after the death of the first husband or wife. – Goldsmith.

DEU-TER-ON'O-MY, n. [Gr. δευτερος, second, and νομος, law.]

The second law, or second giving of the law by Moses; the name given to the fifth book of the Pentateuch.

DEU-TER-OP'A-THY, n. [Gr. δευτερον, second, and παθος.]

A sympathetic affection of any part of the body, as headache from an overloaded stomach.

DEU-TER-OS'CO-PY, n. [Gr. δευτερος, second, and σκοπεω, to see.]

The second intention; the meaning beyond the literal sense.

DEUT-HY-DROG'U-RET, or DEU-TO-HY-DROG'U-RET, n.

In chimistry, a compound of two equivalents of hydrogen, with one of some other element.

DEU-TOX'YD, n. [Gr. δευτερος, second, and oxyd; strictly, deuteroxyd.]

A compound of two equivalents of oxygen with one of a base.

DE-VAP-O-RA'TION, n. [de and L. vaporatio.]

The change of vapor into water, as in the generation of rain. – Darwin.

DE-VAST', v.t. [L. devasto.]

To lay waste; to plunder. [Not in use.] – Sandys.

DEV'AST-ATE, v.t. [L. devasto; de and vasto, to waste; Fr. devaster; Sp. devastar; It. devastare. See Waste.]

To lay waste; to waste; to ravage; to desolate; to destroy improvements.

DEV'AST-A-TED, pp.

Laid waste; ravaged.

DEV'AST-A-TING, ppr.

Laying waste; desolating.

DEV-AST-A'TION, n. [L. devastatio.]

  1. Waste; ravage; desolation; destruction of works of art and natural productions which are necessary or useful to man; havock; as by armies, fire, flood, &c.
  2. In law, waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor, or administrator. – Blackstone.

DE-VEL'OP, v.t. [Fr. developper; It. sviluppare, to unfold, to display; viluppo, a packet or bundle, intricacy.]

  1. To uncover; to unfold; to lay open; to disclose or make known something concealed or withheld from notice. The general began to develop the plan of his operations. These serve to develop its tenets. – Milner.
  2. To unravel; to unfold what is intricate; as, to develop a plot.

DE-VEL'OP-ED, pp.

Unfolded; laid open; unraveled.

DE-VEL'OP-ER, n.

One who develops, or unfolds.

DE-VEL'OP-ING, ppr.

Unfolding; disclosing; unraveling.

DE-VEL'OP-MENT, n.

  1. An unfolding; the discovering of something secret or withheld from the knowledge of others; disclosure; full exhibition.
  2. The unraveling, of a plot.

DE-VE-NUS'TATE, v.t. [L. de and venustas, beauty.]

To deprive of beauty or grace.

DE-VER'GEN-CY, n. [See DIVERGENCE.]

DE-VEST', v.i.

In law, to be lost or alienated, as a title or an estate. [This word is generally written divest, except in the latter and legal sense.]