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in her. L'Estrange. Miss Lizzy, I have no doubt, would be as demure and coquettish, as if ten winters more had gone over her head. Miss Mitford.

ourteen cents; the "penny" of the New Testament; -- so called from being worth originally ten of the pieces called as.

Containing ten; tenfold; proceeding by tens; as, the denary, or decimal, scale.

In the manner of one denies a request. Tennyson.

Serving to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic. Humble and deprecatory letters. Bacon.

Tending, or intended, to depreciate; expressing depreciation; undervaluing. -- De*pre"ci*a`tive*ly, adv.

Tending to depreciate; undervaluing; depreciative.

Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion.

to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes. "With lips depressed." Tennyson.

Able or tending to depress or cast down. -- De*press"ive*ness, n.

A muscle that depresses or tends to draw down a part. Depressor nerve (Physiol.), a nerve which lowers the activity of an organ; as, the depressor nerve of the heart.

Depurating; tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.

Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

A straight wind without apparent cyclonic tendency, usually accompanied with rain and often destructive, common in the prairie regions of the United States.

Tending to derogate, or lessen in value; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious; -- with from to, or unto. Acts of Parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent Parliaments bind not. Blackstone. His language was severely censured by some of his brother peers as derogatory to their other. Macaulay. Derogatory…

Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song.

Tending to descend; tending downwards; descending. Smart.

Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age. Descriptive anatomy, that part of anatomy which treats of the forms and relations of parts, but not of their textures. -- Descriptive…

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

ovet. Neither shall any man desire thy land. Ex. xxxiv. 24. Ye desire your child to live. Tennyson.