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-A post-village of Millard co. Pop . about 700. Des'ert, a . [Fr. désert ; Lat. desert us.] Forsaken; un- inhabited; wild; untilled; waste; uncultivated; void; empty; unoccupied. -n. A term generally used to designate an uninhabited place or solitude. In this sense it is equally applicable to the fertile plains watered by the Marañon, and to the wastes of Libya; but it is applied more particularly to the vast sandy and stony plains of Africa and Asia. In every region of the globe plains are to be found of greater or le extent, which, though marked by strong features of resemblance in their grand outlines, exhibit, with the different latitudes in which they are placed, a corresponding variety of character, and, according to the distinguishing peculiarities of each, are known by different appellations. Thus we have the Steppes of Europe, the Deserts of Asia and Africa, the Prairies or Savannahs of the Mi i ippi and the Mi ouri, and the Pampas and Llanos of S. America. The most striking feature of N. Africa consists of its immense deserts, which have in all ages presented to the speculations of the geographer objects highly worthy of attention. Of these the chief is the Sahara , or the Desert , so called by way of pre-eminence. In many parts the dreary waste of loose and hardened sand is broken by low hills of naked sandstone, or by tracts of arid clay, and occasionally it is enlivened by verdant isles, or oases , which serve as resting-places for the caravans that traverse these dismal regions. But for these oases , indeed, the Sahara would be wholly impa able. It presents, says Malte Brun, no traces of a beaten path; and the caravans that traverse it, directing their way by the polar star, describe a tortuous road, in order to profit by the cases, which are represented as brilliant with vegetation, but which probably owe a great part of their reputation to the contrast they form with the absolute barrenne of the desert. The great deserts of Africa are separated IMG:content-0572.jpg:[graphic][subsumed][subsumed] Surface , an alluvial plain. Soil , fertile. Cap . Arkansas City. Pop . (1890) 10,324. Deshoulières, ANTOINETTE DU LIGIER, ( da - zool - yair ',) a handsome, witty, and accomplished French woman, and a writer of much versatility, was B. at Paris, in 1634; she married a gentleman of family, and was introduced at the court of Louis XIV. in 1657, where she attracted Design'ful, a. Full of design or artifice. Design'ing, p . a. Marking out; forming a design; planning; drawing figures on a plane; delineating the outline of; insidiously contriving schemes of mischief; artful; intriguing; deceitful; treacherous. much attention, and lived on terms of friendship with -n. The art of designing, or of delineating objects. the principal literati of the age. She produced numer- Design'le , a . Without intention or design. ous plays and operas, few of which were succe ful; but Design'le ly, adv . Inadvertently. her " Idyls " are still admired. She D., after 12 years of Desil'ver, v . a. To deprive of silver. suffering from a cancer in her breast, in 1694. from those of Asia only by the valley of the river Nile and the Red Sea. Soon after quitting the Nile, the traveller by the route of Suez encounters sand, which is continued into the centre of Arabia, where it forms the desert of Nejd, extending to the valley of the Eu- phrates. The sandy zone then inclines northward, en- ters Persia, and forms the saline deserts of Adjemi, Kerman, and Mekran; it is turned north-east by the valley of the Indus, pa es through Cabul and Little Bokhara, till it joins the vast deserts of Gobi and Sha- mo, which occupy so large a portion of Central Asia between the Altaian and Mustai chains, and reach to the confines of China. The sandy zone, thus traced throughout the breadth of the ancient continent from W. Africa to 120° of E. Lon., has been computed to cover an area of 6,500,000 sq. m.; but the Asiatic portion of this tract includes many chains of mountains, and fertile valleys. It is characterized by the occurrence of arid wastes of sand or clay, sometimes with saline incrust a- tions on the surface, and is remarkably deficient in con- sider able rivers. Except the Nile, the Euphrates, the Indus, and the Oxus, there are no large rivers in a re- gion which embraces almost a fourth part of both Africa and Asia. This portion of Central Asia forms a series of elevated plains 6,000 miles