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To deny. [Obs.]

Denial. [Obs.]

A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.

Capable of being, or liable to be, denied.

f affirmation. You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Denial. [Obs.] E. Hall.

One who denies; as, a denier of a fact, or of the faith, or of Christ.

Fig.: To blacken or sully; to defame. [R.] To denigrate the memory of Voltaire. Morley.

Fig.: A blackening; defamation. The vigorous denigration of science. Morley.

One who, or that which, blackens.

A coarse cotton drilling used for overalls, etc.

A disengaging, or removal, of nitric acid.

The act or process of freeing from nitrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of nitrogen.

To deprive of, or free from, nitrogen.

The act of making one a denizen or adopted citizen; naturalization. Hallam.

To make a denizen; to confer the rights of citizenship upon; to naturalize. [Obs.] There was a private act made for denizing the children of Richard HillStrype.

A dweller; an inhabitant. "Denizens of air." Pope. Denizens of their own free, independent state. Sir W. Scott.

Denization; denizening. Abbott.

To constitute (one) a denizen; to denizen. Abbott.

State of being a denizen.