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A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneath the skin of the scrotum.

To delineate. [Obs.] These two stones as they are here defigured. Weever.

Apt; fit; dexterous; clever; handy; spruce; neat. [Archaic or Poetic] "The deftest way." Shak. "Deftest feats." Gay. The limping god, do deft at his new ministry. Dryden. Let me be deft and debonair. Byron.

Aptly; fitly; dexterously; neatly. "Deftly dancing." Drayton. Thyself and office deftly show. Shak.

To delineate. [Obs.]

Capable of being, or liable to be, delineated. Feltham.

Delineation; sketch. Dr. H. More.

The act of exerting one's strength or limbs. Neater limbs and freer delivery. Sir H. Wotton.

composed. It contains less animal matter than bone, and in the teeth of man is situated beneath the enamel.

To paint; to picture; hence, to describe; to delineate in words; to depict. [Obs.] And do unwilling worship to the saint That on his shield depainted he did see. Spenser. In few words shall see the nature of many memorable persons . . . depainted. Holland.

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.

The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and enderon. See Skin, and Illust. in Appendix.

To act beneath one-s rank, place, birth, or character; to degenerate. [R.] You are a fool granted; therefore your issues, being foolish, do not derogate. Shak. Would Charles X. derogate from his ancestors Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line Hazlitt.

To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle.

The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.

To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw. Dryden.

Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention. [Obs.] For though that some mean artist's skill were shown In mingling colors, or in placing light, Yet still the fair designment was his own. Dryden.

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

Trim; neat. [Scot.] Burns. -- Dink"ly, adv.

s wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath.