Descriptive (a.) Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age.
Descrive (v. t.) To describe.
Descried (imp. & p. p.) of Descry
Descrying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Descry
Descry (v. t.) To spy out or discover by the eye, as objects distant or obscure; to espy; to recognize; to discern; to discover.
Descry (v. t.) To discover; to disclose; to reveal.
Descry (n.) Discovery or view, as of an army seen at a distance.
Desecate (v. t.) To cut, as with a scythe; to mow.
Desecrated (imp. & p. p.) of Desecrate
Desecrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desecrate
Desecrate (v. t.) To divest of a sacred character or office; to divert from a sacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an unworthy use; -- the opposite of consecrate.
Desecrater (n.) One who desecrates; a profaner.
Desecration (n.) The act of desecrating; profanation; condition of anything desecrated.
Desecrator (n.) One who desecrates.
Desegmentation (n.) The loss or obliteration of division into segments; as, a desegmentation of the body.
Desert (n.) That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.
Desert (n.) A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are destitute and vegetation.
Desert (n.) A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place.
Desert (a.) Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.
Deserted (imp. & p. p.) of Desert
Deserting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desert
Desert (v. t.) To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country.
Desert (v. t.) To abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake in violation of duty; to abscond from; as, to desert the army; to desert one's colors.
Desert (v. i.) To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.
Deserter (n.) One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
Desertful (a.) Meritorious.
Desertion (n.) The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service.
Desertion (n.) The state of being forsaken; desolation; as, the king in his desertion.
Desertion (n.) Abandonment by God; spiritual despondency.
Desertless (a.) Without desert.
Desertlessly (adv.) Undeservedly.
Desertness (n.) A deserted condition.
Desertrix (n.) Alt. of Desertrice
Desertrice (n.) A feminine deserter.
Deserved (imp. & p. p.) of Deserve
Deserving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deserve
Deserve (v. t.) To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise.
Deserve (v. t.) To serve; to treat; to benefit.
Deserve (v. i.) To be worthy of recompense; -- usually with ill or with well.
Deservedly (adv.) According to desert (whether good or evil); justly.
Deservedness (n.) Meritoriousness.
Deserver (n.) One who deserves.
Deserving (n.) Desert; merit.
Deserving (a.) Meritorious; worthy; as, a deserving person or act.
Deshabille (n.) An undress; a careless toilet.
Desiccant (a.) Drying; desiccative.
Desiccant (n.) A medicine or application for drying up a sore.
Desiccated (imp. & p. p.) of Desiccate
Desiccating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desiccate
Desiccate (v. t.) To dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying; as, to desiccate fish or fruit.
Desiccate (v. i.) To become dry.
Desiccation (n.) The act of desiccating, or the state of being desiccated.
Desiccative (a.) Drying; tending to dry.
Desiccative (n.) An application for drying up secretions.
Desiccator (n.) One who, or that which, desiccates.
Desiccator (n.) A short glass jar fitted with an air-tight cover, and containing some desiccating agent, as sulphuric acid or calcium chloride, above which is suspended the material to be dried, or preserved from moisture.
Desiccatory (a.) Desiccative.
Desiderable (a.) Desirable.
Desiderata (n. pl.) See Desideratum.
Desiderated (imp. & p. p.) of Desiderate
Desiderating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desiderate
Desiderate (v. t.) To desire; to feel the want of; to lack; to miss; to want.
Desideration (n.) Act of desiderating; also, the thing desired.
Desiderative (a.) Denoting desire; as, desiderative verbs.
Desiderative (n.) An object of desire.
Desiderative (n.) A verb formed from another verb by a change of termination, and expressing the desire of doing that which is indicated by the primitive verb.
Desiderata (pl. ) of Desideratum
Desideratum (n.) Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge.
Desidiose (a.) Alt. of Desidious
Desidious (a.) Idle; lazy.
Desidiousness (n.) The state or quality of being desidiose, or indolent.
Desight (n.) An unsightly object.
Desightment (n.) The act of making unsightly; disfigurement.
Designed (imp. & p. p.) of Design
Designing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Design
Design (n.) To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.
Design (n.) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
Design (n.) To create or produce, as a work of art; to form a plan or scheme of; to form in idea; to invent; to project; to lay out in the mind; as, a man designs an essay, a poem, a statue, or a cathedral.
Design (n.) To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to.
Design (v. i.) To form a design or designs; to plan.
Design (n.) A preliminary sketch; an outline or pattern of the main features of something to be executed, as of a picture, a building, or a decoration; a delineation; a plan.
Design (n.) A plan or scheme formed in the mind of something to be done; preliminary conception; idea intended to be expressed in a visible form or carried into action; intention; purpose; -- often used in a bad sense for evil intention or purpose; scheme; plot.
Design (n.) Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument from design.
Design (n.) The realization of an inventive or decorative plan; esp., a work of decorative art considered as a new creation; conception or plan shown in completed work; as, this carved panel is a fine design, or of a fine design.
Design (n.) The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole.
Designable (a.) Capable of being designated or distinctly marked out; distinguishable.
Designate (v. t.) Designated; appointed; chosen.
Designated (imp. & p. p.) of Designate
Designating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Designate
Designate (v. t.) To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description; to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country; to designate the rioters who are to be arrested.
Designate (v. t.) To call by a distinctive title; to name.
Designate (v. t.) To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; -- with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.
Designation (n.) The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.
Designation (n.) Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction.
Designation (n.) That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation.
Designation (n.) Use or application; import; intention; signification, as of a word or phrase.
Designative (a.) Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
Designator (n.) An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies.
Designator (n.) One who designates.
Designatory (a.) Serving to designate; designative; indicating.