Chapter Dependency to Depopulation of D by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

2. (Med.) A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes. Thomas.

Deplume
(De*plume") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deplumed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Depluming.] [LL. deplumare; L. de- + plumare to cover with feathers, pluma feather: cf. deplumis featherless, and F. déplumer.]

1. To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage.

On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own feather.

Fuller.

2. To lay bare; to expose.

The exposure and depluming of the leading humbugs of the age.

De Quincey.

Depolarization
(De*po`lar*i*za"tion) n. [Cf. F. dépolarisation.] The act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition.

Depolarization of light (Opt.), a change in the plane of polarization of rays, especially by a crystalline medium, such that the light which had been extinguished by the analyzer reappears as if the polarization had been anulled. The word is inappropriate, as the ray does not return to the unpolarized condition.

Depolarize
(De*po"lar*ize) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Depolarized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Depolarizing.] [Pref. de- + polarize: cf. F. dépolarizer.]

1. (Opt.) To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition.

This word has been inaccurately applied in optics to describe the effect of a polarizing medium, as a crystalline plate, in causing the reappearance of a ray, in consequence of a change in its plane of polarization, which previously to the change was intercepted by the analyzer.

2. (Elec.) To free from polarization, as the negative plate of the voltaic battery.

Depolarizer
(De*po"lar*i`zer) n. (Elec.) A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.

Depolish
(De*pol"ish) v. t. To remove the polish or glaze from.

Depolishing
(De*pol"ish*ing) n. (Ceramics) The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelain. Knight.

Depone
(De*pone") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deponed (-pond"); p. pr. & vb. n. Deponing.] [L. deponere, depositum, to put down, in LL., to assert under oath; de- + ponere to put, place. See Position, and cf. Deposit.]

1. To lay, as a stake; to wager. [Obs.] Hudibras.

2. To lay down. [R.] Southey.

3. To assert under oath; to depose. [A Scotticism]

Sprot deponeth that he entered himself thereafter in conference.

State Trials

Depone
(De*pone"), v. i. To testify under oath; to depose; to bear witness. [A Scotticism]

The fairy Glorians, whose credibility on this point can not be called in question, depones to the confinement of Merlin in a tree.

Dunlop.

Deponent
(De*po"nent) n. [L. deponenes, -entis, laying down. See Depone, v. t.]