Dentiroster
(||Den`ti*ros"ter) n.; pl. Dentirostres [NL., fr. L. dens, dentis, tooth + rostrum bill, beak: cf.
F. dentirostre.] (Zoöl.) A dentirostral bird.
Dentirostral
(Den`ti*ros"tral) a. (Zoöl.) Having a toothed bill; — applied to a group of passerine birds,
having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrikes and vireos. See Illust. (N) under
Beak.
Dentirostrate
(Den`ti*ros"trate) a. Dentirostral.
Dentiscalp
(Den"ti*scalp) n. [L. dens tooth + scalpere to scrape.] An instrument for scraping the
teeth.
Dentist
(Den"tist) n. [From L. dens, dentis, tooth: cf. F. dentiste. See Tooth.] One whose business it
is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon.
Dentistic
(Den*tis"tic Den*tis"ti*cal) a. Pertaining to dentistry or to dentists. [R.]
Dentistry
(Den"tist*ry) n. The art or profession of a dentist; dental surgery.
Dentition
(Den*ti"tion) n. [L. dentitio, fr. dentire to cut teeth, fr. dens, dentis, tooth. See Dentist.]
1. The development and cutting of teeth; teething.
2. (Zoöl.) The system of teeth peculiar to an animal.
Dentize
(Den"tize) v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Dentized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dentizing.] [L. dens, dentis,
tooth.] To breed or cut new teeth. [R.]
The old countess . . . did dentize twice or thrice.
Bacon. Dentoid
(Den"toid) a. [L. dens, dentis, tooth + -oid.] Shaped like a tooth; tooth- shaped.
Dentolingual
(Den`to*lin"gual) a. Dentilingual.
Denture
(Den"ture) n. [L. dens, dentis, tooth: cf. F. denture, OF. denteure.] (Dentistry) An artificial
tooth, block, or set of teeth.
Denudate
(De*nud"ate) v. t. [L. denudatus, p. p. of denudare. See Denude.] To denude. [Obs. or
R.]
Denudation
(Den`u*da"tion) n. [L. denudatio: cf. F. dénudation.]
1. The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.
2. (Geol.) The laying bare of rocks by the washing away of the overlying earth, etc.; or the excavation
and removal of them by the action of running water.
Denude
(De*nude") v. t. [L. denudare; de- + nudare to make naked or bare, nudus naked. See Nude.]
To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands.
Denunciate
(De*nun"ci*ate) v. t. [L. denuntiatus, denunciatus, p. p. of denuntiare, -ciare. See Denounce.]
To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. [R.]
To denunciate this new work.
Burke. Denunciation
(De*nun`ci*a"tion) n. [L. denuntiatio, -ciatio.]
