Use every man after his desert, and who hall 'scape whipping? Shakspare.

2. Proportional merit; claim to rewad. All desert imports an equality between the good conferred, and the good deserved, or nade due. outh.

3. Excellence; right of reward; virue. More to move you,

Take my deserts to his, and join them bon. Sbakpeare.

DESERTER. 1. s. [from desert.] 1. He that has forsaken his cause a his post: commonly in an ill sense.

The members of both houses who it frst withdrew, were counted deserters, and cuted of their places in parliament. King Charles. Straight to their ancient cells, recall' fran air, The reconcil'd deserters will repair. Iryden, Hosts of deserters, who your honour sol, And basely broke your faith for bribes ogold. iryden. 2. He that leaves the army in which he is enlisted.

They are the same deserters, whether thy stay in our own camp, or run over to the enemy's. Decay ofPiety.

A deserter, who came out of the citade, says the garrison is brought to the utmost neessity. 'atler.

3. He that forsakes another; an bandoner.

The fair sex, if they had the deserter in their power, would certainly have shewn hin more mercy than the Bacchanals did Orpheus. Dryd.

Thou false guardian of a charge to god, Thou mean deserter of thy brother's loo. Pope. DESERTION. n. s. [from desert 1. The act of forsaking or abadoring a cause or post.

Every compliance that we are perraded to by one, is a contradiction to the commands of the other; and our adherence to one, wi necessarily involve us in a desertion of the othe. Rogers. 2. [In theology.] Spiritual desondency; a sense of the dereliction o God; an opinion that grace is withdran.

Christ hears and sympathizes wit the spiritual agonies of a soul under desertion, othe pressures of some stinging affliction. South. DESERTLESS. adj. [from dest.] Without merit; without claim favour or reward.

She said she lov'd, Lov'd me desertless; who with shme confest, Another flame had seiz'd upon n breast. Dryd. To DESERVE. v. a. [desert, Fr.] To be worthy of either good (ill.

Those they honoured, as hang power to work or cease, as men deserved ahem. Hooker. Some of us love you well; and en those some Envy your great deservings, angood name.

Shakspeare.

All friends shall taste The wages of their virtue, and 1 foes The cup of their deserving,

Shakspeare.

What he deserves of you and me I know.
Shakspeart.

Yet well, if here would end
The misery: I deserv'd it, and would bear
My own deservings.

Milton.
A mother cannot give him death: though he
Deserves it, he deserves it not from me. Dryden,
Since my Orazia's death I have not seen
A beauty so deserving to be queen. Dryden.
To DESERVE. v. n. To be worthy of re-
ward.

According to the rule of natural justice, one man may merit and deserve of another. Seth. Courts are the places where best manners flourish,

Where the deserving ought to rise. Oferay. He had been a person of great deservings from the republick; was an admirable speaker, and very popular. Swift. DESERVEDLY. adv.[from deserve.]Wor thily; according to desert, whether of good or evil.

For him I was not sent; nor yet to free That people, victor once, now vile and bas", Milton. Deservedly made vassal. A man deservedly cuts himself off from theaffections of that coinmunity which he endeavours to subvert. Addison.

DESERVER. n. s. [from deserve.] A man who merits rewards. It is used, I think, only in a good sense.

Their love is never link'd to the deserver, Till his deserts are pass'd. Shakspeare. Heavy, with some high minds, is an overweight of obligation; or otherwise great deservers do, perchance, grow intolerable presumers. Wetten.

Emulation will never be wanting amongst poets, when particular rewards and prizes are proposed to the best deservers. Dryden DESICCANTS. n. s. [from desiccate.] Applications that dry up the flow of sores; driers.

This, in the beginning, may be prevented by desiccants, and wasted. Wisema

To DE'SICCATE. v. a. [desicco, Lat.] 1. To dry up; to exhaust of moisture.

In bodies desiccated by heat or age, when the native spirit goeth forth, and the moisture with it, the air with time getteth into the pores. Ba

Seminal ferments were elevated from the sea, or some desiccated places thereof, by the heat of the sun. Hall.

2. To exhale moisture.

Where there is moisture enough, or superfluous, there wine helpeth to digest and desinte 'the moisture. Barn

DESICCA'TION. n. s.[from desiccate.] The act of making dry; the state of being dried.

If the spirits issue out of the body, there fol lowetl: desiccation, induration, and consumption.

