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

The art or profession of a dentist; dental surgery.

An artificial tooth, block, or set of teeth.

That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction. From the Euphrates into an artificial derivation of that river. Gibbon.

derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found in some parts of the body, in which the arteries empty directly into the veins without the interposition of capillaries. Flint. -- De*riv"a*tive*ly, adv. -- De*riv"a*tive*ness, n.

To create or produce, as a work of art; to form a plan or scheme of; to form in idea; to invent; to project; to lay out in the mind; as, a man designs an essay, a poem, a statue, or a cathedral.

One who produces or creates original works of art or decoration.

Intriguing; artful; scheming; as, a designing man.

Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention. [Obs.] For though that some mean artist's skill were shown In mingling colors, or in placing light, Yet still the fair designment was his own. Dryden.

r desisting to do evil. E. Hall. To desist from his bad practice. Massinger. Desist (thou art discern'd, And toil'st in vain). Milton.

A destroyer. [R.] Fire, the destructive and the artificial death of things. Boyle.

To inform against; to accuse. [Obs.] He was untruly judged to have preached such articles as he was detected of. Sir T. More.

o make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind. Whately. The art of war . . . was greatly deteriorated. Southey.

ntrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. His device in against Babylon, to destroy it. Jer. li. 11. Their recent device of demanding benevolences. Hallam. He disappointeth the devices of the crafty. Job v. 12.

Done with dexterity; skillful; artful; as, dexterous management. "Dexterous sleights of hand." Trench.

The art or act of recognizing the presence of disease from its signs or symptoms, and deciding as to its character; also, the decision arrived at.

t a verbal explanation which refers to it; a mechanical drawing, as distinguished from an artistical one. Indicator diagram. (Steam Engine) See Indicator card, under indicator

The art or science of descriptive drawing; especially, the art or science of drawing by mechanical appliances and mathematical rule.

reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; the science or art of discriminating truth from error; logical discussion.

The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials. [Written also dialling.]