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  • English Word Desiccant Definition A medicine or application for drying up a sore.
  • English Word Desiccate Definition To dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying; as, to desiccate fish or fruit.
  • English Word Desiccate Definition To become dry.
  • English Word Desiccated Definition of Desiccate
  • English Word Desiccating Definition of Desiccate
  • English Word Desiccation Definition The act of desiccating, or the state of being desiccated.
  • English Word Desiccative Definition Drying; tending to dry.
  • English Word Desiccative Definition An application for drying up secretions.
  • English Word Desiccator Definition One who, or that which, desiccates.
  • English Word Desiccator Definition 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.
  • English Word Desiccatory Definition Desiccative.
  • English Word Desiderable Definition Desirable.
  • English Word Desiderata Definition See Desideratum.
  • English Word Desiderata Definition of Desideratum
  • English Word Desiderate Definition To desire; to feel the want of; to lack; to miss; to want.
  • English Word Desiderated Definition of Desiderate
  • English Word Desiderating Definition of Desiderate
  • English Word Desideration Definition Act of desiderating; also, the thing desired.
  • English Word Desiderative Definition Denoting desire; as, desiderative verbs.
  • English Word Desiderative Definition An object of desire.
  • English Word Desiderative Definition 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.
  • English Word Desideratum Definition Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge.
  • English Word Desidiose Definition Alt. of Desidious
  • English Word Desidious Definition Idle; lazy.
  • English Word Desidiousness Definition The state or quality of being desidiose, or indolent.
  • English Word Desight Definition An unsightly object.
  • English Word Desightment Definition The act of making unsightly; disfigurement.
  • English Word Design Definition To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.
  • English Word Design Definition To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
  • English Word Design Definition 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.