in length from east to Desicca'tion, n. [Fr.; L. Lat. desiccatio.] Act of west. Some of these plains, says Humboldt, are cov- Deshabille, ( děs - ha - beel ',) n. [Fr., from deshabiller , to undre , from des , equivalent to Lat. dis , and habiller , to dre ; Lat., as if habitulare , from habitus , dre , at- tire.] Undre ; loose dre . - See DISHABILLE. Desiccant, a. [Lat. desiccans.] Having the property of drying up. -n. ( Med . ) An application that dries up. Desiccate, v. a. [Lat. desicco , desiccatus- de , and sicco , to dry; Gael. saec , to scorch, to dry, to parch; W. sych, dry; Fr. de eéher.] To dry up; to exhaust of moisture; to exhale or remove moisture from. -v. n. To grow by. making dry; the state of being dried. the power to dry. -n. ( Med .) An application which tends to dry up secre tions. ered with herbage; others produce only evergreen sal if- Desiccative, a. Drying; tending to dry; that has erous plants, with fleshy and jointed stems; but a great number glitter from afar with a saline efflorescence that crystallizes in the semblance of lichens, and covers the clayey soil with scattered patches like new-fallen snow. Under the head of MIRAGE is found some account of a singular optical illusion often seen in the desert.- In the Old Testament the term desert bears a wholly differ- ent interpretation from that usually attached to it in other writings. It has been fully shown by Reland ( Palest . 1. i. p. 375) that the Hebrew (mid-bar), the ἐρῆμος of the Greeks, and the desertum or solitudo of the Latins, bear no analogy to each other; the first being appropriated almost exclusively to those thinly peopled districts of the Holy Land which yielded pasturage for cattle, and were remarkable at once for their beauty and the luxuriance of their vegetation. Desert', n. [O. Fr. déserte , merit; Lat. deservitura , de servitio, from Lat. deservio , to serve diligently- de , and servio, to serve.) A deserving; diligent or faithful service; due; worth; excellence; that which is deserved; merit, or demerit; claim to reward, or liability to punishment; worthine , or unworthine ; reward, or punishment justly due. Desert', v. a. [Fr. déserter ; Lat. desero, desert us- de , and sero, sertum, to join or bind together; Gr. heiro. To separate from; to quit with a view not to return to; to forsake; to leave, as the service in which one is engaged, in violation of duty; to forsake; to leave; to abandon; to relinquish; to quit. -. a. To run away; to quit a service without permi ion; as, to desert from a ship. Desert'er, n. One who deserts; particularly a soldier or seaman who quits the service without permi ion, and in violation of his engagement. By the articles for the government of the navy of the U. States (Art. 12), it is enacted, that, "if any person in the navy shall desert to the enemy, or to rebels, he shall suffer death;" and (Art. 13), "if any person in the navy shall desert in time of war, he shall suffer death, or such other punishment as a court-martial shall adjudge." The rules and articles for the government of the land forces of the U. States authorize the infliction of corporal punishment, not exceeding 50 lashes, for desertion in time of peace, by sentence of a general court-martial; and the law does not permit punishment by stripes and lashes for any other crime in the land service. In time of war, a court-martial may sentence a deserter to suffer death, or otherwise punish, at its discretion. Deser'tion, n. [Fr. désertion.] Act of deserting; act of forsaking or abandoning, as a party, a friend, a country, an army, a military corps, or a ship; act of quitting, with an intention not to return; state of being forsaken by God. Deserve', v. a. [0. Fr. déservir; Lat. deservis-de, and servio, to serve.) To earn by diligent and faithful service; to merit; to have a just claim to an equivalent for labor or services, or for good conferred; to be worthy of, whether in good or evil. -v. n. To merit; to be worthy of, or deserving. Deserved', pp . or a . Merited; worthy of. Deservedly, adv . According to desert; justly.. Deserv'er, n. One who deserves, or merits. Deserving, n. Act of meriting; desert. -a. Worthy; meritorious. Deservingly, adv . In a deserving manner. Deseze', RAYMOND, a French magistrate, B. in Bordeaux, 1750. He practised as an advocate at Paris, and his acknowledged talents caused him to be named one of the counsel for the unfortunate Louis XVI., whose cause he most ably defended, after Turgot had