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

mined or undecided; as, a cause depending in court. You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclined to superstition. Burke.

connecting stipulation is performed. -- Dependent variable (Math.), a varying quantity whose changes are arbitrary, but are regarded as produced by changes in another variable, which is called the independent variable.

To testify under oath; to depose; to bear witness. [A Scotticism] The fairy Glorians, whose credibility on this point can not be called in question, depones to the confinement of Merlin in a tree. Dunlop.

To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt. Whose pride depraves each other better part. Spenser.

Concave on the upper side; -- said of a leaf whose disk is lower than the border.

s from evidence. As touching traditional communication, . . . I do not doubt but many of those truths have had the help of that derivation. Sir M. Hale.

r pertaining to descent; moving downwards. Descending constellations or signs (Astron.), those through which the planets descent toward the south. -- Descending node (Astron.), that point in a planet's orbit where it intersects the ecliptic in passing southward. -- Descending series (Math.), a series in which each te…

ut being previously desecrated. W. Tooke. The founders of monasteries imprecated evil on those who should desecrate their donations. Salmon.

ject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole. Arts of design, those into which the designing of artistic forms and figures enters as a principal part, as architecture, painting, engraving, sculpture. -- School of design, one in which are taught the invention and delineation of artistic or de…

Designated; appointed; chosen. [R.] Sir G. Buck.

and infinite seem . . . to be attributed primarily, in their first designation, only to those things have parts. Locke.

uous dislike of. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Prov. i. 7. Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing institutions; a destructive.

ome off or separate from anything; to disengage. [A vapor] detaching, fold by fold, From those still heights. Tennyson.

limited number of solutions. -- Determinate quantities, Determinate equations (Math.), those that are finite in the number of values or solutions, that is, in which the conditions of the problem or equation determine the number.

Of secondary origin; -- said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks.

hence, any great evil. "That devil Glendower." "The devil drunkenness." Shak. Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil John vi. 70.

One of a breed of hardy cattle originating in the country of Devon, England. Those of pure blood have a deep red color. The small, longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen.

e; earnest; as, devout wishes for one's welfare. The devout, devoutly religious persons, those who are sincerely pious.