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Pertaining to, or in relation with, both dermal and neural structures; as, the dermoneural spines or dorsal fin rays of fishes. Owen.

Two; a card or a die with two spots; as, the deuce of hearts.

Devilish; excessive; extreme. [Low] -- Deu"ced*ly, adv.

See Deuce, Deuced.

Pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority; -- said of the Apocrypha, certain Epistles, etc.

One who marries the second time.

A second marriage, after the death of the first husband of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See Bigamy. Goldsmith.

Of secondary origin; -- said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks.

The writer of Deuteronomy.

The fifth book of the Pentateuch, containing the second giving of the law by Moses.

A sympathetic affection of any part of the body, as headache from an overloaded stomach.

Pertaining to deuteropathy; of the nature of deuteropathy.

cond sight. I felt by anticipation the horrors of the Highland seers, whom their gift of deuteroscopy compels to witness things unmeet for mortal eye. Sir W. Scott.

rimary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids.

Same as Deutohydroguret.

A prefix which formerly properly indicated the second in a regular series of compound in the series, and not to its composition, but which is now generally employed in the same sense as bi- or di-, although little used.

A compound containing in the molecule two atoms of hydrogen united with some other element or radical. [Obs.]

The lifeless food matter in the cytoplasm of an ovum or a cell, as distinguished from the active or true protoplasm; yolk substance; yolk.

Pertaining to, or composed of, deutoplasm.

A disulphide. [Obs.]