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To divest of human qualities, such as pity, tenderness, etc.; as, dehumanizing influences.

Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a thread; delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy of the skin; delicacy of frame.

A territorial subdivision of Attica (also of modern Greece), corresponding to a township. Jowett (Thucyd).

Pertaining to the dermis; dermal. Underneath each nail the deep or dermic layer of the integument is peculiarly modified. Huxley. Dermic remedies (Med.), such as act through the skin.

e capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place. He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord. Is. li. 3.

ten with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.

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 desolate creeks and pools am…

between two vertical lines. The theory of determinants forms a very important branch of modern mathematics.

dy to which they belonged; any product of disintegration. The mass of detritus of which modern languages are composed. Farrar.

ght sounds with seven intervals, of which two are semitones and five are whole tones; a modern major or minor scale, as distinguished from the chromatic scale.

Disjoining two fourths; as, the diazeutic tone, which, like that from F to G in modern music, lay between two fourths, and, being joined to either, made a fifth. [Obs.]

A functionary in ancient Athens answering nearly to the modern juryman.

lly of style: Diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity. The fault that I find with a modern legend, it its diffusiveness. Addison.

A message transmitted by telegraph. [Modern] Dispatch boat, a swift vessel for conveying dispatches; an advice boat. -- Dispatch box, a box for carrying dispatches; a box for papers and other conveniences when traveling.

The Greek major third, which comprehend two major tones (the modern major third contains one major and one minor whole tone).

nned. Milton. It ["Pilgrim's Progress"] has been done into verse: it has been done into modern English. Macaulay.

m lands were given; in later use, one to whom lands and tenements are given in tail; in modern use, one on whom a power is conferred for execution; -- sometimes called the appointor.

A gold and silver coin of modern Greece worth 19.3 cents.

In modern manufacture, a worsted of one color used for window blinds and similar purposes.

state of dying or the stimulation of such a state; extreme languor; languishment. [R.] Tenderness becomes me best, a sort of dyingness; you see that picture, Foible, -- a swimmingness in the eyes; yes, I'll look so. Congreve.