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word: Domino
definition:
Domino

Dom"i*no
(?)
n.
pl. Dominos or (esp. the pieces for a game) Dominoes (#).
[F. domino, or It. dominò, or Sp. dominó, fr. L. dominus master. The domino was orig. a hood worn by the canons of a cathedral. See Don, Dame.]
1.
A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.
Kersey.

2.
A mourning veil formerly worn by women.

3.
A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.

4.
A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.

5.
A person wearing a domino.

6.
pl.
A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played
Hoyle.

7.
One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played.
Hoyle.
fall like dominoes.  To fall sequentially, as when one object in a line, by falling against the next object, causes it in turn to fall, and that second object causes a third to fall, etc.; the process can be repeated an indefinite number of times.
The phrase is derived from an entertainment using dominoes arranged in a row, each standing on edge and therefore easily knocked over; when the first is made to fall against the next, it starts a sequence which ends when all have fallen.  For amusement, people have arranged such sequences involving thousands of dominoes, arrayed in fanciful patterns.


word: Domino theory
definition:
Domino theory

Dom"i*no the"o*ry
A political theory current in the 1960's, according to which the conversion of one country in South Asia to communism will start a sequential process causing all Asian countries to convert to Communism.
The apparent assumption was that an Asian country politically aligned with the West was as politically unstable as a domino standing on edge.  It was used by some as a justification for American involvement in the Vietnam war, 1964-1972.


word: Domino whist
definition:
Domino whist

Dom"i*no whist
A game of cards in which the suits are played in sequence, beginning with a 5 or 9, the player who gets rid of his cards first being the winner.


word: Dominus
definition:
Dominus

Dom"i*nus
(?)
n.
pl. Domini (#).
[L., master. See Dame.]
Master; sir; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor.
Cowell.


word: Domitable
definition:
Domitable

Dom"i*ta*ble
(?)
a.
[L. domitare to tame, fr. domare.]
That can be tamed.
[R.]
Sir M. Hale.


word: Domite
definition:
Domite

Do"mite
(?)
n.
(Min.)
A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de-Dôme in Auvergne, France, where it is found.


word: Don
definition:
Don

Don
(d&obreve_;n)
n.
[Sp. don; akin to Pg. dom, It. donno; fr. L. dominus master. See Dame, and cf. Domine, Dominie, Domino, Dan, Dom.]
1.
Sir; Mr; Signior; -- a title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes.

Don is used in Italy, though not so much as in Spain.  France talks of Dom Calmet, England of Dan Lydgate.
Oliphant.

2.
A grand personage, or one making pretension to consequence; especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the English universities.
[Univ. Cant]
dons
Dryden.


word: Don₂
definition:
Don

Don
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Donned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Donning.]
[Do + on; -- opposed to doff. See Do, v. t., 7.]
To put on; to dress in; to invest one's self with.

Should I don this robe and trouble you.
Shak.

At night, or in the rain,
He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn.
Emerson.


word: Dona
definition:
Dona

Do"ña
(?)
n.
[Sp. doña. See Duenna.]
1.
Lady; mistress; madam; -- a title of respect used in Spain, prefixed to the Christian name of a lady.

2.
A lady or gentlewoman; -- used in Spanish-speaking countries.


word: Donable
definition:
Donable

Do"na*ble
(?)
a.
[L. donabilis, fr. donare to donate.]
Capable of being donated or given.
[R.]


word: Donate
definition:
Donate

Do"nate
(d&omacr"nāt)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Donated; p. pr. & vb. n. Donating.]
[L. donatus, p. p. of donare to donate, fr. donum gift, fr. dare to give. See 2d Date.]
To give; to bestow; to present; as, to donate fifty thousand dollars to a college.


word: donated
definition:
donated

donated
adj.
given freely especially to a cause or fund; as, the donated van made their meal-on-wheels venture possible.


word: Donation
definition:
Donation

Do*na"tion
(?)
n.
[L. donatio; cf. F. donation.]
1.
The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.

After donation there is an absolute change and alienation of the property of the thing given.
South.

2.
That which is given as a present; that which is transferred to another gratuitously; a gift.

And some donation freely to estate
On the bless'd lovers.
Shak.

3.
(Law)
The act or contract by which a person voluntarily transfers the title to a thing of which be is the owner, from himself to another, without any consideration, as a free gift.
Bouvier.

Donation party, a party assembled at the house of some one, as of a clergyman, each one bringing some present. [U.S.] Bartlett.


word: Donatist
definition:
Donatist

Don"a*tist
(?)
n.
[LL. Donatista: cf. F. Donatiste.]
(Eccl. Hist.)
A follower of Donatus, the leader of a body of North African schismatics and purists, who greatly disturbed the church in the 4th century. They claimed to be the true church.


word: Donative
definition:
Donative

Don"a*tive
(?)
n.
[L. donativum, fr. donare: cf. F. donatif. See Donate.]
1.
A gift; a largess; a gratuity; a present.
donatives
Dryden.

2.
(Eccl. Law)
A benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3.


word: Donatory
definition:
Donatory

Don"a*to*ry
(?)
n.
(Scots Law)
A donee of the crown; one the whom, upon certain condition, escheated property is made over.


word: Donax
definition:
Donax

Do"nax
(?)
n.
[L., reed, also a sea fish, Gr. _;.]
(Bot.)
A canelike grass of southern Europe (Arundo Donax), used for fishing rods, etc.


word: Doncella
definition:
Doncella

Don*cel"la
(?)
n.
[Sp., lit., a maid.  Cf. Damsel.]
(Zool.)
A handsome fish of Florida and the West Indies (Platyglossus radiatus). The name is applied also to the ladyfish (Harpe rufa) of the same region.


word: Done
definition:
Done

Done
(?)
p. p. from Do, and formerly the infinitive.
1.
Performed; executed; finished.

2.
It is done or agreed; let it be a match or bargain; -- used elliptically.

Done brown, a phrase in cookery; applied figuratively to one who has been thoroughly deceived, cheated, or fooled. [Colloq.] -- Done for, tired out; used up; collapsed; destroyed; dead; killed. [Colloq.] -- Done up. (a) Wrapped up. (b) Worn out; exhausted. [Colloq.]


word: Done₂
definition:
Done

Done
a.
[Prob. corrupted from OF. doné, F. donné, p. p. of OF. doner, F. donner, to give, issue, fr. L. donare to give. See Donate, and cf. Donee.]
Given; executed; issued; made public; -- used chiefly in the clause giving the date of a proclamation or public act.


word: Donee
definition:
Donee

Do*nee"
(?)
n.
[OF. doné, F. donné, p. p. See the preceding word.]
1.
The person to whom a gift or donation is made.

2.
(Law)
Anciently, one to whom lands were given; in later use, one to whom lands and tenements are given in tail; in modern use, one on whom a power is conferred for execution; -- sometimes called the appointor.


word: Doni
definition:
Doni

Do"ni
(?)
n.
[Tamil t_;nī.]
(Naut.)
A clumsy craft, having one mast with a long sail, used for trading purposes on the coasts of Coromandel and Ceylon.
[Written also dhony, doney, and done.]
Balfour.


word: Donjon
definition:
Donjon

Don"jon
(dŭn"jŭn)
n.
[See Dungeon.]
The chief tower, also called the keep; a massive tower in ancient castles, forming the strongest part of the fortifications. See Illust. of Castle.


word: Donkey
definition:
Donkey

Don"key
(d&obreve_;&nsmacr_;"k&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Donkeys (d&obreve_;&nsmacr_;"kĭz).
[Prob. dun, in allusion to the color of the animal + a dim. termination.]
1.
An ass; or (less frequently) a mule.

2.
A stupid or obstinate fellow; an ass.

Donkey engine, a small auxiliary engine not used for propelling, but for pumping water into the boilers, raising heavy weights, and like purposes. -- Donkey pump, a steam pump for feeding boilers, extinguishing fire, etc.; -- usually an auxiliary. -- Donkey's eye (Bot.), the large round seed of the Mucuna pruriens, a tropical leguminous plant.


word: donkey's tail
definition:
donkey's tail

donkey's tail
n.
a Mexican plant (Sedum morganianum) bearing small rose-colored flowers; called also burro's tail, horse's tail, and lamb's tail.
RHUD


word: Dongola
definition:
Dongola

Don"go*la
(?)
n.
1.
A government of Upper Egypt.

2.
same as Dongola kid.
Dongola kid, D. leather, leather made by the Dongola process. -- Dongola process, a process of tanning goatskin, and now also calfskin and sheepskin, with a combination of vegetable and mineral agents, so that it resembles kid. -- Dongola race, a boat race in which the crews are composed of a number of pairs, usually of men and women.


word: Donna
definition:
Donna

Don"na
(?)
n.
[It. donna, L. domina. See Don, Dame.]
A lady; madam; mistress; -- the title given a lady in Italy.


word: Donnee
definition:
Donnee

Don`née"
(?)
n.
[F., fr. donner to give.]
Lit., given; hence, in a literary work, as a drama or tale, that which is assumed as to characters, situation, etc., as a basis for the plot or story.
W. E. Henley.
That favorite romance donnée of the heir kept out of his own.
Saintsbury.


word: donnish
definition:
donnish

donnish
adj.
like a university don; marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning, especially its trivial aspects.

Syn. -- academic, pedantic, bookish.


word: donnism
definition:
donnism

don"nism
(?)
n.
[Don, n., 2.]
Self-importance; loftiness of carriage.
[Cant, Eng. Universities]

Syn. -- donnishness.


word: Donor
definition:
Donor

Do"nor
(?)
n.
[F. donneur, OF. daneor, fr. donner. See Donee, and cf. Donator.]
1.
One who gives or bestows; one who confers anything gratuitously; a benefactor.  Inverse of recipient.

2.
(Law)
One who grants an estate; in later use, one who confers a power; -- the opposite of donee.
Kent.

Touching, the parties unto deeds and charters, we are to consider as well the donors and granters as the donees or grantees.
Spelman.


word: do-nothing
definition:
do-nothing

do"-noth`ing
(?)
a.
Doing nothing; disinclined to work or exertion; inactive; idle; lazy; -- of people; as, a do-nothing policy.
[prenominal]

Syn. -- bone-idle, bone-lazy, faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, shiftless, slothful, workshy, work-shy.


word: do-nothing₂
definition:
do-nothing

do-nothing
n.
person who does no work.

Syn. -- idler, loafer, layabout, bum, ne'er-do-well, good-for-nothing.


word: Do-nothingness
definition:
Do-nothingness

Do-nothingism

{ Do"-noth`ing*ism (?), Do"-noth`ing*ness (?), }
n.
Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness.
[Jocular]
Carlyle. Miss Austen.


word: Donzel
definition:
Donzel

Don"zel
(?)
n.
[Cf. It. donzello, Sp. doncel, OF. danzel. See Damsel, Don, n.]
A young squire, or knight's attendant; a page.
[Obs.]
Beau. &  Fl.


word: Doob grass
definition:
Doob grass

Doob" grass`
(?)
[Hind. d_;b.]
(Bot.)
A perennial, creeping grass (Cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States.
[Written also doub grass.]


word: doofus
definition:
doofus

doo"fus
(?)
n.
a person who is stupid or inept; -- used contemptuously.
[Also spelled dufus.]
[Slang]

Syn. -- dingdong, ding-a-ling.


word: doohickey
definition:
doohickey

doo"hick*ey
(?)
n.
Any object, usually a tool or other device, whose name is forgotten, or not known.

Syn. -- thingumbob, whatchamacallit, whachamacallit.


word: Dooly
definition:
Dooly

Doo"ly
(?)
n.
pl. Doolies (#).
[Skr. d&omacrla.]
A kind of litter suspended from men's shoulders, for carrying persons or things; a palanquin.
[Written also doolee and doolie.]
[East Indies]

Having provided doolies, or little bamboo chairs slung on four men's shoulders, in which I put my papers and boxes, we next morning commenced the ascent.
J. D. Hooker.


word: Doom
definition:
Doom

Doom
(dōm)
n.
[As. d&omacrm; akin to OS. d&omacrm, OHG. tuom, Dan. & Sw. dom, Icel. d&omacrmr, Goth. d&omacrms, Gr. qe`mis law; fr. the root of E. do, v. t. √65. See Do, v. t., and cf. Deem, -dom.]
1.
Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.

The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens.
J. R. Green.

Now against himself he sounds this doom.
Shak.

2.
That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.

Ere Hector meets his doom.
Pope.

And homely household task shall be her doom.
Dryden.

3.
Ruin; death.

This is the day of doom for Bassianus.
Shak.

4.
Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision.
[Obs.]

And there he learned of things and haps to come,
To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom.
Fairfax.


word: Doom₂
definition:
Doom

Doom
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Doomed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dooming.]
1.
To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
[Obs.]
Milton.

2.
To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death.

Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls.
Dryden.

3.
To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.

Have I tongue to doom my brother's death?
Shak.

4.
To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
[New England]
J. Pickering.

5.
To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate.

A man of genius . . . doomed to struggle with difficulties.
Macaulay.


word: Doom palm
definition:
Doom palm

Doom" palm`
(?)
[Ar. daum, dūm: cf. F. doume.]
(Bot.)
A species of palm tree (Hyphæne Thebaica), highly valued for the fibrous pulp of its fruit, which has the flavor of gingerbread, and is largely eaten in Egypt and Abyssinia.
[Written also doum palm.]


word: Doomsday
definition:
Doomsday

Dooms"day`
(?)
n.
[AS. d_;mes dāg. See Doom, and Day.]
1.
A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death.
doomsday
Shak.

2.
The day of the final judgment.

I could not tell till doomsday.
Chaucer.

Doomsday Book. See Domesday Book.


word: Door
definition:
Door

Door
(?)
n.
[OE. dore, dure, AS. duru; akin to OS. dura, dor, D. deur, OHG. turi, door, tor gate, G. thür, thor, Icel. dyrr, Dan. dör, Sw. dörr, Goth. daur, Lith. durys, Russ. dvere, Olr. dorus, L. fores, Gr. _;; cf. Skr. dur, dvāra. √246.  Cf. Foreign.]
1.
An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.

To the same end, men several paths may tread,
As many doors into one temple lead.
Denham.

2.
The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened.

At last he came unto an iron door
That fast was locked.
Spenser.

3.
Passage; means of approach or access.

I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved.
John x. 9.

4.
An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads.

Martin's office is now the second door in the street.
Arbuthnot.

Blank door, Blind door, etc. (Arch.) See under Blank, Blind, etc. -- In doors, or Within doors, within the house. -- Next door to, near to; bordering on.
[1913 Webster]
A riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult. L'Estrange.
-- Out of doors, or Without doors, and, [colloquially], Out doors, out of the house; in open air; abroad; away; lost.
[1913 Webster]
His imaginary title of fatherhood is out of doors. Locke.
-- To lay (a fault, misfortune, etc.) at one's door, to charge one with a fault; to blame for. -- To lie at one's door, to be imputable or chargeable to.
[1913 Webster]
If I have failed, the fault lies wholly at my door. Dryden.

&hand_; Door is used in an adjectival construction or as the first part of a compound (with or without the hyphen), as, door frame, doorbell or door bell, door knob or doorknob, door latch or doorlatch, door jamb, door handle, door mat, door panel.


word: doorbell
definition:
doorbell

doorbell
n.
a bell or other sounding device, actuated by a push button at an outer door; the push button activating the bell; alos, the ringing of such a bell; as, I was in the shower and didn't hear the doorbell.

Syn. -- bell, buzzer.


word: Doorga
definition:
Doorga

Door"ga
(?)
n.
[Skr. Durgā.]
(Myth.)
A Hindoo divinity, the consort of Siva, represented with ten arms.
[Written also Durga.]
Malcom.


word: Doorkeeper
definition:
Doorkeeper

Door"keep`er
(?)
n.
One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.


word: doorknocker
definition:
doorknocker

doorknocker
n.
a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door, which may be swung by hand against the door to make a loud knocking sound.

Syn. -- knocker.


word: doorman
definition:
doorman

doorman
n.
someone who guards the entrance to a building.

Syn. -- doorkeeper, door guard, hall porter, porter, gatekeeper.


word: doormat
definition:
doormat

doormat
n.
1.
a mat placed outside and exterior door for wiping the shoes before entering.
[wns=2]

Syn. -- welcome mat.

2.
(figurative)
A person who is habitually abused, taken advantage of or humiliated; sometimes, one who is physically weak; as, they used him for a doormat.
[wns=1]

Syn. -- weakling.


word: Doornail
definition:
Doornail

Door"nail`
(d&omacrr"nāl`)
n.
The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, “As dead as a doornail.”


word: Doorplane
definition:
Doorplane

Door"plane`
(?)
n.
A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant.


word: doorstop
definition:
doorstop

door"stop`
(?)
n.
(Carp.)
The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door; any object used to stop open doors from moving.


word: door-to-door
definition:
door-to-door

door-to-door
adj.
1.
direct without intermediate changes of vehicle; -- of e.g. journeys or deliveries; as, the limousine offers direct door-to-door service.

2.
omitting no one; from the door of one house to that of the next; as, a door-to-door solicitation, canvass, or campaign.

Syn. -- house-to-house.


word: Dopant
definition:
Dopant

Dop"ant
(d&omacrp"ant)
n.
a foreign substance added to a material to alter its properties; -- a process used. e.g., in making semiconductors from pure silicon in the manufacture of semiconductor chips and integrated circuits.


word: Dope
definition:
Dope

Dope
(d&omacrp)
n.
[D. doop a dipping, fr. doopen to dip. Cf. Dip.]
1.
Any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as of opium for medicinal purposes, of grease for a lubricant, etc.

2.
Any preparation, as of opium, used to stupefy or, in the case of a race horse, to stimulate.
[Slang or Cant]

3.
An absorbent material; esp., in high explosives, the sawdust, infusorial earth, mica, etc., mixed with nitroglycerin to make a damp powder (dynamite, etc.) less dangerous to transport, and ordinarily explosive only by suitable fulminating caps.

4.
Information concerning the previous performances of race horses, or other facts concerning them which may be of assistance in judging of their chances of winning future races; similar information concerning other sports; by extension, any information not generally known, especially when coming from an inside source; as, the inside dope.
[Sporting Slang]

5.
an ignorant or stupid person.
[Colloq.]

get the dope on learn the true story; get the inside information.


word: Dope₂
definition:
Dope

Dope
v. t.
1.
To treat or affect with dope; as, to dope nitroglycerin;
specif.:
(a)
To give stupefying drugs to; to drug.
[Slang]
(b)
To administer a stimulant to (a horse) to increase his speed. It is a serious offense against the laws of racing.
[Race-track Slang]

2.
To judge or guess; to predict the result of, as by the aid of dope.
[Slang]

3.
to impregnate with a dopant.


word: Dope-book
definition:
Dope-book

Dope"-book`
n.
A chart of previous performances, etc., of race horses; a racing form.
[Race-track Slang]


word: Dopy
definition:
Dopy

Dopey

Dop"ey, Dop"y
(?)
a.
1.
stupid; as, a dopy kid.
[Colloq.]

Syn. -- cloddish, doltish.

2.
[affected by dope{2}.]
dulled or stupefied by alcohol or narcotics; sluggish or dull as though under the influence of a narcotic.
[Slang]

3.
revealing stupidity; as, a dopey answer.
[wns=2]

Syn. -- anserine, dopey, fool(prenominal), foolish, goosey, goosy, gooselike.


word: Doppelganger
definition:
Doppelganger

Dop"pel*gäng`er
(?)
n.
[G.]
A spiritual or ghostly double or counterpart; esp., an apparitional double of a living person; a cowalker.


word: Dopper
definition:
Dopper

Dop"per
(?)
n.
[D. dooper.]
[Written also doper.]
An Anabaptist or Baptist.
[Contemptuous]
B. Jonson.


word: Dopplerite
definition:
Dopplerite

Dop"pler*ite
(?)
n.
[Named after the physicist and mathematician Christian Doppler.]
(Min.)
A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.


word: Dor
definition:
Dor

Dor
(?)
n.
[Cf. AS. dora drone, locust, D. tor beetle, L. taurus a kind of beetle.  Cf. Dormouse.]
(Zool.)
A large European scaraboid beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius), which makes a droning noise while flying. The name is also applied to allied American species, as the June bug. Called also dorr, dorbeetle, or dorrbeetle, dorbug, dorrfly, and buzzard clock.


word: Dor₂
definition:
Dor

Dor
n.
[Cf. Dor a beetle, and Hum, Humbug.]
A trick, joke, or deception.
Beau. & Fl.

To give one the dor, to make a fool of him. [Archaic] P. Fletcher.


word: Dorado
definition:
Dorado

Do*ra"do
(?)
n.
[Sp. dorado gilt, fr. dorar to gild, fr. L. deaurare. See 1st Dory, and cf. Fl Dorado.]
1.
(Astron.)
A southern constellation, within which is the south pole of the ecliptic; -- called also sometimes Xiphias, or the Swordfish.

2.
(Zool.)
A large, oceanic fish of the genus Coryphæna.


word: Doree
definition:
Doree

Do"ree
(?)
n.
[See Dory.]
(Zool.)
A European marine fish (Zeus faber), of a yellow color. See Illust. of John Doree.

&hand_; The popular name in England is John Doree, or Dory, well known to be a corruption of F. jaune-dorée, i. e., golden-yellow. See 1st Dory.


word: Dorhawk
definition:
Dorhawk

Dor"hawk`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
The European goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the dor beetle. See Goatsucker.
[Written also dorrhawk.]
Booth.


word: Dorian
definition:
Dorian

Do"ri*an
(?)
a.
1.
Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks of Doris; Doric; as, a Dorian fashion.

2.
(Mus.)
Same as Doric, 3.
Dorian
Milton.

Dorian mode (Mus.), the first of the authentic church modes or tones, from D to D, resembling our D minor scale, but with the B natural. Grove.


word: Doric
definition:
Doric

Dor"ic
(?)
a.
[L. Doricus, Gr. _;, fr. _; the Dorians.]
1.
Pertaining to Doris, in ancient Greece, or to the Dorians; as, the Doric dialect.

2.
(Arch.)
Belonging to, or resembling, the oldest and simplest of the three orders of architecture used by the Greeks, but ranked as second of the five orders adopted by the Romans. See Abacus, Capital, Order.

&hand_; This order is distinguished, according to the treatment of details, as Grecian Doric, or Roman Doric.

3.
(Mus.)
Of or relating to one of the ancient Greek musical modes or keys. Its character was adapted both to religions occasions and to war.


word: Doris
definition:
Doris

Do"ris
(?)
n.
[L. Doris, the daughter of Oceanus, and wife of Nereus, Gr. _;.]
(Zool.)
A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks having a wreath of branchiæ on the back.


word: dork
definition:
dork

dork
(dôrk)
n.
1.
a person who is stupid, socially inept, or ridiculous; -- always used disparagingly.
[slang.]

Syn. -- nerd; jerk.
2.
the penis.
[vulgar slang]


word: Dorking fowl
definition:
Dorking fowl

Dor"king fowl`
(dôr"kĭng foul`)
[From the town of Dorking in England.]
(Zool.)
One of a breed of large-bodied domestic fowls, having five toes, or the hind toe double. There are several strains, as the white, gray, and silver-gray. They are highly esteemed for the table.


word: dorky
definition:
dorky

dork"y
(dôrk"ē)
n.
stupid, socially inept, unfashionable, or ridiculous; -- always used disparagingly.
[slang.]

Syn. -- nerd; jerk.


word: Dormancy₂
definition:
Dormancy

Dor"man*cy
(?)
n.
[From Dormant.]
The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.

It is by lying dormant a long time, or being . . . very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people.
Burke.

2.
(Her.)
In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant.

Dormant partner (Com.), a partner who takes no share in the active business of a company or partnership, but is entitled to a share of the profits, and subject to a share in losses; -- called also sleeping partner or silent partner. -- Dormant window (Arch.), a dormer window. See Dormer. -- Table dormant, a stationary table. [Obs.] Chaucer.


word: Dormant
definition:
Dormant

Dor"mant
(?)
n.
[See Dormant, a.]
(Arch.)
A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or “ sleep.”
Arch. Pub. Soc.
dormant tree
dorman tree
dormond
dormer
Halliwell.


word: Dormer window
definition:
Dormer window

Dormer

Dor"mer (?), or Dor"mer win"dow (_;)
n.
[Literally, the window of a sleeping apartment. F. dormir to sleep. See Dormant, a. & n.]
(Arch.)
A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.


word: Dormitive
definition:
Dormitive

Dor"mi*tive
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. dormitif, fr. dormire to sleep.]
Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium.
Clarke.
n. (Med.) A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific; an opiate.


word: Dormitory
definition:
Dormitory

Dor"mi*to*ry
(?)
n.
pl. Dormitories (#).
[L. dormitorium, fr. dormitorius of or for sleeping, fr. dormire to sleep. See Dormant.]
1.
A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school.
Thackeray.

