A tough old cowboy told his grandson that if he wanted to live a long life, the secret was to sprinkle a little gunpowder on his oatmeal every morning. The grandson did this religiously, and lived to the age of 93.
When he died he left 14 children, 28 grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren… and a 15-foot hole in the wall of the crematorium.
n. (pl. -ies) 1 denseness of thing(s) or a substance.
- physics degree of consistency measured by the quantity of mass per unit volume.
- opacity of a photographic image.
DENTATE
adj. Bot. & zool. Toothed; with toothlike notches.
DENTINE
n. (us dentin) hard dense tissue forming the bulk of a tooth.
DENTIST
n. Person qualified to treat, extract, etc., teeth. dentistry n.
DENTURE
n. Removable artificial tooth or teeth.
DEPLETE
v. (-ting) (esp. In passive) reduce in numbers, force, or quantity; exhaust. depletion n. [latin pleo fill]
DEPLORE
v. (-ring) 1 regret deeply.
- find exceedingly bad. [latin ploro wail]
DEPOSIT
account n. Bank account that pays interest but is not usu. Immediately accessible.
- —n. - a money in a bank account. B anything stored for safe keeping.
- a payment made as a pledge for a contract or as an initial part payment for a thing bought. B returnable sum paid on the hire of an item.
- a natural layer of sand, rock, coal, etc. B layer of accumulated matter on a surface. —v. (-t-) 1 a put or lay down (deposited the book on the shelf). B (of water etc.) Leave (matter etc.) Lying.
- a store or entrust for keeping. B pay (a sum of money) into a bank account.
- pay (a sum) as part of a larger sum or as a pledge for a contract. [latin pono posit- put]
DEPRAVE
v. (-ving) corrupt, esp. Morally. [latin pravus crooked]
DEPRESS
v. - make dispirited or sad.
- push down; lower.
- reduce the activity of (esp. Trade).
- (as depressed adj.) A miserable. B suffering from depression. depressing adj. Depressingly adv. [latin: related to *press1]
