A duet of short extent and concise form.
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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.
The act of dulcifying or sweetening.
Sweetened; mollified.
Flowing sweetly.
To sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness, or acrimony.
A soft manner of speaking.
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.
A mistress; a sweetheart.
See Dulceness.
See Dolcino.
A small bassoon, formerly much used.
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.
Sweetness.
To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.
The act of sweetening.
One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage.
An inferior kind of veneration or worship, given to the angels and saints as the servants of God.
To become dull or stupid.
Stupid; doltish.
Having a gloomy look.
Having eyes wanting brightness, liveliness, or vivacity.
Having poor eyesight.
Stupid.
A stupid person; a dunce. Stupid.
One who, or that which, dulls.
A blockhead; a dolt.
Somewhat dull; uninteresting; tiresome.
The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness.
Dull.
In a dull manner; stupidly; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit.
See Doulocracy.
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.]
The ring plover.
In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it (anything) ought to be; properly; regularly.
Pertaining to, or set with, briers or bushes; brambly.
To put to silence.
To render simpler, so as to be comprehensible or usable by unintelligent people; to simplify; -- of texts or devices.
An exercising weight, consisting of two spheres or spheroids, connected by a short bar for a handle; used (often in pairs) for gymnastic exercise.
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.
same as dumfound.
same as astounded.
causing astonishment.
A bumblebee; also, a cockchafer.
In silence; mutely.
The quality or state of being dumb; muteness; silence; inability to speak.
Dumose.
To strike dumb; to confuse with astonishment.
same as dumbfounded.
To dumfound; to confound.
same as dumbfounding.
A dumbledor.
One who feigns dumbness.
One who is dumb.
Abounding with bushes and briers.
A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
a coarse term for defecation.
same as dump car.
a truck, usually with an open top, the carrying bopdy of which can be tilted so as to emptied its contents without handling.
The act of dumping loads from carts, especially loads of refuse matter; also, a heap of dumped matter.
a cart that can be tilted to empty the contents without handling them.
p. p. of dump, v. t.; as, The money was there, dumped all over the floor.
same as dump truck.
The state of being dumpy.
Dull; stupid; sad; moping; melancholy.
To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another.
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.
a gloomy mental state; same as 2nd dump{1}; -- used mostly in the phrase /in the dumps/.
Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout.
the Sumerian and Babylonian god of pastures and vegetation; consort of Inanna.
Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
The pochard; -- called also dunair, and dunker, or dun-curre. An American duck; the ruddy duck.
One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.
The realm or domain of dunces.
Dullness; stupidity.
Like a dunce; duncish.
To make stupid in intellect.
Somewhat like a dunce.
The lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum.
Thick-headed; stupid.
A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead.
See Dunderhead.
A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds.
Codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality.
To void excrement.
A coarse kind of unbleached cotton fabric; blue denim.
A close, dark prison, commonly, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons.
To shut up in a dungeon.
A fork for tossing dung.
A heap of dung.
A pit where dung and weeds rot for manure.
Full of dung; filthy; vile; low.
A yard where dung is collected.
One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists, and they call their denomination the Church of the Brethren.
the name of a town and a battle fought there, in World War II (1940) when 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk in a desperate retreat under enemy fire. Most of the forces were safely evacuated to England.
the name of a town and a battle fought there, in World War II (1940) when 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk in a desperate retreat under enemy fire. Most of the forces were safely evacuated to England.
A species of sandpiper (Tringa alpina); -- called also churr, dorbie, grass bird, and red-backed sandpiper. It is found both in Europe and America.
Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion.
One employed in soliciting the payment of debts.
Inclined to a dun color.
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