dentition 
the incisors are scalpriform, and canines are 
absent; the monophyodont dentition, in which 
there is but one set of teeth; the dipliyodoiit 
dentition, in which there are two sets of teeth, 
etc. Many dentitions are known technically by the name 
of the genus or other group of animals to which they per- 
tain, as the diprotodont dentition, the polyprotodont den- 
tition, the biinodont, bathnwdont, etc., the adjective in 
such cases being frequently applied to the animals them- 
selves as well as to the number and arrangement of their 
teeth. See cuts under acrodont and ruminant. For 
formulas of dentition, see dental formula, \\i\derdcntal, a. 
Greatly as the dentition of the highest ape differs from 
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rocks exposed by the action of denudation. See denuda- 
tion. 
denumerant (de-nu'me-raut), n. [< L. de- + 
numeran(t-)s,f>pi: of nu'inerare, number, numer- 
ate: see numerate.] The number of solutions 
of a determinate system of equations. 
The denumerant may be algebraical or arithmetical. In 
estimating the former, all solutions count, whether or not 
deducible from one another by interchange between the 
unknowns. In estimating the latter, solutions which be- 
come identical by permuting the unknowns are regarded 
as one and the same solution. J. J. Sylvester, 1868. 
. [< L. as 
, count over, 
deny 
denunciatory (de-nun'gi-a-to-ri), a. [= Sp. Pg. 
denuneiatorio, < LL. as if "denuntiatorius, < de- 
nuntia tor, a denouncer: see denunciator.] Re- 
lating to or implying denunciation ; containing 
a public threat ; comminatory. 
denutrition (de-nu-trish'on), n. [< de-priv. + 
nutrition.'] Want or defect of nutrition: the 
opposite of nutrition. Thomas, Med. Diet. 
deny (de-ni'), v.; pret. and pp. denied, ppr. de- 
nying. ' [< ME. denyen, rarely denoyen, also de- 
nayen (see denay), ( OF. denier, deneer, deneier, 
denoier, F. denier = Pr. denegar, deneyar, desne- 
gar, desnedar = Sp. Pg. denegar = It. denegare, 
4. The state of being toothed or dentate ; den- 
ticulation Milk dentition, deciduous dentition, 
the set of teeth which are shed anil replaced by another 
set, as in man and other diphyodont animals. 
dentize (den'tiz), v. i. ; pret. and pp. dentized, 
ppr. dentising. [With suffix -ize, < L. dentire, 
get or cut teeth: see dentition.} To cut one's 
teeth; teethe. Nares. 
They tell a tale of the old Countesse of Desmonds, who 
lived till she was seveuscore yeares old, that she did den- 
ti&e twice, or thrice ; casting her old teeth, and others com- 
ming in their place. Bacon, Nat. Hist., 755. 
dentoid (den'toid), a. [< L. den(t-)s, = E. tooth, 
+ Gr. cldof, form: see -oid.~\ Resembling a 
tooth ; shaped like a tootli ; tooth-like. 
dentolingual (den-to-ling'gwal), a. and n. See 
dentilingual. 
den-tree (den'tre), n. An Australian name for 
the Eucalyptus polyanthema. 
denture (den'tur), n. [< F. denture, a set of 
teeth, < dent({'L. den(t-)s = E. tooth) + -ure.} 
The provision of teeth in the jaws ; specifically, 
in dentistry, a set of artificial teeth, a whole 
set being called a full denture. 
denty (den'ti), a. A Scotch form of dainty. 
denucleated (de-nu'kle-a-ted), a. [< de- priv. 
+ nucleus + -ate 1 + -e$ : see nucleated.'] Char- 
acterized by the disappearance of nuclei. 
denudatet (den'u- or de-nu'dat), v . t. ; pret. and 
pp. denudated, ppr. denudating. [< L. denudatus, 
pp. of denudare, make bare, strip: see denude.'] 
To strip; denude. Hammond. 
Till he has denudated himself of all incumbrances, he is 
unqualified. Decay of Christian Piety. 
denudate, denudated (den'u- or de-nu'dat, 
-da-ted), a. [< L. denudatus, pp. : see the 
verb.] 1. In bot., deprived of covering, as of 
foliage or pubescence; naked; glabrate. 2. 
In zool., destitute of scales, hair, or other cov- 
ering; nude: specifically, in en torn., said of the 
wings of Lepidoptera when they are clear in 
parts, appearing as if the scales had been rub- 
bed off. 3. In geol., denuded. See denudation. 
denudation (den-u-da'shon), n. [= F. denuda- 
tion = Sp. denudacion = Pg. denudaySo = It. 
denudasione, < LL. denudatio(n-), < L. denudare, 
denude: see denude.} 1. The act of stripping 
off covering; a making bare. 
There must be a denudation of the mind from all those 
images of our phantasy, how pleasing soever, that may 
carry our thoughts aside from those better objects. 
Bp. Hall, Devout Soul, 10. 
2. In geol., the wearing away and removal by 
natural agencies, such as rain, rivers, frost, 
ice, and wind, of a part of the solid matter of 
the earth's surface. The matter thus carried away 
is said to have been eroded, and the terms erosion and de- 
nudation are alike as indicating the result of the work of 
erosive or denuding agencies. 
Prof. Geikie has calculated that, at the present rate of 
denudation, it would require about 5J million years to re- 
duce the British Isles to a flat plane at the level of the 
sea. Huxley, Physiography, p. 148. 
denude (de-nud'), v. t.; pret. and pp. denuded, 
ppr. denuding. [= OF. denuer, F. denuer, also 
denuder = Sp.*deit<far, desnudar = Pg. denudar 
= It. denudare, < L. denudare, make bare, strip, 
< de, off, + nudare, make bare, < nudus, bare : 
see nude.] 1. To strip or divest of all cover- 
ing ; make bare or naked. 
The eye, with the skin of the eyelid, is denuded, to 
shew the muscle. Sharp, Surgery. 
If in summer-time you denude a vine-branch of its 
leaves, the grapes will never come to maturity. 
Kay, Works of Creation. 
Specifically 2. In geol., to wear away and re- 
move surface or overlying matter, and thus 
make bare and expose to view (the underlying 
strata). 
Where the rain copies down in a deluge, as often hap- 
pens in the tropics, its power as a denuding agent is al- 
most incredible. Huxley, Physiography, p. 131. 
= Syn. To bare, lay bare, uncover. 
denuded (de-nu'ded), p. a. Stripped ; divested 
of covering; laid bareDenuded rocks, in geol., 
the spot. 
d'eriuncia (Sp. pron. da-non'thi-a), N. [Sp., < 
denunciar. denounce : see denounce.] In Mexico 
and Spanish America : (a) The judicial proceed- 
ings by which a person claims and secures the 
right to a mine which he has discovered, or one 
the title to which has been lost or forfeited by 
the neglect of the owner to work it or by his 
having violated the mining-ordinances. (6) A 
similar judicial proceeding by which waste or 
abandoned lands may be preempted. 
denunciable (de-nun'si-a-bl), a. [= Sp. denun- 
ciable, < NL. as if "denuniiabilis, < L. denuntiare, 
denounce: see denounce."] Subject to denounce- 
ment ; fit or proper to be denounced. See de- 
nouncement. 
denunciant (de-nun'si-ant), a. [< L. denun- 
cian(t-)s, denuntian(t^)s,ppT. of denunciare, de- 
nuntiare, denounce: see denunciate.} Ready or 
prone to denounce ; denunciative. 
Of all which things a poor Legislative Assembly and 
Patriot France is informed by denunciant Friend, by tri- 
umphant Foe. Carlyle, French Rev., II. v. 5. 
denunciate (de-nun'si-at), r. t. ; pret. and pp. 
denunciated, ppr. denunciating. [< L. denunciu- 
tus, denuntiatus, pp. of denunciare, more cor- 
rectly denuntiare, declare, denounce : see de- 
nounce.} Same as denounce. 
The vicinage of Europe had not only a right, but an in- 
dispensable duty and an exigent interest, to denunciate 
this new work before it had produced the danger we have 
so severely felt. Burke, A Regicide Peace, i. 
denunciation (de-nun-gi-a'shon), n. [= F. de- 
nonciation = Pr. 'denunciation Sp. denunciation 
= Pg. denuntiaqSo = It. denunziazione, < L. de- 
nunciatio(n-), denuntiatio(n-), < denunciare, de- 
nuntiare, pp. denunciatus, denuntiatus, denounce : 
see denounce.} If. The act of denouncing or 
announcing; announcement; publication; pro- 
clamation; annunciation: as, a faithful denun- 
ciation of the gospel. 
She is fast my wife, 
Save that we do the denunciation lack 
Of outward order. Shak., M. for M., i. 3. 
This publick and reiterated denunciation of bauns lie- 
fore matrimony is an institution required and kept both 
by the churches of the Roman correspondence and by all 
the Reformed. Bp. Hall, Cases of Conscience. 
2. Solemn or formal declaration accompanied 
with a menace ; a declaration of intended evil ; 
proclamation of a threat ; a public menace : as, 
a denunciation of war or of wrath. 
When they rejected and despised all his prophesies and 
denunciations of future judgments, then follows the sen- 
tence. Donne, Sermons, vi. 
Christ tells the Jews that, if they believe not, they shall 
die in their sins ; did they never read those denunciations ? 
Bp. Ward. 
Uttering bold denunciations of ecclesiastical error. 
Motley. 
