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A dentilingual sound or letter. The letters of this fourth, dentilingual or linguidental, class, viz., d, t, s, z, l, r. Am. Cyc.

is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon.

The art or profession of a dentist; dental surgery.

d for its size and beauty as well as for its timber, and also grown in England as an ornamental tree.

istricts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire.

order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity.

ariety of fluor spar, found in Derbyshire, England, and wrought into vases and other ornamental work.

Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found in some parts of the body, in which the arteries empty directly into the…

To enter mentally; to retire. [Poetic] [He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended. Milton.

By design; purposely; intentionally; -- opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently.

A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy. [Eng.]

Readiness in the use or control of the mental powers; quickness and skill in managing any complicated or difficult affair; adroitness. His wisdom . . . was turned . . . into a dexterity to deliver himself. Bacon. He had conducted his own defense with singular boldness and dexterity. Hallam.

Originally, an ornamental head band or fillet, worn by Eastern monarchs as a badge of royalty; hence (later), also, a crown, in general. "The regal diadem." Milton.

Pertaining to dialectics; logical; argumental.

Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim. [Obs.] Sciences concluding from dignities, and principles known by themselves. Sir T. Browne.

The manifoldness with which the fundamental units of time, length, and mass are involved in determining the units of other physical quantities. Thus, since the unit of velocity varies directly as the unit of length and inversely as the unit of time, the dimensions of velocity are said to be length ÷ time; the dimension…

Crystallizing under two forms fundamentally different, while having the same chemical composition.

To injure the interest of; to be detrimental to.

The act of disapproving; mental condemnation of what is judged wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling of censure. We have ever expressed the most unqualified disapprobation of all the steps. Burke.

differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness; sagacity; insight; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment.