Desirous
(De*sir"ous) a. [F. désireux, OF. desiros, fr. desir. See Desire, n.] Feeling desire; eagerly
wishing; solicitous; eager to obtain; covetous.
Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him.
John xvi. 19.
Be not desirous of his dainties.
Prov. xxiii. 3. Desirously
(De*sir"ous*ly), adv. With desire; eagerly.
Desirousness
(De*sir"ous*ness), n. The state of being desirous.
Desist
(De*sist") v. i. [imp. & p. p. Desisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Desisting.] [L. desistere; de- + sistere
to stand, stop, fr. stare to stand: cf. F. désister. See Stand.] To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to
forbear; — often with from.
Never desisting to do evil.
E. Hall.
To desist from his bad practice.
Massinger.
Desist (thou art discern'd,
And toil'st in vain).
Milton. Desistance
(De*sist"ance) n. [Cf. F. desistance.] The act or state of desisting; cessation. [R.] Boyle.
If fatigue of body or brain were in every case followed by desistance . . . then would the system be but
seldom out of working order.
H. Spencer. Desistive
(De*sist"ive) a. [See Desist.] Final; conclusive; ending. [R.]
Desition
(De*si"tion) n. [See Desinent.] An end or ending. [R.]
Desitive
(Des"i*tive) a. Final; serving to complete; conclusive. [Obs.] "Desitive propositions." I. Watts.
Desitive
(Des"i*tive), n. (Logic) A proposition relating to or expressing an end or conclusion. [Obs.] I.
Watts.
Desk
(Desk) n. [OE. deske, the same word as dish, disk. See Dish, and cf. Disk.]
1. A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers.
It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
2. A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from
the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (esp. in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used
symbolically for "the clerical profession."
Desk
(Desk), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Desked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Desking.] To shut up, as in a desk; to
treasure.
Deskwork
(Desk"work`) n. Work done at a desk, as by a clerk or writer. Tennyson.
Desman
(Des"man) n. [Cf. Sw. desman musk.] (Zoöl.) An amphibious, insectivorous mammal found
in Russia It is allied to the moles, but is called muskrat by some English writers. [Written also dæsman.]
Desmid
(Des"mid Des*mid"i*an) n. [Gr. desmo`s chain + e'i^dos form.] (Bot.) A microscopic plant of
the family Desmidiæ, a group of unicellular algæ in which the species have a greenish color, and the cells
generally appear as if they consisted of two coalescing halves.