Bacon

DESICCATIVE. adj. [from desiccate.]

That has the power of drying. To DESIDERATE. v. a. [desidero, Laf.] To want; to miss; to desire in absence. A word scarcely used.

Eclipses are of wonderful assistance toward the solution of this so desirable and so much de siderated problem. Chert DESIDERATUM. [Latin.] Somewhat which inquiry has not yet been able to settle or discover: as, the longitude is the desideratum of navigation; the tri

section of an angle, and the quadrature of a circle, are the desiderata of gepmetry.

DESIDIOSE. adj. [desidiosus, Lat.] Idle; lazy; heavy.

Dict.

To DESIGN. v. a. [designo, Lat. dessiner, French.]

1. To purpose; to intend any thing. 2. To form or order with a particular purpose: with for.

The acts of religious worship were purposely designed for the acknowledgment of a Being, whom the most excellent creatures are bound to adore as well as we. Stilling fleet. You are not for obscurity design'd; But, like the sun, must cheer all human kind. Dryden.

3. To devote intentionally: with to.

One of those places was designed by the old
Clarendon.

man to his son.

He was born to the inheritance of a splendid fortune: he was designed to the study of the law. Dryden. 4. To plan; to project; to form in idea. We are to observe whether the picture or outlines be well drawn, or, as more elegant artizans term it, well designed; then, whether it be well coloured: which be the two general heads.

Wotton.

Thus, while they speed their pace, the prince designs

The new elected seat, and draws the lines. Dryd. 5. To mark out by particular tokens, Little used.

"T is not enough to make a man a subject, to convince him that there is regal power in the world; but there must be ways of designing and knowing the person to whom this regal power of right belongs. Locke.

DESIGN. n. 5. [from the verb.]

1. An intention; a purpose.
2. A scheme; a plan of action.

Is he a prudent man, as to his temporal estate, that lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to the remaining part of his life? Tillson, 3. A scheme formed to the detriment of another.

A sedate settled design upon another man's life, put him in a state of war with him against whom he has declared such an intention. Locke. 4. The idea which an artist endeavours to execute or express.

I doubt not but in the designs of several Greek medals, one may often see the hand of an Apelles or Protogenes.

Addison.

Thy hand strikes out some new design, Where life awakes and dawns at every line. Pope. DESIGNABLE. adj. [designo, Lat.] Dis- tinguishable; capable to be particularly marked out.

The power of all natural agents is limited: the mover must be confined to observe these proportions, and cannot pass over all these infinite Zesignable degrees in an instant. Digby. DESIGNATION. n. s. [designatio, Lat.] 1. The act of pointing or marking out by some particular token.

This is a plain designation of the duke of Marlborough; one kind of stuff used to fatten Land is called marle, and every body knows that borough is a name for a town.

2. Appointment; direction.

Swift.

William the Conqueror for pore to use that

3.

claim in the beginning; but mixed it with a titu lary pretence, grounded upon the will and de Bacon. signation of Edward the Confessor. Import; intention.

Finite and infinite seem to be looked upon by the mind as the modes of quantity; and to be attributed primarily in their first designation only to those things which have parts, and are capable of increase or diminution. Locke.

DESIGNEDLY. adv. [from design.] Purposely; intentionally; by design or purpose; not ignorantly; not inadvertently; not fortuitously.

Uses made things; that is to say, some things were made designedly, and on purpose, for such an use as they serve to. Ray on the Creation,

The next thing is, sometimes designedly to put children in pain; but care must be taken that this be done when the child is in good humour. Locke

DESIGNER. n. s. [from design.]

1. One that designs, intends or purposes;

It has therefore always been both the rule and practice, for such designers to suborn the publick interest, to countenance and cover their private. Decay of Piety.

3. One that forms the idea of any thing in painting or sculpture.

There is a great affinity between designing and poetry; for the Latin poets, and the designers of the Roman medals, lived very near one another, and were bred up to the same relish for wit and fancy. Addison. DESIGNING. participial adj. [from design.} Insidious; treacherous; deceitful; fraudulently artful.

'T would shew me poor, indebted, and compell'd,

Designing, mercenary; and I know

You would not wish to think I could be bought. Southern.

DESIGNLESS. adj. [from design.] Without intention; without design; unknowDESIGNLESSLY. adv. [from designless.] ing; inadvertent. Without intention; ignorantly; inadvertently.