2.
A burial place.
[Obs.]
Ayliffe.

My sister was interred in a very honorable manner in our dormitory, joining to the parish church.
Evelyn.


word: Dormouse
definition:
Dormouse

Dor"mouse
(?)
n.
pl. Dormice (#).
[Perh. fr. F. dormir to sleep (Prov. E. dorm to doze) + E. mouse; or perh. changed fr. F. dormeuse, fem., a sleeper, though not found in the sense of a dormouse.]
(Zool.)
A small European rodent of the genus Myoxus, of several species. They live in trees and feed on nuts, acorns, etc.; -- so called because they are usually torpid in winter.


word: Dormy
definition:
Dormy

Dor"my
(?)
a.
[Origin uncertain.]
(Golf)
Up, or ahead, as many holes as remain to be played; -- said of a player or side.
&hand_; A player who is dormy can not be beaten, and at the worst must halve the match. Encyc. of Sport.


word: Dorn
definition:
Dorn

Dorn
(?)
n.
[Cf. G. dorn thorn, D. doorn, and G. dornfisch stickleback.]
(Zool.)
A British ray; the thornback.


word: Dornock
definition:
Dornock

Dornick

{ Dor"nick (?), or Dor"nock (?) }
n.
A coarse sort of damask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stout figured linen manufactured in Scotland.
[Formerly written also darnex, dornic, dorneck, etc.]
Halliwell. Jamieson.

&hand_; Ure says that dornock, a kind of stout figured linen, derives its name from a town in Scotland where it was first manufactured for tablecloths.


word: Dorsad
definition:
Dorsad

Dor"sad
(?)
adv.
[Dorsum +L. ad towards.]
(Anat.)
Toward the dorsum or back; on the dorsal side; dorsally.


word: Dorsal
definition:
Dorsal

Dor"sal
(?)
a.
[F. dorsal, LL. dorsalis, fr. L. dorsualis, fr. dorsum back; cf. Gr. _;, _;, mountain ridge.  Cf. Dorse, Dorsel, Dosel.]
1.
(Anat.)
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.

2.
(Bot.)
(a)
Pertaining to the surface naturally inferior, as of a leaf.
(b)
Pertaining to the surface naturally superior, as of a creeping hepatic moss.

Dorsal vessel (Zool.), a central pulsating blood vessel along the back of insects, acting as a heart.


word: Dorsal₂
definition:
Dorsal

Dor"sal
n.
[LL. dorsale, neut. fr. dorsalis. See Dorsal, a.]
(Fine Arts)
A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, or of an altar, or in any similar position.


word: Dorsally
definition:
Dorsally

Dor"sal*ly
(?)
adv.
(Anat.)
On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.


word: Dorse
definition:
Dorse

Dorse
(?)
n.
[Cf. L. dorsum the back. See Dorsel, Dosel.]
1.
Same as dorsal, n.
[Obs.]

2.
The back of a book.
[Obs.]

Books, all richly bound, with gilt dorses.
Wood.


word: Dorse₂
definition:
Dorse

Dorse
n.
(Zool.)
The Baltic or variable cod (Gadus callarias), by some believed to be the young of the common codfish.


word: dorsibranchiata
definition:
dorsibranchiata

dor`si*bran`chi*a"ta
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., from L. dorsum back + branchiae gills.]
(Zool.)
A division of chætopod annelids in which the branchiæ are along the back, on each side, or on the parapodia. [See Illusts. under Annelida and Chætopoda.]


word: Dorsibranchiate
definition:
Dorsibranchiate

Dor`si*bran"chi*ate
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Having branchiæ along the back; belonging to the Dorsibranchiata.
n. One of the Dorsibranchiata.


word: Dorsiferous
definition:
Dorsiferous

Dor*sif"er*ous
(?)
[Dorsum + -ferous; cf. F. dorsifère.]
(Biol.)
Bearing, or producing, on the back; -- applied to ferns which produce seeds on the back of the leaf, and to certain Batrachia, the ova of which become attached to the skin of the back of the parent, where they develop; dorsiparous.


word: Dorsiparous
definition:
Dorsiparous

Dor*sip"a*rous
(?)
a.
[Dorsum + L. parere to bring forth.]
(Biol.)
Same as Dorsiferous.


word: Dorsiventral
definition:
Dorsiventral

Dor`si*ven"tral
(?)
a.
[Dorsum + ventral.]
1.
(Biol.)
Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral.

2.
(Anat.)
See Dorsoventral.


word: Dorsoventral
definition:
Dorsoventral

Dor`so*ven"tral
(?)
a.
[dorsum + ventral.]
(Anat.)
From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis.


word: Dorsum
definition:
Dorsum

Dor"sum
(?)
n.
[L.]
1.
The ridge of a hill.

2.
(Anat.)
The back or dorsal region of an animal; the upper side of an appendage or part; as, the dorsum of the tongue.


word: Dorture
definition:
Dorture

Dortour

{ Dor"tour (?), Dor"ture (?), }
n.
[F. dortoir, fr. L. dormitorium.]
A dormitory.
[Obs.]
Bacon.


word: Dory
definition:
Dory

Do"ry
(?)
n.
pl. Dories (#).
[Named from 1st color, fr. F. dorée gilded, fr. dorer to gild, L. deaurare. See Deaurate, and cf. Aureole.]
1.
(Zool.)
A European fish. See Doree, and John Doree.

2.
(Zool.)
The American wall-eyed perch; -- called also doré. See Pike perch.


word: Dory₂
definition:
Dory

Do"ry
n.
pl. Dories (_;).
A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides.


word: Doryphora
definition:
Doryphora

Do*ryph"o*ra
(?)
n.
[NL. See Doryphoros.]
(Zool.)
A genus of plant-eating beetles, including the potato beetle. See Potato beetle.


word: Doryphoros
definition:
Doryphoros

Do*ryph"o*ros
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _;, lit., spear bearing; _; a spear + fe`rein to bear.]
(Fine Arts)
A spear bearer; a statue of a man holding a spear or in the attitude of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us.


word: Dos-a-dos
definition:
Dos-a-dos

Dos`-à-dos"
(?)
adv.
[F.]
Back to back; as, to sit dos-à-dos in a dogcart; to dance dos-à-dos, or so that two dancers move forward and pass back to back.


word: Dos-a-dos₂
definition:
Dos-a-dos

Dos`-à-dos"
n.
A sofa, open carriage, or the like, so constructed that the occupants sit back to back.


word: Dosage
definition:
Dosage

Dos"age
(d&omacrs"a̝j)
n.
[Cf. F. dosage. See Dose, v.]
1.
(Med.)
The administration of medicine in doses; specif., a scheme or system of grading doses of medicine according to age, etc.

2.
The process of adding some ingredient, as to wine, to give flavor, character, or strength.

3.
same as dose{1}; as, 200 mg q.i.d.
[wns=1]

4.
the quantity of a medicine or other substance given to an animal, expressed as a quantity per body weight; as, use a dosage of 10 milligrams per kilogram

5.
the quantity of radiation given to or absorbed by an object; as, a maximum dosage of 1 mrad per day is allowed.
[wns=1]

Syn. -- dose.


word: Dose
definition:
Dose

Dose
(d&omacrs)
n.
[F. dose, Gr. do`sis a giving, a dose, fr. dido`nai to give; akin to L. dare to give. See Date point of time.]
1.
The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.

2.
A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive.

3.
Anything unpleasant that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one; also used figuratively, as to give someone a dose of his own medicine, i. e. to retaliate in kind.

I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not by violent doses.
 W. Irving.

I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give him, he shall readily take it down.
 South.

4.
a quantity of radiation which an object absorbs, or to which it is exposed.


word: Dose₂
definition:
Dose

Dose
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dosed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. dosing.]
[Cf. F. doser. See Dose, n.]
1.
To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.

2.
To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need.

A self-opinioned physician, worse than his distemper, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill him, “secundum artem.”
 South

3.
To give anything nauseous to.


word: Dosel
definition:
Dosel

Dos"el
(?)
n.
[OF. dossel; cf. LL. dorsale. See Dorsal, and cf. Dorse, Dorsel.]
Same as Dorsal, n.
[R.]


word: do-si-do
definition:
do-si-do

do`-si`-do"
(?)
n.
[from dos-à-dos, back to back.]
a movement in square-dancing in which two dancers move around each other in a back-to-back position, and return to their original places.


word: dosimeter₂
definition:
dosimeter

do*sim"et*er
(?)
n.
[NL. dosis dose + -meter.]
a device for measuring doses of radiation, especially ionizing radiation such as X-rays, gamma rays, or ionizing particles.


word: dosimeter badge
definition:
dosimeter badge

do*sim"et*er badge
(?)
n.
a dosimeter cosisting of a radiation-sensitive material, such as film, worn in a small package on a person's clothing, to record the accumulated radiation exposure of the person over a period of time; -- used to monitor the exposure of individuals, such as workers in a nuclear power plant, to ionizing radiation.


word: dosimetry
definition:
dosimetry

do*sim"e*try
(?)
n.
[NL. dosis dose + -metry.]
(Med.)
Measurement of doses; specif., a system of therapeutics which uses but few remedies, mostly alkaloids, and gives them in doses fixed by certain rules.
Do`si*met"ric (#), a. -- Do*sim"e*trist (#), n.


word: Doss house
definition:
Doss house

Doss house
A cheap lodging house.
They [street Arabs] consort together and sleep in low doss houses where they meet with all kinds of villainy.
W. Besant.


word: Dosser
definition:
Dosser

Dos"ser
(?)
n.
[LL. dosserum, or F.dossier bundle of papers, part of a basket resting on the back, fr. L. dorsum back. See Dorsal, and cf. Dosel.]
[Written also dorser and dorsel.]
1.
A pannier, or basket.

To hire a ripper's mare, and buy new dossers.
Beau. &  Fl.

2.
A hanging tapestry; a dorsal.


word: Dossier
definition:
Dossier

Dos`sier"
(do̝s`sya̝"; E. d&obreve_;s"sĭ*ẽr)
n.
[F., back of a thing, bulging bundle of papers, fr. dos back.]
A bundle containing the papers in reference to some matter.


word: Dossil
definition:
Dossil

Dos"sil
(?)
n.
[OE. dosil faucet of a barrel, OF. dosil, duisil, spigot, LL. diciculus, ducillus, fr. L. ducere to lead, draw. See Duct, Duke.]
1.
(Surg.)
A small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent.

2.
(Printing)
A roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines.


word: Dostoyevski
definition:
Dostoyevski

Dostoevski

Dostoevski, Dostoyevski
prop. n.
Russian author Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski; born 1821, died 1881.

Syn. -- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski.


word: Dostoyevskian
definition:
Dostoyevskian

Dostoevskian

Dostoevskian Dostoyevskian
prop. adj.
of or pertaining to Fyodor Dostoevski.


word: Dot
definition:
Dot

Dot
(d&obreve_;t)
n.
[F., fr. L. dos, dotis, dowry. See Dower, and cf. Dote dowry.]
(Law)
A marriage portion; dowry.
[Louisiana]


word: Dot₂
definition:
Dot

Dot
n.
[Cf. AS. dott small spot, speck; of uncertain origin.]
1.
A small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck, or small mark.

2.
Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen; as, a dot of a child.


word: Dot₃
definition:
Dot

Dot
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Dotting.]
1.
To mark with dots or small spots; as, to dot a line.

2.
To mark or diversify with small detached objects; as, a landscape dotted with cottages.


word: D.O.T.
definition:
D.O.T.

DOT

DoT

DoT, DOT, D.O.T.
(dē"&omacr*tē`)
prop. n.
The United States Department of Transportation.
[acronym]
The Department of Transportation promulgates standards for the strength of shipping containers, and this abgreviation is often seen on cardboard boxes.


word: Dotage
definition:
Dotage

Do"tage
(?)
n.
[From Dote, v. i.]
1.
Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage.

Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature.
Macaulay.

2.
Foolish utterance; drivel.

The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca.
 Milton.

3.
Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection.

The dotage of the nation on presbytery.
 Bp. Burnet.


word: Dotal
definition:
Dotal

Do"tal
(?)
a.
[L. dotalis, fr. dos, dotis, dowry: cf. F. dotal. See Dot dowry.]
Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it.
Garth.


word: Dotard
definition:
Dotard

Do"tard
(?)
n.
[Dote, v. i.]
One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood.

The sickly dotard wants a wife.
 Prior.


word: Dotation
definition:
Dotation

Do*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[LL. dotatio, fr. L. dotare to endow, fr. dos, dotis, dower: cf. F. dotation. See Dot dowry.]
1.
The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.

2.
Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation.
Blackstone.


word: Dote
definition:
Dote

Dote
(?)
n.
[See Dot dowry.]
1.
A marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st Dot, n.
Wyatt.

2.
pl.
Natural endowments.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.


word: Dote₂
definition:
Dote

Dote
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Doted; p. pr. & vb. n. Doting.]
[OE. doten; akin to OD. doten, D. dutten, to doze, Icel. dotta to nod from sleep, MHG. t_;zen to keep still: cf. F. doter, OF. radoter (to dote, rave, talk idly or senselessly), which are from the same source.]
[Written also doat.]
1.
To act foolishly.
[Obs.]

He wol make him doten anon right.
Chaucer.

2.
To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel.

Time has made you dote, and vainly tell
Of arms imagined in your lonely cell.
Dryden.

He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died.
South.

3.
To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to be weakly affectionate; -- with on or upon; as, the mother dotes on her child.

Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote.
Shak.

What dust we dote on, when 't is man we love.
 Pope.


word: Doted
definition:
Doted

Dot"ed
(?)
a.
1.
Stupid; foolish.
[Obs.]

Senseless speech and doted ignorance.
Spenser.

2.
Half-rotten; as, doted wood.
[Local, U. S.]


word: Doter
definition:
Doter

Dot"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who dotes; a man whose understanding is enfeebled by age; a dotard.
Burton.

2.
One excessively fond, or weak in love.
Shak.


word: Dotted
definition:
Dotted

Dot"ted
(?)
a.
Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects.

Dotted note (Mus.), a note followed by a dot to indicate an increase of length equal to one half of its simple                       value; thus, a dotted semibreve is equal to three minims, and a dotted quarter to three eighth notes. -- Dotted rest, a rest lengthened by a dot in the same manner as a dotted note.

&hand_; Notes and rests are sometimes followed by two dots, to indicate an increase of length equal to three quarters of their simple value, and they are then said to be double-dotted.


word: Dotterel₂
definition:
Dotterel

Dot"ter*el
n.
[From Dote, v. i.]
1.
(Zool.)
A European bird of the Plover family (Eudromias morinellus, syn. Charadrius morinellus).  It is tame and easily taken, and is popularly believed to imitate the movements of the fowler.

In catching of dotterels we see how the foolish bird playeth the ape in gestures.
Bacon.

&hand_;  The ringed dotterel (or ring plover) is Charadrius hiaticula.

2.
A silly fellow; a dupe; a gull.
Barrow.


word: Dotty
definition:
Dotty

Dot"ty
(?)
a.
[From 2d Dot.]
1.
Composed of, or characterized by, dots.

2.
[Perh. a different word; cf. Totty.]
Unsteady in gait; hence, feeble; half-witted.
[Eng.]


word: Douay Bible
definition:
Douay Bible

Dou"ay Bi"ble
(?)
[From Douay, or Douai, a town in France.]
A translation of the Scriptures into the English language for the use of English-speaking Roman Catholics; -- done from the Latin Vulgate by English scholars resident in France. The New Testament portion was published at Rheims, A. D. 1582, the Old Testament at Douai, A. D. 1609-10. Various revised editions have since been published.
[Written also Doway Bible. Called also the Rheims and Douay version.]


word: Double
definition:
Double

Dou"ble
(dŭb"'l)
a.
[OE. doble, duble, double, OF. doble, duble, double, F. double, fr. L. duplus, fr. the root of duo two, and perh. that of plenus full; akin to Gr. diplo`os double. See Two, and Full, and cf. Diploma, Duple.]
1.
Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent; made twice as large or as much, etc.

Let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
 2 Kings ii. 9.

Darkness and tempest make a double night.
Dryden.

2.
Being in pairs; presenting two of a kind, or two in a set together; coupled.

[Let] The swan, on still St. Mary's lake,
Float double, swan and shadow.
Wordsworth.

3.
Divided into two; acting two parts, one openly and the other secretly; equivocal; deceitful; insincere.

With a double heart do they speak.
 Ps. xii. 2.

4.
(Bot.)
Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally double.

&hand_; Double is often used as the first part of a compound word, generally denoting two ways, or twice the number, quantity, force, etc., twofold, or having two.

Double base, or Double bass (Mus.), the largest and lowest-toned instrument in the violin form; the contrabasso or violone. -- Double convex. See under Convex. -- Double counterpoint (Mus.), that species of counterpoint or composition, in which two of the parts may be inverted, by setting one of them an octave higher or lower. -- Double court (Lawn Tennis), a court laid out for four players, two on each side. -- Double dagger (Print.), a reference mark (‡) next to the dagger (†) in order; a diesis. -- Double drum (Mus.), a large drum that is beaten at both ends. -- Double eagle, a gold coin of the United States having the value of 20 dollars. -- Double entry. See under Bookkeeping. -- Double floor (Arch.), a floor in which binding joists support flooring joists above and ceiling joists below. See Illust. of Double-framed floor. -- Double flower. See Double, a., 4. -- Double-framed floor (Arch.), a double floor having girders into which the binding joists are framed. -- Double fugue (Mus.), a fugue on two subjects. -- Double letter. (a) (Print.) Two letters on one shank; a ligature. (b) A mail requiring double postage. -- Double note (Mus.), a note of double the length of the semibreve; a breve. See Breve. -- Double octave (Mus.), an interval composed of two octaves, or fifteen notes, in diatonic progression; a fifteenth. -- Double pica. See under Pica. -- Double play (Baseball), a play by which two players are put out at the same time. -- Double plea (Law), a plea alleging several matters in answer to the declaration, where either of such matters alone would be a sufficient bar to the action. Stephen. -- Double point (Geom.), a point of a curve at which two branches cross each other. Conjugate or isolated points of a curve are called double points, since they possess most of the properties of double points (see Conjugate). They are also called acnodes, and those points where the branches of the curve really cross are called crunodes. The extremity of a cusp is also a double point. -- Double quarrel. (Eccl. Law) See Duplex querela, under Duplex. -- Double refraction. (Opt.) See Refraction. -- Double salt. (Chem.) (a) A mixed salt of any polybasic acid which has been saturated by different bases or basic radicals, as the double carbonate of sodium and potassium, NaKCO3.6H2O. (b) A molecular combination of two distinct salts, as common alum, which consists of the sulphate of aluminium, and the sulphate of potassium or ammonium. -- Double shuffle, a low, noisy dance. -- Double standard (Polit. Econ.), a double standard of monetary values; i. e., a gold standard and a silver standard, both of which are made legal tender. -- Double star (Astron.), two stars so near to each other as to be seen separate only by means of a telescope. Such stars may be only optically near to each other, or may be physically connected so that they revolve round their common center of gravity, and in the latter case are called also binary stars. -- Double time (Mil.). Same as Double-quick. -- Double window, a window having two sets of glazed sashes with an air space between them.


word: Double₃
definition:
Double

Dou"ble
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Doubled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Doubling (?).]
[OE. doblen, dublen, doublen, F. doubler, fr. L. duplare, fr. duplus. See Double, a.]
1.
To increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like; multiply by two; as, to double a sum of money; to double a number, or length.

Double six thousand, and then treble that.
Shak.

2.
To make of two thicknesses or folds by turning or bending together in the middle; to fold one part upon another part of; as, to double the leaf of a book, and the like; to clinch, as the fist; -- often followed by up; as, to double up a sheet of paper or cloth.
Prior.

Then the old man
Was wroth, and doubled up his hands.
Tennyson.

3.
To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.

Thus reënforced, against the adverse fleet,
Still doubling ours, brave Rupert leads the way.
Dryden.

4.
To pass around or by; to march or sail round, so as to reverse the direction of motion.

Sailing along the coast, the doubled the promontory of Carthage.
Knolles.

5.
(Mil.)
To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.


word: Double₄
definition:
Double

Dou"ble
v. i.
1.
To be increased to twice the sum, number, quantity, length, or value; to increase or grow to twice as much.

'T is observed in particular nations, that within the space of three hundred years, notwithstanding all casualties, the number of men doubles.
T. Burnet.

2.
To return upon one's track; to turn and go back over the same ground, or in an opposite direction.

Doubling and turning like a hunted hare.
Dryden.

Doubling and doubling with laborious walk.
Wordsworth.

3.
To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false.

What penalty and danger you accrue,
If you be found to double.
J. Webster.

4.
(Print.)
To set up a word or words a second time by mistake; to make a doublet.

To double upon (Mil.), to inclose between two fires.


word: Double₅
definition:
Double

Dou"ble
n.
1.
Twice as much; twice the number, sum, quantity, length, value, and the like.

If the thief be found, let him pay double.
Ex. xxii. 7.

2.
Among compositors, a doublet (see Doublet, 2.); among pressmen, a sheet that is twice pulled, and blurred.

3.
That which is doubled over or together; a doubling; a plait; a fold.

Rolled up in sevenfold double
Of plagues.
Marston.

4.
A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice.

These men are too well acquainted with the chase to be flung off by any false steps or doubles.
Addison.

5.
A person or thing that is the counterpart of another; a duplicate; copy; (Obs.) transcript; -- now chiefly used of persons. Hence, a wraith.

My charming friend . . . has, I am almost sure, a double, who preaches his afternoon sermons for him.
Atlantic Monthly.

6.
A player or singer who prepares to take the part of another player in his absence; a substitute; -- used especially of a person who resembles an actor and takes the actor's place in scenes requiring special skills; as, a stunt double.

7.
Double beer; strong beer.

8.
(Eccl.)
A feast in which the antiphon is doubled, hat is, said twice, before and after the Psalms, instead of only half being said, as in simple feasts.
Shipley.

9.
(Lawn Tennis)
A game between two pairs of players; as, a first prize for doubles.

10.
(Mus.)
An old term for a variation, as in Bach's Suites.


word: Double-acting
definition:
Double-acting

Dou"ble-act`ing
(?)
a.
Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a double-acting engine or pump.


word: Double-bank
definition:
Double-bank

Dou"ble-bank"
(?)
v. t.
(Naut.)
To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.

To double-bank an oar, to set two men to pulling one oar.


word: Double-banked
definition:
Double-banked

Dou"ble-banked`
(?)
a.
Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart.


word: -barrelled
definition:
-barrelled

Double-barreled

{ Dou"ble-bar`reled (?), or -bar`relled  }
a.
Having two barrels; -- applied to a gun.


word: Double-breasted
definition:
Double-breasted

Dou"ble-breast`ed
(?)
a.
Folding or lapping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side; as, a double-breasted coat.


word: Double-charge
definition:
Double-charge

Dou"ble-charge`
(?)
v. t.
1.
To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder.

2.
To overcharge.
Shak.


word: double-cross
definition:
double-cross

double cross

double cross, double-cross
v. t.
to betray or swindle (a colleague); to promise (a collaborator) one thing and to treacherously do another, to the detriment of the collaborator.

Syn. -- cross, betray.


word: double-cross₂
definition:
double-cross

double cross

double cross, double-cross
n.
teh act of double-crossing; the betrayal or swindling of a collaborator or colleague.

Syn. -- cross, betray.


word: double-crosser
definition:
double-crosser

double-crosser
n.
one who double-crosses another; a person who says one thing and does another.

Syn. -- double-dealer, betrayer, traitor.


word: doubled
definition:
doubled

doubled
adj.
1.
rendered twice as great or twice as many.

Syn. -- double, duplex, twofold, diploid.

2.
folded in two; as, doubled sheets of paper.

Syn. -- doubled over.


word: double-dealer
definition:
double-dealer

Double dealer

Dou"ble deal"er, dou"ble-deal"er
(?)
One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person; a person who says one thing and does another.
L'Estrange.

Syn. -- double-crosser, betrayer, traitor.


word: double-dealing
definition:
double-dealing

Double dealing

Dou"ble deal"ing, dou"ble-deal"ing
(?)
False or deceitful dealing; acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another. See Double dealing, under Dealing.
Shak.

Syn. -- duplicity.


word: double-dealing₂
definition:
double-dealing

double-dealing
adj.
1.
given to deception especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; as, they accused each other of double-dealing behavior.

Syn. -- ambidextrous, deceitful, duplicitous, two-faced.


word: Double-decker
definition:
Double-decker

Dou"ble-deck"er
(?)
n.
1.
(Naut.)
1.
A man-of-war having two gun decks.

2.
(a)
A tenement house having two families on each floor.
[Local, U. S.]
(b)
A biplane aëroplane or kite.
[Colloq.]

3.
anything having two decks or levels, as a bus with two levels for passengers.  In older vehicles, less often today, the upper deck was open, as on street cars.
[Colloq.]


word: Double-dye
definition:
Double-dye

Dou"ble-dye`
(?)
v. t.
To dye again or twice over.

