The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness.

Able to endure or continue in a particular condition; lasting; not perishable or changeable; not wearing out or decaying soon; enduring; as, durable cloth; durable happiness.

Power of lasting, enduring, or resisting; durability.

In a lasting manner; with long continuance.

Pertaining to the dura, or dura mater.

an aluminum-based alloy which is both light and strong, containing 4 per cent of copper and 0.5 per cent of magnesium and smaller amounts of iron, manganese, and silicon. It hardens with aging at room temperature.

The heartwood of an exogenous tree.

Continuance; duration. See Endurance.

Duration.

See Durance, 3.

During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure.

The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists.

Continuing; not completed; implying duration.

An audience hall; the court of a native prince; a state levee; a formal reception of native princes, given by the governor general of India.

To last; to continue; to endure.

Lasting.

Not lasting.

A colorless, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C6H2(CH3)4, off artificial production, with an odor like camphor.

To subject to duress.

One who subjects another to duress

Same as Doorga.

One or a breed of short-horned cattle, originating in the county of Durham, England. The Durham cattle are noted for their beef-producing quality.

In the time of; as long as the action or existence of; as, during life; during the space of a year.

A fruit tree (Durio zibethinus, the only species known) of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian.

The fruit of the durio. It is oval or globular, and eight or ten inches long. It has a hard prickly rind, containing a soft, cream-colored pulp, of a most delicious flavor and a very offensive odor. The seeds are roasted and eaten like chestnuts.

Hardness; firmness.

An instrument for measuring the degree of hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the like.

Hard.

A kind of millet, cultivated throughout Asia, and introduced into the south of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; -- called also Indian millet, and Guinea corn.

of Dare. See Dare, v. i.

A small, nocturnal, South American monkey of the genus Aotus (formerly Nyctipthecus trivirgatus). The owl monkey. See douroucouli.

Pertaining to, allied to, or derived from, durene; as, durylic acid.

A demon or spirit. See Deuce.

The capital city of Tajikistan. Population (2000) = 524,000.

To grow dusk.

To make dusk or obscure.

In a dusky manner.

The state of being dusky.

Somewhat dusky.

Duskiness.

Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley.

To free from dust; to brush, wipe, or sweep away dust from; as, to dust a table or a floor.

A strong windstorm that lifts particles of dust or dry soil into the air and blows them around, covering land or objects with a thick layer of dust. Dust storms may occur in arable areas during periods of drought; when a similar storm occurs in a desert area, such a storm is called a sandstorm.

An old rural game.

a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected.

A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture.

a truck for collecting domestic refuse; as, in England a garbage truck is called a dustcart.

A piece of cloth used for wiping dust from objects or surfaces.

One who, or that which, dusts; a utensil that frees from dust. A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc. A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran. A dustcloth or a brush used for removing dust from objects or surfaces.

The state of being dusty.

Without dust; as a dustless path.

One whose employment is to remove dirt and refuse; a garbage man.

a dry mop for dusting floors.

A shovel-like utensil with a short handle used for conveying away dust brushed from the floor.

an angry dispute.

Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; a dusty attic; also, reducing to dust.

The people of Holland; Dutchmen.

A native, or one of the people, of Holland.

a delicate perennial spring-flowering herb (Dicentra cucullaria) of eastern U.S., having peculiar double-spurred white flowers. See Illust. of Dicentra

a hardy deciduous American vine (Aristolochia durior) having large, heart-shaped leaves and bearing brownish-purple flowers which have their calyx tubes curved like the bowl of a tobacco pipe. Formerly classified as Aristolochia Sipho.

Subject to the payment of a duty; as dutiable goods.

Subjected to a duty.

Performing, or ready to perform, the duties required by one who has the right to claim submission, obedience, or deference; submissive to natural or legal superiors; obedient, as to parents or superiors; as, a dutiful son or daughter; a dutiful ward or servant; a dutiful subject.

That which is due; payment.

One of two Roman officers or magistrates united in the same public functions.

Of or belonging to the duumviri or the duumvirate.

The union of two men in the same office; or the office, dignity, or government of two men thus associated, as in ancient Rome.

The scholastic name for the theme or subject of a fugue, the answer being called the comes, or companion.

A small South African antelope (Cephalous mergens); -- called also impoon, and deloo.

See Dugong.

A dwarf supposed to dwell in rocks and hills and to be skillful in working metals.

The deadly nightshade (Atropa Belladonna), having stupefying qualities.

A piece of wood set between two studs, posts, etc., to stiffen and support them.

To become small; to diminish in size.

Like a dwarf; below the common stature or size; very small; petty; as, a dwarfish animal, shrub.

A diminutive dwarf.

Much undersized.

To be delirious.

To inhabit.

An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller.

Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile.

of Dwell.

The process of dwindling; dwindlement; decline; degeneracy.

The act or process of dwindling; a dwindling.

the act or process of becoming gradually less until little remains; as, there is no greater sadness that the dwindling away of a family.

To waste away; to pine; to languish.

the chemical symbol for dysprosium, a rare earth element of atomic number 66.

Having a valence or combining power of two; capable of being substituted for, combined with, or replaced by, two atoms of hydrogen; as, oxygen and calcium are dyad elements. See Valence.

Pertaining to the number two; of two parts or elements.

The aboriginal and most numerous inhabitants of Borneo. They are partially civilized, but retain many barbarous practices.

A name applied in Germany to the Permian formation, there consisting of two principal groups.

the Hindu god of the sky.

the Hindu god of the sky; same as Dyaus.

the wandering soul of a dead person, or a demon, that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior. It may be exorcised by religious rites.

Same as Die, a lot.

colored or impregnated with dye.

thoroughly imbued; thoroughgoing; uncompromising; complete; unmitigated; through-and-through.

A building in which dyeing is carried on.

The process or art of fixing coloring matters permanently and uniformly in the fibers of wool, cotton, etc.

One whose occupation is to dye cloth and the like.

small Eurasian shrub (Genista tinctoria) having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as weed in England and U.S.; sometimes grown as an ornamental.

A material used for dyeing.

Any wood from which coloring matter is extracted for dyeing.

The act of expiring; passage from life to death; loss of life.

In a dying manner; as if at the point of death.

The state of dying or the stimulation of such a state; extreme languor; languishment.

See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.

An instrument for measuring the intensity of the photogenic (light-producing) rays, and computing the power of object glasses.

A unit of measure for dynamical effect or work; a foot pound. See Foot pound.

A dynamometer.

Pertaining to a dynameter.

a type of random access memory using circuits that require periodic refresh cycles in order to retain the stored information. Contrasted to static ram, which maintains the memory state as long as the power is still applied.

Of or pertaining to dynamics; belonging to energy or power; characterized by energy or production of force.

In accordance with the principles of dynamics or moving forces.

That branch of mechanics which treats of the motion of bodies (Kinematics) and the action of forces in producing or changing their motion (kinetics). Dynamics is held by some recent writers to include statics and not kinematics.

The doctrine of Leibnitz, that all substance involves force.

One who accounts for material phenomena by a theory of dynamics.

A political dynamiter. [A form found in some newspapers.]

An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion from moderate shocks, or from spontaneous decomposition.

One who uses dynamite; esp., one who uses it for the destruction of life and property.