dessiccatif, n.m., desiccative, desiccant.
dessiccation, n.f., desiccation.
dessiller, v.a., to open (eyes). — les yeux à quelqu’un; to undeceive any one.
se dessiller, v.r., to become opened.
dessin, n.m., drawing; design, sketch; pattern; draught, plan; (mus.) arrangement. — lavé; washed drawing. — colorié; colored drawing. — haché; hatched drawing. — lithographié; lithographic drawing. — à la craie; chalk drawing. Cette étoffe est d’un joli —; this stuff is of a pretty pattern. — à main levée; free-hand drawing.
dessinateur, n.m., draughtsman; designer, pattern-drawer.
dessiné, -e, part., drawn. Une figure bien —e; a well-drawn face. Un jardin bien —; a garden well laid out.
dessiner, v.a., to draw, to design, to sketch, to delineate; to set off, to mark, to indicate; to lay out. — au crayon; to draw with a pencil. — de fantaisie, d’après nature, d’après la bosse; to draw from fancy, from nature, from the bust. Un vêtement qui dessine bien les formes; a dress that sets off the figure to advantage.
se dessiner, v.r., to be delineated, to be visible, to appear; to assume a form, to be formed, to be conspicuous; to display one’s figure to advantage; to stand out, to show prominently. Une terre se dessine dans la brume; land is visible through the mist.
dessolement, n.m., altering the rotation of crops.