To double-dye their robes in scarlet.
J. Webster.


word: Double-dyed
definition:
Double-dyed

Dou"ble-dyed`
(?)
a.
Dyed twice; thoroughly or intensely colored; hence; firmly fixed in opinions or habits; as, a double-dyed villain.


word: Double-ender
definition:
Double-ender

Dou"ble-end"er
(?)
n.
(a)
(Naut.)
A vessel capable of moving in either direction, having bow and rudder at each end.
(b)
(Railroad)
A locomotive with pilot at each end.
Knight.


word: Double-entendre
definition:
Double-entendre

Dou"ble-en*ten"dre
(?)
n.
[F. double double + entendre to mean. This is a barbarous compound of French words. The true French equivalent is double entente.]
A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or indelicate.


word: Doubleganger
definition:
Doubleganger

Dou"ble*gang`er
(?)
n.
[G. doppelgänger; doppel double + gänger walker.]
An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger.
Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger.
C. Kingsley.


word: Double-faced
definition:
Double-faced

Dou"ble-faced`
(?)
a.
1.
Having two faces designed for use; as, a double-faced hammer.

2.
Deceitful; hypocritical; treacherous.
Milton.


word: Double first
definition:
Double first

Dou"ble first`
(?)
(Eng. Universities)
(a)
A degree of the first class both in classics and mathematics.
(b)
One who gains at examinations the highest honor both in the classics and the mathematics.
Beaconsfield.


word: Double-headed
definition:
Double-headed

Dou"ble-head"ed
(?)
a.
Having two heads; bicipital.

Double-headed rail (Railroad), a rail whose flanges are duplicates, so that when one is worn the other may be turned uppermost.


word: doubleheader
definition:
doubleheader

doubleheader
n.
two events, usually entertainment or sports performances, occurring immediately in succession or within a short time of each other; especially, two sports games played by the same teams on the same day, one right after another.
A doubleheader in baseball is often scheduled between teams when a previously shceduled game is postponed, as due to rain or other interfering factors.  In such cases, the admission price for the doubleheader remains that of a single game, though two games are played.

Syn. -- twin bill, double feature.


word: Double-hung
definition:
Double-hung

Dou"ble-hung`
(?)
a.
Having both sashes hung with weights and cords; -- said of a window.


word: Double-lock
definition:
Double-lock

Dou"ble-lock`
(?)
v. t.
To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security.
Tatler.


word: Double-milled
definition:
Double-milled

Dou"ble-milled`
(?)
a.
Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine; -- said of cloth; as, double-milled kerseymere.


word: Double-minded
definition:
Double-minded

Dou"ble-mind"ed
(?)
a.
Having different minds at different times; unsettled; undetermined.

A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Jas. i. 8.


word: Doubleness
definition:
Doubleness

Dou"ble*ness
(?)
n.
1.
The state of being double or doubled.

2.
Duplicity; insincerity.
Chaucer.


word: Double-quick
definition:
Double-quick

Dou"ble-quick`
(?)
a.
(Mil.)
Of, or performed in, the fastest time or step in marching, next to the run; as, a double-quick step or march.


word: Double-quick₂
definition:
Double-quick

Dou"ble-quick`
n.
Double-quick time, step, or march.

&hand_; Double-quick time requires 165 steps, each 33 inches in length, to be taken in one minute. The number of steps may be increased up to 180 per minute.


word: Doubler
definition:
Doubler

Dou"bler
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, doubles.

2.
(Elec.)
An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope.

3.
A part of a distilling apparatus for intercepting the heavier fractions and returning them to be redistilled.

4.
(Calico Printing)
A blanket or felt placed between the fabric and the printing table or cylinder.


word: Double-ripper
definition:
Double-ripper

Dou"ble-rip"per
(?)
n.
A kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the other.
[Local, U. S.]


word: doubles
definition:
doubles

dou"bles
n.
1.
badminton played with two players on each side.

2.
tennis played with two players on each side.


word: double standard
definition:
double standard

dou"ble stan"dard
(?)
n.
a standard or set of principles governing conduct, which is applied more stringently or differently to one group of people than to another; -- used especially of standards of sexual behavior that condemn behavior on the part of women that is condoned or not condemned when exhibited by men.


word: Double-surfaced
definition:
Double-surfaced

Dou"ble-sur"faced
(?)
a.
Having two surfaces; -- said specif. of aëroplane wings or aërocurves which are covered on both sides with fabric, etc., thus completely inclosing their frames.


word: Doublet
definition:
Doublet

Doub"let
(?)
n.
[In sense 3, OF. doublet; in sense 4, F. doublet, dim. of double double. See Double, a.]
1.
Two of the same kind; a pair; a couple.

2.
(Print.)
A word or words unintentionally doubled or set up a second time.

3.
A close-fitting garment for men, covering the body from the neck to the waist or a little below. It was worn in Western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century.

4.
(Lapidary Work)
A counterfeit gem, composed of two pieces of crystal, with a color between them, and thus giving the appearance of a naturally colored gem. Also, a piece of paste or glass covered by a veneer of real stone.

5.
(Opt.)
An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.
W. H. Wollaston.

6.
pl.
Two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost; as, to throw doublets.

7.
pl.
[Cf. Pr. doblier, dobler draughtboard.]
A game somewhat like backgammon.
Halliwell.

8.
One of two or more words in the same language derived by different courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc.


word: Double-threaded
definition:
Double-threaded

Dou"ble-thread`ed
(?)
a.
1.
Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.

2.
(Mech.)
Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads.


word: Double-tongue
definition:
Double-tongue

Dou"ble-tongue`
(?)
n.
Deceit; duplicity.

Now cometh the sin of double-tongue, such as speak fair before folk and wickedly behind.
Chaucer.


word: Double-tongued
definition:
Double-tongued

Dou"ble-tongued`
(?)
a.
Making contrary declarations on the same subject; deceitful.

Syn. -- deceitful, double-faced, hypocritical, Janus-faced, two-faced.

Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued.
1 Tim. iii. 8.


word: Double-tonguing
definition:
Double-tonguing

Dou"ble-tongu`ing
(?)
n.
(Mus.)
A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing.


word: Doubletree
definition:
Doubletree

Dou"ble*tree`
(?)
n.
The bar, or crosspiece, of a carriage, to which the singletrees are attached.


word: Doubling
definition:
Doubling

Dou"bling
(?)
n.
1.
The act of one that doubles; a making double; reduplication; also, that which is doubled.

2.
A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice.
Dryden.

3.
(Her.)
The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon.

4.
The process of redistilling spirits, to improve the strength and flavor.

5.
raising the stakes in a game, such as a card game or backgammon, by a factor of 2.

Syn. -- double.

Doubling a cape, promontory, etc. (Naut.), sailing around or passing beyond a cape, promontory, etc.


word: Doubloon
definition:
Doubloon

Doub*loon"
(?)
n.
[F. doublon, Sp. doblon. See Double, a., and cf. Dupion.]
A Spanish gold coin, no longer issued, varying in value at different times from over fifteen dollars to about five. See Doblon in Sup.


word: Doublure
definition:
Doublure

Dou`blure"
(?)
n.
[F.]
1.
(Bookbinding)
The lining of a book cover, esp. one of unusual sort, as of tooled leather, painted vellum, rich brocade, or the like.

2.
(Paleon.)
The reflexed margin of the trilobite carapace.


word: Doubly
definition:
Doubly

Dou"bly
(dŭb"l&ybreve_;)
adv.
1.
In twice the quantity; to twice the degree; as, doubly wise or good; to be doubly sensible of an obligation.
Dryden.

2.
Deceitfully.
doubly
Huloet.


word: Doubt
definition:
Doubt

Doubt
(dout)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Doubted; p. pr. & vb. n. Doubting.]
[OE. duten, douten, OF. duter, doter, douter, F. douter, fr. L. dubitare; akin to dubius doubtful. See Dubious.]
1.
To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or the affirmative proposition; to b e undetermined.

Even in matters divine, concerning some things, we may lawfully doubt, and suspend our judgment.
Hooker.

To try your love and make you doubt of mine.
Dryden.

2.
To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive.
[Obs.]


word: Doubt₂
definition:
Doubt

Doubt
v. t.
1.
To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold confidence from; to distrust; as, I have heard the story, but I doubt the truth of it.

To admire superior sense, and doubt their own!
Pope.

I doubt not that however changed, you keep
So much of what is graceful.
Tennyson.

To doubt not but.
I do not doubt but I have been to blame. Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
We doubt not now
But every rub is smoothed on our way. Shak.
[1913 Webster]
That is, we have no doubt to prevent us from believing, etc. (or notwithstanding all that may be said to the contrary) -- but having a preventive sense, after verbs of “doubting” and “denying” that convey a notion of hindrance.  E. A. Abbott.


2.
To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive of.
[Obs.]

Edmond [was a] good man and doubted God.
R. of Gloucester.

I doubt some foul play.
Shak.

That I of doubted danger had no fear.
Spenser.

3.
To fill with fear; to affright.
[Obs.]

The virtues of the valiant Caratach
More doubt me than all Britain.
Beau. & Fl.


word: Doubt₃
definition:
Doubt

Doubt
n.
[OE. dute, doute, F. doute, fr. douter to doubt. See Doubt, v. i.]
1.
A fluctuation of mind arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of judgment or mind; unsettled state of opinion concerning the reality of an event, or the truth of an assertion, etc.; hesitation.

Doubt is the beginning and the end of our efforts to know.
Sir W. Hamilton.

Doubt, in order to be operative in requiring an acquittal, is not the want of perfect certainty (which can never exist in any question of fact) but a defect of proof preventing a reasonable assurance of quilt.
Wharton.

2.
Uncertainty of condition.

Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee.
Deut. xxviii. 66.

3.
Suspicion; fear; apprehension; dread.
[Obs.]

I stand in doubt of you.
Gal. iv. 20.

Nor slack her threatful hand for danger's doubt.
Spenser.

4.
Difficulty expressed or urged for solution; point unsettled; objection.

To every doubt your answer is the same.
Blackmore.

No doubt, undoubtedly; without doubt. -- Out of doubt, beyond doubt. [Obs.] Spenser.


word: Doubtable
definition:
Doubtable

Doubt"a*ble
(?)
a.
[OF. doutable, L. dubitabilis, from dubitare.  Cf. Dubitable.]
1.
Capable of being doubted; questionable.

2.
Worthy of being feared; redoubtable.
[Obs.]


word: Doubtance
definition:
Doubtance

Doubt"ance
(?)
n.
[OF. doutance.  Cf. Dubitancy.]
State of being in doubt; uncertainty; doubt.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Doubtful
definition:
Doubtful

Doubt"ful
(?)
a.
1.
Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure.

Methinks I should know you, and know this man;
Yet I am doubtful.
Shak.

With doubtful feet and wavering resolution.
Milton.

2.
Admitting of doubt; not obvious, clear, or certain; questionable; not decided; not easy to be defined, classed, or named; as, a doubtful case, hue, claim, title, species, and the like.

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good.
Shak.

Is it a great cruelty to expel from our abode the enemy of our peace, or even the doubtful friend [i. e., one as to whose sincerity there may be doubts]?
Bancroft.

3.
Characterized by ambiguity; dubious; as, a doubtful expression; a doubtful phrase.

4.
Of uncertain issue or event.

We . . . have sustained one day in doubtful fight.
Milton.

The strife between the two principles had been long, fierce, and doubtful.
Macaulay.

5.
Fearful; apprehensive; suspicious.
[Obs.]

I am doubtful that you have been conjunct
And bosomed with her.
Shak.


word: Doubtfully
definition:
Doubtfully

Doubt"ful*ly
(?)
adv.
In a doubtful manner.

Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare.
Dryden.


word: Doubtfulness
definition:
Doubtfulness

Doubt"ful*ness
n.
1.
State of being doubtful.

2.
Uncertainty of meaning; ambiguity; indefiniteness.
doubtfulness
Locke.

3.
Uncertainty of event or issue.
Bacon.


word: Doubting
definition:
Doubting

Doubt"ing
a.
That is uncertain; that distrusts or hesitates; having doubts.
Doubt"ing*ly, adv.


word: Doubtless
definition:
Doubtless

Doubt"less
a.
Free from fear or suspicion.
[Obs.]

Pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure.
Shak.


word: Douc
definition:
Douc

Douc
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A monkey (Semnopithecus nemæus), remarkable for its varied and brilliant colors. It is a native of Cochin China.


word: Douce
definition:
Douce

Douce
(?)
a.
[F. doux, masc., douce, fem., sweet, fr. L. duleis sweet.]
1.
Sweet; pleasant.
[Obs.]

2.
Sober; prudent; sedate; modest.
[Scot.]

And this is a douce, honest man.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Doucepere
definition:
Doucepere

Douce"pere`
(?)
n.
[F. les douze pairs the twelve peers of France, renowned in romantic fiction.]
One of the twelve peers of France, companions of Charlemagne in war.
[Written also douzepere.]
[Obs.]

Big-looking like a doughty doucepere.
Spenser.


word: Dowset
definition:
Dowset

Doucet

{ Dou"cet (?), Dow"set (?) }
n.
[F. doucet sweet, dim. of doux. See Douce.]
1.
A custard.
[Obs.]

2.
A dowcet, or deep's testicle.


word: Douceur
definition:
Douceur

Dou`ceur"
(?)
n.
[F., fr. doux sweet. See Douce.]
1.
Gentleness and sweetness of manner; agreeableness.
Chesterfield.

2.
A gift for service done or to be done; an honorarium; a present; sometimes, a bribe.
Burke.


word: Douche
definition:
Douche

Douche
(?)
n.
[F., fr. It. doccia, fr. docciare to flow, pour, fr. an assumed LL. ductiare, fr. L. ducere, ductum, to lead, conduct (water). See Duct.]
1.
A jet or current of water or vapor directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; a douche bath.

2.
(Med.)
A syringe.


word: Doucker
definition:
Doucker

Douck"er
(?)
n.
[From aouck, for duck. See Duck, v. t.]
(Zool.)
A grebe or diver; -- applied also to the golden-eye, pochard, scoter, and other ducks.
[Written also ducker.]
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Dough
definition:
Dough

Dough
(?)
n.
[OE. dagh, dogh, dow, AS. dāh; akin to D. deeg, G. teig, Icel. deig, Sw. deg, Dan. deig, Goth. daigs; also, to Goth. deigan to knead, L. fingere to form, shape, Skr. dih to smear; cf. Gr. _; wall, _; to touch, handle. _;.  Cf. Feign, Figure, Dairy, Duff.]
1.
Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough.

2.
Anything of the consistency of such paste.

To have one's cake dough. See under Cake.


word: Dough-baked
definition:
Dough-baked

Dough"-baked`
(?)
a.
Imperfectly baked; hence, not brought to perfection; unfinished; also, of weak or dull understanding.
[Colloq.]
Halliwell.


word: Doughface
definition:
Doughface

Dough"face`
(?)
n.
A contemptuous nickname for a timid, yielding politician, or one who is easily molded.
[Political cant, U. S.]


word: Dough-kneaded
definition:
Dough-kneaded

Dough"-knead`ed
(?)
a.
Like dough; soft.

He demeans himself . . . like a dough-kneaded thing.
Milton.


word: Doughty
definition:
Doughty

Dough"ty
(dou"t&ybreve_;)
a.
[Compar. Doughtier (dou"tĭ*ẽr); superl. Doughtiest.]
[OE. duhti, dohti, douhti, brave, valiant, fit, useful, AS. dyhtig; akin to G. tüchtig, Dan. dygtig, Sw. dygdig virtuous, and fr. AS. dugan to avail, be of use, be strong, akin to D. deugen, OHG. tugan, G. taugen, Icel. & Sw. duga, Dan. due, Goth. dugan, but of uncertain origin; cf. Skr. duh to milk, give milk, draw out, or Gr. ty`chh fortune. √68.]
Able; strong; valiant; redoubtable; as, a doughty hero.

Sir Thopas wex [grew] a doughty swain.
Chaucer.

Doughty families, hugging old musty quarrels to their hearts, buffet each other from generation to generation.
Motley.

&hand_; Now seldom used, except in irony or burlesque.


word: Doughy
definition:
Doughy

Dough"y
(d&omacr"&ybreve_;)
a.
Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion.


word: Doulocracy
definition:
Doulocracy

Dou*loc"ra*cy
(?)
n.
[Gr. doy^los slave + kratei^n to rule.]
A government by slaves.
[Written also dulocracy.]
Hare.


word: Dour
definition:
Dour

Dour
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. dur, L. durus.]
Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.
[Scot.]

A dour wife, a sour old carlin.
C. Reade.


word: dourah
definition:
dourah

Doura

Dou"ra, dourah
(?)
n.
sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa; A kind of millet. See Durra.

Syn. -- durra, doura, dourah, Egyptian corn, Indian millet, Guinea corn.


word: Douroucouli
definition:
Douroucouli

Dou`rou*cou"li
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A small, nocturnal, South American monkey of the genus Aotus (formerly Nyctipithecus trivirgatus), with large owl-like eyes; hence, the common name owl monkey.
[Written also Durukuli and dourikuli.]


word: Douse
definition:
Douse

Douse
(dous)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Doused (doust); p. pr. & vb. n. Dousing.]
[Cf. Dowse, and OD. donsen to strike with the fist on the back, Sw. dunsa to fall down violently and noisily; perh. akin to E. din.]
1.
To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse.
Bp. Stillingfleet.

2.
(Naut.)
To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly; as, douse the topsail.


word: Douse₃
definition:
Douse

Douse
v. t.
[AS. dwæscan. (Skeat.)]
To put out; to extinguish; as, douse the lights.
[Slang]
douse
Sir W. Scott.


word: Dousing-chock
definition:
Dousing-chock

Dous"ing-chock`
(?)
n.
(Shipbuilding)
One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck.
Ham. Nav. Encyc.


word: Dove
definition:
Dove

Dove
(dŭv)
n.
[OE. dove, duve, douve, AS. dūfe; akin to OS. dūba, D. duif, OHG. tūba, G. taube, Icel. dūfa, Sw. dufva, Dan. due, Goth. dūb&omacr; perh. from the root of E. dive.]
1.
(Zool.)
A pigeon of the genus Columba and various related genera. The species are numerous.

&hand_; The domestic dove, including the varieties called fantails, tumblers, carrier pigeons, etc., was derived from the rock pigeon (Columba livia) of Europe and Asia; the turtledove of Europe, celebrated for its sweet, plaintive note, is Columba turtur or Turtur vulgaris; the ringdove, the largest of European species, is Columba palumbus; the Carolina dove, or Mourning dove, is Zenaidura macroura; the sea dove is the little auk (Mergulus alle or Alle alle). See Turtledove, Ground dove, and Rock pigeon. The dove is a symbol of peace, innocence, gentleness, and affection; also, in art and in the Scriptures, the typical symbol of the Holy Ghost.

2.
A word of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.

O my dove, . . . let me hear thy voice.
Cant. ii. 14.

3.
a person advocating peace, compromise or conciliation rather than war or conflict.  Opposite of hawk.

Dove tick (Zool.), a mite (Argas reflexus) which infests doves and other birds. -- Soiled dove, a prostitute. [Slang]


word: Dovecote
definition:
Dovecote

Dovecot

{ Dove"cot` (?), Dove"cote` (?), }
n.
A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.

Like an eagle in a dovecote, I
Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli.
Shak.


word: Dovekie
definition:
Dovekie

Dove"kie
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A guillemot (Uria grylle), of the arctic regions. Also applied to the little auk or sea dove. See under Dove.


word: Dove plant
definition:
Dove plant

Dove" plant`
(?)
(Bot.)
A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with numerous globose white fragrant flowers. The column in the center of the flower resembles a dove; -- called also Holy Spirit plant.


word: Dover's Powder
definition:
Dover's Powder

Do"ver's Pow"der
(?)
[From Dr. Dover, an English physician.]
(Med.)
A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States) with sulphate of potash, and in France (as in Dr. Dover's original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of potash and licorice. It is an anodyne diaphoretic.


word: Dove's-foot
definition:
Dove's-foot

Dove's"-foot`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
(a)
A small annual species of Geranium, native in England; -- so called from the shape of the leaf.
(b)
The columbine.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Doveship
definition:
Doveship

Dove"ship
(?)
n.
The possession of dovelike qualities, harmlessness and innocence.
[Obs.]
Bp. Hall.


word: Dovetail
definition:
Dovetail

Dove"tail`
(?)
n.
(Carp.)
A flaring tenon, or tongue (shaped like a bird's tail spread), and a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one.

Dovetail molding (Arch.), a molding of any convex section arranged in a sort of zigzag, like a series of dovetails. -- Dovetail saw (Carp.), a saw used in dovetailing.


word: Dovetail₂
definition:
Dovetail

Dove"tail`
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dovetailed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dovetailing.]
1.
(Carp.)
(a)
To cut to a dovetail.
(b)
To join by means of dovetails.

2.
To fit in or connect strongly, skillfully, or nicely; to fit ingeniously or complexly.

He put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed . . . that it was indeed a very curious show.
Burke.


word: Dovish
definition:
Dovish

Dov"ish
(?)
a.
1.
Like a dove; harmless; innocent.
dovish
Latimer.

2.
advocating peace, compromise or conciliation rather than war or conflict.  Opposite of hawkish


word: Dovyalis
definition:
Dovyalis

Dovyalis
n.
a small genus of sometimes spiny shrubs or small trees, found in Africa, India, and Sri Lanka.

Syn. -- genus Dovyalis.


word: Dow₃
definition:
Dow

Dow
(dou)
prop. n.
(Finance)
shortened form of the Dow-Jones Index or Dow Jones Industrial Average; as, the Dow rose 100 points today.


word: Dowable
definition:
Dowable

Dow"a*ble
(?)
a.
[From Dow, v. t.]
Capable of being endowed; entitled to dower.
Blackstone.


word: Dowager
definition:
Dowager

Dow"a*ger
(?)
n.
[OF. douagiere, fr. douage dower. See Dower.]
1.
(Eng. Law)
A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease.
Blount. Burrill.

2.
A title given in England to a widow, to distinguish her from the wife of her husband's heir bearing the same name; -- chiefly applied to widows of personages of rank.

With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans.
Tennyson.

Queen dowager, the widow of a king.


word: Dowagerism
definition:
Dowagerism

Dow"a*ger*ism
(?)
n.
The rank or condition of a dowager; formality, as that of a dowager. Also used figuratively.

Mansions that have passed away into dowagerism.
Thackeray.


word: Dowcet
definition:
Dowcet

Dow"cet
(?)
n.
[See Doucet.]
One of the testicles of a hart or stag.
[Spelt also doucet.]
B. Jonson.


word: Dowdy
definition:
Dowdy

Dow"dy
(?)
a.
[Compar. Dowdier (?); superl. Dowdiest.]
[Scot. dawdie slovenly, daw, da sluggard, drab, Prov. E. dowd flat, dead.]
Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking.
Dow"di*ly (#), adv. -- Dow"di*ness, n.


word: Dowel
definition:
Dowel

Dow"el
(?)
n.
[Cf. G. döbel peg, F. douelle state of a cask, surface of an arch, douille socket, little pipe, cartridge.]
(Mech.)
1.
A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.

2.
A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it.

Dowel joint, a joint secured by a dowel or dowels. -- Dowel pin, a dowel. See Dowel, n., 1.


word: Dowel₂
definition:
Dowel

Dow"el
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Doweled (?) or Dowelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Doweling or Dowelling.]
To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as, a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.


word: Dower
definition:
Dower

Dow"er
(?)
n.
[F. douaire, LL. dotarium, from L. dotare to endow, portion, fr. dos dower; akin to Gr. _; gift, and to L. dare to give. See 1st Date, and cf. Dot dowry, Dotation.]
1.
That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.

How great, how plentiful, how rich a dower!
Sir J. Davies.

Man in his primeval dower arrayed.
Wordsworth.

2.
The property with which a woman is endowed
(a)
That which a woman brings to a husband in marriage; dowry.
[Obs.]

His wife brought in dower Cilicia's crown.
Dryden.
&hand_; Dower, in modern use, is and should be distinguished from dowry. The former is a provision for a widow on her husband's death; the latter is a bride's portion on her marriage.  Abbott.

Assignment of dower. See under Assignment.


word: Dowitcher
definition:
Dowitcher

Dow"itch*er
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
The red-breasted or gray snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus); -- called also brownback, and grayback.


word: Dow-Jones Index
definition:
Dow-Jones Index

Dow-Jones Index
(?)
n.
(Finance)
an index of certain stock prices on the New York Stock Exchange, computed by the Dow Jones publishing company as a weighted average of the prices of specific stocks in certain categories.  Three indices are maintained, the Industrials, the Transportations, and the Utilities.  When used without qualification, the term usually refers to the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Syn. -- Dow, Dow Jones, Dow-Jones Average.


word: Dow-Jones Industrial Average
definition:
Dow-Jones Industrial Average

Dow-Jones Industrial Average
(?)
n.
(Finance)
an index of certain stock prices on the New York Stock Exchange, computed by the Dow Jones publishing company as a weighted average of the prices of the common stocks of 30 specific companies classified as "industrial".   The Dow Jones Industrial Average is often taken as an indicator of the movement of American stock prices generally, though other indices are maintained, averaging the prices of other stocks,  and these often change in opposite directions from those of the DJIA.

Syn. -- DJI, DJIA, Dow, Dow Jones, Dow-Jones Average.


word: Dowlas
definition:
Dowlas

Dow"las
(?)
n.
[Prob. fr. Doullens, a town of Picardy, in France, formerly celebrated for this manufacture.]
A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, now nearly replaced by calico.
Shak.


word: Dowle
definition:
Dowle

Dowle
(?)
n.
[Cf. OF. douille soft.  Cf. Ductile.]
Feathery or wool-like down; filament of a feather.
Shak.

