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A form of the voltaic battery having large plates, used for producing rapid and powerful combustion.

That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a come in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help combustion).

A machine for breaking open the kernels of wheat or other grain and removing the germs.

Serving for, or aiding in, deglutition.

Fitted or designed to dehort or dissuade. Bp. Hall.

Having power, or tending, to cast down.

An accuser; an informer. [R.] Howell.

Holding a delegated position. Nash.

That which blots out. [Obs.] "A deletory of sin." Jer. Taylor.

One who deliberates.

A perambulator which records distances and delineates a profile, as of a road.

That delineates; descriptive; drawing the outline; delineating.

One who demonstrates; one who proves anything with certainty, or establishes it by indubitable evidence.

Tending to demonstrate; demonstrative. Johnson.

One who, or that which, blackens.

One who, or that which, gives a name; origin or source of a name. This opinion that Aram . . . was the father and denomination of the Syrians in general. Sir W. Raleigh.

One who denounces, publishes, or proclaims, especially intended or coming evil; one who threatens or accuses.

Characterized by or containing a denunciation; minatory; accusing; threatening; as, severe and denunciatory language.

A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments, esp. one with dry goods as the principal stock.

An instrument or apparatus in which water is separated by evaporation or distillation; the part of a distilling apparatus in which the separation of the vapors is effected.