a. [ Aden- + -form. ] Shaped like a gland; adenoid. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Aden- + -itis. ] (Med.) Glandular inflammation. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Aden- + -itis. ] (Med.) Glandular inflammation. Dunglison. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any of various orchids of the genus Caladenia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act or process of converting the surface of iron into steel. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Casehardening is now commonly effected by cementation with charcoal or other carbonizing material, the depth and degree of hardening (carbonization) depending on the time during which the iron is exposed to the heat. See Cementation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of making something futile and useless (as by routine).
Syn. -- stultification, impairment. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. [ p. pr. of verb deaden{ 3 }. ] Rendering less lively, intense, or vigorous; as, the deadening effect of some routine tasks. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; as, the deadening effect of some routine tasks.
Syn. -- boring, dreary, ho-hum, irksome, tedious, tiresome, wearisome. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ See Deny. ] Capable of being, or liable to be, denied. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Deny. ] 1. The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation. [ 1913 Webster ]

You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. Bp. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A refusal to admit the truth of a statement, charge, imputation, etc.; assertion of the untruth of a thing stated or maintained; a contradiction. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A refusal to grant; rejection of a request. [ 1913 Webster ]

The commissioners, . . . to obtain from the king's subjects as much as they would willingly give, . . . had not to complain of many peremptory denials. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A refusal to acknowledge; disclaimer of connection with; disavowal; -- the contrary of confession; as, the denial of a fault charged on one; a denial of God. [ 1913 Webster ]

Denial of one's self, a declining of some gratification; restraint of one's appetites or propensities; self-denial. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Denial. [ Obs. ] E. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who denies; as, a denier of a fact, or of the faith, or of Christ. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. denier, fr. L. denarius a Roman silver coin orig. equiv. to ten asses, later, a copper, fr. deni ten by ten, fr. the root of decem ten; akin to E. ten. See Ten, and cf. Denary, Dinar. ] A small copper coin of insignificant value. [ 1913 Webster ]

My dukedom to a beggarly denier. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. denigrare; de- + nigrare to blacken, niger black. ] 1. To blacken thoroughly; to make very black. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To blacken or sully; to defame. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To denigrate the memory of Voltaire. Morley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign; -- used of statements.
Syn. -- calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, libellous, libelous, slanderous. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. denigratio. ] 1. The act of making black. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: A blackening; defamation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The vigorous denigration of science. Morley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, blackens. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. same as denigrating. [ PJC ]

n. [ Of uncertain origin. ] A coarse cotton drilling used for overalls, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. de- + nitrate. ] A disengaging, or removal, of nitric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of freeing from nitrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of nitrogen. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. de- + nitrogen + -fy. ] To deprive of, or free from, nitrogen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of making one a denizen or adopted citizen; naturalization. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make a denizen; to confer the rights of citizenship upon; to naturalize. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There was a private act made for denizing the children of Richard Hills. Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. denzein, deinzein, prop., one living (a city or country); opposed to forain foreign, and fr. denz within, F. dans, fr. L. de intus, prop., from within, intus being from in in. See In, and cf. Foreign. ] 1. A dweller; an inhabitant. “Denizens of air.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Denizens of their own free, independent state. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who is admitted by favor to all or a part of the rights of citizenship, where he did not possess them by birth; an adopted or naturalized citizen. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One admitted to residence in a foreign country. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye gods,
Natives, or denizens, of blest abodes. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To constitute (one) a denizen; to admit to residence, with certain rights and privileges. [ 1913 Webster ]

As soon as denizened, they domineer. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants. [ 1913 Webster ]

There [ islets ] were at once denizened by various weeds. J. D. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Denization; denizening. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To constitute (one) a denizen; to denizen. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being a denizen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Eden; paradisaic. “Edenic joys.” Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Edenville, N. Y. ] (Min.) A variety of amphibole. See Amphibole. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Admitted to a state of paradisaic happiness. [ R. ] Davies (Wit's Pilgr. ). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of naturalizing. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To endenizen. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + denizen. Cf. Indenizen. ] To admit to the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make free. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants, some species of which produce beautiful and fragrant flowers; Cape jasmine; -- so called in honor of Dr. Alexander Garden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. See Gastroduodenal, and -itis. ] (Med.) Inflammation of the stomach and duodenum. It is one of the most frequent causes of jaundice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A genus of North American terrestrial orchids usually included in the genus Habenaria.
Syn. -- genus Gymnadeniopsis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. Making hard or harder. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ After W. E. Hidden. ] (Min.) An emerald-green variety of spodumene found in North Carolina; lithia emerald, -- used as a gem. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like, or appropriate to, a hoiden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of naturalizing; endenization. [ R. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To naturalize. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Indenizened p. pr. & vb. n. Indenizening. ] To invest with the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Words indenizened, and commonly used as English. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Lymph, and Adenitis. ] (Med.) Inflammation of the lymphatic glands; -- called also lymphitis. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. extremely annoying or displeasing.
Syn. -- annoying, exasperating, infuriating, vexing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖prop. n. [ NL. From W. Marsden, an English author. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants of the Milkweed family, mostly woody climbers with fragrant flowers, several species of which furnish valuable fiber, and one species (Marsdenia tinctoria) affords indigo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. molybdénite. See Molybdena. ] (Min.) A mineral occurring in soft, lead-gray, foliated masses or scales, resembling graphite; sulphide of molybdenum. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. phagedaenicus, Gr. fagedainiko`s: cf. F. phagédénique. ] (Med.) Of, like, or pertaining to, phagedena; used in the treatment of phagedena; as, a phagedenic ulcer or medicine. -- n. A phagedenic medicine. [ 1913 Webster ]