No feather, or dowle of a feather.
De Quincey.


word: Down
definition:
Down

Down
(?)
n.
[Akin to LG. dune, dun, Icel. d_;nn, Sw. dun, Dan. duun, G. daune, cf. D. dons; perh. akin to E. dust.]
1.
Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool
(a)
(Zool.)
The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without hooklets.
(b)
(Bot.)
The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, as of the thistle.
(c)
The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.

And the first down begins to shade his face.
Dryden.

2.
That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down

When in the down I sink my head,
Sleep, Death's twin brother, times my breath.
Tennyson.

Thou bosom softness, down of all my cares!
Southern.

Down tree (Bot.), a tree of Central America (Ochroma Lagopus), the seeds of which are enveloped in vegetable wool.


word: Down₃
definition:
Down

Down
n.
[OE. dun, doun, AS. dūn; of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. dūn hill, fortified hill, Gael. dun heap, hillock, hill, W. din a fortified hill or mount; akin to E. town. See Town, and cf. Down, adv. & prep., Dune.]
1.
A bank or rounded hillock of sand thrown up by the wind along or near the shore; a flattish-topped hill; -- usually in the plural.

Hills afford prospects, as they must needs acknowledge who have been on the downs of Sussex.
Ray.

She went by dale, and she went by down.
Tennyson.

2.
A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep; -- usually in the plural.
[Eng.]

Seven thousand broad-tailed sheep grazed on his downs.
Sandys.

3.
pl.
A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war.

On the 11th [June, 1771] we run up the channel . . . at noon we were abreast of Dover, and about three came to an anchor in the Downs, and went ashore at Deal.
Cook (First Voyage).

4.
pl.
[From the adverb.]
A state of depression; low state; abasement.
[Colloq.]

It the downs of life too much outnumber the ups.
M. Arnold.


word: Down₄
definition:
Down

Down
adv.
[For older adown, AS. adūn, adūne, prop., from or off the hill. See 3d Down, and cf. Adown, and cf. Adown.]
1.
In the direction of gravity or toward the center of the earth; toward or in a lower place or position; below; -- the opposite of up.

2.
(a)
From a higher to a lower position, literally or figuratively; in a descending direction; from the top of an ascent; from an upright position; to the ground or floor; to or into a lower or an inferior condition; as, into a state of humility, disgrace, misery, and the like; into a state of rest; -- used with verbs indicating motion.

It will be rain to-night. Let it come down.
Shak.

I sit me down beside the hazel grove.
Tennyson.

And that drags down his life.
Tennyson.

There is not a more melancholy object in the learned world than a man who has written himself down.
Addison.

The French . . . shone down [i. e., outshone] the English.
Shak.
I was down and out of breath.
Shak.

The moon is down; I have not heard the clock.
Shak.

He that is down needs fear no fall.
Bunyan.

3.
From a remoter or higher antiquity.

Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation.
D. Webster.

4.
From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence; as, to boil down in cookery, or in making decoctions.
Arbuthnot.

&hand_; Down is sometimes used elliptically, standing for go down, come down, tear down, take down, put down, haul down, pay down, and the like, especially in command or exclamation.

Down, therefore, and beg mercy of the duke. Shak.
[1913 Webster]

If he be hungry more than wanton, bread alone will down. Locke.

Down is also used intensively; as, to be loaded down; to fall down; to hang down; to drop down; to pay down.

The temple of Herè at Argos was burnt down. Jowett (Thucyd.).

Down, as well as up, is sometimes used in a conventional sense; as, down East.

Persons in London say down to Scotland, etc., and those in the provinces, up to London. Stormonth.


Down helm (Naut.), an order to the helmsman to put the helm to leeward. -- Down on or Down upon (joined with a verb indicating motion, as go, come, pounce), to attack, implying the idea of threatening power.
[1913 Webster]
Come down upon us with a mighty power. Shak.
-- Down with, take down, throw down, put down; -- used in energetic command, often by people aroused in crowds, referring to people, laws, buildings, etc.; as, down with the king! “Down with the palace; fire it.” Dryden. -- To be down on, to dislike and treat harshly. [Slang, U.S.] -- To cry down. See under Cry, v. t. -- To cut down. See under Cut, v. t. -- Up and down, with rising and falling motion; to and fro; hither and thither; everywhere. “Let them wander up and down.” Ps. lix. 15.


word: Down₅
definition:
Down

Down
prep.
[From Down, adv.]
1.
In a descending direction along; from a higher to a lower place upon or within; at a lower place in or on; as, down a hill; down a well.

2.
Hence: Towards the mouth of a river; towards the sea; as, to sail or swim down a stream; to sail down the sound.

Down the country, toward the sea, or toward the part where rivers discharge their waters into the ocean. -- Down the sound, in the direction of the ebbing tide; toward the sea.


word: Down₆
definition:
Down

Down
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Downed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Downing.]
To cause to go down; to make descend; to put down; to overthrow, as in wrestling; hence, to subdue; to bring down.
[Archaic or Colloq.]
down
Sir P. Sidney.

I remember how you downed Beauclerk and Hamilton, the wits, once at our house.
Madame D'Arblay.


word: Down₈
definition:
Down

Down
a.
1.
Downcast; as, a down look.
[R.]

2.
Downright; absolute; positive; as, a down denial.
[Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.

3.
Downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway.

Down draught, a downward draft, as in a flue, chimney, shaft of a mine, etc. -- Down in the mouth, Down at the mouth chopfallen; dejected.


word: down-and-out
definition:
down-and-out

down-and-out
adj.
1.
impoverished; -- usually implying a state of dejection as well.

2.
physically weak.

Syn. -- down-and-out.


word: downbeat
definition:
downbeat

downbeat
n.
(Music)
the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward).


word: downbound
definition:
downbound

downbound
adj.
leading in a downward direction.

Syn. -- down(prenominal), downward(prenominal).


word: down-bow
definition:
down-bow

down-bow
n.
(Music)
a downward stroke from the heel to the tip of the bow, in bowing a stringed instrument.  Contrasted with up-bow, when the bow is moved in the opposite direction.


word: downcast
definition:
downcast

down"cast`
(?)
a.
Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.

'T is love, said she; and then my downcast eyes,
And guilty dumbness, witnessed my surprise.
Dryden.
2.
depressed; dispirited; dejected; -- of people.

Syn. -- down(predicate), downhearted, low, low-spirited.


word: Downcast
definition:
Downcast

Down"cast`
n.
1.
Downcast or melancholy look.

That downcast of thine eye.
Beau. & Fl.

2.
(Mining)
A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.


word: Downcome
definition:
Downcome

Down"come`
(doun"kŭm`)
n.
1.
Sudden fall; downfall; overthrow.
Milton.

2.
(Iron Manuf.)
A pipe for leading combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned.


word: Downcomer
definition:
Downcomer

Down"com`er
(?)
n.
A pipe to conduct something downwards;
specif.
(a)
(Iron Manuf.)
A pipe for leading the hot gases from the top of a blast furnace downward to the regenerators, boilers, etc.
(b)
(Steam Engin.)
In some water-tube boilers, a tube larger in diameter than the water tubes to conduct the water from each top drum to a bottom drum, thus completing the circulation.


word: downed
definition:
downed

downed
adj.
1.
knocked down.

2.
(Football)
touched to the ground, thus ending the play; -- of a football.


word: downer
definition:
downer

downer
n.
a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person.
[Colloq.]

Syn. -- sedative, depressant.


word: Downfall
definition:
Downfall

Down"fall`
(doun"f&asuml_;l`)
n.
1.
A sudden fall; a body of things falling.

Those cataracts or downfalls aforesaid.
Holland.

Each downfall of a flood the mountains pour.
Dryden.

2.
A sudden descent from rank or state, reputation or happiness; destruction; ruin; as, the senator's unrestrained sexual escapades led to his downfall.

Dire were the consequences which would follow the downfall of so important a place.
Motley.


word: Downhaul
definition:
Downhaul

Down"haul`
(doun"h&asuml_;l`)
n.
(Naut.)
A rope to haul down, or to assist in hauling down, a sail; as, a staysail downhaul; a trysail downhaul.


word: Downhill₃
definition:
Downhill

Down"hill`
n.
Declivity; descent; slope.

On th' icy downhills of this slippery life.
Du Bartas (Trans. ).


word: Downlooked
definition:
Downlooked

Down"looked`
(?)
a.
Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen.
[R.]
Dryden.


word: Downlying
definition:
Downlying

Down"ly`ing
(?)
n.
The time of retiring to rest; time of repose.
Cavendish.

At the downlying, at the travail in childbirth. [Scot.]


word: down-market
definition:
down-market

down-market
adj.
designed for low-income consumers.  Opposite of upmarket.

Syn. -- downmarket.


word: Downright
definition:
Downright

Down"right`
(?)
adv.
1.
Straight down; perpendicularly.

2.
In plain terms; without ceremony.

We shall chide downright, if I longer stay.
Shak.

3.
Without delay; at once; completely.
[Obs.]

She fell downright into a fit.
Arbuthnot.


word: Downright₂
definition:
Downright

Down"right`
a.
1.
Plain; direct; forthright; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way.

A man of plain, downright character.
Sir W. Scott.

2.
Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism.

Syn. -- honest-to-goodness.
The downright impossibilities charged upon it.
South.

Gloomy fancies which in her amounted to downright insanity.
Prescott.


word: Downsitting
definition:
Downsitting

Down"sit`ting
(?)
n.
The act of sitting down; repose; a resting.

Thou knowest my downsitting and my uprising.
Ps. cxxxix. 2.


word: downsizing
definition:
downsizing

downsizing
n.
(Economics)
the reduction of expeditures and personnel in order to become financial stable; -- of businesses.

Syn. -- retrenchment, curtailment.


word: downstage₂
definition:
downstage

downstage
adj.
(Theater)
of or pertaining to the front half of a stage.  Opposite of upstage.


word: downstage₃
definition:
downstage

downstage
adv.
(Theater)
at the front half of the stage; as, the dialog is clearer when conducted downstage.  Opposite of upstage.


word: downstairs
definition:
downstairs

downstair

downstair, downstairs
adj.
on or of the lower floors of a building, especially the ground floor; as, the downstairs (or downstair phone; the house has no downstairs bathroom.  Opposite of upstairs.


word: downstairs₂
definition:
downstairs

down"stairs
(?)
adv.
Down the stairs; to a lower floor; as, she headed downstairs as soon as she heard the horn.


word: Downstroke
definition:
Downstroke

Down"stroke`
(?)
n.
(Penmanship)
A stroke made with a downward motion of the pen or pencil.


word: Down's syndrome
definition:
Down's syndrome

Down syndrome

Down" syn`drome, Down's" syn`drome
(?)
n.
(Med.)
A congenital disorder caused by an extra chromosome 21 in some or all cells.  It causes a variable number and degree of abnormalities, including retarded growth, mental retardation, a short nose, prominent epicanthic folds on the eyelids, a protruding lower lip, and other physical features having varying degrees of deviation from the normal.  Called also mongolism, trisomy-21 and trisomy 21 syndrome.


word: Downthrow
definition:
Downthrow

Down"throw`
(?)
n.
(Geol.)
The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n.


word: down-to-earth
definition:
down-to-earth

down-to-earth
adj.
facing reality squarely; guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory.  Opposite of idealistic, unrealistic, impractical, and pie-in-the-sky.

Syn. -- hardheaded, hard-nosed, practical, pragmatic.


word: Downtrodden
definition:
Downtrodden

Downtrod

{ Down"trod` (?), Down"trod`den (?), }
a.
Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power.
Shak.


word: Downwards
definition:
Downwards

Downward

{ Down"ward (?), Down"wards (?), }
adv.
[AS. ad_;nweard. See Down, adv., and -ward.]
1.
From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards.
downwards
Pope.

Their heads they downward bent.
Drayton.

2.
From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin.

And downward fell into a groveling swine.
Milton.

3.
From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line.

A ring the county wears,
That downward hath descended in his house,
From son to son, some four or five descents.
Shak.


word: Downward
definition:
Downward

Down"ward
a.
1.
Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous.

With downward force
That drove the sand along he took his way.
Dryden.

2.
Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of descent.

3.
Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as, downward thoughts.
Sir P. Sidney.


word: Downweigh
definition:
Downweigh

Down`weigh"
(-wā")
v. t.
To weigh or press down.

A different sin downweighs them to the bottom.
Longfellow.


word: downwind
definition:
downwind

down"wind
adj.
on the side or in the direction away from the direction from which the wind is blowing; in the direction toward which the wind is blowing; as, good hunters stay downwind of their prey.  Opposite of upwind, and windward.

Syn. -- lee(prenominal), leeward.


word: Downy
definition:
Downy

Down"y
(-&ybreve_;)
a.
1.
Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs.
downy
Shak.

Plants that . . . have downy or velvet rind upon their leaves.
Bacon.

2.
Made of, or resembling, down. Hence, figuratively: Soft; placid; soothing; quiet.
downy
Keble.
Downy
Pope.

Time steals on with downy feet.
Young.

3.
Cunning; wary.
[Slang, Eng.]
Latham.


word: Downy woodpecker
definition:
Downy woodpecker

Down"y wood"peck*er
(-&ybreve_;)
n.
(Zool.)
A small black and white ladder-backed woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) of Central and Eastern U. S. and Canada.  It strongly resembles the hairy woodpecker, but is smaller (6 1/2"), compared with about 9-1/2" for the hairy.  It is common in suburban backyards.


word: Dowry
definition:
Dowry

Dow"ry
(dou"r&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Dowries (dou"rĭz).
[Contr. from dowery; cf. LL. dotarium. See Dower.]
1.
A gift; endowment.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

2.
The money, goods, or estate, which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; a bride's portion on her marriage. See Note under Dower.
Shak. Dryden.

3.
A gift or presents for the bride, on espousal. See Dower.

Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give . . .; but give me the damsel to wife.
Gen. xxxiv. 12.


word: Dowse
definition:
Dowse

Dowse
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. 1st Douse.]
1.
To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse.

2.
[Cf. OD. doesen to strike, Norw. dusa to break.]
To beat or thrash.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Dowse₂
definition:
Dowse

Dowse
v. i.
To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc.

Adams had the reputation of having dowsed successfully for more than a hundred wells.
Eng. Cyc.


word: Dowser
definition:
Dowser

Dows"er
(?)
n.
1.
A divining rod used in searching for water, ore, etc., a dowsing rod.
[Colloq.]

2.
One who uses the dowser or divining rod.
Eng. Cyc.


word: Doxologize
definition:
Doxologize

Dox*ol"o*gize
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Doxologized; p. pr. & vb. n. Doxologizing.]
To give glory to God, as in a doxology; to praise God with doxologies.


word: Doxology
definition:
Doxology

Dox*ol"o*gy
(?)
n.
pl. Doxologies (#).
[LL. doxologia, Gr. _;, fr. _; praising, giving glory; _; opinion, estimation, glory, praise (from _; to think, imagine) + _; to speak: cf. F. doxologie. See Dogma, and Legend.]
In Christian worship: A hymn expressing praise and honor to God; a form of praise to God designed to be sung or chanted by the choir or the congregation.

David breaks forth into these triumphant praises and doxologies.
South.


word: Doxy
definition:
Doxy

Dox"y
(?)
n.
pl. Doxies (#).
[See Duck a pet.]
A loose wench; a disreputable sweetheart.
Shak.


word: Doyen
definition:
Doyen

Doy`en"
(dwä`yäN")
n.
[F. See Dean.]
Lit., a dean; the senior member of a body or group; as, the doyen of French physicians.
doyen
A. R. Colquhoun.


word: doyley
definition:
doyley

doyley
n.
1.
a small round piece of linen place under a dish or bowl; same as doily.

Syn. -- doily, doyly.


word: Doze
definition:
Doze

Doze
(d&omacrz)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Dozed (d&omacrzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Dozing.]
[Prob. akin to daze, dizzy: cf. Icel. dūsa to doze, Dan. döse to make dull, heavy, or drowsy, dös dullness, drowsiness, dösig drowsy, AS. dw&aemacr_;s dull, stupid, foolish. √71.  Cf. Dizzy.]
To slumber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy.

If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him.
L'Estrange.


word: Doze₂
definition:
Doze

Doze
v. t.
1.
To pass or spend in drowsiness; as, to doze away one's time.

2.
To make dull; to stupefy.
[Obs.]

I was an hour . . . in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work.
Pepys.

They left for a long time dozed and benumbed.
South.


word: Dozen
definition:
Dozen

Doz"en
(dŭz"'n)
n.
pl. Dozen (before another noun), Dozens (dŭz"'nz).
[OE. doseine, dosein, OF. doseine, F. douzaine, fr. douze twelve, fr. L. duodecim; duo two + decem ten. See Two, Ten, and cf. Duodecimal.]
1.
A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows.
dozen
dozen
dozen
dozen
Shak.

2.
An indefinite small number.
Milton.

A baker's dozen, thirteen; -- called also a long dozen.


word: Dr.
definition:
Dr.

Dr.
n.
abbreviation for doctor, a title accorded to a person who holds a doctorate degree from an academic institution, such as a Ph.D. degree or M.D. degree.
[abbrev.]

Syn. -- doctor.

2.
a licensed doctor of medicine.

Syn. -- doctor, doc, physician, MD, medico.


word: Drab
definition:
Drab

Drab
(drăb)
n.
[AS. drabbe dregs, lees; akin to D. drab, drabbe, dregs, G. treber; for sense 1, cf. also Gael. drabag a slattern, drabach slovenly.  Cf. Draff.]
1.
A low, sluttish woman.
King.

2.
A lewd wench; a strumpet.
Shak.

3.
A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.


word: Drab₂
definition:
Drab

Drab
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Drabbed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drabbing.]
To associate with strumpets; to wench.
Beau. & Fl.


word: Drab₃
definition:
Drab

Drab
n.
[F. drap cloth: LL. drappus, trapus, perh. orig., a firm, solid stuff, cf. F. draper to drape, also to full cloth; prob. of German origin; cf. Icel. drepa to beat, strike, AS. drepan, G. treffen; perh. akin to E. drub.  Cf. Drape, Trappings.]
1.
A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.

2.
A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.


word: Drabble
definition:
Drabble

Drab"ble
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Drabbled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drabbling (?).]
[_;_;_;.See Drab, Draff.]
To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a gown or cloak.
Halliwell.


word: Drabbler
definition:
Drabbler

Drab"bler
(?)
n.
(Naut.)
A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.


word: Dracaena
definition:
Dracaena

Dra*cæ"na
(?)
prop. n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; she-dragon.]
(Bot.)
A genus of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers.

&hand_; Dracæna Draco, the source of the dragon's blood of the Canaries, forms a tree, sometimes of gigantic size.


word: Dracanth
definition:
Dracanth

Dra"canth
(?)
n.
A kind of gum; -- called also gum tragacanth, or tragacanth. See Tragacanth.


word: Drachma
definition:
Drachma

Drach"ma
(?)
n.
pl. E. Drachmas (#), L. Drachmæ (#).
[L., fr. Gr. _;. See Dram.]
1.
A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, having a different value in different States and at different periods. The average value of the Attic drachma is computed to have been about 19 cents (U. S. currency, ca. 1913).

2.
A gold and silver coin of modern Greece worth 19.3 cents.

3.
Among the ancient Greeks, a weight of about 66.5 grains; among the modern Greeks, a weight equal to a gram.


word: Draco
definition:
Draco

Dra"co
(?)
n.
[L. See Dragon.]
1.
(Astron.)
The Dragon, a northern constellation within which is the north pole of the ecliptic.

2.
A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds.

3.
(Zool.)
A genus of lizards. See Dragon, 6.


word: Dracocephalum
definition:
Dracocephalum

Dra`co*ceph"a*lum
prop. n.
A genus of American herbs and dwarf shrubs of the mind family; the dragonheads.

Syn. -- genus Dracocephalum.


word: Draconian
definition:
Draconian

Dra*co"ni*an
(?)
a.
Pertaining to Draco, a famous lawgiver of Athens, 621 b. c.  Used especially in the phrase Draconian punishment.

Draconian code, or Draconian laws, a code of laws made by Draco.  Their measures were so severe that they were said to be written in letters of blood; hence, any laws of excessive rigor. -- Draconian punishment, punishment so severe as to seem excessive for the crime being punished.


word: Draconic
definition:
Draconic

Dra*con"ic
(?)
a.
Relating to Draco, the Athenian lawgiver; or to the constellation Draco; or to dragon's blood.


word: Draconin
definition:
Draconin

Dra*co"nin
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. draconine. See Draco.]
(Chem.)
A red resin forming the essential basis of dragon's blood; -- called also dracin.


word: Dracontic
definition:
Dracontic

Dra*con"tic
(?)
a.
[From L. draco dragon, in allusion to the terms dragon's head and dragon's tail.]
(Astron.)
Belonging to that space of time in which the moon performs one revolution, from ascending node to ascending node. See Dragon's head, under Dragon.
[Obs.]
Dracontic
Crabb.


word: Dracunculus
definition:
Dracunculus

Dra*cun"cu*lus
(?)
n.
pl. Dracunculi (#).
[L., dim. of draco dragon.]
(Zool.)
(a)
A fish; the dragonet.
(b)
The Guinea worm (Filaria medinensis).


word: Draff
definition:
Draff

Draff
(?)
n.
[Cf. D. draf the sediment of ale, Icel. draf draff, husks.  Cf. 1st Drab.]
Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter.

Prodigals lately come from swine keeping, from eating draff and husks.
 Shak.

The draff and offal of a bygone age.
 Buckle.

Mere chaff and draff, much better burnt.
 Tennyson.


word: Draft
definition:
Draft

Draft
(drȧft)
n.
[The same word as draught. OE. draught, draht, fr. AS. dragan to draw. See Draw, and cf. Draught.]
1.
The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught.

Everything available for draft burden.
 S. G. Goodrich.

2.
(Mil.)
A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted.

Several of the States had supplied the deficiency by drafts to serve for the year.
Marshall.

3.
An order from one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange.

I thought it most prudent to defer the drafts till advice was received of the progress of the loan.
 A. Hamilton.

4.
An allowance or deduction made from the gross weight of goods.
 Simmonds.

5.
A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See Draught.

6.
The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See Draught.

7.
(Masonry)
(a)
A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face.
(b)
A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter.

8.
(Milling)
The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone.

9.
(Naut.)
Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See Draught.

10.
A current of air. Same as Draught.

11.
A quantity of liquid poured out for drinking; a dose.

12.
The act of drawing a quantity of liquid from a large container; also, the quantity of liquid so drawn.

13.
A device for regulating the flow of gases in a chimney, stovepipe, fireplace, etc.; as, to close the chimney draft.  It is usually a flat plate of the same internal dimensions as the flue, which can be rotated to be parallel to or perpendicular to the current of gases.


word: Draft₂
definition:
Draft

Draft
a.
1.
Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught; as, a draft horse.

2.
Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught.

&hand_; The forms draft and draught, in the senses above-given, are both in approved use.

Draft box, Draft engine, Draft horse, Draft net, Draft ox, Draft tube. Same as Draught box, Draught engine, etc. See under Draught.


word: Draft₃
definition:
Draft

Draft
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Drafted; p. pr. & vb. n. Drafting.]
1.
To draw the outline of; to delineate.

2.
To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial.

3.
To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select; especially, to compulsorily select and induct members of a population to serve in the armed forces.

HotLips Houlihan: How did a degenerate person like him achieve such a position of responsibility in the army?
Radar: He was drafted.
M*A*S*H (the movie)
Some royal seminary in Upper Egypt, from whence they drafted novices to supply their colleges and temples.
 Holwell.

4.
To transfer by draft.

All her rents been drafted to London.
 Fielding.


word: drafting
definition:
drafting

drafting
n.
1.
writing a first version to be filled out and polished later.

2.
the craft of drawing blueprints.

Syn. -- mechanical drawing.

3.
a creation of artistic drawings.

Syn. -- drawing, draftsmanship.


word: draftsperson
definition:
draftsperson

draftsperson
n.
a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines.

Syn. -- draftsman, draughtsman.


word: drafty
definition:
drafty

draft"y
adj.
not airtight; allowing in currents of air, especially uncomfortably cold air; -- of buildings.

Syn. -- draughty.


word: Drag₂
definition:
Drag

Drag
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dragged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dragging (?).]
[OE. draggen; akin to Sw. dragga to search with a grapnel, fr. dragg grapnel, fr. draga to draw, the same word as E. draw. _; See Draw.]
1.
To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing.

Dragged by the cords which through his feet were thrust.
Denham.

The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.
Tennyson.

A needless Alexandrine ends the song
That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Pope.

2.
To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag.

Then while I dragged my brains for such a song.
Tennyson.

3.
To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.

Have dragged a lingering life.
 Dryden.

To drag an anchor (Naut.), to trail it along the bottom when the anchor will not hold the ship.


word: Drag₃
definition:
Drag

Drag
v. i.
1.
To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold.

2.
To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.

The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun.
Byron.

Long, open panegyric drags at best.
 Gay.

