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To dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying; as, to desiccate fish or fruit. Bodies desiccated by heat or age. Bacon.

Drying; tending to dry. Ferrand. -- n. (Med.)

main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw. Dryden.

shown In mingling colors, or in placing light, Yet still the fair designment was his own. Dryden.

itrary; fixed; established; definite. Quantity of words and a determinate number of feet. Dryden.

Extreme; excessive. [Colloq.] Dryden.

he senses. Longing they look, and gaping at the sight, Devour her o'er with vast delight. Dryden.

A sort of electroscope, invented by Rousseau, in which the dry pile is employed to measure the amount of electricity transmitted by different bodies, or to determine their conducting power. Nichol.

of tones. Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. Dryden.

en are as different from each other, as the regions in which they are born are different. Dryden.

p instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade. Be first to dig the ground. Dryden.

To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.

to dull; to obscure; to eclipse. A king among his courtiers, who dims all his attendants. Dryden. Now set the sun, and twilight dimmed the ways. Cowper.

to sink into depressions or little inequalities. And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. Dryden.

The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent. Dryden. Every dint a sword had beaten in it [the shield]. Tennyson.

ge or engage thoroughly in any affair. He was . . . dipt in the rebellion of the Commons. Dryden.

harged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime. A solemn promise made and disavowed. Dryden.

ccusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear. Discharged of business, void of strife. Dryden. In one man's fault discharge another man of his duty. L'Estrange.

. Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, Obey the rules and discipline of art. Dryden.

ct. He calls the gods to witness their offense; Disclaims the war, asserts his innocence. Dryden. He disclaims the authority of Jesus. Farmer.