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r unto. Acts of Parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent Parliaments bind not. Blackstone. His language was severely censured by some of his brother peers as derogatory to their other. Macaulay. Derogatory clause in a testament (Law), a sentence of secret character inserted by the testator alone, of which he…

To desire; to feel the want of; to lack; to miss; to want. Pray have the goodness to point out one word missing that ought to have been there -- please to insert a desiderated stanza. You can not. Prof. Wilson. Men were beginning . . . to desiderate for them an actual abode of fire. A. W. Ward.

Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge.

men. Ezek. xxiii. 12. As things desirable excite Desire, and objects move the appetite. Blackmore.

Destitute of; lacking in. [Obs.] I were right now of tales desolate. Chaucer.

Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of. In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. Ps. cxli. 8. Totally destitute of all shadow of influence. Burke.

hing; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.

Detention. [R.] Blackstone.

. . that at some time or other might influence or even determine her course of life. W. Black.

Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator. Blackstone.

he large kelp (Laminaria saccharina, and L. longicruris) of the Atlantic ocean, having a blackish, leathery expansion, shaped somewhat like an apron. -- Devil's coachhorse. (Zoöl.) (a) The black rove beetle (Ocypus olens). [Eng.] (b) A large, predacious, hemipterous insect (Prionotus cristatus); the wheel bug. [U.S.]…

has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of R. canadensis and R. hispidus, species of low blackberries.

The American black-throated bunting (Spiza Americana).

Choice; preference. [Obs.] That now be chooseth with vile difference To be a beast, and lack intelligence. Spenser.

Distrust of one's self or one's own powers; lack of self-reliance; modesty; modest reserve; bashfulness. It is good to speak on such questions with diffidence. Macaulay. An Englishman's habitual diffidence and awkwardness of adress. W. Irving.

ine. Chaucer. That digestive [a cigar] had become to me as necessary as the meal itself. Blackw. Mag.

on, or vicar, etc., dilapidates the buildings, or cuts down the timber of the patrimony. Blackstone.

issolve by mixing. Mix their watery store. With the chyle's current, and dilute it more. Blackmore.

Having dim sight; lacking perception. -- Dim"-sight`ed*ness, n.

nsisting of only one half of what the normal condition requires; having the appearance of lacking one half; as, a dimidiate leaf, which has only one side developed.