3.
To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.

A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can propel her.
Russell.

4.
To fish with a dragnet.


word: Drag₄
definition:
Drag

Drag
n.
[See Drag, v. t., and cf. Dray a cart, and 1st Dredge.]
1.
The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.

2.
A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.

3.
A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.

4.
A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
[Collog.]
Thackeray.

5.
A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.

6.
(a)
Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below).
(b)
Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
(c)
Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.

My lectures were only a pleasure to me, and no drag.
J. D. Forbes.

7.
Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
drag
 Hazlitt.

8.
(Founding)
The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.

9.
(Masonry)
A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.

10.
(Marine Engin.)
The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3.

Drag sail (Naut.), a sail or canvas rigged on a stout frame, to be dragged by a vessel through the water in order to keep her head to the wind or to prevent drifting; -- called also drift sail, drag sheet, drag anchor, sea anchor, floating anchor, etc. -- Drag twist (Mining), a spiral hook at the end of a rod for cleaning drilled holes.


word: Dragantine
definition:
Dragantine

Dra*gan"tine
(?)
n.
[See Dracanth.]
A mucilage obtained from, or containing, gum tragacanth.


word: dragee
definition:
dragee

dragee
n.
1.
sugar-coated medication.

Syn. -- dragées.
2.
silver-coated candy bead for decorating cakes.

3.
sugar-coated nut or fruit piece.


word: Draggle
definition:
Draggle

Drag"gle
(drăg"g'l)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Draggled (drăg"g'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Draggling (drăg"glĭng).]
[Freq. of drag. √73.  Cf. Drawl.]
To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail.
Gray.

With draggled nets down-hanging to the tide.
Trench.


word: Draggle₂
definition:
Draggle

Drag"gle
v. i.
To be dragged on the ground; to become wet or dirty by being dragged or trailed in the mud or wet grass.
Hudibras.


word: Draggle-tail
definition:
Draggle-tail

Drag"gle-tail`
(?)
n.
A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.


word: Dragnet
definition:
Dragnet

Drag"net`
(?)
n.
[Cf. AS. drægnet.]
A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing.


word: Dragoman
definition:
Dragoman

Drag"o*man
(?)
n.
pl. Dragomans (#).
[From F. dragoman, or Sp. dragoman, or It. dragomanno; all fr. LGr. _;, Ar. tarjumān, from the same source as E. targum.  Cf. Drogman, Truchman.]
An interpreter; -- so called in the Levant and other parts of the East.


word: dragon
definition:
dragon

drag"on
(drăg"ŭn)
n.
[F. dragon, L. draco, fr. Gr. dra`kwn, prob. fr. de`rkesqai, dra`kein, to look (akin to Skr. darç to see), and so called from its terrible eyes.  Cf. Drake a dragon, Dragoon.]
1.
(Myth.)
A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious.

The dragons which appear in early paintings and sculptures are invariably representations of a winged crocodile.
Fairholt.

&hand_; In Scripture the term dragon refers to any great monster, whether of the land or sea, usually to some kind of serpent or reptile, sometimes to land serpents of a powerful and deadly kind. It is also applied metaphorically to Satan.

Thou breakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
 Ps. lxxiv. 13.

Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
 Ps. xci. 13.

He laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years.
Rev. xx. 2.

2.
A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman.
Johnson.

3.
(Astron.)
A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco.

4.
A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent.

5.
(Mil. Antiq.)
A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; -- so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.
Fairholt.

6.
(Zool.)
A small arboreal lizard of the genus Draco, of several species, found in the East Indies and Southern Asia. Five or six of the hind ribs, on each side, are prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard.

7.
(Zool.)
A variety of carrier pigeon.

8.
(Her.)
A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms.

&hand_; Dragon is often used adjectively, or in combination, in the sense of relating to, resembling, or characteristic of, a dragon.

Dragon arum (Bot.), the name of several species of Arisæma, a genus of plants having a spathe and spadix. See Dragon root(below). -- Dragon fish (Zool.), the dragonet. -- Dragon fly (Zool.), any insect of the family Libellulidæ. They have finely formed, large and strongly reticulated wings, a large head with enormous eyes, and a long body; -- called also mosquito hawks. Their larvæ are aquatic and insectivorous. -- Dragon root (Bot.), an American aroid plant (Arisæma Dracontium); green dragon. -- Dragon's blood, a resinous substance obtained from the fruit of several species of Calamus, esp. from Calamus Rotang and Calamus Draco, growing in the East Indies. A substance known as dragon's blood is obtained by exudation from Dracæna Draco; also from Pterocarpus Draco, a tree of the West Indies and South America. The color is red, or a dark brownish red, and it is used chiefly for coloring varnishes, marbles, etc. Called also Cinnabar Græcorum. -- Dragon's head. (a) (Bot.) A plant of several species of the genus Dracocephalum. They are perennial herbs closely allied to the common catnip. (b) (Astron.) The ascending node of a planet, indicated, chiefly in almanacs, by the symbol _;. The deviation from the ecliptic made by a planet in passing from one node to the other seems, according to the fancy of some, to make a figure like that of a dragon, whose belly is where there is the greatest latitude; the intersections representing the head and tail; -- from which resemblance the denomination arises. Encyc. Brit. -- Dragon shell (Zool.), a species of limpet. -- Dragon's skin, fossil stems whose leaf scars somewhat resemble the scales of reptiles; -- a name used by miners and quarrymen. Stormonth. -- Dragon's tail (Astron.), the descending node of a planet, indicated by the symbol _;. See Dragon's head (above). -- Dragon's wort (Bot.), a plant of the genus Artemisia (Artemisia dracunculus). -- Dragon tree (Bot.), a West African liliaceous tree (Dracæna Draco), yielding one of the resins called dragon's blood. See Dracæna. -- Dragon water, a medicinal remedy very popular in the earlier half of the 17th century. “Dragon water may do good upon him.” Randolph (1640). -- Flying dragon, a large meteoric fireball; a bolide.


word: Dragonet
definition:
Dragonet

Drag"on*et
(?)
n.
1.
A little dragon.
Spenser.

2.
(Zool.)
A small British marine fish (Callionymuslyra); -- called also yellow sculpin, fox, and gowdie.


word: Dragonnade
definition:
Dragonnade

Drag`on*nade"
(drăg`&obreve_;n*nād")
n.
[F., fr. dragon dragoon, because Louis XIV., in persecuting the Protestants of his kingdom, quartered dragoons upon them.]
The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade.

He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades, the tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands.
C. Kingsley.


word: Dragon's tail
definition:
Dragon's tail

Dragon's head

Dragon's blood

{ Drag"on's blood, Drag"on's head, Drag"on's tail  }
See Dragon's blood, Dragon's head, etc., under Dragon.


word: Dragoon
definition:
Dragoon

Dra*goon"
(drȧ*gōn")
n.
[F. dragon dragon, dragoon, fr. L. draco dragon, also, a cohort's standard (with a dragon on it). The name was given from the sense standard. See Dragon.]
1.
((Mil.)
Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man.

2.
A variety of pigeon.
Clarke.

Dragoon bird (Zool.), the umbrella bird.


word: Dragoon₂
definition:
Dragoon

Dra*goon"
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dragooned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dragooning.]
1.
To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.

2.
To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.

The colonies may be influenced to anything, but they can be dragooned to nothing.
Price.

Lewis the Fourteenth is justly censured for trying to dragoon his subjects to heaven.
Macaulay.


word: Drain
definition:
Drain

Drain
(drān)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Drained (drānd); p. pr. & vb. n. Draining.]
[AS. drehnigean to drain, strain; perh. akin to E. draw.]
1.
To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.

Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent.
Bacon.

But it was not alone that the he drained their treasure and hampered their industry.
Motley.

2.
To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie.

Sinking waters, the firm land to drain,
Filled the capacious deep and formed the main.
Roscommon.

3.
To filter.

Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh.
Bacon.


word: Drain₂
definition:
Drain

Drain
v. i.
1.
To flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off.

2.
To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain.


word: Drain₃
definition:
Drain

Drain
n.
1.
The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country; the project is a drain on resources.

2.
That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.

3.
pl.
The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains.
[Eng.]
Halliwell.

Box drain, Counter drain. See under Box, Counter. -- Right of drain (Law), an easement or servitude by which one man has a right to convey water in pipes through or over the estate of another. Kent.


word: Drainage
definition:
Drainage

Drain"age
(?)
n.
1.
A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain.

2.
The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers.

3.
(Engin.)
The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works.

4.
Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc.
Latham.

5.
(Surg.)
The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc.

Drainage tube (Surg.), a tube introduced into a wound, etc., to draw off the discharges.


word: drainboard
definition:
drainboard

drain"board`
n.
a board beside a kitchen sink having a surface inclined so as to drain into the sink.

Syn. -- draining board.


word: drained
definition:
drained

drained
adj.
having lost much energy or emotion from vigorous activity; -- of people; as, the day's events left her completely drained of strength.

2.
having resources completely depleted.

Syn. -- depleted.

3.
having no power remaining; -- of a battery.

Syn. -- run-down.

to go down the drain 1. to be consumed in profitless activity; to be wasted; to become worthless. 2. to vanish or cease existing.


word: Draining
definition:
Draining

Drain"ing
vb. n.
of Drain, v. t.
(Agric.)
The art of carrying off surplus water, as from land.

Draining tile. Same as Draintile.


word: Drake
definition:
Drake

Drake
(drāk)
n.
[Akin to LG. drake, OHG. antrache, anetrecho, G. enterich, Icel. andriki, Dan. andrik, OSw. andrak, andrage, masc., and fr. AS. ened, fem., duck; akin to D. eend, G. ente, Icel. önd, Dan. and, Sw. and, Lith. antis, L. anas, Gr. _; (for _;), and perh. Skr. āti a water fowl. √207.  In English the first part of the word was lost. The ending is akin to E. rich.  Cf. Gulaund.]
1.
The male of the duck kind.

2.
[Cf. Dragon fly, under Dragon.]
The drake fly.

The drake will mount steeple height into the air.
Walton.

Drake fly, a kind of fly, sometimes used in angling.

The dark drake fly, good in August.
Walton.


word: Drake₂
definition:
Drake

Drake
n.
[AS. draca dragon, L. draco. See Dragon.]
1.
A dragon.
[Obs.]

Beowulf resolves to kill the drake.
J. A. Harrison (Beowulf).

2.
A small piece of artillery.
[Obs.]

Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger.
Clarendon.


word: Drake₃
definition:
Drake

Drake
n.
[Cf. F. dravik, W. drewg, darnel, cockle, etc.]
Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank.
[Prov. Eng.]
Dr. Prior.


word: Drakestone
definition:
Drakestone

Drake"stone
(?)
n.
A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes.

Internal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone.
De Quincey.


word: Dram
definition:
Dram

Dram
(drăm)
n.
[OF. drame, F. drachme, L. drachma, drachm, drachma, fr. Gr. drachmh`, prop., a handful, fr. dra`ssesqai to grasp.  Cf. Drachm, Drachma.]
1.
A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains.

2.
A minute quantity; a mite.

Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as mush the forcible hindrance of evildoing.
Milton.

3.
As much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison.
Shak.

4.
(Numis.)
A Persian daric.
Ezra ii. 69.

Fluid dram, or Fluid drachm. See under Fluid.


word: Drama
definition:
Drama

Dra"ma
(drä"mȧ or drā"mȧ; 277)
n.
[L. drama, Gr. dra^ma, fr. dra^n to do, act; cf. Lith. daryti.]
1.
A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage.

A divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon.
Milton.

2.
A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest.
drama
Thackeray.

Westward the course of empire takes its way;
The four first acts already past,
A fifth shall close the drama with the day;
Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Berkeley.

The drama and contrivances of God's providence.
Sharp.

3.
Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature.

&hand_; The principal species of the drama are tragedy and comedy; inferior species are tragi-comedy, melodrama, operas, burlettas, and farces.

The romantic drama, the kind of drama whose aim is to present a tale or history in scenes, and whose plays (like those of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and others) are stories told in dialogue by actors on the stage. J. A. Symonds.


word: Dramatical
definition:
Dramatical

Dramatic

{ Dra*mat"ic (drȧ*măt"ĭk), Dra*mat"ic*al (drȧ*măt"ĭ*kal), }
a.
[Gr. dramatiko`s, fr. dra^ma: cf. F. dramatique.]
Of or pertaining to the drama; as, dramatic arts.
[wns=3]

2.
suitable to or characteristic of or having the qualities of, a drama; theatrical; as, a dramatic entrance in a swirling cape; a dramatic rescue at sea.  Opposite of undramatic.
[wns=1]
melodramatic
awe-inspiring, spectacular

The emperor . . . performed his part with much dramatic effect.
Motley.

3.
striking in appearance or effect; vivid; having a thrilling effect; as, a dramatic sunset; a dramatic pause.
[wns=2]

Syn. -- spectacular, striking.

4.
(Music)
marked by power and expressiveness and a histrionic or theatrical style; -- of a singer or singing voice; as, a dramatic tenor; a dramatic soprano.  Contrasted to lyric.
[wns=4]


word: Dramatist
definition:
Dramatist

Dram"a*tist
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. dramatiste.]
The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.


word: Dramatize
definition:
Dramatize

Dram"a*tize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dramatized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dramatizing (?).]
[Cf. F. dramatiser.]
To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.

They dramatized tyranny for public execration.
Motley.


word: Dramaturgy
definition:
Dramaturgy

Dram"a*tur`gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; dramatic composition; _; drama + a root akin to E. work: cf. F. dramaturgie.]
The art of dramatic composition and representation.


word: Drank₂
definition:
Drank

Drank
n.
[Cf. 3d Drake.]
Wild oats, or darnel grass. See Drake a plant.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Drape
definition:
Drape

Drape
(drāp)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Draped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Draping (?).]
[F. draper, fr. drap cloth. See 3d Drab.]
1.
To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.

The whole people were draped professionally.
De Quincey.

These starry blossoms, [of the snow] pure and white,
Soft falling, falling, through the night,
Have draped the woods and mere
Bungay.

2.
To rail at; to banter.
[Obs.]
Sir W. Temple.


word: Drape₂
definition:
Drape

Drape
v. i.
1.
To make cloth.
[Obs.]
Bacon.

2.
To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.


word: draped
definition:
draped

draped
adj.
1.
covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; as, a beam draped with cobwebs.  Contrasted with uncovered.

Syn. -- cloaked, clothed, mantled, wrapped.

2.
curtained; -- of windows; as, velvet-draped windows.  Opposite of curtainless.


word: Draper
definition:
Draper

Dra"per
(?)
n.
[F. drapier.]
One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as, a draper and tailor.


word: Drapery
definition:
Drapery

Dra"per*y
(?)
n.
pl. Draperies (#).
[F. draperie.]
1.
The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.
Bacon.

2.
Cloth, or woolen stuffs in general.

People who ought to be weighing out grocery or measuring out drapery.
Macaulay.

3.
A textile fabric used for decorative purposes, especially when hung loosely and in folds carefully disturbed; as: (a) Garments or vestments of this character worn upon the body, or shown in the representations of the human figure in art. (b) Hangings of a room or hall, or about a bed.

Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Bryant.

All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off.
Burke.

Casting of draperies. See under Casting.

The casting of draperies . . . is one of the most important of an artist's studies.
Fairholt.


word: Drastic
definition:
Drastic

Dras"tic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;, fr. _; to do, act: cf. F. drastique. See Drama.]
(Med.)
Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives.
n. (Med.) A violent purgative. See Cathartic.


word: Draught
definition:
Draught

Draught
(?)
n.
[The same as draft, the spelling with gh indicating an older pronunciation. See Draft, n., Draw.]
1.
The act of drawing or pulling
(a)
The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like.

A general custom of using oxen for all sort of draught would be, perhaps, the greatest improvement.
Sir W. Temple.
She sent an arrow forth with mighty draught.
Spenser.
Upon the draught of a pond, not one fish was left.
Sir M. Hale.
In his hands he took the goblet, but a while the draught forbore.
Trench.
By drawing sudden draughts upon the enemy when he looketh not for you.
Spenser.
2.
That which is drawn
(a)
That which is taken by sweeping with a net.

Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
Luke v. 4.

He laid down his pipe, and cast his net, which brought him a very great draught.
L'Estrange.
Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery, . . . still thou art a bitter draught.
Sterne.

Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired.
Goldsmith.
A draught of a Toleration Act was offered to the Parliament by a private member.
Macaulay.

No picture or draught of these things from the report of the eye.
South.
He preferred to go and sit upon the stairs, in . . .  a strong draught of air, until he was again sent for.
Dickens.

3.
That which draws
(a)
A team of oxen or horses.
Blackstone.
(b)
A sink or drain; a privy.
Shak.
Matt. xv. 17.
(c)
pl.
(Med.)
A mild vesicatory; a sinapism; as, to apply draughts to the feet.

4.
Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.

The Hertfordshire wheel plow . . . is of the easiest draught.
Mortimer.

5.
(Naut.)
The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet draught.

6.
(Com.)
An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4.

7.
A move, as at chess or checkers.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

8.
The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold.

9.
(Masonry)
See Draft, n., 7.

Angle of draught, the angle made with the plane over which a body is drawn by the line in which the pulling force acts, when the latter has the direction best adapted to overcome the obstacles of friction and the weight of the body. -- Black draught. See under Black, a. -- Blast draught, or Forced draught, the draught produced by a blower, as by blowing in air beneath a fire or drawing out the gases from above it. -- Natural draught, the draught produced by the atmosphere flowing, by its own weight, into a chimney wherein the air is rarefied by heat. -- On draught, so as to be drawn from the wood (as a cask, barrel, etc.) in distinction from being bottled; as, ale on draught. -- Sheer draught. See under Sheer.


word: Draught₂
definition:
Draught

Draught
a.
1.
Used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc.; as, a draught beast; draught hooks.

2.
Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air.

3.
Used in making drawings; as, draught compasses.

4.
Drawn directly from the barrel, or other receptacle, in distinction from bottled; on draught; -- said of ale, cider, and the like.

&hand_; This word, especially in the first and second meanings, is often written draft, a spelling which is approved by many authorities.

Draught box. See Draught tube, below. -- Draught engine (Mining), an engine used for pumping, raising heavy weights, and the like. -- Draught hook (Mil.), one of the hooks on a cannon carriage, used in drawing the gun backward and forward. -- Draught horse, a horse employed in drawing loads, plowing, etc., as distinguished from a saddle horse or carriage horse. -- Draught net, a seine or hauling net. -- Draught ox, an ox employed in hauling loads, plowing, etc. -- Draught tube (Water Wheels), an air-tight pipe extending downward into the tailrace from a turbine wheel located above it, to make the whole fall available; -- called also draught box.


word: Draught₃
definition:
Draught

Draught
(drȧft)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Draughted; p. pr. & vb. n. Draughting.]
1.
To draw out; to call forth. See Draft.
Addison.

2.
To diminish or exhaust by drawing.
[R.]

The Parliament so often draughted and drained.
Sir W. Scott.

3.
To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.

Draughting room, a room draughtsmen to work in, and where plans are kept.


word: Draughtboard
definition:
Draughtboard

Draught"board`
(-b&omacrrd`)
n.
A checkered board on which draughts are played. See Checkerboard.


word: Draughthouse
definition:
Draughthouse

Draught"house`
(-hous`)
n.
A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy.
[Obs.]
2 Kings x. 27.


word: Draughts₂
definition:
Draughts

Draughts
n. pl.
A game, now more commonly called checkers. See Checkers.

&hand_; Polish draughts is sometimes played with 40 pieces on a board divided into 100 squares.
Am. Cyc.


word: Draughtsman
definition:
Draughtsman

Draughts"man
(?)
n.
pl. Draughtsmen (_;).
1.
One who draws pleadings or other writings.

2.
One who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind.

3.
A “man” or piece used in the game of draughts.

4.
One who drinks drams; a tippler.
[Obs.]
Tatler.


word: Draughty
definition:
Draughty

Draught"y
(?)
a.
Pertaining to a draught, or current of air; as, a draughtly, comfortless room.


word: Dravida
definition:
Dravida

Dra"vi*da
(?)
n. pl.
[Skr. Drāvi&dsdot_;a, prob. meaning, Tamil.]
(Ethnol.)
A race of Hindustan, believed to be the original people who occupied the land before the Hindu or Aryan invasion.


word: Dravidian
definition:
Dravidian

Dra*vid"i*an
(?)
prop. a.
[From Skr. Drāvi&dsdot_;a, the name of the southern portion of the peninsula of India.]
(Ethnol.)
Of or pertaining to the Dravida.

Dravidian languages, a group of languages of Southern India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these languages, the Tamil is the most important; Telegu, Malayalam, and Kannada are included.  These languages are distinct from the Indo-European family of languages.


word: Dravidic
definition:
Dravidic

Dravidic
prop. n.
one of the languages native to southern India; a Dravidian language.

Syn. -- Dravidian, Dravidian language.


word: draw
definition:
draw

draw
(dr&asuml_;)
v. t.
[imp. Drew (dr&usuml_;); p. p. Drawn (dr&asuml_;n); p. pr. & vb. n. Drawing.]
[OE. dra&yogh_;en, drahen, draien, drawen, AS. dragan; akin to Icel. & Sw. draga, Dan. drage to draw, carry, and prob. to OS. dragan to bear, carry, D. dragen, G. tragen, Goth. dragan; cf. Skr. dhraj to move along, glide; and perh. akin to Skr. dhar to hold, bear. √73.  Cf. 2d Drag, Dray a cart, 1st Dredge.]
1.
To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

He cast him down to ground, and all along
Drew him through dirt and mire without remorse.
Spenser.

He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room.
Sir W. Scott.

Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
James ii. 6.

The arrow is now drawn to the head.
Atterbury.

2.
To influence to move or tend toward one's self; to exercise an attracting force upon; to call towards itself; to attract; hence, to entice; to allure; to induce.

The poet
Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods.
Shak.

All eyes you draw, and with the eyes the heart.
Dryden.

3.
To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: (a) To bring or take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc.

The drew out the staves of the ark.
2 Chron. v. 9.

Draw thee waters for the siege.
Nahum iii. 14.

I opened the tumor by the point of a lancet without drawing one drop of blood.
Wiseman.
I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Ex. xv. 9.
Spirits, by distillations, may be drawn out of vegetable juices, which shall flame and fume of themselves.
Cheyne.

Until you had drawn oaths from him.
Shak.
We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history.
Burke.
Provided magistracies were filled by men freely chosen or drawn.
Freeman.

4.
To remove the contents of
(a)
To drain by emptying; to suck dry.

Sucking and drawing the breast dischargeth the milk as fast as it can generated.
Wiseman.
In private draw your poultry, clean your tripe.
King.

5.
To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave.
drew
Milton.

Drew, or seemed to draw, a dying groan.
Dryden.

6.
To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire.

How long her face is drawn!
Shak.

And the huge Offa's dike which he drew from the mouth of Wye to that of Dee.
J. R. Green.

7.
To run, extend, or produce, as a line on any surface; hence, also, to form by marking; to make by an instrument of delineation; to produce, as a sketch, figure, or picture.

8.
To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of; to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words; to depict; to describe.

A flattering painter who made it his care
To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
Goldsmith.

Can I, untouched, the fair one's passions move,
Or thou draw beauty and not feel its power?
Prior.

9.
To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange.

Clerk, draw a deed of gift.
Shak.

10.
To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water.

11.
To withdraw.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Go wash thy face, and draw the action.
Shak.

12.
To trace by scent; to track; -- a hunting term.

13.
(Games)
(a)
(Cricket)
To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
(b)
(Golf)
To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
(c)
(Billiards)
To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
(d)
(Curling)
To throw up (the stone) gently.

14.
To leave (a contest) undecided; as, the battle or game was drawn.
draw

&hand_; Draw, in most of its uses, retains some shade of its original sense, to pull, to move forward by the application of force in advance, or to extend in length, and usually expresses an action as gradual or continuous, and leisurely.  We pour liquid quickly, but we draw it in a continued stream.  We force compliance by threats, but we draw it by gradual prevalence.  We may write a letter with haste, but we draw a bill with slow caution and regard to a precise form.  We draw a bar of metal by continued beating.

To draw a bow, to bend the bow by drawing the string for discharging the arrow. -- To draw a cover, to clear a cover of the game it contains. -- To draw a curtain, to cause a curtain to slide or move, either closing or unclosing. “Night draws the curtain, which the sun withdraws.” Herbert. -- To draw a line, to fix a limit or boundary. -- To draw back, to receive back, as duties on goods for exportation. -- To draw breath, to breathe. Shak. -- To draw cuts or To draw lots. See under Cut, n. -- To draw in. (a) To bring or pull in; to collect. (b) To entice; to inveigle. -- To draw interest, to produce or gain interest. -- To draw off, to withdraw; to abstract. Addison. -- To draw on, to bring on; to occasion; to cause. “War which either his negligence drew on, or his practices procured.” Hayward. -- To draw (one) out, to elicit cunningly the thoughts and feelings of another. -- To draw out, to stretch or extend; to protract; to spread out. -- “Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?” Ps. lxxxv. 5. “Linked sweetness long drawn out.” Milton. -- To draw over, to cause to come over, to induce to leave one part or side for the opposite one. -- To draw the longbow, to exaggerate; to tell preposterous tales. -- To draw (one) to or To draw (one) on to (something), to move, to incite, to induce. “How many actions most ridiculous hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy?” Shak. -- To draw up. (a) To compose in due form; to draught; to form in writing. (b) To arrange in order, as a body of troops; to array. “Drawn up in battle to receive the charge.”  Dryden.


word: Draw
definition:
Draw

Draw
(?)
v. i.
1.
To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling; as, a horse draws well; the sails of a ship draw well.

