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electric waves on the resistance of a particular kind of electric circuit, on the magnetization of steel, on the polarization of an electrolytic cell, or on the electric condition of a vacuum has been applied in the various cymoscopes.

A large, spine-tailed lizard (Uromastix spinipes), found in Egypt, Arabia, and Palestine; -- called also dhobb, and dhabb.

Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous. Shak. It is dangerous to assert a negative. Macaulay.

of the Roman chancery; now, a separate office from which are sent graces or favors, cognizable in foro externo, such as appointments to benefices. The name is derived from the word datum, given or dated (with the indications of the time and place of granting the gift or favor).

owes a debt; one who is indebted; -- correlative to creditor. [I 'll] bring your latter hazard back again, And thankfully rest debtor for the first. Shak. In Athens an insolvent debtor became slave to his creditor. Mitford. Debtors for our lives to you. Tennyson.

To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency. -- Dec`i*mal*i*za"tion, n.

To reduce from civilization to a savage state. [R.] Blackwood's Mag.

To deprive of color; to whiten. Turner. -- De*col`or*i*za"tion, n.

To injure; to damage. "None can my life defect." [R.] Troubles of Q. Elizabeth (1639).

out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit. I have, therefore, . . . inserted eleven stanzas which do not appear in Sir Walter Scott's version, and have deleted eight. Aytoun.

Concealment; seclusion. The mental organization of the novelist must be characterized, to speak craniologically, by an extraordinary development of the passion for delitescency. Sir W. Scott.

To free from mesmeric influence; to demesmerize. -- De*mag`net*i*za"tion, n. -- De*mag"net*i`zer, n.

To purify from mephitic. -- De*meph`i*ti*za"tion, n.

To deprive of narcotine; as, to denarcotize opium. -- De*nar`co*ti*za"tion, n.

also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.

Pertaining to a dendrite, or to arborescent crystallization; having a form resembling a shrub or tree; arborescent.

Denization; denizening. Abbott.

To free from polarization, as the negative plate of the voltaic battery.

A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.

out one word missing that ought to have been there -- please to insert a desiderated stanza. You can not. Prof. Wilson. Men were beginning . . . to desiderate for them an actual abode of fire. A. W. Ward.