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The act or process of reducing from the state of an oxide.

Deoxidation.

To deprive of oxygen; to reduce from the state of an oxide.

That which removes oxygen; hence, a reducing agent; as, nascent hydrogen is a deoxidizer.

To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at. And the Pharisees, also, . . . derided him. Luke xvi. 14. Sport that wrinkled Care derides. And Laughter holding both his sides. Milton.

One who derides, or laughs at, another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer.

By way of derision or mockery.

Resembling

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

Same as Dermatoid. Dermoid cyst (Med.), a cyst containing skin, or structures connected with skin, such as hair.

Desirable. [R.] "Good and desiderable things." Holland.

See Desideratum.

ness to point 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.

Act of desiderating; also, the thing desired. [R.] Jeffrey.

Denoting desire; as, desiderative verbs.

Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge.

Idle; lazy. [Obs.]

The state or quality of being desidiose, or indolent. [Obs.] N. Bacon.

A microscopic plant of the family Desmidiæ, a group of unicellular algæ in which the species have a greenish color, and the cells generally appear as if they consisted of two coalescing halves.

Resembling, or having the characteristics of, a ligament; ligamentous.