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To deprive of water; to render free from water; as, to dehydrate alcohol.

The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.

To deprive of, or free from, hydrogen.

The act or process or freeing from hydrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of hydrogen.

unwares or by surprise; to seize, as a person commiting an unlawful act; to catch; to apprehend. The deprehended adulteress.Jer. Taylor.

That may be caught or discovered; apprehensible. [Obs.] Petty. -- Dep`re*hen"si*ble*ness, n. [Obs.]

A catching; discovery. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A dotard. [R.] Tyndale.

Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. Sandys.

A building in which dyeing is carried on.

A circular opening to recive a hook, cord, ring, or rope; an eyelet.

tion; error; misrepresentation; falsity. Though it be a lie in the clock, it is but a falsehood in the hand of the dial when pointing at a wrong hour, if rightly following the direction of the wheel which moveth it. Fuller.

See Fehling's solution, under Solution.

Same as Vehm, Vehmgericht.

See Vehmic.

The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship.

A warm dry wind that often blows in the northern valleys of the Alps, due to the indraught of a storm center passing over Central Europe. The wind, heated by compression in its descent from the mountains, reaches the base, particularly in winter, dry and warm.

Enmity. Br. Bedell.

rity; advantage; start; precedence. And, but for ceremony, such a wretch . . . Had the forehand and vantage of a king. Shak.

Early; timely; seasonable. "Forehanded care." Jer. Taylor.