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Work done at a desk, as by a clerk or writer. Tennyson.

. ix. 11. And the silvery marish flowers that throng The desolate creeks and pools among. Tennyson.

To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of. We despaired even of life. 2 Cor. i. 8. Never despair of God's blessings here. Wake.

destiny or by an authoritative decree; to doom; to ordain or preordain; to appoint; -- often with the remoter object preceded by to or for. We are decreed, Reserved, and destined to eternal woe. Milton. Till the loathsome opposite Of all my heart had destined, did obtain. Tennyson. Not enjoyment and not sorrow Is our…

One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing institutions; a destructive.

Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth. Time's destructive power. Wordsworth. Destructive distill…

from anything; to disengage. [A vapor] detaching, fold by fold, From those still heights. Tennyson.

Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion. Remissness can by no means consist with a constant determination of the will . . . to the greatest apparent good. Locke.

Tending to detractor draw. [R.]

s, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power. These serve to develop its tenets. Milner. The 20th was spent in strengthening our position and developing the line of the enemy. The Century.

Tending to deviate; devious; as, deviatory motion. [R.] Tully.

g stream Devolves its winding waters to the main. Akenside. Devolved his rounded periods. Tennyson.

bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night. Her tears fell with the dews at even. Tennyson.

Having no dew. Tennyson.

The tendency of organs (as roots) of plants to assume a position oblique or transverse to a direction towards the center of the earth.

Diagonal; diametrical; hence; diametrically opposed. [Obs.] Sin can have no tenure by law at all, but is rather an eternal outlaw, and in hostility with law past all atonement; both diagonal contraries, as much allowing one another as day and night together in one hemisphere. Milton.

A tendency of leaves or other organs of plants to have their dorsal surface faced towards the rays of light.

force is differently affected from the ordinary magnetic bodies, as iron; that is, which tends to take a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force, and is repelled by either pole of the magnet.

A towel or napkin for wiping the hands, etc. Let one attend him with a silver basin, . . . Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper. Shak.

The muscular and tendinous partition separating the cavity of the chest from that of the abdomen; the midriff.