In this great concert of his whole creation, the designlessly conspiring voices are as ditiering as DESIGNMENT. n. s. [from design.] the conditions of the respective singers. Boyle. 1. A purpose and intent.

The sanctity of the christian religion excludes fraud and falsehood from the designments and aims of its first promulgators. Decay of Picty.

"T is a greater credit to know the ways of captivating nature, and making her subserve our purposes and designments, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy. Glanville. 2. A scheme of hostility.

3.

News, lords! our wars are done! The desperate tempest hath so bang'd the Turks, That their designment halts. Shakspeare. She received advice both of the king's desperate estate, and of the duke's designments against Hayward.

her.

The idea, or sketch, of a work. The scenes which represent cities and countries are not really such, but only painted on boards and canvass; but shall that excuse the ill painture or designment of them? Dryden.

When absent, yet we conquer'd in his right; For tho' that soine mean artist's skill were shown In mingling colours, or in placing light, Yet still the fair designment was his own.

Dryden.

DESIRABLE. adj. [from desire.] 1. That is to be wished with earnestness. Adjudged cases, collected by men of great sagacity, will improve his mind toward acquiring this desirable amplitude and extent of thought. Watts.

He cannot but confess, that it is a thing the most desirable to man, and most agreeable to the goodness of God, that he should send forth his light and his truth by a special revelation of his will. Rogers.

2. Pleasing; delightful.

She then let drop some expressions about an agate snuff-box. I immediately took the hint, and bought one; being unwilling to omit any thing that might make me desirable in her eyes. Addison.

Watts.

Our own sex, our kindred, our houses, and our very names, seem to have something good and desirable in them. DESI'RE. n. s. [desir, Fr. deseo, Ital. desiderium, Lat.] Wish; eagerness to obtain or enjoy.

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of any thing, whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

Locke. Drink provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. Shakspeare.

Desire's the vast extent of human mind; It mounts above, and leaves poor hope behind. Dryden.

It is in a man's power only to observe what the ideas are that take their turns in his understanding; or else to direct the sort, and call in such as he hath a desire or use of. To DESIRE. v. a. [desirer, French; desiderare, Latin.]

I. To wish; to long for; to covet.

12.

Locke.

Thou shalt not desire the silver or gold.

Deut.

To express wishes; to appear to long. Jove beheld it with a desiring look. Dryden. 3. To ask; to intreat.

Sir, I intreat you home with me to dinner. -I humbly do desire your grace of pardon: I must away this night.

Shakspeare.

But since you take such int'rest in our woe, And Troy's disastrous end desire to know, I will restrain my tears, and briefly tell What in our last and fatal night befell. Dryden. 4. To require; to demand. Not in use. A doleful case desires a doleful song, Without vain art or curious compliments. Spens. DESIRER. N. s. [from desire.] One that is eager of any thing; a wisher.

sirers.

I will counterfeit the bewitchment of some popular man, and give it bountifully to the deShakspeare. DESIROUS. adj. [from desire.] Full of desire; cager; longing after; wishing for.

The same piety which maketh them that are in authority desirous to please and resemble God by justice, inflameth every way men of action with zeal to do good. Hooker. Be not desirous of his dainties; for they are deceitful meat.

Conjugal affection,

Milica

Millen

Prevailing over fear and timorous doubt, Hath led me on, desirous to behold Once more thy ice. DESIROUSLY. adv. [from desirous.] Eagerly; with desire; with ardent wishes. DESIROUSNESS. n. s. [from desirous.] Fulness of desire; eagerness. Dict. To DESI'ST. v. n. [desisto, Latin.] To cease from any thing; to stop: with from.

Desist: thou art discern'd,

And toil'st in vain; nor me in vain molest.

Milten.

There are many who will not quit a project, though they find it pernicious or absurd; but will readily desist from it, when they are convinced it is impracticable. Addison. DESISTANCE. n. s. [from desist.] The act of desisting; cessation.

Men usually give freeliest where they have not given before and make it both the motive and excuse of their desistance from giving any more, that they have given already. Begie. DESITIVE. adj. [desitus, Lat.] Ending; concludent; final.

Inceptive and desitive propositions are of this sort: The fogs vanish as the sun rises; but the fogs have not yet begun to vanish, therefore the sun is not yet risen. Wath.

DESK. n. s. (disch, a table, Dutch.] An inclining table for the use of writers or readers, made commonly with a box or repository under it.

Tell her, in the desk
That's cover'd o'er with Turkish tapestry
There is a purse of ducats.

Shakspeare. He is drawn leaning on a desk, with his Bible before him. Walten's Angler.

I have been obliged to leave unfinished in my desk the heads of two essays.

Not the desk with silver nails,
Nor bureau of expence,
Nor standish well japann'd, avails
To writing of good sense.

Pop

Swift.

Men are drowsy and desirous to sleep before the fit of an ague, and yawn and stretch. Bacon.

n. s. [from desolate.] 1. Destruction of inhabitants; reduction to solitude.

To complete

Shakspeare.

Thomson.

The scene of desolation, stretch'd around
The grim guards stand.

3. A place wasted and forsaken.

How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

Jer. DESPAIR. n. s. [desespoir, French.] 1. Hopelesness; despondence; loss of hope. Despair is the thought of the unattainableness of any good: which works differently in men's minds; sometimes producing uneasiness or pain, sometimes rest and indolency. Lucke.

You had either never attempted this change, set on with hope; or never discovered it, stopt with despair.

Sidney.

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair. 2 Cor. Wearied, forsaken, and pursued at last, All safety in despair of safety plac'd, Courage he thence resumes; resolv'd to bear All their assaults, since 't is in vain to fear.

Strangely visited people,

All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he cures; Hanging a golden stamp about their necks, Put on with holy prayers. Shakspeare. 3. [In theology.] Loss of confidence in the mercy of God.

Are not all or most evangelical virtues and graces in danger of extremes? As there is, God knows, too often a defect on the one side, so there may be an excess on the other: may not hope in God, or godly sorrow, be perverted into presumption or despair? Spratt. To DESPAIR. v. n. [despero, Latin.] To be without hope; to despond: with of before a noun.

Though thou drewest a sword at thy friend, yet despair not; for there may be a turning. Ecclus.

We commend the wit of the Chinese, who despair of making of gold, but are mad upon making of silver. Baton.

DESPAIRFUL. adj. [despair and full.]
Hopeless. Obsolete.
That sweet but sour despairful care. Sidney
Other cries amongst the Irish savour of the
Scythian barbarism; as the lamentations of their
burials, with despairful outcries.
DESPAIRINGLY.adv.[from despairing.]
Spensers
In a manner betokening hopelesness or
despondency.

Never despair of God's blessings here, or of his reward hereafter; but go on as you have begun. Wake.

DESPAIRER. n. s. [from despair.] One without hope.

He cheers the fearful, and commends the bold,

And makes despairers hope for good success. Dryden

He speaks severely and despairingly of our Society. Boyle. To DESPATCH. v. a. [depecher, Fr.] 1. To send away hastily.

Doctor Theodore Coleby, a sober man, I dispatched immediately to Utrecht, to bring the moxa, and learn the exact method of using it.

Templo

The good neas, whose paternal care Iülus' absence could no longer bear, Despatch'd Achates to the ships in haste, To give a glad relation of the past.. Dryden. 2. To send out of the world; to put to death.

3.

Edmund, I think, is gone,

In pity of his misery, to despatch His knighted life.

Shakspeare.

And the company shall stone them with stones, and despatch them with their swords. Ezek.

In combating, but two of you will fall; And we resolve we will despatch you all. Dryd. Despatch me quickly, I may death forgive; I shall grow tender else, and wish to live. Dryden. To perform a business quickly: as, I despatched my affairs, and ran hither. Therefore commanded he his chariot-man to drive without ceasing, and to despatch the jour ney, the judgment of God now following him. 2 Mac,

No sooner is one action despatched, which, by such a determination as the will, we are set upon, but another uneasiness is ready to set us on work.

gone.

Locke

4. To conclude an affair with another.
What, are the brothers parted?
-They have despatch'd with Pompey; he is
Shahspeare.
DESPATCH. n. s. [from the verb.]
1. Hasty execution; speedy performance.
Affected despatch is one of the most dangerous
things to business that can be.
Bacon.
You'd see, could you her inward motions
watch,

Feigning deley, she wishes for despatch;
Then to a woman's meaning would you look,
Then read her backward.
Grannille.
The despatch of a good office is very often as
beneficial to the solicitor as the good office itself.
Addison.

