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The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrability.

The state or quality of being demonstrative.

The quality of being dense; density.

The quality of being dense, close, or thick; compactness; -- opposed to rarity.

The quality of being formed by the aid of the teeth.

Having the quality or power of removing hair. -- n.

To divest of provincial quality or characteristics.

The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface,or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops.

Quality of being derogatory.

The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate.

Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age. Descriptive anatomy, that part of anatomy which treats of the forms and relations of parts, but not of their textures. -- Descriptive…

The state or quality of being desidiose, or indolent. [Obs.] N. Bacon.

The state or quality of being desirable; desirableness.

The quality of being desirable. The desirableness of the Austrian alliance. Froude.

Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; -- used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality. A desperate offendress against nature. Shak. The most desperate of reprobates. Macaulay.

The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.

The quality of being capable of destruction; destructibleness.

The quality of being destructible.

The quality of destroying or ruining. Prynne.

The quality of being desultory or without order or method; unconnectedness. The seeming desultoriness of my method. Boyle.