A man that hath
So well deserved me.
Massinger.
De*serve" (d*zrv"), v. i. To be worthy of recompense; -- usually with ill or with well.
One man may merit or deserve of another.
South.
De*serv"ed*ly (-zrv"d*l>ycr/), adv. According to desert (whether good or evil); justly.
De*serv"ed*ness, n. Meritoriousness.
De*serv"er (?), n. One who deserves.
De*serv"ing, n. Desert; merit.
A person of great deservings from the republic.
Swift.
De*serv"ing, a. Meritorious; worthy; as, a deserving person or act. -- De*serv"ing*ly, adv.
Des`ha*bille (?), n. [F. déshabillé, fr. déshabiller to undress; pref. dés- (L. dis-) + habiller to dress. See Habiliment, and cf. Dishabille.] An undress; a careless toilet.
De*sic"cant (?), a. [L. desiccans, p. pr. of desiccare. See Desiccate.] Drying; desiccative. -- n. (Med.) A medicine or application for drying up a sore. Wiseman.
Des"ic*cate (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Desiccated; p. pr. & vb. n. Desiccating.] [L. desiccatus, p. p. of desiccare to dry up; de- + siccare to dry, siccus dry. See Sack wine.] 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.
Des"ic*cate, v. i. To become dry.
Des`ic*ca"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. dessiccation.] The act of desiccating, or the state of being desiccated.
De*sic"ca*tive (?), a. [Cf. F. dessicatif.] Drying; tending to dry. Ferrand. -- n. (Med.) An application for drying up secretions.
Des"ic*ca`tor (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, desiccates.
2. (Chem.) A short glass jar fitted with an air-tight cover, and containing some desiccating agent, as sulphuric acid or calcium chloride, above which is suspended the material to be dried, or preserved from moisture.
De*sic"ca*to*ry (?), a. Desiccative.
De*sid"er*a*ble (?), a. Desirable. [R.] "Good and desiderable things." Holland.
||De*sid`e*ra"ta (?), n. pl. See Desideratum.
De*sid"er*ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Desiderated; p. pr. & vb. n. Desiderating.] [L. desideratus, p. p. of desiderare to desire, miss. See Desire, and cf. Desideratum.] To desire; to feel the want of; to lack; to miss; to want.
Pray have the goodness to point out one word missing that ought to have been there -- please to insert a desiderated stanza. You can not.
Prof. Wilson.
Men were beginning . . . to desiderate for them an actual abode of fire.
A. W. Ward.
De*sid`er*a"tion (?), n. [L. desideratio.] Act of desiderating; also, the thing desired. [R.] Jeffrey.
De*sid"er*a*tive (?), a. [L. desiderativus.] Denoting desire; as, desiderative verbs.
De*sid"er*a*tive, n. 1. An object of desire.
2. (Gram.) A verb formed from another verb by a change of termination, and expressing the desire of doing that which is indicated by the primitive verb.
||De*sid`e*ra"tum (?), n.; pl. Desiderata (#). [L., fr. desideratus, p. p. See Desiderate.] Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge.
{ De*sid"i*ose` (?), De*sid"i*ous (?), } a. [L. desidiosus, fr. desidia a sitting idle, fr. desid&?;re to sit idle; de- + sed&?;re to sit.] Idle; lazy. [Obs.]
De*sid"i*ous*ness, n. The state or quality of being desidiose, or indolent. [Obs.] N. Bacon.