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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.

Dune

A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds.

Dunfish

Codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality.

Dung

To void excrement.

Dungaree

A coarse kind of unbleached cotton fabric; blue denim.

dungeon

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.

Dungmeer

A pit where dung and weeds rot for manure.

Dungy

Full of dung; filthy; vile; low.

Dunker

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.

Dunkerque

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.

Dunkirk

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.

Dunlin

A species of sandpiper (Tringa alpina); -- called also churr, dorbie, grass bird, and red-backed sandpiper. It is found both in Europe and America.

Dunnage

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.

Dunner

One employed in soliciting the payment of debts.

dunno

A slang shortening of I don't know or don't know; as, dunno where I lost my keys; Where'd he go? I dunno..

Dunnock

The hedge sparrow or hedge accentor.

Duo

A composition for two performers; a duet.

Duodecimal

A twelfth part; as, the duodecimals of an inch.

Duodecimo

A book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into twelve leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of a book; -- usually written 12mo or 12/.

Duodenal

Of or pertaining to the duodenum; as, duodenal digestion.

Duodenary

Containing twelve; twelvefold; increasing by twelves; duodecimal.

Duodenum

The part of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.

Duograph

A picture printed from two half-tone plates made with the screen set at different angles, and usually printed in two shades of the same color or in black and one tint.

Duoliteral

Consisting of two letters only; biliteral.

Duomo

A cathedral. See Dome, 2.

Duotone

Any picture printed in two shades of the same color, as duotypes and duographs are usually printed.

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