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  • English Word Desirous Definition Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; solicitous; eager to obtain; covetous.
  • English Word Desirously Definition With desire; eagerly.
  • English Word Desirousness Definition The state of being desirous.
  • English Word Desist Definition To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from.
  • English Word Desistance Definition The act or state of desisting; cessation.
  • English Word Desisted Definition of Desist
  • English Word Desisting Definition of Desist
  • English Word Desistive Definition Final; conclusive; ending.
  • English Word Desition Definition An end or ending.
  • English Word Desitive Definition Final; serving to complete; conclusive.
  • English Word Desitive Definition A proposition relating to or expressing an end or conclusion.
  • English Word Desk Definition A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
  • English Word Desk Definition A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (esp. in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for "the clerical profession."
  • English Word Desk Definition To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
  • English Word Desked Definition of Desk
  • English Word Desking Definition of Desk
  • English Word Deskwork Definition Work done at a desk, as by a clerk or writer.
  • English Word Desman Definition An amphibious, insectivorous mammal found in Russia (Myogale moschata). It is allied to the moles, but is called muskrat by some English writers.
  • English Word Desmid Definition Alt. of Desmidian
  • English Word Desmidian Definition A microscopic plant of the family Desmidiae, a group of unicellular algae in which the species have a greenish color, and the cells generally appear as if they consisted of two coalescing halves.
  • English Word Desmine Definition Same as Stilbite. It commonly occurs in bundles or tufts of crystals.
  • English Word Desmobacteria Definition See Microbacteria.
  • English Word Desmodont Definition A member of a group of South American blood-sucking bats, of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire.
  • English Word Desmognathous Definition Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds (Desmognathae), including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.
  • English Word Desmoid Definition Resembling, or having the characteristics of, a ligament; ligamentous.
  • English Word Desmology Definition The science which treats of the ligaments.
  • English Word Desmomyaria Definition The division of Tunicata which includes the Salpae. See Salpa.
  • English Word Desolate Definition Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.
  • English Word Desolate Definition Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars.
  • English Word Desolate Definition Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless.