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<h1>Detrude</h1> <Xpage=402>

<hw>De*trude"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Detruded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Detruding</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>detrudere</ets>, <ets>detrusum</ets>; <ets>de</ets> + <ets>trudere</ets> to thrust, push.]</ety> <def>To thrust down or out; to push down with force.</def>

<i>Locke.</i>

<h1>Detuncate</h1> <Xpage=402>

<hw>De*tun"cate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Detruncated</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Detruncating</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>detruncatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>detruncare</ets> to cut off; <ets>de</ets> + <ets>truncare</ets> to maim, shorten, cut off. See <er>Truncate</er>.]</ety> <def>To shorten by cutting; to cut off; to lop off.</def>

<h1>Detruncation</h1> <Xpage=402>

<hw>De`trun*ca"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>detruncatio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>d\'82troncation</ets>.]</ety> <def>The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body.</def>

<h1>Detrusion</h1> <Xpage=402>

<hw>De*tru"sion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>detrusio</ets>. See <er>Detrude</er>.]</ety> <def>The act of thrusting or driving down or outward; outward thrust.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>De*tru"sive</wf>, <tt>a.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Dette</h1> <Xpage=402>

<hw>Dette</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Debt.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Detteles</h1> <Xpage=402>

<hw>Dette"les</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Free from debt.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Detumescence</h1> <Xpage=402>

<hw>De`tu*mes"cence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>detumescere</ets> to cease swelling; <ets>de</ets> + <ets>tumescere</ets>, <ets>tumere</ets>, to swell.]</ety> <def>Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Cudworth.</i>

<h1>Detur</h1> <Xpage=402>

<hw>De"tur</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>detur</ets> let it be given.]</ety> <def>A present of books given to a meritorious undergraduate student as a prize.</def> <mark>[Harvard Univ., U. S.]</mark>

<h1>Deturb</h1> <Xpage=402>

<hw>De*turb"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>deturbare</ets>.]</ety> <def>To throw down.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bp. Hall.</i>

<h1>Deturbate</h1> <Xpage=402>

<hw>De*tur"bate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>deturbatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>deturbare</ets>, fr. L. <ets>deturbare</ets> to thrust down.]</ety> <def>To evict; to remove.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Foxe.</i>

<h1>Deturbation</h1> <Xpage=402>

<hw>Det`ur*ba"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of deturbating.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

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