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To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression. His look denounced desperate. Milton.

To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine. Copland.

the act or process of diminishing the quantity of fluid in the vessels by bloodletting or otherwise; also excessive evacuation, as in severe diarrhea.

r claim to esteem; to undervalue. Addison. Which . . . some over-severe phoilosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate. Cudworth. To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself. Burke.

To cast a gloom upon; to sadden; as, his spirits were depressed.

ties, heterogeneous matter, or feculence; to purify; to cleanse. To depurate the mass of blood. Boyle.

Purifying the blood or the humors; depuratory. -- n.

Daring or warlike. [Obs.] Drad for his derring doe and bloody deed. Spenser.

ge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend. The rain descended, and the floods came. Matt. vii. 25. We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.

vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are destitute and vegetation. A dreary desert and a gloomy waste. Pope.

A member of a group of South American blood-sucking bats, of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire.

Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. Jer. ix. 11. And the silvery marish flowers that throng The desolat…

The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin; solitariness; destitution; gloominess. You would have sold your king to slaughter, . . . And his whole kingdom into desolation. Shak.

A looking down; a despising. [R.] W. Montagu.

A looking down; despection. [Obs.]

To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Prov. i. 7. Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

The people, when once infected, lose their relish for happiness [and] saunter about with looks of despondence. Goldsmith.

In a desultory manner; without method; loosely; immethodically.

etermined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution. So bloodthirsty a determination to obtain convictions. Hallam.

e of a breed of hardy cattle originating in the country of Devon, England. Those of pure blood have a deep red color. The small, longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen.