DEN 
DENOTA'TION, f. [_denvtatio, Lat,] The act.of de¬ 
noting. 
To DENO'TE, u, a. [denoto, L:it.] To m;irk ; to be a 
fign of; to betoken ;, lo Ihew by (igns : as, a quick puli'e 
denotes a fever. 
To DENOU : NCE, v. a. [denun cib, Lat. dcnoncer, Fr.] 
To threaten by proclamation. —I denounce unto you this 
day, that ye fhallfurely peri (It. Deut. 
He of their wicked ways 
Shall them admonilh, denouncing wrath to come 
On their impenitence. Milton. 
To threaten by fonte outward fign or expreffion : 
He ended frowning, and his look denounc'd 
Defpcrate revenge, and battle dangerous. Milton. 
To give information againft; to delate ; to accufe pub¬ 
licly.—Archdeacons ought to propofe parts of the New 
Teftament to be learned by heart by inferior clergymen, 
and denounce fucli as are negligent. Ayliffe. 
DENOU'NCEMENTjyi The ait of proclaiming any 
menace; the proclamation of intended evil; denuncia¬ 
tion.—Falfe is the reply of Cain upon the denouncement 
of his'curfe. My iniquity is greater than can be forgiven. 
Brown. 
DENOU'NCER,yi One that declares fome menace : 
Here comes the fad denouncer of my fate, 
To toll the mournful knell of feparation. Drydcn. 
DEN'REHOUT, a town of Flanders: five miles fouth 
Or Aloft. 
DENS C ANI'NUS, fee Panicum. DENS CA'NIS,fee 
Erythronium. DENS LEO'NIS, fee Arnica, Apar- 
gia, Hieracium, Hyoseris, Hypoch^ris, Leonto 
Don, and Tussilago. 
DENS'CHENDORF, a town of Denmark, in the ifland 
of Femern : four miles weft of Borg. 
DENSE, adj. [denfis, Lat.] Clofe; compact; ap¬ 
proaching to folidity ; having but fmail interftices be¬ 
tween the coriftituent particles.—The caufe of cold is the 
denfity of the body ; for all denfe bodies are colder than 
moft other bodies, as metals, ltone, glafs ; and they are 
longer in heating than fofter bodies. Bacon. —In the air, 
the higher you go, the lefs it is comprelfed, and confe- 
quently the lefs denfe it is ; and fo the upper part is ex¬ 
ceedingly thinner than the lower part which we breathe. 
Locke. 
DENSHEE'RING, f. The art of cutting or paring 
earth, turf, or ftubble, into heaps, which, when dried, 
are burnt into afhes, for a compoft to manure the land. 
This method of improvement is ufed on taking in and 
inclofing common and wafte ground; and in many parts 
of England is called burn-baking. 
DEN'SITY, f. \_denfitas , Lat.] Clofenefs; compact - 
nefs ; clofe adhefion, or near approach, of parts.—Whilft 
the denfeft of metals, gold, if foliated, is tranfparent, and 
all metals become tranfparent if dilfolved in menftruums, 
or vitrified, the opacity of white metals arifeth not from 
their denfity alone. Newton. —The air within the veiTels 
being of a lefs denfity, the outward air would prefs their 
fides together; and, being of a greater denfity, would ex¬ 
pand them fo as to endanger the life of the animal. 
Arbuthnot. 
Denfity is that property of bodies, by which they con¬ 
tain a certain quantity of matter, under a certain bulk or 
magnitude. Accordingly a body that contains more 
matter than another, under the fame bulk, is find to be 
•denfer than the other, and that in proportion to the quan¬ 
tity of matter ; or, if the quantity of matter be the fame, 
but under a lefs bulk, it is faid to be denfer, and fo much 
the more fo as the bulk is lefs. So that, in general, the 
denfity is diredtly proportional to the mafs or quantity of 
matter, and reciprocally or inverfely proportional to the 
bulk or magnitude under which it is contained, Hutton. 
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DENT,yi [perhaps altered from dint for rhyme’s fake.} 
A ftroke : 
That all his mail yriv’d, and plates yrent, 
Shew’d all his body bare unto the cruel dent. Spenfer. 
