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To disparage. [Obs.]

A yellow-green, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name.

An edible European marine fish (Sparus dentex, or Dentex vulgaris) of the family Percidæ.

To part thoroughly; to dispart; to divide; to separate. [Obs.] Till death departed them, this life they lead. Chaucer.

To lessen; to detract from; to disparage; to depreciate; -- said of a person or thing. [R.] Anything . . . that should derogate, minish, or hurt his glory and his name. Sir T. More.

The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of, from, or to. I hope it is no derogation to the Christian religion. Locke. He counted it no derogation of his manhood to be seen to weep. F. W. Robertson.

In a derogatory manner; disparagingly. Aubrey.

A mast, spar, or tall frame, supported at the top by stays or guys, with suitable tackle for hoisting heavy weights, as stones in building. Derrick crane, a combination of the derrick and the crane, having facility for hoisting and also for swinging the load horizontally.

o ravage; as, a fire desolates a city. Constructed in the very heart of a desolating war. Sparks.

Decided; resolute. "Adetermined foe."" Sparks.

points, and nearly meeting, for the purpose of exploding gaseous mixtures by an electric spark, as in gas analysis, etc.

To deprive of glasslike character; to take away vitreous luster and transparency from.

c, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone.

A woven silk stuff with transparent and colored figures; diaper work.

Transparent or translucent. [R.]

The quality of being diaphanous; transparency; pellucidness.

Having power to transmit light; transparent; diaphanous.

An instrument for measuring the transparency of the air.

A dark box constructed for viewing transparent pictures, with or without a lens.

Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear. Another cloud in the region of them, light enough to be fantastic and diaphanous. Landor.