declined the dangerous task. He was imprisoned for a time, but escaped the scaffold; and on recovering his liberty he could never be induced to serve either the Directory, the Consulate, or the Imperial government. On the return of the Bourbons he received, as the only survivor of the 3 selected by Louis for his counsel, the grateful notice of Louis XVIII. for his devotedne to his royal and un Desiderate, v . a . [Lat. desidero, desi derat us ] To long or greatly wish for; to desire; to want; to mi . Desidera'tion, n. Act of desiderating. (R.) Desiderative, a. [Lat. desiderativus ; It. desiderativo .] (Gram.) Implying desire; as, a desiderative verb. -n. An object wished for. (Gram.) A verb which expre es the desire of doing an act denoted by another verb, from which it derives. Desidera'tum, n. [Lat., from desidero .] That which is desired; that which is not po e ed, but which is desirable; any perfection or improvement which is wanted. Desiderius, or Didier, ( dis -e-de're-us,) the last king of Lombardy; he was duke of Istria, and succeeded Astolphus in 757. His daughters were married to the two sons of Pepin, king of France, Carlo man and Charlemagne. The latter soon repudiated his wife, and, at the request of Pope Adrian, invaded Italy in 773, dethroned Desiderius, and sent him to end his days in the monastery of Corbie. Design, (des in',) n. [Fr. dé in , drawing, purpose.] Something marked or traced out; a plan or representation of a thing by an outline; sketch; general view; first idea represented by visible lines; a plan drawn out in the mind; purpose; intention; aim; project. (Fine Arts.) In all the arts, the idea formed in the mind of an artist on any particular subject, which he endeavors to transfer to some medium for the purpose of making it known to others. It is sometimes loosely and improperly used as synonymous with drawing . Every work of design is to be considered either in relation to the art that produced it, to the nature of its adaptation to the end sought, or to the nature of the end it is destined to serve; thus its beauty is dependent on the wisdom or excellence displayed in the design, on the fitne or propriety of the adaptation, and upon the utility of the end. The considerations of design, fitne , and utility, have become the three great sources of beauty of form. This beauty frequently arises from the combined power of these expre ions. - Every work of art supposes unity of design, or some particular end proposed by the artist in its structure or composition. In every beautiful work of art, we are not satisfied with mere utility-we must have elegant design, of which the grand feature is variety; it is this which in general distinguishes beautiful from plain forms, and without it uniformity is dull and insipid. v. a. [Fr. dé iner, to draw, désigner , to design, from Lat. desi no -de, and signum, a mark, token, or sign.] To mark or trace out; to delineate by drawing the outline of form or figure; to form an outline or representation of in the mind; to form an idea; to form a plan, purpose, or intention; to establish, form, or set apart for some end; to plan: to purpose; to intend; to propose; to project; to mean; to do. -v. n. To intend; to purpose. Design'able, a . Capable of being designed or marked out; distinguishable. Designate, v. a. [Fr. désigner; Lat. designo, design at us.] To mark or trace out; to mark out or show, so as to make known; to indicate by visible lines, marks, description or something known and determinate; to point out; to distinguish from others by indication; to name; to denominate; to style; to characterize; to describe; to appoint; to a ign; to allot. designate. -a. Designated; marked out; appointed; as, a bishop Design a'tion, n . [Lat. designatio.] Act of pointing or marking out by signs or objects; indication; a showing or pointing; a distinguishing from others; appointment; direction; a selecting and appointing; a ignment; import; distinct application. Designative, a. [ Fr.désign at if .] Appointing; showing. (R.) fortunate predece or. He held several distinguished Designator, n. One who designates. offices, was a peer of France, a knight of the order of Designatory, a . Employed to designate. Malta, a member of the French Academy, and president Designed, ( de - sind ',) p. a. Intended; projected; of the Court of Appeals. D. 1828. planned. si ippi river. Area , about 732 sq. m. Rivers , Mi i ippi, tionally. Arkansas, and White rivers, and Bartholomew Bayou.