&hand_; A sail is said to draw when it is filled with wind.

2.
To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well.

The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep.
John iv. 11.

3.
To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement.

Keep a watch upon the particular bias of their minds, that it may not draw too much.
Addison.

4.
(Med.)
To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; -- said of a blister, poultice, etc.

5.
To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc.

6.
To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword.

So soon as ever thou seest him, draw; and as thou drawest, swear horrible.
Shak.

7.
To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures.
drawing
Locke.

8.
To become contracted; to shrink.
draw
Bacon.

9.
To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; -- with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing, to get in front; to obtain the lead or increase it; to draw back, to retreat; to draw level, to move up even (with another); to come up to or overtake another; to draw off, to retire or retreat; to draw on, to advance; to draw up, to form in array; to draw near, draw nigh, or draw towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect.

10.
To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; -- usually with on or upon.

You may draw on me for the expenses of your journey.
Jay.

11.
To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as, a carriage draws easily.

12.
To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.
draw
Shak.

To draw to a head. (a) (Med.) To begin to suppurate; to ripen, as a boil. (b) Fig.: To ripen, to approach the time for action; as, the plot draws to a head.


word: Draw₂
definition:
Draw

Draw
n.
1.
The act of drawing; draught.

2.
A lot or chance to be drawn.

3.
the act of drawing a lot or chance.
draw

3.
A drawn game or battle, etc; a tied game; a tie.
[Colloq.]

4.
That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round, or drawn aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under Drawbridge.
[U.S.]

5.
The result of drawing, or state of being drawn;
specif.:
(a)
A drawn battle, game, or the like.
(b)
The spin or twist imparted to a ball, or the like, by a drawing stroke.

6.
That which is drawn or is subject to drawing.


word: Drawback
definition:
Drawback

Draw"back`
(?)
n.
1.
A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature.

The avarice of Henry VII . . . . must be deemed a drawback from the wisdom ascribed to him.
Hallam.

2.
(Com.)
Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied.
M_;Culloch.


word: Drawbar
definition:
Drawbar

Draw"bar`
(?)
n.
(Railroad)
(a)
An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train.
(b)
A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car.


word: Drawbench
definition:
Drawbench

Draw"bench`
(?)
n.
(Med.)
A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called drawing bench.


word: Drawbore
definition:
Drawbore

Draw"bore`
(?)
n.
(Joinery)
A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together.
Weale.


word: Drawbore₂
definition:
Drawbore

Draw"bore`
v. t.
1.
To make a drawbore in; as, to drawbore a tenon.

2.
To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it.


word: Drawboy
definition:
Drawboy

Draw"boy`
(?)
n.
(Weaving)
A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office.


word: Drawbridge
definition:
Drawbridge

Draw"bridge`
(?)
n.
A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal.

&hand_; The movable portion, or draw, is called, specifically, a bascule, balance, or lifting bridge, a turning, swivel, or swing bridge, or a rolling bridge, according as it turns on a hinge vertically, or on a pivot horizontally, or is pushed on rollers.


word: Drawcansir
definition:
Drawcansir

Draw"can*sir
(?)
n.
[From the name of a bullying braggart character in the play by George Villiers called “The Rehearsal.”]
A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully.

The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe.
Addison.


word: drawee
definition:
drawee

draw*ee"
(?)
n.
(Law)
The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.


word: drawer
definition:
drawer

draw"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, draws
(a)
One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom.
Shak.
(b)
One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good drawer.
(c)
(Law)
One who draws a bill of exchange or order for payment; -- the correlative of drawee.

2.
That which is drawn
(a)
A sliding box or receptacle in a case, which is opened by pulling or drawing out, and closed by pushing in.
(b)
pl.
An under-garment worn on the lower limbs.

Chest of drawers. See under Chest.


word: Drawfiling
definition:
Drawfiling

Draw"fil`ing
(?)
n.
The process of smooth filing by working the file sidewise instead of lengthwise.


word: Drawgear
definition:
Drawgear

Draw"gear`
(?)
n.
1.
A harness for draught horses.

2.
(Railroad)
The means or parts by which cars are connected to be drawn.


word: Drawhead
definition:
Drawhead

Draw"head`
(?)
n.
(Railroad)
The flanged outer end of a drawbar; also, a name applied to the drawgear.


word: Drawing
definition:
Drawing

Draw"ing
n.
1.
The act of pulling, or attracting.

2.
The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn.

3.
The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.

4.
(Textile Manuf.)
The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.

5.
The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.

&hand_; Drawing is used adjectively or as the first part of compounds in the sense of pertaining to drawing, for drawing (in the sense of pulling, and of pictorial representation); as, drawing master or drawing-master, drawing knife or drawing-knife, drawing machine, drawing board, drawing paper, drawing pen, drawing pencil, etc.

A drawing of tea, a small portion of tea for steeping. -- Drawing knife. See in the Vocabulary. -- Drawing paper (Fine Arts), a thick, sized paper for draughtsman and for water-color painting. -- Drawing slate, a soft, slaty substance used in crayon drawing; -- called also black chalk, or drawing chalk. -- Free-hand drawing, a style of drawing made without the use of guiding or measuring instruments, as distinguished from mechanical or geometrical drawing; also, a drawing thus executed.


word: Drawknife
definition:
Drawknife

Drawing knife

{ Draw"ing knife" (?), Draw"knife` (?) }
n.
1.
A woodworker`s and joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; a shave; -- called also drawshave, and drawing shave.

2.
(Carp.)
A tool used for the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood.


word: Drawing-room
definition:
Drawing-room

Draw"ing-room`
(?)
n.
[Abbrev. fr. withdraw-ing-room.]
1.
A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room to which company withdraws from the dining room.

2.
The company assembled in such a room; also, a reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawing-room.

He [Johnson] would amaze a drawing-room by suddenly ejaculating a clause of the Lord's Prayer.
Macaulay.

Drawing-room car. See Palace car, under Car.


word: Drawl
definition:
Drawl

Drawl
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Drawled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drawling.]
[Prob. fr. draw: cf. D. dralen to linger, tarry, Icel. dralla to loiter. See Draw, and cf. Draggle.]
To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.


word: Drawl₂
definition:
Drawl

Drawl
v. i.
To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc.

Theologians and moralists . . . talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it.
Landor.


word: Drawloom
definition:
Drawloom

Draw"loom`
(?)
n.
1.
A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns; -- called also drawboy.

2.
A species of damask made on the drawloom.


word: Drawn
definition:
Drawn

Drawn
(?)
p. p. & a.
See Draw, v. t. & i.

Drawn butter, butter melter and prepared to be used as a sort of gravy. -- Drawn fowl, an eviscerated fowl. -- Drawn game or Drawn battle, one in which neither party wins; one equally contested. -- Drawn fox, one driven from cover. Shak. -- Drawn work, ornamental work made by drawing out threads from fine cloth, and uniting the cross threads, to form a pattern.


word: Drawplate
definition:
Drawplate

Draw"plate`
(?)
n.
A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.


word: Drawrod
definition:
Drawrod

Draw"rod`
(?)
n.
(Railroad)
A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.


word: Dray₂
definition:
Dray

Dray
n.
[AS. dræge a dragnet, fr. dragan. _;_;_;_;. See Draw, and cf. 2d Drag, 1st Dredge.]
1.
A strong low cart or carriage used for heavy burdens.
Addison.

2.
A kind of sledge or sled.
Halliwell.

Dray cart, a dray. -- Dray horse, a heavy, strong horse used in drawing a dray.


word: Drazel
definition:
Drazel

Draz"el
(?)
n.
[Cf. Dross, Drossel.]
A slut; a vagabond wench. Same as Drossel.
[Obs.]
Hudibras.


word: Dread
definition:
Dread

Dread
(drĕd)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dreaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Dreading.]
[AS. dr&aemacr_;dan, in comp.; akin to OS. drādan, OHG. trātan, both only in comp.]
To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.

When at length the moment dreaded through so many years came close, the dark cloud passed away from Johnson's mind.
Macaulay.


word: Dread₂
definition:
Dread

Dread
v. i.
To be in dread, or great fear.

Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
Deut. i. 29.


word: Dread₃
definition:
Dread

Dread
n.
1.
Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.

The secret dread of divine displeasure.
Tillotson.

The dread of something after death.
Shak.

2.
Reverential or respectful fear; awe.

The fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth.
Gen. ix. 2.

His scepter shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings.
Shak.

3.
An object of terrified apprehension.

4.
A person highly revered.
[Obs.]
dread
Spenser.

5.
Fury; dreadfulness.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

6.
Doubt; as, out of dread.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Dread₄
definition:
Dread

Dread
a.
1.
Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.

A dread eternity! how surely mine.
Young.

2.
Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.


word: Dreadful
definition:
Dreadful

Dread"ful
(?)
a.
1.
Full of dread or terror; fearful.
[Obs.]
dreadful
Chaucer.

2.
Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm.
Dreadful
Milton.

For all things are less dreadful than they seem.
Wordsworth.

3.
Inspiring awe or reverence; awful.
[Obs.]
dreadful
Shak.


word: Dreadless
definition:
Dreadless

Dread"less
a.
1.
Free from dread; fearless; intrepid; dauntless; as, dreadless heart.
dreadless
Milton.

2.
Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure.
dreadless
Spenser.


word: Dreadly
definition:
Dreadly

Dread"ly
a.
Dreadful.
[Obs.]
Dreadly
Spenser.
adv. With dread. [Obs.] “Dreadly to shake.”  Sylvester (Du Bartas).


word: Dreadnaught
definition:
Dreadnaught

Dread"naught`
(?)
n.
1.
A fearless person.

2.
Hence: A garment made of very thick cloth, that can defend against storm and cold; also, the cloth itself; fearnaught.

3.
A dreadnought, in either sense.


word: Dreadnought
definition:
Dreadnought

Dread"nought`
(?)
n.
1.
(Capitalized)
A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns mounted in turrets, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by a main armament of big guns all of the same caliber. She had a displacement of 17,900 tons at load draft, and a speed of 21 knots per hour.

2.
Any battleship having its main armament entirely of big guns all of one caliber. Since the Dreadnought was built, the caliber of the heaviest guns has increased from 12 in. to 131/2 in., 14 in., and 15 in., and the displacement of the largest batteships from 18,000 tons to 30,000 tons and upwards. The term superdreadnought is popularly applied to battleships with such increased displacement and gun caliber.
[Also spelled dreadnaught.]


word: Dream
definition:
Dream

Dream
(drēm)
n.
[Akin to OS. dr&omacrm, D. droom, G. traum, Icel. draumr, Dan. & Sw. dröm; cf. G. trügen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dreám joy, gladness, and OS. dr&omacrm joy are, perh., different words; cf. Gr. qry^los noise.]
1.
The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision.

Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes.
Dryden.

I had a dream which was not all a dream.
Byron.

2.
A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth.

There sober thought pursued the amusing theme,
Till Fancy colored it and formed a dream.
Pope.

It is not them a mere dream, but a very real aim which they propose.
J. C. Shairp.


word: Dream₂
definition:
Dream

Dream
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Dreamed (drēmd) or Dreamt (drĕmt); p. pr. & vb. n. Dreaming.]
[Cf. AS. drēman, dr&ymacr_;man, to rejoice. See Dream, n.]
1.
To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend.

2.
To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine.

Here may we sit and dream
Over the heavenly theme
Keble.

They dream on in a constant course of reading, but not digesting
Locke.


word: Dream₃
definition:
Dream

Dream
v. t.
To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause.

Your old men shall dream dreams
Acts ii. 17.

At length in sleep their bodies they compose,
And dreamt the future fight
Dryden.

And still they dream that they shall still succeed
Cowper.

To dream away To dream out, To dream through, etc., to pass in revery or inaction; to spend in idle vagaries; as, to dream away an hour; to dream through life. “ Why does Antony dream out his hours?”  Dryden.


word: Dreamer
definition:
Dreamer

Dream"er
(drēm"ẽr)
n.
1.
One who dreams.

2.
A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.


word: Dreamily
definition:
Dreamily

Dream"i*ly
(drēm"ĭ*l&ybreve_;)
adv.
As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly.
Longfellow.


word: Dreamland
definition:
Dreamland

Dream"land`
(?)
n.
An unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland.

[He] builds a bridge from dreamland for his lay.
Lowell.


word: dreamlike
definition:
dreamlike

dreamlike
adj.
resembling a dream; vague or fantastic; as, night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality.

Syn. -- surreal.


word: dreamworld
definition:
dreamworld

dream"world`
(drēm"wûrld)
n.
A pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination; a fantasy land.

Syn. -- never-never land, dreamland.


word: dreamy
definition:
dreamy

dream"y
(drēm"&ybreve_;)
a.
[Compar. Dreamier (drēm"ĭ*ẽr); superl. Dreamiest (?).]
1.
Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary.
dreamy
Tennyson.

2.
soothing; restful; as, dreamy music.

3.
Like what one dreams of; wonderful; delightful; marvelous; ideal; as, a dreamy house and garden.
[informal]

4.
Prone to indulge in fantasy or daydreaming; as, a dreamy young girl.


word: Drearihood
definition:
Drearihood

Drearihead

{ Drear"i*head (drēr"ĭ*hĕd), Drear"i*hood (drēr"ĭ*hŏd), }
n.
Affliction; dreariness.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Dreary
definition:
Dreary

Drear"y
(drēr"&ybreve_;)
a.
[Compar. Drearier (?); superl. Dreariest.]
[OE. dreori, dreri, AS. dreórig, sad; akin to G. traurig, and prob. to AS. dreósan to fall, Goth. driusan.  Cf. Dross, Drear, Drizzle, Drowse.]
1.
Sorrowful; distressful.
[Obs.]
Dreary
Spenser.

2.
Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy.
Dreary
Dryden.
dreary
Prior.

Full many a dreary anxious hour.
Keble.

Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity.
Macaulay.


word: Drecche
definition:
Drecche

Drec"che
(drĕch"e)
v. t.
[AS. dreccan, dreccean.]
1.
To vex; to torment; to trouble.
[Obs.]

As man that in his dream is drecched sore.
Chaucer.


word: Dredge
definition:
Dredge

Dredge
(drĕj)
n.
[F. drège, dreige, fish net, from a word akin to E. draw; cf. D. dreg, dregge, small anchor, dregnet dragnet. √73.  See Draw.]
1.
Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.

2.
(Mining)
Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.
Raymond.


word: Dredge₂
definition:
Dredge

Dredge
(drĕj)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dredged (drĕjd); p. pr. & vb. n. Dredging.]
To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging machine.
R. Carew.

Dredging machine, a machine (commonly on a boat) used to scoop up mud, gravel, or obstructions from the bottom of rivers, docks, etc., so as to deepen them.


word: Dredge₃
definition:
Dredge

Dredge
n.
[OE. dragge, F. dragée, dredge, also, sugar plum; cf. Prov. dragea, It. treggea; corrupted fr. LL. tragemata, pl., sweetmeats, Gr. tragh`mata, fr. trw`gein to gnaw.]
A mixture of oats and barley.
[Obs.]
Kersey.


word: Dredge₄
definition:
Dredge

Dredge
v. t.
To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat.
Beau. & Fl.

Dredging box. (a) Same as 2d Dredger. (b) (Gun.) A copper box with a perforated lid; -- used for sprinkling meal powder over shell fuses. Farrow.


word: Dredger₂
definition:
Dredger

Dredg"er
n.
(Cookery)
A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also dredging box, drudger, and drudging box.


word: Dreg
definition:
Dreg

Dreg
(drĕg)
n.
[Prob. from Icel. dregg; akin to Sw. drägg, cf. Icel. & Sw. draga to draw.  Cf. Draw.]
Corrupt or defiling matter contained in a liquid, or precipitated from it; refuse; feculence; lees; grounds; sediment; hence, the vilest and most worthless part of anything; as, the dregs of society.

We, the dregs and rubbish of mankind.
Dryden.

&hand_; Used formerly (rarely) in the singular, as by Spenser and Shakespeare, but now chiefly in the plural.


word: Dreibund
definition:
Dreibund

Drei"bund`
(?)
n.
[G., fr. drei three + bund league.]
A triple alliance; specif., the alliance of Germany, Austria, and Italy, formed in 1882.


word: dreidl
definition:
dreidl

dreidel

dreidel, dreidl
(drād"'l)
n.
1.
a toy shaped somewhat like a top, but having four flat sides, each marked with one of the Hebrew letters nun, gimel, he, or shin.  It is spun like a top, and the letter showing when it stops spinning determines the outcome of a game of chance.

2.
a game of chance played with a dreidel{1}, most commonly by children at Hannukah.


word: Dreissena
definition:
Dreissena

Dreis"se*na
(?)
prop. n.
[NL. Named after Dreyssen, a Belgian physician.]
(Zool.)
A genus of bivalve shells of which one species (Dreissena polymorpha) is often so abundant as to be very troublesome in the fresh waters of Europe.


word: Drench
definition:
Drench

Drench
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Drenched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drenching.]
[AS. drencan to give to drink, to drench, the causal of drincan to drink; akin to D. drenken, Sw. dränka, G. tränken. See Drink.]
1.
To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic.

As “to fell,” is “to make to fall,” and “to lay,” to make to lie.” so “to drench,” is “to make to drink.”
Trench.

2.
To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.

Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain;
Their moisture has already drenched the plain.
Dryden.


word: Drench₂
definition:
Drench

Drench
n.
[AS. drenc. See Drench, v. t.]
A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.
drench
Dryden.

Give my roan horse a drench.
Shak.


word: Drench₃
definition:
Drench

Drench
n.
[AS. dreng warrior, soldier, akin to Icel. drengr.]
(O. Eng. Law)
A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book.
[Obs.]
Burrill.


word: Drencher
definition:
Drencher

Drench"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, west or steeps.

2.
One who administers a drench.


word: Dresden ware
definition:
Dresden ware

Dres"den ware`
(?)
A superior kind of decorated porcelain made near Dresden in Saxony.


word: Dress
definition:
Dress

Dress
(drĕs)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dressed (drĕst) or Drest; p. pr. & vb. n. Dressing.]
[OF. drecier to make straight, raise, set up, prepare, arrange, F. dresser, (assumed) LL. directiare, fr. L. dirigere, directum, to direct; dis- + regere to rule. See Right, and cf. Address, Adroit, Direct, Dirge.]
1.
To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.
[Obs.]

At all times thou shalt bless God and pray Him to dress thy ways.
Chaucer.

&hand_; Dress is used reflexively in Old English, in sense of “to direct one's step; to address one's self.”

To Grisild again will I me dresse.
Chaucer.

2.
(Mil.)
To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align; as, to dress the ranks.

3.
(Med.)
To treat methodically with remedies, bandages, or curative appliances, as a sore, an ulcer, a wound, or a wounded or diseased part.

4.
To adjust; to put in good order; to arrange; specifically: (a) To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready; as, to dress a slain animal; to dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress or trim a lamp; to dress a garden; to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them.

And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it.
Gen. ii. 15.

When he dresseth the lamps he shall burn incense.
Ex. xxx. 7.

Three hundred horses . . . smoothly dressed.
Dryden.

Dressing their hair with the white sea flower.
Tennyson

If he felt obliged to expostulate, he might have dressed his censures in a kinder form.
Carlyle.
Dressed myself in such humility.
 Shak.

Prove that ever Idress myself handsome till thy return.
Shak.
To dress up or To dress out, to dress elaborately, artificially, or pompously. “You see very often a king of England or France dressed up like a Julius Cæsar.” Addison. -- To dress a ship (Naut.), to ornament her by hoisting the national colors at the peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when dressed full, the signal flags and pennants are added. Ham. Nav. Encyc.


word: Dress₂
definition:
Dress

Dress
v. i.
1.
(Mil.)
To arrange one's self in due position in a line of soldiers; -- the word of command to form alignment in ranks; as, Dress right, dress!

2.
To clothe or apparel one's self; to put on one's garments; to pay particular regard to dress; as, to dress quickly.
dress
Latham.

To flaunt, to dress, to dance, to thrum.
Tennyson

To dress to the right, To dress to the left, To dress on the center (Mil.), to form alignment with reference to the soldier on the extreme right, or in the center, of the rank, who serves as a guide.


word: Dress₃
definition:
Dress

Dress
n.
1.
That which is used as the covering or ornament of the body; clothes; garments; habit; apparel.
dress
Shak.

2.
A lady's gown; as, silk or a velvet dress.

3.
Attention to apparel, or skill in adjusting it.

Men of pleasure, dress, and gallantry.
 Pope.

4.
(Milling)
The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
Knight.

Dress parade (Mil.), a parade in full uniform for review.


word: Dress circle
definition:
Dress circle

Dress circle
A gallery or balcony in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.


word: Dress coat
definition:
Dress coat

Dress" coat`
(?)
A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat.


word: dressed
definition:
dressed

dressed
adj.
1.
same as attired.

Syn. -- appareled, attired, clad, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed.

2.
covered with medication or a bandage ; -- of wounds.

Syn. -- bandaged.

3.
trim and smooth; -- of lumber or stone.

Syn. -- polished.


word: dressed to kill
definition:
dressed to kill

dressed to kill
pred. adj.
attired in strikingly attractive clothing; -- usually of women.


word: dressed-up
definition:
dressed-up

dressed-up
adj.
attired in fancy or formal clothing.
dressed to kill(predicate)

Syn. -- dressed to the nines(predicate), dolled up, spruced up, spiffed up.


word: dresser
definition:
dresser

dress"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments.

2.
(Mining)
A kind of pick for shaping large coal.

3.
An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc.

4.
[F. dressoir. See Dress, v. t.]
(a)
A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
(b)
A cupboard or set of shelves to receive dishes and cooking utensils.

The pewter plates on the dresser
Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine.
 Longfellow.


word: Dresser
definition:
Dresser

Dress"er
n.
[F. dressoir. See Dress, v. t.]
A piece of chamber furniture consisting of a chest of drawers, or bureau, with a mirror.
[U. S.]


word: Dress goods
definition:
Dress goods

Dress" goods"
(?)
A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.


word: Dressing
definition:
Dressing

Dress"ing
n.
1.
Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.
B. Jonson.

2.
(Surg.)
An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to cover a sore or wound.
Wiseman.

3.
Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.

4.
(Cookery)
(a)
A preparation, such as a sauce, to flavor food for eating; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad.
(b)
The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.

5.
Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.

6.
An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc.

7.
Castigation; scolding; -- often with down.
[Colloq.]

Dressing case, a case of toilet utensils. -- Dressing forceps, a variety of forceps, shaped like a pair of scissors, used in dressing wounds. -- Dressing gown, a light gown, such as is used by a person while dressing; a study gown. -- Dressing room, an apartment appropriated for making one's toilet. -- Top-dressing, manure or compost spread over land and not worked into the soil.


word: Dressing table
definition:
Dressing table

Dressing table
n.
a table, usually having a vertical back piece containing a mirror, at which a person may sit while dressing or applying makeup, and on which articles for the toilet stand.  It often has drawers for toiletries, clothing, or accessories.  It is also called a vanity or vanity table.


word: Dressy
definition:
Dressy

Dress"y
(?)
a.
Showy in dress; attentive to dress.

A dressy flaunting maidservant.
T. Hook.

A neat, dressy gentleman in black.
W. Irving.


word: Drib
definition:
Drib

Drib
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dribbed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dribbing.]
[Cf. Drip.]
To do by little and little
(a)
To cut off by a little at a time; to crop.
(b)
To appropriate unlawfully; to filch; to defalcate.

He who drives their bargain dribs a part.
Dryden.
With daily lies she dribs thee into cost.
 Dryden.


word: Drib₂
definition:
Drib

Drib
(?)
v. t. & i.
(Archery)
To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
[Obs.]
Sir P. Sidney.


word: Drib₃
definition:
Drib

Drib
n.
1.
A drop.
[Obs.]
Swift.

2.
a small portion or small amount of anything; -- used mostly in the phrase dribs and drabs.


word: Dribble
definition:
Dribble

Drib"ble
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Dribbled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dribbing (?).]
[Freq. of drib, which is a variant of drip.]
1.
To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.

2.
To slaver, as a child or an idiot; to drivel.

3.
To fall weakly and slowly.
[Obs.]
dribbling
Shak. (Meas. for Meas. , i. 3, 2).
[Perhaps an error for dribbing.]

4.
In basketball, football and similar games, to dribble{2} the ball.

5.
To live or pass one's time in a trivial fashion.


word: Dribble₂
definition:
Dribble

Drib"ble
v. t.
1.
To let fall in drops.

Let the cook . . . dribble it all the way upstairs.
 Swift.

2.
In basketball and various other games, to propel (the ball) by successive slight hits or kicks so as to keep it always in control.


word: Dribble₃
definition:
Dribble

Drib"ble
n.
1.
A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops.
[Colloq.]