2. Conduct; management. Obsolete.
You shall Fut

This night's great business into my despatch,
Which shall, to all our nights and days to

come,

Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.

Shakspeare.

3. Express; hasty messenger or message: as, despatches were sent away. DESPATCHFUL. adj. [from despatch.] Bent on haste; intent on speedy execution of business.

So saying, with disputeful looks in haste She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent.

Milton.

Let one dispatchful bid some swain to lead A well fed bullock from the grassy mead.

Pope.

sure,

Though he be grown so desperate to be honest, And live a subject? Shakspeare.

He who goes on without any care or thought of reforming, such an one we vulgarly call a desperate person, and that sure is a most damning sin. Hammond.

3. Irretrievable; unsurmountable; irrecoverable.

These debts may be well called desperate ones; for a mad man owes them. Shakspeare. In a part of Asia the sick, when their case comes to be thought desperate, are carried out and laid on the earth, before they are dead, and left there. Locke.

I am a man of desperate fortunes: that is, a man whose friends are dead; for I never aimed at any other fortune than in friends.'

Pope to Swift.

Mad; hotbrained; furious. Were it not the part of a desperate physician to wish his friend dead, rather than to apply the best endeavours of his skill for his recovery? Spenser's State of Ireland. 5. It is sometimes used in a sense nearly ludicrous, and only marks any bad qua lity predominating in a high degree.

Concluding all mere desp'rate sots and fools, That durst depart from Aristotle's rules. Pope. DE'SPERATELY. adv. [from desperate.] 1. Furiously; madly; without attention to safety or danger.

Your eldest daughters have foredone themselves,

And desp'rately are dead.

Shakspeare. There might be somewhat in it, that he would not have done, or desired undone, when he broke forth as desperately as before he had done uncivilly. Brown's Vulgar Errours. 2. In a great degree; violently: this sense is ludicrous.

She fell desperately in love with him, and took a voyage into Sicily in pursuit of him.

Addison.

DE'SPERATENESS. n. s. [from desperate.] Madness; fury; precipitance.

The going on not only in terrours and amazement of conscience, but also boldly, hopingly, confidently, in wilful habits of sin, is called a desperateness also; and the more bold thus, the more desperate. Hammond. DESPERATION. n. s. [from desperate.] Hopelesness; despair; despondency. Desperation

Is all the policy, strength, and defence, Tha Rome can make against them. Shaksp As long as we are guilty of any past sin, and have no promise of remission, whatever our future care be, this desperation of success chills all our industry, and we sin on because we have sinned. Hammond. DESPICABLE. adj. [despicabilis, Latin.] Contemptible; vile; mean; sordid; worthless. It is applied equally to persons or things.

Our case were miserable, if that wherewith

When men of rank and figure pass away their lives in criminal pursuits and practices, they render themselves more vile and despicable than any innocent man can be, whatever low station his fortune and birth have placed him in.

Addison. DE'SPICABLENESS. n. s. [from despicable.] Meanness; vileness; worthless

ness.

We consider the great disproportion between the infinity of the reward and the despicableness of our service. Decay of Piety. DE'SPICABLY. adv. [from despicable.] Meanly; sordidly; vilely.

Here wanton Naples crowns the happy shore; Nor vainly rich, por despicably poor: The town in soft solemnities delights, And gentle poets to her arms invites. Addista. DESPISABLE. adj. [from despise.] Contemptible; despicable; regarded with contempt. A word scarcely used but in low conversation.

I am obliged to you for taking notice of a poor old distressed courtier, commonly the most despisable thing in the world. Arbuthnot to Pope. To DESPI'SE. v. a. [despiser, old French, Skinner; despicio, Latin.]

1. To scorn; to contemn; to slight; to disrespect.

For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.

Jer.

My sons their old unhappy sire despise, Spoil'd of his kingdom, and depriv'd of eyes.

Shakspeare.

Wisdom is commonly, at long running, justi fied even of her despisers. Goo. of Tengut Thus the atheists, libertines, and despisers of religion, usually pass under the name of freethinkers. Sreift. DESPITE. n. s. [spijt, Dutch; depit, French.]

1. Malice; anger; malignity; maliciousness; spleen; hatred.

Thou wretch! despite o'erwhelm thee! Shaka With men these considerations are usually the causes of despite, disdain, or aversion from others; but with God they pass for reasons of our greater tenderness towards others. Spratt

2. Defiance; unsubdued opposition.