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Of pertaining to the skin; existing on, or affecting, the skin; as, a cutaneous disease; cutaneous absorption; cutaneous respiration.

Diminishing the energy of organs; reducing excitement; as, a debilitant drug.

A person who makes his (or her) first appearance before the public.

g; cessation. [R.] Boyle. If fatigue of body or brain were in every case followed by desistance . . . then would the system be but seldom out of working order. H. Spencer.

Of or pertaining to dilettanteism; amateur; as, dilettant speculation. Carlyle.

An admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only.

Somewhat like a dilettante.

The state or quality of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.

Dilettanteish.

Same as Dilettanteism. F. Harrison.

Neglect of disuse of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance. [Obs.] South.

To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn.

The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties. Warton.

The act of disinheriting or state of being disinherited; disinheritance. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

That which disinfects; an agent for removing the causes of infection, as chlorine.

The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison.

One who disputes; one who argues A singularly eager, acute, and pertinacious disputant. Macaulay.

Disagreeing; contrary; differing; -- opposed to consentaneous. [R.] Barrow.

Dissentaneous; inconsistent. [Obs.] Milton.

le attracts every other with a force . . . inversely proportioned to the square of the distance. Sir I. Newton.