2.
An act of dribbling{2} a ball.


word: Driblet
definition:
Driblet

Dribblet

{ Drib"blet (?), Drib"let (?), }
n.
[From Dribble.]
A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets.

When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent.
Burke.


word: dried-out
definition:
dried-out

dried-out
adj.
thoroughly dried; having no moisture remaining.

Syn. -- dehydrated, desiccated.


word: dried-up
definition:
dried-up

dried-up
adj.
wrinkled or cracked from drying.

Syn. -- sere, sear, shriveled, withered.

2.
having its water supply exhausted.


word: Drier
definition:
Drier

Dri"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, dries; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.

2.
(Paint.)
Drying oil; a substance mingled with the oil used in oil painting to make it dry quickly.


word: Drift
definition:
Drift

Drift
(?)
n.
[From drive; akin to LG. & D. drift a driving, Icel. drift snowdrift, Dan. drift, impulse, drove, herd, pasture, common, G. trift pasturage, drove. See Drive.]
1.
A driving; a violent movement.

The dragon drew him [self] away with drift of his wings.
King Alisaunder (1332).

2.
The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.

A bad man, being under the drift of any passion, will follow the impulse of it till something interpose.
South.

3.
Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
drift
Hakluyt.

4.
The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.

He has made the drift of the whole poem a compliment on his country in general.
 Addison.

Now thou knowest my drift.
Sir W. Scott.

5.
That which is driven, forced, or urged along
(a)
Anything driven at random.
drift
Dryden.
(b)
A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like.

Drifts of rising dust involve the sky.
 Pope.

We got the brig a good bed in the rushing drift [of ice].
Kane.
Cattle coming over the bridge (with their great drift doing much damage to the high ways).
 Fuller.

6.
(Arch.)
The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
[R.]
Knight.

7.
(Geol.)
A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice.

8.
In South Africa, a ford in a river.

9.
(Mech.)
A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.

10.
(Mil.)
(a)
A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
(b)
A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.

11.
(Mining)
A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

12.
(Naut.)
(a)
The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
(b)
The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
(c)
The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
(d)
The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
(e)
The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.

13.
The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.

14.
(Phys. Geog.)
One of the slower movements of oceanic circulation; a general tendency of the water, subject to occasional or frequent diversion or reversal by the wind; as, the easterly drift of the North Pacific.

15.
(Aëronautics)
The horizontal component of the pressure of the air on the sustaining surfaces of a flying machine. The lift is the corresponding vertical component, which sustains the machine in the air.

&hand_; Drift is used also either adjectively or as the first part of a compound. See Drift, a.

Drift of the forest (O. Eng. Law), an examination or view of the cattle in a forest, in order to see whose they are, whether they are commonable, and to determine whether or not the forest is surcharged. Burrill. [1913 Webster] -- continental drift (Geology), the very slow (ca. 1-5 cm per year) movement of the continents and parts of continents relative to each other and to the points of upwelling of magma in the viscous layers beneath the continents; -- causing, for example, the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean by the movement of Africa and South America away from each other.  See also plate tectonics.
[PJC]


word: Drift₂
definition:
Drift

Drift
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Drifted; p. pr. & vb. n. Drifting.]
1.
To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east.

We drifted o'er the harbor bar.
 Coleridge.

2.
To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts.

3.
(mining)
to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
[U.S.]


word: Drift₃
definition:
Drift

Drift
(?)
v. t.
1.
To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
J. H. Newman.

2.
To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand.

3.
(Mach.)
To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.


word: Drift₄
definition:
Drift

Drift
a.
That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud.
Kane.

Drift anchor. See Sea anchor, and also Drag sail, under Drag, n. -- Drift epoch (Geol.), the glacial epoch. -- Drift net, a kind of fishing net. -- Drift sail. Same as Drag sail. See under Drag, n.


word: Driftage
definition:
Driftage

Drift"age
(?)
n.
1.
Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.

2.
Anything that drifts.


word: Driftpiece
definition:
Driftpiece

Drift"piece"
(?)
n.
(Shipbuilding)
An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.


word: Driftway
definition:
Driftway

Drift"way`
(?)
n.
1.
A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle.
Cowell. Burrill.

2.
(Mining)
Same as Drift, 11.


word: Driftwind
definition:
Driftwind

Drift"wind`
(?)
n.
A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps.
Beau. & Fl.


word: Driftwood
definition:
Driftwood

Drift"wood`
(?)
n.
1.
Wood drifted or floated by water.

2.
Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.

The current of humanity, with its heavy proportion of very useless driftwood.
 New Your Times.


word: Drill
definition:
Drill

Drill
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Drilled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drilling.]
[D. drillen to bore, drill (soldiers); probably akin to AS. pyrlian, pyrelian, to pierce. See Thrill.]
1.
To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.

2.
To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline.

He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers.
 Macaulay.


word: Drill₃
definition:
Drill

Drill
n.
1.
An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press.

2.
(Mil.)
The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill.

3.
Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.

4.
(Zool.)
A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea.

Bow drill, Breast drill. See under Bow, Breast. -- Cotter drill, or Traverse drill, a machine tool for drilling slots. -- Diamond drill. See under Diamond. -- Drill jig. See under Jig. -- Drill pin, the pin in a lock which enters the hollow stem of the key. -- Drill sergeant (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer whose office it is to instruct soldiers as to their duties, and to train them to military exercises and evolutions. -- Vertical drill, a drill press.


word: Drill₄
definition:
Drill

Drill
v. t.
[Cf. Trill to trickle, Trickle, Dribble, and W. rhillio to put in a row, drill.]
1.
To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.
[R.]
Thomson.

2.
To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.

3.
To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on.
[Obs.]

See drilled him on to five-fifty.
 Addison.

4.
To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
[Obs.]

 This accident hath drilled away the whole summer.
 Swift.


word: Drill₆
definition:
Drill

Drill
n.
1.
A small trickling stream; a rill.
[Obs.]

Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills.
Sandys.

2.
(Agr.)
(a)
An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
(b)
A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.
(c)
A row of seed sown in a furrow.

&hand_; Drill is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, drill barrow or drill-barrow; drill husbandry; drill plow or drill-plow.

Drill barrow, a wheeled implement for planting seed in drills. -- Drill bow, a small bow used for the purpose of rapidly turning a drill around which the bowstring takes a turn. -- Drill harrow, a harrow used for stirring the ground between rows, or drills. -- Drill plow, or Drill plough, a sort plow for sowing grain in drills.


word: Drill₈
definition:
Drill

Drill
n.
[Usually in pl.]
(Manuf.)
Same as Drilling.

Imperial drill, a linen fabric having two threads in the warp and three in the filling.


word: Drilling₃
definition:
Drilling

Drill"ing
n.
[G. drillich, fr. L. trilix having three threads, fr. the of tres three + licium a thread of the warm. See Three, and cf. Twill.]
(Manuf.)
A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.


word: Drillmaster
definition:
Drillmaster

Drill"mas`ter
(?)
n.
One who teaches drill, especially in the way of gymnastics.
Macaulay.


word: Drill press
definition:
Drill press

Drill" press`
A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.


word: Drimys
definition:
Drimys

Dri"mys
(drī"mĭs)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. drimy`s sharp, acrid.]
(Bot.)
A genus of magnoliaceous trees. Drimys aromatica furnishes Winter's bark.


word: Drink
definition:
Drink

Drink
(drĭ&nsmacr_;k)
v. i.
[imp. Drank (dră&nsmacr_;k), formerly Drunk (drŭ&nsmacr_;k); & p. p. Drunk, Drunken (-'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not infrequently used as a p. p., is not so analogical.]
[AS. drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, Sw. dricka, Dan. drikke, Goth. drigkan.  Cf. Drench, Drunken, Drown.]
1.
To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring.

Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink.
Luke xvii. 8.

He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty.
Job xxi. 20.

Drink of the cup that can not cloy.
Keble.

2.
To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the _;se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple.
Pope.

And they drank, and were merry with him.
Gem. xliii. 34.

Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely.
Thackeray.

To drink to, to salute in drinking; to wish well to, in the act of taking the cup; to pledge in drinking.

I drink to the general joy of the whole table,
And to our dear friend Banquo.
Shak.


word: Drink₂
definition:
Drink

Drink
v. t.
1.
To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water.

There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss,
There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed.
Spenser.

The bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room.
Thackeray.

2.
To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.

And let the purple violets drink the stream.
Dryden.

3.
To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.

To drink the cooler air,
Tennyson.

My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words
Of that tongue's utterance.
Shak.

Let me . . . drink delicious poison from thy eye.
Pope.

4.
To smoke, as tobacco.
[Obs.]

And some men now live ninety years and past,
Who never drank to tobacco first nor last.
Taylor (1630.)

To drink down, to act on by drinking; to reduce or subdue; as, to drink down unkindness. Shak. -- To drink in, to take into one's self by drinking, or as by drinking; to receive and appropriate as in satisfaction of thirst. “Song was the form of literature which he [Burns] had drunk in from his cradle.” J. C. Shairp. -- To drink off or To drink up, to drink completely, especially at  one draught; as, to drink off a cup of cordial. -- To drink the health of, or To drink to the health of, to drink while expressing good wishes for the health or welfare of.


word: Drink₃
definition:
Drink

Drink
n.
1.
Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions.

Give me some drink, Titinius.
Shak.

2.
Specifically, intoxicating liquor; as, when drink is on, wit is out.

Drink money, or Drink penny, an allowance, or perquisite, given to buy drink; a gratuity. -- Drink offering (Script.), an offering of wine, etc., in the Jewish religious service. -- In drink, drunk. “The poor monster's in drink.” Shak. -- Strong drink, intoxicating liquor; esp., liquor containing a large proportion of alcohol. “ Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.”  Prov. xx. 1.


word: Drinkable
definition:
Drinkable

Drink"a*ble
(?)
a.
Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural.
Steele.


word: Drinker
definition:
Drinker

Drink"er
(?)
n.
One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard.

Drinker moth (Zool.), a large British moth (Odonestis potatoria).


word: Drinking
definition:
Drinking

Drink"ing
n.
1.
The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing.

2.
The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors.

3.
An entertainment with liquors; a carousal.

&hand_; Drinking is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, a drinking song, drinking cup, drinking glass, drinking house, etc.

Drinking horn, a drinking vessel made of a horn.


word: Drip
definition:
Drip

Drip
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Dripped (?) or Dript; p. pr. & vb. n. Dripping.]
[Akin to LG. drippen, Dan. dryppe, from a noun. See Drop.]
1.
To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.

2.
To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips.

The dark round of the dripping wheel.
Tennyson.


word: Drip₃
definition:
Drip

Drip
n.
1.
A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops.

The light drip of the suspended oar.
Byron.

2.
(Arch.)
That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw off the rain water.

Right of drip (Law), an easement or servitude by which a man has the right to have the water flowing from his house fall on the land of his neighbor.


word: drip-dry
definition:
drip-dry

drip-dry
adj.
1.
treated so as to be easily or quickly washed and dried and requiring little or no ironing; -- of clothing.

Syn. -- wash-and-wear.

2.
requiring no ironing; -- used of fabrics and clothing; as, drip-dry shirts for travel.

Syn. -- permanent-press.


word: Dripping
definition:
Dripping

Drip"ping
n.
1.
A falling in drops, or the sound so made.

2.
That which falls in drops, as fat from meat in roasting.

Dripping pan, a pan for receiving the fat which drips from meat in roasting.


word: Drive
definition:
Drive

Drive
(drīv)
v. t.
[imp. Drove (dr&omacrv), formerly Drave (drāv); p. p. Driven (drĭv'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Driving.]
[AS. drīfan; akin to OS. drīban, D. drijven, OHG. trīban, G. treiben, Icel. drīfa, Goth. dreiban.  Cf. Drift, Drove.]
1.
To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room.

A storm came on and drove them into Pylos.
Jowett (Thucyd. ).

Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along.
Pope.

Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey.
Pope.

2.
To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door.

How . . . proud he was to drive such a brother!
Thackeray.

3.
To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like.
drive
Tennyson.

He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his.
Sir P. Sidney.

4.
To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
[Now used only colloquially.]
Bacon.

The trade of life can not be driven without partners.
Collier.

5.
To clear, by forcing away what is contained.

To drive the country, force the swains away.
Dryden.

6.
(Mining)
To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
Tomlinson.

7.
To pass away; -- said of time.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

8.
Specif., in various games, as tennis, baseball, etc., to propel (the ball) swiftly by a direct stroke or forcible throw.

9.
to operate (a vehicle) while it is on motion, by manipulating the controls, such as the steering, propulsion, and braking mechanisms.


word: Drive₂
definition:
Drive

Drive
n.
1.
In various games, as tennis, cricket, etc., the act of player who drives the ball; the stroke or blow; the flight of the ball, etc., so driven.

2.
(Golf)
A stroke from the tee, generally a full shot made with a driver; also, the distance covered by such a stroke.

&hand_; Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by applying a force behind; to lead is to cause to move by applying the force before, or in front. It takes a variety of meanings, according to the objects by which it is followed; as, to drive an engine, to direct and regulate its motions; to drive logs, to keep them in the current of a river and direct them in their course; to drive feathers or down, to place them in a machine, which, by a current of air, drives off the lightest to one end, and collects them by themselves. “My thrice-driven bed of down.”
Shak.


word: Drive₃
definition:
Drive

Drive
v. i.
1.
To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.

Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails.
Dryden.

Under cover of the night and a driving tempest.
Prescott.

Time driveth onward fast,
And in a little while our lips are dumb.
Tennyson.

2.
To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven.

The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn.
Byron.

The chaise drives to Mr. Draper's chambers.
Thackeray.

3.
To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the coachman drove to my door.

4.
To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at.

Let them therefore declare what carnal or secular interest he drove at.
South.

5.
To distrain for rent.
[Obs.]

6.
(Golf)
To make a drive, or stroke from the tee.

7.
to go from one place to another in a vehicle, serving as the operator of the vehicle; to drive{9} a vehicle from one location to another.
He drove from New York to Boston in four hours.

To let drive, to aim a blow; to strike with force; to attack. “Four rogues in buckram let drive at me.”  Shak.


word: Drive₅
definition:
Drive

Drive
(drīv)
n.
1.
The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback.

2.
A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.

3.
Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business.

The Murdstonian drive in business.
M. Arnold.

4.
In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.

5.
A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
[Colloq.]
6.
a private road; a driveway.

7.
a strong psychological motivation to perform some activity.

8.
(Computers)
a device for reading or writing data from or to a data storage medium, as a disk drive, a tape drive, a CD drive, etc.

9.
an organized effort by a group to accomplish a goal within a limited period of time; as, a fund-raising drive.

10.
a physiological function of an organism motivating it to perform specific behaviors; as, the sex drive.

11.
(Football)
the period during which one team sustains movement of the ball toward the opponent's goal without losing possession of the ball; as, a long drive downfield.

12.
an act of driving a vehicle, especially an automobile; the journey undertaken by driving an automobile; as, to go for a drive in the country.

13.
the mechanism which causes the moving parts of a machine to move; as, a belt drive.

14.
the way in which the propulsive force of a vehicle is transmitted to the road; as, a car with four-wheel drive,  front-wheel drive, etc.


word: drive-in
definition:
drive-in

drive-in
n.
any installation designed to accommodate patrons while staying in their automobiles; especially an outdoor movie theater in which patrons park in their vehicles to watch the movie.


word: drive-in₂
definition:
drive-in

drive-in
a.
arranged to allow business to be transacted while patrons remain in their vehicles; as, a drive-in window at a bank.

Syn. -- drive-through.


word: drive-in window
definition:
drive-in window

drive-in window
n.
a window at a business establishment, such as a bank or restaurant, where patrons may transact business or order goods while staying in their automobiles; as, to cash a check at the drive-in window of the bank.


word: driveshaft
definition:
driveshaft

driveshaft
n.
a rotating shaft that transmits power from the engine to the point of application.


word: drive-through
definition:
drive-through

drive-through
a.
arranged to allow business to be transacted or sights to be seen while patrons remain in their vehicles; as, a drive-through car wash; a drive-through safari park.


word: Drivel
definition:
Drivel

Driv"el
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Driveled (?) or Drivelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Driveling or Drivelling.]
[Cf. OE. dravelen, drabelen, drevelen, drivelen, to slaver, and E. drabble.  Cf. Drool.]
1.
To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.

2.
[Perh. a different word: cf. Icel. drafa to talk thick.]
To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love.
Shak. Dryden.


word: Drivel₂
definition:
Drivel

Driv"el
n.
1.
Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth.

2.
Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble.

3.
A driveler; a fool; an idiot.
[Obs.]
Sir P. Sidney.

4.
A servant; a drudge.
[Obs.]
Huloet.


word: Driven
definition:
Driven

Driv"en
(?)
p. p.
of Drive. Also adj.

Driven well, a well made by driving a tube into the earth to an aqueous stratum; -- called also drive well.


word: Driver
definition:
Driver

Driv"er
(?)
n.
[From Drive.]
1.
One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.

2.
The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a any vehicle.

3.
An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.

4.
(Mach.)
A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:
5.
(Naut.)
The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.
Totten.

6.
An implement used for driving;
(a)
A mallet.
(b)
A tamping iron.
(c)
A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
(d)
A wooden-headed golf club with a long shaft, for playing the longest strokes.

Driver ant (Zool.), a species of African stinging ant; one of the visiting ants (Anomma arcens); -- so called because they move about in vast armies, and drive away or devour all insects and other small animals.


word: Driving
definition:
Driving

Driv"ing
a.
1.
Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or storm.

2.
Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft.

Driving axle, the axle of a driving wheel, as in a locomotive. -- Driving box (Locomotive), the journal box of a driving axle. See Illust. of Locomotive. -- Driving note (Mus.), a syncopated note; a tone begun on a weak part of a measure and held through the next accented part, thus anticipating the accent and driving it through. -- Driving spring, a spring fixed upon the box of the driving axle of a locomotive engine to support the weight and deaden shocks. [Eng.] Weale. -- Driving wheel (Mach.), a wheel that communicates motion; one of the large wheels of a locomotive to which the connecting rods of the engine are attached; -- called also, simply, driver. See Illust. of Locomotive.


word: Driving₂
definition:
Driving

Driv"ing
n.
1.
The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of pressing or moving on furiously.

2.
Tendency; drift.
[R.]


word: Drizzle
definition:
Drizzle

Driz"zle
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Drizzled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drizzling (?).]
[Prop. freq. of AS. dreósan to fall. See Dreary.]
To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain.
Drizzling
Spenser.

Syn. -- mizzle, misle.


word: Drizzly
definition:
Drizzly

Driz"zly
(?)
a.
Characterized by small rain, or snow; moist and disagreeable.
drizzly
Dryden.


word: Dryfland
definition:
Dryfland

Drofland

{ Drof"land (?), Dryf"land (?) }
n.
[See Drove.]
(Law)
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.
Cowell.


word: Drogher
definition:
Drogher

Dro"gher
(?)
n.
[Cf. Drag.]
A small craft used in the West India Islands to take off sugars, rum, etc., to the merchantmen; also, a vessel for transporting lumber, cotton, etc., coastwise; as, a lumber drogher.
[Written also droger.]
Ham. Nar. Encyc.


word: Drogue
definition:
Drogue

Drogue
(dr&omacrg)
n.
1.
(Naut.)
See Drag, n., 6, and Drag sail, under Drag, n.

2.
a small parachute dragged behind a vehicle as a means of stabilizing it, or deployed first so as to assist opening of a larger parachute.

3.
a funnel-shaped attachment at the end of a hose suspended from a tanker airplane in flight, to which the probe of another airplane may connect, so as to complete a connecting hose line through which fuel may be transferred from the tanker to the following airplane.  It is used for in-flight refueling.


word: Droil₂
definition:
Droil

Droil
n.
[D. druil sluggard.  Cf. Droll.]
1.
A drudge.
[Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.

2.
Mean labor; toil.
[Obs.]


word: Droit
definition:
Droit

Droit
(droit)
n.
[F. See Direct.]
A right; law in its aspect of the foundation of rights; also, in old law, the writ of right.
 Abbott.

&VerbarDroit d'aubaine. See under Aubaine. -- Droits of the Admiralty (Eng. Law), rights or perquisites of the Admiralty, arising from seizure of an enemy's ships in port on the breaking out of war, or those coming into port in ignorance of hostilities existing, or from such ships as are taken by noncommissioned captors; also, the proceeds of wrecks, and derelict property at sea. The droits of admiralty are now paid into the Exchequer for the public benefit.


word: Droitural
definition:
Droitural

Droi"tu*ral
(?)
a.
(O. Eng. Law)
relating to the mere right of property, as distinguished from the right of possession; as, droitural actions.
[Obs.]
Burrill.


word: Droll
definition:
Droll

Droll
(dr&omacrl)
a.
[Compar. Droller (?); superl. Drollest (?).]
[F. drôle; cf. G. & D. drollig, LG. drullig, D. drol a thick and short person, a droll, Sw. troll a magical appearance, demon, trolla to use magic arts, enchant, Dan. trold elf, imp, Icel. tröll giant, magician, evil spirit, monster. If this is the origin, cf. Trull.]
Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange.


word: Droll₂
definition:
Droll

Droll
n.
1.
One whose practice it is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon; a merry-andrew.
Prior.

2.
Something exhibited to raise mirth or sport, as a puppet, a farce, and the like.


word: Droll₃
definition:
Droll

Droll
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Drolled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drolling.]
To jest; to play the buffoon.
[R.]


word: Droll₄
definition:
Droll

Droll
v. t.
1.
To lead or influence by jest or trick; to banter or jest; to cajole.

Men that will not be reasoned into their senses, may yet be laughed or drolled into them.
L'Estrange.

2.
To make a jest of; to set in a comical light.
[R.]

This drolling everything is rather fatiguing.
 W. D. Howells.


word: Drollery
definition:
Drollery

Droll"er*y
(?)
n.
pl. Drolleries (#).
[F. drôlerie. See Droll.]
1.
The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners.

The rich drollery of “She Stoops to Conquer.”
 Macaulay.

2.
Something which serves to raise mirth
(a)
A puppet show; also, a puppet.
[Obs.]
Shak.
(b)
A lively or comic picture.
[Obs.]

I bought an excellent drollery, which I afterward parted with to my brother George of Wotton.
 Evelyn.


word: Dromaeognathous
definition:
Dromaeognathous

Dro`mæ*og"na*thous
(?)
a.
[NL. dromaius emu + Gr. gna`qos jaw.]
(Zool.)
Having the structure of the palate like that of the ostrich and emu.


word: Dromatherium
definition:
Dromatherium

Drom`a*the"ri*um
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. droma`s running + qhri`on beast. See Dromedary.]
(Paleon.)
A small extinct triassic mammal from North Carolina, the earliest yet found in America.


word: Drome
definition:
Drome

Drome
(dr&omacrm)
n.
[F., fr. Gr. droma`s running. See Dromedary.]
(Zool.)
The crab plover (Dromas ardeola), a peculiar North African bird, allied to the oyster catcher.


word: Dromedary
definition:
Dromedary

Drom"e*da*ry
(drŭm"e̝*da̝*r&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Dromedaries (-rĭz).
[F. dromadaire, LL. dromedarius, fr. L. dromas (sc. camelus), fr. Gr. droma`s running, from dramei^n, used as aor. of tre`chein to run; cf. Skr. dram to run.]
(Zool.)
The Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius), having one hump or protuberance on the back, in distinction from the Bactrian camel, which has two humps.

&hand_; In Arabia and Egypt the name is restricted to the better breeds of this species of camel. See Deloul.


word: Dromon
definition:
Dromon

Dromond

{ Drom"ond (?), or Drom"on (?) }
[OF. dromont, L. dromo, fr. Gr. dro`mwn light vessel, prob. fr. dramei^n to run. See Dromedary.]
In the Middle Ages, a large, fast-sailing galley, or cutter; a large, swift war vessel.
[Hist. or Archaic]
Fuller.

The great dromond swinging from the quay.
 W. Morris.


word: Drone
definition:
Drone

Drone
(?)
n.
[OE. drane a dronebee, AS. drān; akin to OS. drān, OHG. treno, G. drohne, Dan.  drone, cf. Gr. _; a kind of wasp, dial. Gr. _; drone. Prob. named fr. the droning sound. See Drone, v. i.]
1.
(Zool.)
The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee.

All with united force combine to drive
The lazy drones from the laborious hive.
Dryden.

2.
One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard.

By living as a drone,to be an unprofitable and unworthy member of so noble and learned a society.
 Burton.

3.
That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth.

4.
A humming or deep murmuring sound.

The monotonous drone of the wheel.
Longfellow.

5.
(Mus.)
A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.


word: Drone₂
definition:
Drone

Drone
(dr&omacrn)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Droned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Droning.]
[Cf. (for sense 1) D. dreunen, G. dröhnen, Icel. drynja to roar, drynr a roaring, Sw. dröna to bellow, drone, Dan. dröne, Goth. drunjus sound, Gr. _; dirge, _; to cry aloud, Skr. dhran to sound.  Cf. Drone, n.]
1.
To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound.

