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The state or quality of being deflagrable. The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle.

A low condition; weakness; inability. [R.] A dejection of appetite. Arbuthnot.

A petrified or fossil shrub, plant, or part of a plant.

ial of God. Denial of one's self, a declining of some gratification; restraint of one's appetites or propensities; self-denial.

denied, yet thrice beloved. Keble. To deny one's self, to decline the gratification of appetites or desires; to practice self-denial. Let him deny himself, and take up his cross. Matt. xvi. 24.

also, testimony laid or taken down in writting, under oath or affirmation, befor some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories.

Entreaty for pardon; petitioning.

That may be caught or discovered; apprehensible. [Obs.] Petty. -- Dep`re*hen"si*ble*ness, n. [Obs.]

Pertaining to or resembling the genus Dermestes. The carpet beetle, called the buffalo moth, is a dermestoid beetle. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

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

An expressed wish; a request; petition. And slowly was my mother brought To yield consent to my desire. Tennyson.

Full of devices; inventive. [R.] A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman.

Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.

A small difference in rates which competing railroad lines, in establishing a common tariff, allow one of their number to make, in order to get a fair share of the business. The lower rate is called a differential rate. Differentials are also sometimes granted to cities.

ng several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation. -- Dig"i*tate*ly, adv.

ned in my ears. Swift. To din into, to fix in the mind of another by frequent and noisy repetitions. Sir W. Scott.

A petty money of accounts of Persia.

To cause to sound or ring. To ding (anything) in one's ears, to impress one by noisy repetition, as if by hammering.

Having twice as many stamens as petals, as the geranium. R. Brown.

One of the hexane paraffins, found in petroleum, consisting of two propyl radicals. See Hexane.