detarIum

[From detar, the native name in Senegal.] IMG:content-2304.png:[blocks in formation] Bot .: A genus of leguminous plants, consisting of trees, natives of Senegal. Two species are known. Detarium senega lense furnishes a hard wood resembling mahogany, and two varieties of fruit, one sweet, the other bitter. The former is much sought which an over lifted tumbler is caught by detent, after for food, but the latter is stated to be a strong so as to indicate that the lock has been tampered poison. The succulent drupes of D. microcarpum with. In one of these devices the motion of the are eaten by the negroes. *dě-tās te, v . t . [Pref. de =away, from, and Eng. the key and keep it from being withdrawn until the IMG:content-2305.png:[blocks in formation] House of detention : A place where offenders or accused persons are kept in custody while under remand or till committed to prison. dě-těr, v . t . [Lat. deterreo =to frighten away: deaway, from, and terreo =to frighten.] To discourage or frighten from any act; to cause to cease, desist from, or abandon any practice, habit, or intention. "Rather animated than deterred by the flames and falling buildings."-Anson: Voyage , bk. iii., ch. x. Crabb thus discriminates between to deter, to discourage, and to dishearten: "One is deterred disheartened from proceeding.Dead from commencing thing, is or may deter any one from an undertaking; but a person is discouraged or disheartened mostly by the want of succe or the hopele ne of the case. The wicked are sometimes deterred from committing normities by the fear of punishment; projectors are discouraged from entering into fresh speculations by observing the failure of others; there are few persons who would not be disheartened from renewing their endeavors, who had experienced nothing but ill-succe . The prudent and the fearful are alike easily to be deterred ; impatient peopeople are easiest disheartened . The foolhardy and ple are most apt to be discouraged ; faint-hearted the obdurate are the least easily deterred from their object; the persevering will not suffer themselves to be discouraged by particular failures; the resolute and self-confident will not be disheartened by trifling difficulties." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) dě-tērģe, v . t . [Lat. deter go to wipe off, from deaway, from, and tergo to wipe.] To cleanse, clear, or wipe away foul or offensive matter from a IMG:content-2306.png:[blocks in formation] deter go to wipe away.] 1. As adj .: Having the quality or property of cleansing or cleaning; detersive. "The food ought to be nourishing and detergent."- Arbuthnot: On Diet. dě těct', v . t . to uncover, votex Lat. detect us , papar of deteto struct ors when putting up, repairing, or testing are in grendere answered by tar-water as a deter- cover.] I. Ordinary Language : *1. To disclose, to discover, to expose. "To let thy tongue detect thy base-born heart." Shakesp. Henry VI., Pt. III., ii. 2. 2. To discover or find out, especially applied in science to the discovery or detection of substances existing in minute particles or quantities. 3. To discover or find out as a crime or guilt; to bring to light, to expose. "Not a single man or woman who had the smallest interest in detecting the fraud had been suffered to be present,"-Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. viii. *4. To accuse, to bring to trial of, to inform against, to denounce. "If he be denounced or detected unto him."- Sir T. More: Works, p. 219. II. Chem.: To or chemical com discover the presence of an element characteristic chemical reactions. Crabb thus discriminates between to detect and to discover: "Detect is always taken in a bad sense: discover in an lines. *dě-těn'-ě-brate, v . t . [Lat. de =away, from, and tene brat us =dark, darkened, pa. par. of tenebro =to darken; tenebræ =darkne .] To remove darkne from, to make light or clear. afford us any light to detenebrate and clear the truth."- Browne: Vulgar Errors, bk. vi., ch. vi. holding back, from detineo to hold back.] [DETAIN.]