3. In Scots law, the act by which a person who 
has disobeyed the charge given on letters of 
horning is outlawed or proclaimed a rebel. 4. 
In civil law, accusation against one of a crime 
before a public prosecuting officer. 
denunciative (de-nun'si-a-tiv), a. [= F. denon- 
ciatif= Pg. denunciatiro,<. LL. denuntiativus, < 
L. denuntiare : see denunciate.} Partaking of 
the character of a denunciation ; denunciatory ; 
prone to denunciation ; ready to denounce. 
The clamorous, the idle, and the ignorantly denuncia- 
tive. Farrar, Language, iv. 
denunciator (de-nun'gi-a-tor), . [= F. denon- 
ciateur = Pr. Sp. Pg. denunciador = It. denun- 
ziatore, < LL. denuntiator, < L. denuntiare: see 
denounce, denunciate. } 1 . One who denounces ; 
one who publishes or proclaims, especially in- 
tended evil; one who threatens. 2. In civil 
law, one who lays an information against an- 
other. 
The denunciator does not make himself a party in judge- 
ment, as the accuser does. Ayli/e, Parergon. 
or "nay" to; gainsay; contradict. 
I put it all vpon yow, and kepe ye myn honoure as ye 
owe to do. And what ye ordeyne I sha" 
him 
tvu way he will still have, and no one dare deny 
R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, p. 127. 
2. To declare to be untrue or untenable; re- 
ject as false or erroneous ; refuse to admit, ac- 
cept, or believe : as, to deny an accusation, or 
the truth of a statement or a theory ; to deny a 
doctrine. 
When the knewen all the cause, tho kynges bydene, 
All denude it anon ; no mon assentid. 
. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 8009. 
Reason, joining or disjoining, frames 
All what we affirm or what deny. 
Milton, P. L., v. 107. 
But she loved Enoch ; tho 1 she knew it not, 
And would if ask'd deny it. 
Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
No one, except under constraint of some extravagant 
theory, denies that pleasure is good. 
T. H. Green, Prolegomena to Ethics, 368. 
3. To refuse ; refuse to grant or give ; with- 
hold or withhold from : as, to deny bread to the 
hungry ; to deny a request. 
To stande in fatte lande wol it not denye. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. llo. 
He [St. Augustine] cannot mean simply that audience 
should altogether be denied unto men, but either that if 
men speak one thing and God himself teaches another, 
then he, not they, to be obeyed. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, ii. 7. 
Think not ill manners in me for denying 
Your offer'd meat ; for, sure, I cannot eat 
While I do think she wants. 
Beau, and I'l., Coxcomb, Iv. 2. 
'Twill be hard for us to deny a Woman any thing, since 
we are BO newly come on Shore. 
Wyeherley, Plain Dealer, i. 1. 
4. To reject as non-existent or unreal; refuse 
to believe in the existence of; disallow the re- 
ality of. [Rare.] 
Many deny witches at all, or if there be any they can do 
no harm. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 128. 
Though they deny two persons in the Trinity, they hold, 
as we do, there is but one God. 
Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, i. 20. 
5. To refuse access to; keep from being seen; 
withhold from view or intercourse : as, he de- 
nied himself to visitors. 
The butler . . . ushered me very civilly into the par- 
lour, and told me though my lady had given strict orders 
to be denied, he was sure I might be admitted. 
Steele, Taller, No. 26. 
6. To refuse to acknowledge ; disavow ; re- 
nounce ; disown. 
And if he do he shall be compelled incontynently to 
denye his fayth and crystendome, or ellys he shalbe put 
to execucion of deth by and by. 
Sir Ii. Guylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 44. 
He that denieth me before men shall be denied before 
the angels of God. Luke xii. 9. 
Here's a villain, that would face me down . . . 
That I did deny my wife and house. 
Shak., C. of E., lii. 1. 
7. To forbid. 
I am denied to sue my livery here, 
And yet my letters-patent give me leave. 
Shak., Rich. II., ii. 3. 
You may deny me to accompany you, but cannot hin- 
der me from following. Johnson, Rasselas, xiv. 
8f. To contradict ; repel; disprove. 
Nay, that I can deny by a circumstance. 
Shak., T. G. of V., i. 1. 
To deny one's self, to exercise self-denial ; refrain from 
the gratification of one's desires ; refrain or abstain from : 
as, to deny one's self the use of spirituous liquors ; to deny 
one's self a pleasure. 
If any man will come after me, let him denii himself, 
and take up his cross, and follow me. Mat. xvi. 24. 
Worthy minds in the domestic way of life deny them- 
selves ma'nv udvantages, to satisfy a generous benevolence. 
Steele, Spectator, No. 248. 
=Syn. 6. To disclaim, renounce, abjure. 
n. intrans. To answer in the negative ; re- 
fuse to comply. 
