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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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DEFENSORY a.
Tending to defend; defensive; as, defensory preparations.
DEFILEMENT n.
erior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side.
DEFOLIATION n.
The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves.
DEGARNISHMENT n.
The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison. [R.]
DEGLUTINATE v.
To loosen or separate by dissolving the glue which unties; to unglue.
DEHONESTATE v.
To disparage. [Obs.]
DELAMINATION n.
Formation and separation of laminæ or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated.
DELIGNATE v.
To strip or remove the wood from; as, to delignate ramie, in the preparation of ribbons of the fiber for further working.
DELTA CONNECTION n.
One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.
DEMARCATE v.
To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate. Wilkinson.
DEMARCATION n.
The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit; separation; distinction. The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable. Burke.
DEMONSTRATE v.
To exhibit and explain (a dissection or other anatomical preparation).
DEMONSTRATION n.
The exhibition and explanation of a dissection or other anatomical preparation.
DENOTATION n.
The marking off or separation of anything. Hammond.
DEPART v. 4 definitions
To part; to divide; to separate. [Obs.] Shak.
DEPARTER n.
One who refines metals by separation. [Obs.]
DEPARTURE n. 2 definitions
Division; separation; putting away. [Obs.] No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
DEPHLEGMATION n.
The operation of separating water from spirits and acids, by evaporation or repeated distillation; -- called also concentration, especially when acids are the subject of it. [Obs.]
DEPHLEGMATOR n.
An instrument or apparatus in which water is separated by evaporation or distillation; the part of a distilling apparatus in which the separation of the vapors is effected.
DERMATOPHYTE n.
A vegetable parasite, infesting the skin.
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