deserving (dezerving)

[ME. deserving; verbal n. of deserve, v.] The act of meriting; desert; merit or demerit. Ye have done unto him according to the deserving IMG:content-2451.png:[blocks in formation] The wages of their virtue, and all foes The cup of their deservings. Shak ., Lear, v. 3. He had been a person of great deservings from the republic. Swift , Nobles and Commons, ii. deserving (dē-zėr'ving), p . a. [Ppr. of deserve , v .] Worthy of reward or praise; meritorious; po e ed of good qualities that entitle to approbation: as, a deserving officer. Courts are the places where best manners flourish, Where the deserving ought to rise. IMG:content-2452.png:[blocks in formation] desiccate (des'i-kat), v.; pret. and pp. desic cated, ppr. desiccating. [ It. deseccare, diseccare, dis sec care = Sp. desecar = Pg. deseccar, de e car = F. de é cher), dry up, 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. Bacon . II. in trans. To become dry. desiccatet (des'i-kat), a . [ desiccate , desiccatif = Sp. desecativo = Pg. deseccativo, des secativo = It. di eccativo; as desiccate + -ive.] I. a. Drying; tending to dry. II. n. That which dries or evaporates; an application that dries up secretions. The ashes of a hedgehog are said to be a great desicca tive of fistulas. Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 979. desiccator (des'i-ka-tor), n. [ desiccate + -or.] 1. One who or that which desiccates or dries. Specifically-(a) One who prepares desiccated foods. (b) A machine or an apparatus for drying some- thing. A desiccator used in laboratories consists of a por- celain dish with depre ions or saucers to receive the sub- stances to be dried, with a closely fitting gla cover and a recipient for some absorbent of moisture. Commercial desiccators, or evaporators, for fruit, meat, vegetables, milk, etc. operate by the agency of heat, applied either directly or by means of a current of hot air. 2. Same as exsiccator .-Tan-bark desiccator, an apparatus for drying leached tan-bark. The bark is re- ceived on an endle apron, which pa es through a hop- per over the leaching-vat and carries a second hopper, from which it is pa ed between hollow heated rollers, which expre the liquid. E. H. Knight. desiccatoryt (des'i-ka-tō-ri), a. [ desiccate + -ory.] Desiccative. Pork is desiccatory , but it strengthens and pa es easily. Travels of An achars is , II. 467.