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Having power to denote; designating or marking off. Proper names are preëminently denotative; telling us that such as object has such a term to denote it, but telling us nothing as to any single attribute. Latham.

Having the margin dentate and also ciliate or fringed with hairs.

Having a form intermediate between dentate and sinuate.

with the teeth projecting straight out, not pointed either forward or backward; as, a dentate leaf.

In a dentate or toothed manner; as, dentately ciliated, etc.

Formation of teeth; toothed form. [R.] How did it [a bill] get its barb, its dentation Paley.

Act of taking up plants from beds.

Same as Exploitation.

The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation. In their deportations, they had often the favor of their conquerors. Atterbury.

The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency. The authority of conscience stands founded upon its vicegerency and deputation under God. South.

One who deputes, or makes a deputation. [R.] Locke.

To diminish the quantity of; to disquantity. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The loss or obliteration of division into segments; as, a desegmentation of the body.

The station or government of a despot; also, the domain of a despot. Freeman.

To detest. [Obs.] Udall.

ting; extreme hatred or dislike; abhorrence; loathing. We are heartily agreed in our detestation of civil war. Burke.

To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. Whole countries . . . were devastated. Macaulay.

The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste. Even now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done. Goldsmith.

One who, or that which, devastates. Emerson.

To deprive of beauty or grace. [Obs.]