Indentation.—This.is a common ufe of the word, as col¬ 
loquial ; but whether a corruption of dint, or a contrac¬ 
ts n-of indenting, is not eafy to fay. MaJ'on. 
DENTA'GR A, f. [from cone, Gr. a tooth ; and ceyfa, 
a feizure.] The gout in the tooth. Alfo an inftrument 
for drawing the teeth. 
DEN'l'AL, adj. flcntalis, Lat.] Belonging or relating, 
to the teeth. [In grammar.] Pronounced principally by 
the-agency.of the teeth.—The Hebrews have afiigned 
which letters are labial, which dental, and which guttu¬ 
ral. Bacon. —The f/ivjia/'confonants are eafy, therefore let 
them be next; firft the YLoveA-denUils, as alfo the lingua- 
dei\tals. Holder. 
DENTA'I.IUM, f. [from dens, a tooth.] A genus 
ol (hell-fifh belonging to the order of teftacea, called the 
dentate or tooth. The animal is a terebella : (hell uni¬ 
valve, tubular, ftrajght, or (lightly curved, with the ca¬ 
vity undivided and open at both ends. Gmelin enume¬ 
rates twenty-one fpecies either recent or foil!I, diftin- 
guiflied by the angles, (trios, or form, of their (hells. For 
a further defeription, and figures of them, fee the article 
Conchology, p. 20, and the correfponding engraving, 
in this volume. 
DENTA'RIA,/! [from the toothed form of the root.] 
Tooth wort ; in botany, a genus of the clafs tetrady- 
namia, order filiquofa, natural order of (iliquofas. The 
generic characters are—Calyx : perianthium four-leaved ; 
leaflets ovate-oblong, converging from parallel, obtufe, 
deciduous. Corolla: four-petalled, cruciform; petals 
roundilb, obtufe, fcarcely emarginate, flat, ending in 
claws the length of the calyx. Stamina : filaments fix, 
fubulate, length of the calyx, of which two are (horter; 
anthene cordate-oblong, eredt. Piftillum: germ oblong, 
length of the ftamens ; ftyle very (hort, thick; ftigma ob¬ 
tufe, emarginate. Pericarpium : filique long, columnar, 
two-celled, two-valved, burfting open elaftically, with the 
valves rolled back; diiTepiment a little longer than the 
valves. Seeds: many,fomewhatovate.— EJfentialCkaraBer. 
Silique burfting elaftically, with the valves rolled back; 
ftigma emarginate ; calyx converging lengthwife. 
Species. 1. Dentaria enneaphylla, or nine-leaved tooth- 
wort : leaves in three times three. Root perennial, white, 
toothed, long, of a pleafant tafte. Stem a foot or a foot 
and a half in height, branched, round, and fmooth. 
Leaves biternate; leaflets lanceolate, ferrate, acuminate, 
fmooth. Flowers from three peduncles forming a pa¬ 
nicle or raceme, eredt, fafcicled ; calyx pale green or 
yellowilli ; petals reddifh yellow or yellowifh red. In 
the fituation of the leaves it refembles anemone, in their 
form eupatorium. In each cell are four feeds. Moft of 
the upper flowers are abortive. Native of Hungary, 
Auftria, Idria in Friuli, Silefia, &c. in woods. It flow¬ 
ers in April and May. Called by Gerarde coral-toothed 
violet. 
2. Dentaria bulbifera, or bulbiferous toothwort or coral-- 
wort : lower leaves pinnate, upper Ample. Bulbs pro¬ 
duced from the axils of the leaves, as in lilium bulbife. 
rum, and the fruit in like manner abortive. It flowers 
in April and May. Native of Sweden, Denmark, Swif- 
ferland, Germany, Carniola, Piedmont, England, in moift 
woods and Ihady places ; with 11s it is rare, having only been 
obferved by Parkinfon in Highreed and Foxholes woods 
near Mayfield, Suifex ; by Blacldtone in Old Park wood, 
near Harefield ; end between Beaconsfield and Wycomb, 
Bucks, by Mr. Hudfon. Named by Gerarde toothed or 
dog-toothed violet. He cultivated it in his garden- 
3. Dentaria pinnata, or fe.ven-leaved toothwort : all 
the leaves pinnate ; lower with feven, upper with five, 
leaflets, This may be fairly feparated from the next i pe- 
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