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Dudder

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

Duddery

A place where rags are bought and kept for sale.

Dude

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

Dudish

Like, or characterized of, a dude.

Duds

Old or inferior clothes; tattered garments.

Duebill

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

Duel

To fight in single combat.

Dueler

One who engages in a duel.

Dueling

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

Duelist

One who fights in single combat.

Duelo

A duel; also, the rules of dueling.

Dueness

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

Duenna

The chief lady in waiting on the queen of Spain.

Duet

A composition for two performers, whether vocal or instrumental.

Duettino

A duet of short extent and concise form.

Duff

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

Duffel

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

Duffer

One who duffs cattle, etc.

Dufrenite

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

Dug

imp. p. p. of Dig.

Dugong

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.

Dugout

A canoe or boat dug out from a large log.

Dugway

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

Duke

To play the duke.

duke

To beat with the fists.

Dukeship

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

Dukhobortsy Dukhobors

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.

Dulcamara

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

Dulcamarin

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

Dulce

To make sweet; to soothe.

Dulcet

Sweet to the taste; luscious.

Dulcify

To sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness, or acrimony.

Dulcimer

An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer. An ancient musical instrument in use among the Jews. Dan. iii. 5. It is supposed to be the same with the psaltery.

Dulcite

A white, sugarlike substance, C6H8.(OH)2, occurring naturally in a manna from Madagascar, and in certain plants, and produced artificially by the reduction of galactose and lactose or milk sugar.

Dulcorate

To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.

Duledge

One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage.

Dulia

An inferior kind of veneration or worship, given to the angels and saints as the servants of God.

Dull

To become dull or stupid.

Dull-eyed

Having eyes wanting brightness, liveliness, or vivacity.

Dullard

A stupid person; a dunce. Stupid.

Duller

One who, or that which, dulls.

Dullish

Somewhat dull; uninteresting; tiresome.

Dullness

The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness.

Dully

In a dull manner; stupidly; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit.

Dulse

A seaweed of a reddish brown color, which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland. The true dulse is Sarcophyllis edulis; the common is Rhodymenia. [Written also dillisk.]

Duly

In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it (anything) ought to be; properly; regularly.

Dumal

Pertaining to, or set with, briers or bushes; brambly.

Dumb

To put to silence.

dumb down

To render simpler, so as to be comprehensible or usable by unintelligent people; to simplify; -- of texts or devices.

dumb-bell dumbbell

An exercising weight, consisting of two spheres or spheroids, connected by a short bar for a handle; used (often in pairs) for gymnastic exercise.

Dumb-waiter

A framework on which dishes, food, etc., are passed from one room or story of a house to another; a lift for dishes, etc.; also, a piece of furniture with movable or revolving shelves.

Dumbness

The quality or state of being dumb; muteness; silence; inability to speak.

Dumfound

To strike dumb; to confuse with astonishment.

Dump

A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

dump

a coarse term for defecation.

dump truck

a truck, usually with an open top, the carrying bopdy of which can be tilted so as to emptied its contents without handling.

Dumpage

The act of dumping loads from carts, especially loads of refuse matter; also, a heap of dumped matter.

dumpcart

a cart that can be tilted to empty the contents without handling them.

dumped

p. p. of dump, v. t.; as, The money was there, dumped all over the floor.

Dumpish

Dull; stupid; sad; moping; melancholy.

Dumple

To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another.

Dumpling

A roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and boiled or baked; as, an apple dumpling.

Dumps

a gloomy mental state; same as 2nd dump{1}; -- used mostly in the phrase /in the dumps/.

Dumpy

Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout.

Dumuzi

the Sumerian and Babylonian god of pastures and vegetation; consort of Inanna.

Dun

Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.

Dunbird

The pochard; -- called also dunair, and dunker, or dun-curre. An American duck; the ruddy duck.

Dunce

One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.

Duncify

To make stupid in intellect.

Dunder

The lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum.

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