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Marked with closely set transverse furrows.

ark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull. "Great barley dried and decorticated." Arbuthnot.

Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated. "Dedicate to nothing temporal." Shak.

One to whom a thing is dedicated; -- correlative to dedicator.

y of money, accounts, rents, income, etc. To show what may be practicably and safely defalcated from the [the estimates]. Burke.

anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified. Till the soul be defecate from the dregs of sense. Bates.

Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring. [R.] Dives, for his delicate life, to the devil went. Piers Plowman. Haarlem is a very delicate town. Evelyn.

In a delicate manner.

The quality of being delicate.

Relishes for the table; dainties; delicacies. "A dealer in delicatessen". G. H. Putnam.

To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate. Wilkinson.

deprive of phlogiston, or the supposed principle of inflammability. Priestley. Dephlogisticated air, oxygen gas; -- so called by Dr. Priestly and others of his time. -- De`phlo*gis`ti*ca"tion, n.

verance from; to express deep regret for; to disapprove of strongly. His purpose was deprecated by all round him, and he was with difficulty induced to adandon it. Sir W. Scott.

To proclaim; to celebrate. [R.]

To deflour; to dishonor. [Obs.]

To cut, as with a scythe; to mow. [Obs.]

To dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying; as, to desiccate fish or fruit. Bodies desiccated by heat or age. Bacon.

To clear from sophism or error. [R.] Hare.

To discriminate; to separate according to specific signification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize. [R.] Inaptitude and ineptitude have been usefully despecificated. Fitzed. Hall.

To shorten by cutting; to cut off; to lop off.