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think it dead. This is the infedt which makes in wood 
and furniture tliofe little round holes that reduce it to 
powder. 3. The violaceus ; its elytra being of a deep 
violet blue. The thorax is covered with greenifh hairs, 
the legs are black. The whole animal is of a glittering 
brilliancy, which renders it a pleafing infeft. The larva, 
as well as the perfect infefit, inhabits the bodies of dead 
animals. 4. The fumatus; of a light brown, except the 
eyes, which are black. It is, however, fometimes more 
or lefs deep. The thorax is margined, and the infedt has 
the whole carriage of a fcarabaeus; but its antennae have 
the character of tliofe of the dermeftx. This little crea¬ 
ture is found in dung. It alfo finds its way into houfes. 
5. The ferruginous, a large fpecies; its colour is a rufty 
iron, having many oblong, velvety, black fpots upon the 
elytra, which gives the infedt a gloomy, yet elegant, ap¬ 
pearance. Its antennae differ from the others; the three 
la ft articulations being confiderably longer, thicker, and 
net perfoliated. Thefe five fpecies are exhibited in the 
engraving. The lardarius, fo deftrudfive to birds, in- 
fedts, and Other fubjedts of natural hiftory, ufually pre- 
ferved in cabinets, may be deftroyed by arfenic. 
DERN, adj [beaptn, Sax.] Sad; folitary. Barbarous; 
cruel. Dear. Obfolete. 
DERN'BACH, or Ternbach, a town of Germany, 
in the circle of the Upper Rhine, and bifhopric of Fulda, 
containing two churches : twenty miles eaft-north-eaft of 
Fulda. 
DER'NE, a town of Africa, and capital of a diftridh 
in the country of Tripoly, near the coaft of the Mediter¬ 
ranean, the relidence of a fangiac. Lat. 32. 55. N. Ion. 
22. 45. E. Greenwich. 
To DER'NE, v. n. [from byrnan, Sax. to hide.] To 
fculk: 
But look how foon they heard of Holoferne, 
Theyr courage quail’d, and they began to derne. Hud/on. 
DER'NFUL, adj. Sorrowful: 
The birds of ill prefage 
This lucklefs tale foretold 
By dernful noife. Spenfer. 
DERNI'ER, adj. Laft. It is a mere French word, and 
ufed only in the following phrafe :—In the imperial 
chamber, the term for the profecution of an appeal is 
not circumfcribed by the term of one or two years, as 
the law elfewhere requires in the empire ; this being the 
dernier refort and fupreme court of judicature. Aylijfe. 
DER'NIS, or Dhrnisch, a town and fortrefs of Dal¬ 
matia, (ituated on a mountain near the river Kerka, taken 
from the Turks by the Venetians, in 1684. 
DERN'LY, adv. Privately, or dearly : 
Seeking adventures hard, to exercife 
Their puiflance, whilom full dcrnly tried. Spenfer. 
Anxioufly : 
Next flroke him fliould have fiain. 
Had not.the ladie which by him flood bound 
Dernly unto her called, to abftain 
From doing him to die. Spenfer. 
To DE'ROGATE, v. a. [derogo , Lat.] To do an act 
fo far contrary to a law or cuftom, as to diminifh its former 
extent: diftinguifhed from abrogate. —By feveral contrary 
cuftoms and (tiles ufed here, many of thofe civil and ca¬ 
non laws are controuled and derogated. Hale. —To lefFen 
the worth of any perfon or thing ; to vilify. 
To DE'ROGATE, v.n. To detract; to leffen repu¬ 
tation: with from. —We fhould be injurious to virtue it- 
felf, if we did derogate from them whom their induftry 
hath made great. Hooker.- —To degenerate; to act be¬ 
neath one’s rank, or place, or birth : 
Is there no derogation in’t ? 
You cannot derogate , my lord. Shakefpeare. 
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DE'ROGATE, adj. Degraded; damaged; leflened 
in value : 
Into her womb convey fterility ; 
Dry up in her the organs of increafe, 
And from her derogate body never fpring 
A babe to honour her! Shakefpeare, 
DF/ROGATELY, adv. With derogation.—.That I 
fliould once name you derogately. Shakefpeare. 
DEROGA'TION, J. \_derogatio, Lat.] The aft of 
weakening or retraining a former law or contraft.—That 
which enjoins the deed is certainly God’s law ; and it is 
alfo certain, that the feripture, which allows of the will, 
is neither the derogation nor relaxation of that law. South. 
— A defamation; detraction; the aft of leflcning or 
taking away the honour of any perfon or thing. Some¬ 
times with to, properly with from. —I fay not this in de¬ 
rogation to Virgil, neither do I contradift any thing which 
I have formerly faid in his juft praife. Dryden. —None of 
thefe patriots will think it a derogation from their merit to 
have it faid, that they received many lights and advan¬ 
tages from their intimacy with my lord Somers. Addifon. 
DERO'GATIVE, adj. [jderogativus , Lat.] Derogat¬ 
ing; leflening the honour of: not in ufe. —That fpirits 
are corporeal, feetns to me a conceit derogative to him- 
felf, and fuch as he fliould rather labour to overthrow ; 
yet thereby he eftabliftieth the dodtrine of luftrations, 
amulets, and charms,. Brown. 
DERO'G ATORILY, adv. In a detrafting manner. 
DERO'G ATORINESS,/. The aft of derogating. 
DERO'GATORY, adj. \_derogatorius, Lat.] Detrac¬ 
tions; that leflens the honour of: diftionourable.—'They 
live and die in their abfurdities, palling their days in 
perverted apprehenfidns and conceptions of the world, 
derogatory unto God, and the wifdom of the creation. 
Brown. 
DERO'TE, a town of Egypt, fituated in an ifland 
formed by the canal between Cairo and Rofetta. Lat. 30. 
40. N. Ion. 49. 30. E. Ferro. 
DERPT. See Dorpat. 
DER'RA, a town of Arabia, in the country of Ye¬ 
men : forty-fix miles fouth-eaft of Loheia. 
DER'RIK, a town of Perfia, in the province of Ghi- 
lan : 130 miles north-weft of Redid. 
DER'RING,^. [from beajipan, Sax. to dare.] Con¬ 
tention (of any lort) for fuperiority : 
From thence I durft in derring to compare 
With (hepherd’s fwain whatever fed in field. Spenfer. 
DER'RING-DO,yi Adventures: 
And foothly it was faid by common fame 
So long as age enabled him thereto, 
That he had beene a man of mickle name, 
Renown’d much in armes and derring-do. Spenfer. 
DER'RING-DOER, f. Fighter.—All mightie men 
and dreadful derring-deers. Spenjer. 
DER'RY. See Londonderry. 
DERRY, Dary, or Desry, a river of North Wales, 
which runs into the Avon, in Merionethihire. 
DER'RYFIELD, a townfhip of the American States, 
in New Hampfhire, on the eaft bank of Merrimack river, 
Hillfborough county, incorporated in 1751 : forty-nine 
miles weft of Portfmouth. 
DERSE'NA, a town of Perfia, in the province of Se- 
geftan: 228 miles fouth-fouth-weft of Zareng. 
DER'THA, a town of Perfia, in the province of Se- 
geftan : 1 ro miles eaft-north-eaft of Zareng. 
DERTO'SA, anciently the capital of the Hercaone's, 
in Tarraconenfis, or Hither Spain : a municipum and co¬ 
lony, furnamed Jv.lia llergavonia ; Dertofani, the people : 
now Tortofa, in Catalonia, on the Ebro. 
DER'VAL, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
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