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r among rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den; a den of robbers.

To deprive of narcotine; as, to denarcotize opium. -- De*nar`co*ti*za"tion, n.

A Roman silver coin of the value of about fourteen cents; the "penny" of the New Testament; -- so called from being worth originally ten of the pieces called as.

Containing ten; tenfold; proceeding by tens; as, the denary, or decimal, scale.

The or process of denationalizing.

To divest or deprive of national character or rights. Bonaparte's decree denationalizes, as he calls it, all ships that have touched at a British port. Cobbett. An expatriated, denationalized race. G. Eliot.

To renounce the natural rights and duties of; to deprive of citizenship; to denationalize. [R.] They also claimed the privilege, when aggrieved, of denaturalizing themselves, or, in other words, of publicly renouncing their allegiance to their sovereign, and of enlisting under the banners of his enemy. Prescott.…

To deprive of its natural qualities; change the nature of.

To deny. [Obs.] That with great rage he stoutly doth denay. Spenser.

Arborescent or dendritic agate.

Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.

A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.

Pertaining to a dendrite, or to arborescent crystallization; having a form resembling a shrub or tree; arborescent.

A division of the Turbellaria in which the digestive cavity gives off lateral branches, which are often divided into smaller branchlets.

Resembling a shrub or tree in form; treelike.

A petrified or fossil shrub, plant, or part of a plant.

One versed in the natural history of trees.

Relating to dendrology.

A discourse or treatise on trees; the natural history of trees.

An instrument to measure the height and diameter of trees.