to clean without the use of water; -- usually by immersing in an organic solvent to remove grease.

cleaned without the use of water; -- usually by immersing in an organic solvent to remove grease.

Not having tears in the eyes. Opposite of tearful.

Niggardly.

To feed, attend, and bring up without breastfeeding it.

To rub and cleanse without wetting.

Without wetting the feet; having or keeping the feet or shoes dry; as, a land bridge over which man and beasts could have crossed dry-shod.

Constructed of uncemented stone.

A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.

a genus of plants comprising tropical American species usually placed in the genus Masdevallia; they are very dwarf plants having short tufted and usually unifoliate stems with usually solitary flowers.

A genus of shrubs growing in Australia, having beautiful, hard, dry, evergreen leaves.

A dryad.

See Drier.

An ancient yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets.

The scent of the game, as far as it can be traced.

Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room.

In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly.

a genus of epiphytic ferns of Madagascar to tropical Asia and New Guinea.

a genus of large robust epiphytic ferns of tropical forest and scrub; Africa and Asia and Australia.

The state of being dry. See Dry.

The genus to which belongs the single species Dryobalanops Camphora, a lofty resinous tree of Borneo and Sumatra, yielding Borneo camphor and camphor oil.

a spiny-leaved perennial herb of southern Europe having terminal clusters of small flowers.

A dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces, etc., and in the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving various kinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs.

The articles kept by a drysalter; also, the business of a drysalter.

A union of two; duality.

Expressing, or consisting of, the number two; belonging to two; as, the dual number of nouns, etc. , in Greek.

An explosive substance consisting essentially of sawdust or wood pulp, saturated with nitroglycerin and other similar nitro compounds. It is inferior to dynamite, and is more liable to explosion.

State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction A view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit. A system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, one good and the other evil. The doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate. The theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts independently of the other.

One who believes in dualism; a ditheist.

Consisting of two; pertaining to dualism or duality.

The quality or condition of being two or twofold; dual character or usage.

A division of a poem corresponding to a canto; a poem or song.

Government by two persons.

A pool or puddle.

The Syrian bear. See under Bear.

A globular vessel or bottle of leather, used in India to hold ghee, oil, etc.

The act of dubbing, as a knight, etc.

Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt.

The state of being doubtful; a doubtful statement or thing.

Doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined.

In a dubious manner.

State of being dubious.

Liable to be doubted; uncertain.

Doubt; uncertainty.

To doubt.

Act of doubting; doubt.

Tending to doubt; doubtful.

The capital city of Ireland. Population (2000) = nk.

Same as Duboisine.

An alkaloid obtained from the leaves of an Australian tree (Duboisia myoporoides), and regarded as identical with hyoscyamine. It produces dilation of the pupil of the eye.

Of or pertaining to a duke.

In the manner of a duke, or in a manner becoming the rank of a duke.

A coin, either of gold or silver, of several countries in Europe; originally, one struck in the dominions of a duke.

A silver coin of several countries of Europe, and of different values.

The wife or widow of a duke; also, a lady who has the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right.

The territory or dominions of a duke; a dukedom.

Any bird of the subfamily Anatin/, family Anatid/.

having a beak resembling that of a duck.

Having a bill like that of a duck; as, a duck-billed dinosaur.

same as Duck Mole, under Duck.

Having the form of a duck's bill.

The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum).

Duckweed.

See Duck mole, under Duck, n.

One who, or that which, ducks; a plunger; a diver.

n. a., from Duck, v. t. i.

A young or little duck.

A genus (Lemna) of small plants, seen floating in great quantity on the surface of stagnant pools fresh water, and supposed to furnish food for ducks; -- called also duckmeat.

a special loved one; a darling; -- used as a term of endearment.

Any tube or canal by which a fluid or other substance is conducted or conveyed.

Capable of being drawn out

Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.

An instrument for accurately determining the ductility of metals.

The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.

Guidance.

Having to duct or outlet; as, a ductless gland.

One who leads.

Guidance.

A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer.

A place where rags are bought and kept for sale.

A kind of dandy; especially, one characterized by an ultrafashionable style of dress and other affectations.

A short tobacco pipe.

Homely; rude; coarse.

Like, or characterized of, a dude.

Old or inferior clothes; tattered garments.

To endue.

A brief written acknowledgment of a debt, not made payable to order, like a promissory note.

Fit; becoming.

To fight in single combat.

One who engages in a duel.

The act or practice of fighting in single combat. Also adj.

One who fights in single combat.

A duel; also, the rules of dueling.

See Do/a.

Quality of being due; debt; what is due or becoming.

The chief lady in waiting on the queen of Spain.

A composition for two performers, whether vocal or instrumental.

A duet of short extent and concise form.

See Duet.

To treat or manipulate so as to give a specious appearance to; to fake; hence, to cheat.

A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze.

One who duffs cattle, etc.

See Duffel.

A mineral of a blackish green color, commonly massive or in nodules. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.

imp. p. p. of Dig.

An aquatic herbivorous mammal (Halicore dugong), of the order Sirenia, allied to the manatee, but with a bilobed tail. It inhabits the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, East Indies, and Australia.

A canoe or boat dug out from a large log.

A way or road dug through a hill, or sunk below the surface of the land.

To play the duke.

To beat with the fists.

The territory of a duke.

A little or insignificant duke.

The quality or condition of being a duke; also, the personality of a duke.

A Russian religious sect founded about the middle of the 18th century at Kharkov. They believe that Christ was wholly human, but that his soul reappears from time to time in mortals. They accept the Ten Commandments and the /useful/ portions of the Bible, but deny the need of rulers, priests, or churches, and have no confessions, icons, or marriage ceremonies. They are communistic, opposed to any violence, and unwilling to use the labor of animals. Driven out of Russia proper, many have emigrated to Cyprus and Canada. See Raskolnik, below.

A plant (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet, n., 3 (a).

A glucoside extracted from the bittersweet (Solanum Dulcamara), as a yellow amorphous substance. It probably occasions the compound taste. See Bittersweet, 3(a).

To make sweet; to soothe.

Sweetness.

Sweet to the taste; luscious.

A sweet-toned stop of an organ.