Where the beetle wheels his droning flight.
T. Gray.

2.
To love in idleness; to do nothing.
droning
Dryden.


word: Drone fly
definition:
Drone fly

Drone" fly`
(?)
(Zool.)
A dipterous insect (Eristalis tenax), resembling the drone bee. See Eristalis.


word: Drongo
definition:
Drongo

Dron"go
(?)
n.
pl. Drongos (_;).
(Zool.)
A passerine bird of the family Dicruridæ. They are usually black with a deeply forked tail. They are natives of Asia, Africa, and Australia; -- called also drongo shrikes.


word: Dronish
definition:
Dronish

Dron"ish
(?)
a.
Like a drone; indolent; slow.
Burke.
Dron"ish*ly, adv. -- Dron"ish*ness, n.


word: Drool
definition:
Drool

Drool
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Drooled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drooling.]
[Contr. fr. drivel.]
To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools.

His mouth drooling with texts.
 T. Parker.


word: Droop
definition:
Droop

Droop
(drōp)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Drooped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drooping.]
[Icel.  drūpa; akin to E. drop. See Drop.]
1.
To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like.
droop
drooped
Tennyson.

I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish.
Swift.

2.
To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped.

I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage.
Addison.

3.
To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
drooped
Tennyson.


word: Droop₂
definition:
Droop

Droop
v. t.
To let droop or sink.
[R.]
M. Arnold.

Like to a withered vine
That droops his sapless branches to the ground.
Shak.


word: droopy
definition:
droopy

droopy
adj.
bending downward due to lack of tautness; -- of lines.

Syn. -- drooping, sagging, slack.


word: Drop
definition:
Drop

Drop
(dr&obreve_;p)
n.
[OE. drope, AS. dropa; akin to OS. dropo, D. drop, OHG. tropo, G. tropfen, Icel. dropi, Sw. droppe; and Fr. AS. dreópan to drip, drop; akin to OS. driopan, D. druipen, OHG. triofan, G. triefen, Icel. drjūpa.  Cf. Drip, Droop.]
1.
The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid; a small quantity; as, a drop of water.

With minute drops from off the eaves.
Milton.

As dear to me as are the ruddy drops
That visit my sad heart.
 Shak.

That drop of peace divine.
Keble.

2.
That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug.

3.
(Arch.)
(a)
Same as Gutta.
(b)
Any small pendent ornament.

4.
Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something
(a)
A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself.
(b)
A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck.
(c)
A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet.
(d)
A curtain which drops or falls in front of the stage of a theater, etc.
(e)
A drop press or drop hammer.
(f)
(Mach.)
The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.

5.
pl.
Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops.

6.
(Naut.)
The depth of a square sail; -- generally applied to the courses only.
Ham. Nav. Encyc.

7.
Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent.

Ague drop, Black drop. See under Ague, Black. -- Drop by drop, in small successive quantities; in repeated portions. “Made to taste drop by drop more than the bitterness of death.” Burke. -- Drop curtain. See Drop, n., 4. (d). -- Drop forging. (Mech.) (a) A forging made in dies by a drop hammer. (b) The process of making drop forgings. -- Drop hammer (Mech.), a hammer for forging, striking up metal, etc., the weight being raised by a strap or similar device, and then released to drop on the metal resting on an anvil or die. -- Drop kick (Football), a kick given to the ball as it rebounds after having been dropped from the hands. -- Drop lake, a pigment obtained from Brazil wood. Mollett. -- Drop letter, a letter to be delivered from the same office where posted. -- Drop press (Mech.), a drop hammer; sometimes, a dead-stroke hammer; -- also called drop. -- Drop scene, a drop curtain on which a scene is painted. See Drop, n., 4. (d). -- Drop seed. (Bot.) See the List under Glass. -- Drop serene. (Med.) See Amaurosis.


word: Drop₂
definition:
Drop

Drop
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dropped (?) or Dropt; p. pr. & vb. n. Dropping.]
[OE. droppen, AS. dropan, v. i. See Drop, n.]
1.
To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill.
drop
Creech.

The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.
Sterne.

2.
To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy.

3.
To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit.

They suddenly drop't the pursuit.
S. Sharp.

That astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop you and pick you up again.
Thackeray.

The connection had been dropped many years.
 Sir W. Scott.

Dropping the too rough H in Hell and Heaven.
Tennyson.

4.
To bestow or communicate by a suggestion; to let fall in an indirect, cautious, or gentle manner; as, to drop hint, a word of counsel, etc.

5.
To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc.

6.
To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word.

7.
To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb.

8.
To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.

Show to the sun their waved coats dropped with gold.
Milton.

To drop a vessel (Naut.), to leave it astern in a race or a chase; to outsail it.


word: Drop₃
definition:
Drop

Drop
v. i.
1.
To fall in drops.

The kindly dew drops from the higher tree,
And wets the little plants that lowly dwell.
Spenser.

2.
To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips.

Mutilations of which the meaning has dropped out of memory.
H. Spencer.

When the sound of dropping nuts is heard.
Bryant.

3.
To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.

The heavens . . . dropped at the presence of God.
Ps. lxviii. 8.

4.
To fall dead, or to fall in death; as, dropping like flies.

Nothing, says Seneca, so soon reconciles us to the thoughts of our own death, as the prospect of one friend after another dropping round us.
Digby.

5.
To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped.
Pope.

6.
To come unexpectedly; -- with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in a moment.
Steele.

Takes care to drop in when he thinks you are just seated.
Spectator.

7.
To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little.

8.
To fall short of a mark.
[R.]

Often it drops or overshoots by the disproportion of distance.
Collier.

9.
To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards.

To drop astern (Naut.), to go astern of another vessel; to be left behind; to slacken the speed of a vessel so as to fall behind and to let another pass a head. -- To drop down (Naut.), to sail, row, or move down a river, or toward the sea. -- To drop off, to fall asleep gently; also, to die. [Colloq.]


word: drop cloth
definition:
drop cloth

drop" cloth`
n.
a sheet of material used to cover objects or surfaces while painting a ceiling or wall of a house, so as to protect objects from being marred by drops of paint splashed inadvertantly in the painting process.  Originally such drop cloths were made of cloth, but more recently paper or plastic have also commonly been used.


word: drop forge
definition:
drop forge

drop forge
n.
a device for making large forgings, in which a heavy hammer drops onto the metalwork to be forged, pressing it into a form or anvil underneath, or between dies.

Syn. -- drop hammer, drop press.


word: dropkick
definition:
dropkick

dropkick
n.
an act of kicking a football (as for a field goal) in which the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground.


word: dropkicker
definition:
dropkicker

dropkicker
n.
a football kicker who drops the ball and kicks it just as it reaches the ground.


word: droplight
definition:
droplight

drop"light`
(?)
n.
An electric or gas light suspended from the ceiling by a flexible cord or tube, allowing artificial light to be brought down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant; also, an electric light bulb in a small holder, which can be held in the hand or hung from a hook, and attached to a long electric cord, allowing light to be brought close to work in dark areas of a room.


word: Dropmele
definition:
Dropmele

Dropmeal

{ Drop"meal`, Drop"mele`  }
(?)
adv.
[AS. drop-m&aemacr_;lum; dropa drop + m&aemacr_;l portion.  Cf. Piecemeal.]
By drops or small portions.
[Obs.]

Distilling dropmeal, a little at once.
Holland.


word: drop-off
definition:
drop-off

drop-off
n.
1.
a noticeable decline in performance; as, a drop-off in attendance.
[wns=1]

Syn. -- slump, falloff, falling off.

2.
a steep high face of rock.

Syn. -- cliff.
[wns=2]

3.
a change downward; as, there was a sharp drop-off in sales.
[wns=3]

Syn. -- decrease, lessening.


word: dropper
definition:
dropper

drop"per
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, drops.
Specif.:
(Fishing)
A fly that drops from the leader above the bob or end fly.

2.
A dropping tube, usually of glass or plastic with a narrow opening at the tip and a rubber bulb at the top which can be squeezed to control intake or outflow of the fluid.  The word is used in combinations with obvious significance, as eye dropper, medicine dropper, etc.

Syn. -- eye dropper.
3.
(Mining)
A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.

4.
(Zool.)
A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game, -- formerly a common, and still an occasional, habit of the setter.


word: Dropping
definition:
Dropping

Drop"ping
(?)
n.
1.
The action of causing to drop or of letting drop; falling.

2.
pl.
That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals; -- often used in the plural.

Dropping bottle, an instrument used to supply small quantities of a fluid to a test tube or other vessel. -- Dropping fire, a continued irregular discharge of firearms. -- Dropping tube, a tube for ejecting any liquid in drops.


word: Dropsical
definition:
Dropsical

Drop"si*cal
(?)
a.
[From Dropsy.]
1.
Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient.

2.
Of or pertaining to dropsy.


word: Dropsy
definition:
Dropsy

Drop"sy
(?)
n.
pl. Dropsies (#).
[OE. dropsie, dropesie, OF. idropisie, F. hydropisie, L. hydropisis, fr. Gr. _; dropsy, fr. _; water. See Water, and cf. Hydropsy.]
(Med.)
An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue.
Dunglison.


word: Dropwise
definition:
Dropwise

Drop"wise`
(?)
adv.
After the manner of a drop; in the form of drops.

Trickling dropwise from the cleft.
Tennyson.


word: Dropworm
definition:
Dropworm

Drop"worm`
(dr&obreve_;p"wûrm`)
n.
(Zool.)
The larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk, as the cankerworm or inchworm.  See inchworm and geometrid.


word: Dropwort
definition:
Dropwort

Drop"wort`
(dr&obreve_;p"wûrt`)
n.
(Bot.)
An Old World species of Spiræa (Spiræa filipendula), with finely cut leaves.


word: Drosera
definition:
Drosera

Dros"e*ra
(dr&obreve_;s"e̝*rȧ)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. drosero`s dewy.]
(Bot.)
A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew.
Gray.


word: Droseraceae
definition:
Droseraceae

Droseraceae
n.
a natural family of carnivorous herbs and shrubs.

Syn. -- family Droseraceae, sundew family.


word: drosky
definition:
drosky

dros"ky
(dr&obreve_;s"k&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Droskies (dr&obreve_;s"kĭz).
[Russ. drojki, dim. of drogi a kind of carriage, prop. pl. of droga shaft or pole of a carriage.]
A low, four-wheeled, open carriage, formerly used in Poland and Russia, consisting of a kind of long, narrow bench, on which the passengers ride as on a saddle, with their feet reaching nearly to the ground.  Other kinds of vehicles have been so called, esp. a kind of victoria drawn by one or two horses, and used as a public carriage in German cities.
[Written also droitzschka, droshky and droschke.]


word: Drosometer
definition:
Drosometer

Dro*som"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Gr. dro`sos dew + -meter: cf. F. drosomètre.]
(Meteorol.)
An instrument for measuring the quantity of dew on the surface of a body in the open air. It consists of a balance, having a plate at one end to receive the dew, and at the other a weight protected from the deposit of dew.


word: Drosophilidae
definition:
Drosophilidae

Drosophilidae
n.
a natural family of insects including some of those called fruit flies.

Syn. -- family Drosophilidae.


word: Drosophyllum
definition:
Drosophyllum

Drosophyllum
n.
a genus of dicotyledonous plants having only one species.

Syn. -- genus Drosophyllum.


word: Dross
definition:
Dross

Dross
(dr&obreve_;s; 115)
n.
[AS. dros, fr. dreósan to fall. See Dreary.]
1.
The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement.

2.
Rust of metals.
[R.]
Addison.

3.
Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse.

All world's glory is but dross unclean.
Spenser.

At the devil's booth are all things sold,
Each ounce of dross coats its ounce of gold.
Lowell.


word: Drossy
definition:
Drossy

Dross"y
(?)
a.
[Compar. Drossier (?); superl. Drossiest (?).]
Of, pertaining to, resembling, dross; full of dross; impure; worthless.
Drossy
Dryden.
Drossy
Donne.
Dross"i*ness, n.


word: Drought
definition:
Drought

Drought
(drout)
n.
[OE. droght, drougth, dru&yogh_;ð, AS. drugað, from drugian to dry. See Dry, and cf. Drouth, which shows the original final sound.]
1.
Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity.

The drought of March hath pierced to the root.
Chaucer.

In a drought the thirsty creatures cry.
Dryden.

2.
Thirst; want of drink.
Johnson.

3.
Scarcity; lack.

A drought of Christian writers caused a dearth of all history.
Fuller.


word: Droughty
definition:
Droughty

Drought"y
(?)
a.
1.
Characterized by drought; wanting rain; arid; adust.

Droughty and parched countries.
Ray.

2.
Dry; thirsty; wanting drink.

Thy droughty throat.
Philips.


word: Droumy
definition:
Droumy

Drou"my
(?)
a.
[Cf. Scot. drum, dram, melancholy, Icel prumr a moper, W. trwm heavy, sad.]
Troubled; muddy.
[Obs.]
Bacon.


word: Drouth
definition:
Drouth

Drouth
(?)
n.
Same as Drought.
Sandys.

Another ill accident is drouth at the spindling of corn.
Bacon.

One whose drouth [thirst],
Yet scarce allayed, still eyes the current stream.
Milton.

In the dust and drouth of London life.
Tennyson.


word: Drove₂
definition:
Drove

Drove
n.
[AS. drāf, fr. drīfan to drive. See Drive.]
1.
A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body.

2.
Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove.
Milton.

3.
A crowd of people in motion.

Where droves, as at a city gate, may pass.
Dryden.

4.
A road for driving cattle; a driftway.
[Eng.]

5.
(Agric.)
A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
Simmonds.

6.
(Masonry)
(a)
A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; -- called also drove chisel.
(b)
The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; -- called also drove work.


word: Drove₃
definition:
Drove

Drove
(?)
v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Droved (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Droving (?).]
[Cf. Drove, n., and Drover.]
1.
To drive, as cattle or sheep, esp. on long journeys; to follow the occupation of a drover.
He's droving now with Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh.
Paterson.

2.
To finish, as stone, with a drove or drove chisel.


word: Drover
definition:
Drover

Dro"ver
(?)
n.
1.
One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market.

Why, that's spoken like an honest drover; so they sell bullocks.
Shak.

2.
A boat driven by the tide.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Drovy
definition:
Drovy

Dro"vy
(?)
a.
[AS. dr&omacrf dirty; cf. D. droef, G. trübe, Goth. dr&omacrbjan to trouble.]
Turbid; muddy; filthy.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Drown
definition:
Drown

Drown
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Drowned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drowning.]
[OE. drunen, drounen, earlier drunknen, druncnien, AS. druncnian to be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken, Drink.]
To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.

Methought, what pain it was to drown.
Shak.


word: Drown₂
definition:
Drown

Drown
v. t.
1.
To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
drown
Dryden.

2.
To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.

3.
To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound.

Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned.
Sir J. Davies.

My private voice is drowned amid the senate.
Addison.

To drown up, to swallow up. [Obs.] Holland.


word: Drowse
definition:
Drowse

Drowse
(drouz)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Drowsed (drouzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Drowsing.]
[AS. drūsian, drūsan, to sink, become slow or inactive; cf. OD. droosen to be sleepy, fall asleep, LG. drūsen, druusken, to slumber, fall down with a noise; prob, akin to AS. dreósan to fall. See Dreary.]
To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze.
drowsed
South.

In the pool drowsed the cattle up to their knees.
Lowell.


word: Drowse₂
definition:
Drowse

Drowse
v. t.
To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid.
Milton.


word: Drowse₃
definition:
Drowse

Drowse
n.
A slight or imperfect sleep; a doze.

But smiled on in a drowse of ecstasy.
Mrs. Browning.


word: drowsing
definition:
drowsing

drowsing
adj. prenom.
sleeping lightly.

Syn. -- drowsy, dozing(prenominal), napping(prenominal), nodding(prenominal).


word: Drowsy
definition:
Drowsy

Drow"sy
(?)
a.
[Compar. Drowsier (?); superl. Drowsiest.]
1.
Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy.
drowsy
Shak.

Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray.
Shak.

To our age's drowsy blood
Still shouts the inspiring sea.
Lowell.

2.
Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.

The drowsy hours, dispensers of all good.
Tennyson.

3.
Dull; stupid.
Drowsy
Atterbury.


word: Drub
definition:
Drub

Drub
(drŭb)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Drubbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Drubbing.]
[Cf. Prov. E. drab to beat, Icel. & Sw. drabba to hit, beat, Dan. dræbe to slay, and perh. OE. drepen to strike, kill, AS. drepan to strike, G. & D. freffen to hit, touch, Icel. drepa to strike, kill.]
To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel.

Soundly Drubbed with a good honest cudgel.
L'Estrange.


word: Drudge
definition:
Drudge

Drudge
(drŭj)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Drudged (drŭjd); p. pr. & vb. n. Drudging.]
[OE. druggen; prob not akin to E. drag, v. t., but fr. Celtic; cf. Ir. drugaire a slave or drudge.]
To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.

He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged.
Macaulay.


word: Drudge₂
definition:
Drudge

Drudge
v. t.
To consume laboriously; -- with away.

Rise to our toils and drudge away the day.
Otway.


word: Drudge₃
definition:
Drudge

Drudge
n.
One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a menial servant.
Milton.


word: Drudgery
definition:
Drudgery

Drudg"er*y
(drŭj"ẽr*&ybreve_;)
n.
The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.

The drudgery of penning definitions.
Macaulay.

Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery and with out sorrow.
Locke.


word: Druery
definition:
Druery

Dru"er*y
(?)
n.
[OF. druerie.]
Courtship; gallantry; love; an object of love.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Drug₃
definition:
Drug

Drug
n.
[F. drogue, prob. fr. D. droog; akin to E. dry; thus orig., dry substance, hers, plants, or wares. See Dry.]
1.
Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines.

Whence merchants bring
Their spicy drugs.
Milton.

2.
Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand; -- used often in the phrase “a drug on the market”.
drugs
Fielding.

And virtue shall a drug become.
Dryden.

3.
any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations.

4.
any substance intended for use in the treatment, prevention, diagnosis, or cure of disease, especially one listed in the official pharmacopoeia published by a national authority.

5.
any substance having psychological effects, such as a narcotic, stimulant, or hallucinogenic agent, especially habit-forming and addictive substances, sold or used illegally; as, a drug habit; a drug treatment program; a teenager into drugs; a drug bust; addicted to drugs; high on drugs.

Syn. -- illegal drug.
They [smaller and poorer nations] have lined up to recount how drug trafficking and consumption have corrupted their struggling economies and societies and why they are hard pressed to stop it.
 Christopher S. Wren (N Y. Times, June 10, 1998, p. A5)


word: Drug₄
definition:
Drug

Drug
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Drugged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drugging.]
[Cf. F. droguer.]
To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
B. Jonson.


word: Drug₅
definition:
Drug

Drug
v. t.
1.
To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig.

The laboring masses . . . [were] drugged into brutish good humor by a vast system of public spectacles.
C. Kingsley.

Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it.
Tennyson.

2.
To tincture with something offensive or injurious.

Drugged as oft,
With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws.
Milton.

3.
To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs.

With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe.
Byron.


word: drugged
definition:
drugged

drugged
adj.
under the influence of narcotics or hypnotic drugs.

Syn. -- doped, narcotized.


word: Drugget
definition:
Drugget

Drug"get
(?)
n.
[F. droguet, prop. dim. of drogue trash, stuff, perh, the same word as drogue drug, but cf. also W. drwg evil, bad, Ir. & Gael. droch, Arm. droug, drouk. See 3d Drug.]
(a)
A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets.
(b)
By extension, any material used for the same purpose.


word: druggist
definition:
druggist

drug"gist
(?)
n.
[F. droguiste, fr. drogue. See 3d Drug.]
1.
One who deals in drugs; especially, one who buys and sells drugs without compounding them; one who owns or operates a drugstore.

2.
one who compounds drugs or distributes drugs into containers for distribution to customers; a pharmacist or apothecary.

Syn. -- dispensing chemist.
&hand_; The same person often serves as both pharmacist and retail seller of drugs. See the Note under Apothecary.


word: drugstore
definition:
drugstore

drugstore
n.
a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold.

Syn. -- apothecary's shop, chemist's, chemist's shop, dispensary, pharmacy.


word: Druid
definition:
Druid

Dru"id
(?)
n.
[L. Druides; of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. & Gael. draoi, druidh, magician, Druid, W. derwydd Druid.]
1.
One of an order of priests which in ancient times existed among certain branches of the Celtic race, especially among the Gauls and Britons.

&hand_; The Druids superintended the affairs of religion and morality, and exercised judicial functions. They practiced divination and magic, and sacrificed human victims as a part of their worship. They consisted of three classes; the bards, the vates or prophets, and the Druids proper, or priests. Their most sacred rites were performed in the depths of oak forests or of caves.

2.
A member of a social and benevolent order, founded in London in 1781, and professedly based on the traditions of the ancient Druids. Lodges or groves of the society are established in other countries.

Druid stones, a name given, in the south of England, to weatherworn, rough pillars of gray sandstone scattered over the chalk downs, but in other countries generally in the form of circles, or in detached pillars.


word: Druidical
definition:
Druidical

Druidic

{ Dru*id"ic (?), Dru*id"ic*al (?), }
a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, the Druids.

Druidical circles. See under Circle.


word: Druidism
definition:
Druidism

Dru"id*ism
(?)
n.
The system of religion, philosophy, and instruction, received and taught by the Druids; the rites and ceremonies of the Druids.


word: Drum
definition:
Drum

Drum
(?)
n.
[Cf. D. trom, trommel, LG. trumme, G. trommel, Dan. tromme, Sw. trumma, OHG. trumba a trumpet, Icel. pruma a clap of thunder, and as a verb, to thunder, Dan. drum a booming sound, drumme to boom; prob. partly at least of imitative origin; perh. akin to E. trum, or trumpet.]
1.
(Mus.)
An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band.

The drums cry bud-a-dub.
Gascoigne.

2.
Anything resembling a drum in form
(a)
A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc.
(b)
A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed.
(c)
(Anat.)
The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane.
(d)
(Arch.)
One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome.
(e)
(Mach.)
A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound.

3.
(Zool.)
See Drumfish.

4.
A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout.
[Archaic]

Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment.
Smollett.

&hand_; There were also drum major, rout, tempest, and hurricane, differing only in degrees of multitude and uproar, as the significant name of each declares.

5.
A tea party; a kettledrum.
G. Eliot.

Bass drum. See in the Vocabulary. -- Double drum. See under Double.


word: Drum₂
definition:
Drum

Drum
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Drummed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drumming.]
1.
To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.

2.
To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings.

Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair.
W. Irving.

3.
To throb, as the heart.
[R.]
Dryden.

4.
To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.


word: Drum₃
definition:
Drum

Drum
v. t.
1.
To execute on a drum, as a tune.

2.
(With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.

3.
(With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers.


word: Drumbeat
definition:
Drumbeat

Drum"beat`
(?)
n.
The sound of a beaten drum; drum music.

Whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
D. Webster.


word: Drumble
definition:
Drumble

Drum"ble
(?)
v. i.
[See Drumly.]
1.
To be sluggish or lazy; to be confused.
[Obs.]
Shak.

2.
To mumble in speaking.
[Obs.]


word: Drumfish
definition:
Drumfish

Drum"fish`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
Any fish of the family Sciænidæ, which makes a loud noise by means of its air bladder; -- called also drum.

&hand_; The common drumfish (Pogonias chromis) is a large species, common south of New Jersey. The southern red drum or red horse (Sciæna ocellata), and the fresh-water drum or croaker (Aplodionotus grunniens), are related species.


word: Drumhead
definition:
Drumhead

Drum"head`
(?)
n.
1.
The parchment or skin stretched over one end of a drum.

2.
The top of a capstan which is pierced with sockets for levers used in turning it. See Illust. of Capstan.

Drumhead court-martial (Mil.), a summary court-martial called to try offenses on the battlefield or the line of march, when, sometimes, a drumhead has to do service as a writing table.


word: Drumlin
definition:
Drumlin

Drum"lin
(?)
n.
[Gael. druim the ridge of a hill.]
(Geol.)
A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion.


word: Drumly
definition:
Drumly

Drum"ly
a.
[Cf. Droumy.]
Turbid; muddy.
[Scot. & Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Wodroephe (1623).  Burns.


word: Drum major
definition:
Drum major

Drum" ma"jor
(?)
.
1.
The chief or first drummer of a regiment; an instructor of drummers.

2.
The marching leader of a military band.
[U.S.]

3.
A noisy gathering. [R.] See under Drum, n., 4.


word: Drummer
definition:
Drummer

Drum"mer
(?)
n.
1.
One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching.

2.
One who solicits custom; a commercial traveler.
[Colloq. U.S.]
Bartlett.

3.
(Zool.)
A fish that makes a sound when caught
(a)
The squeteague.
(b)
A California sculpin.

4.
(Zool.)
A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call.


word: Drumming
definition:
Drumming

Drum"ming
(?)
n.
The act of beating upon, or as if upon, a drum; also, the noise which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring, by beating his wings upon his sides.


word: Drummond light
definition:
Drummond light

Drum"mond light`
(?)
[From Thomas Drummond, a British naval officer.]
A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called also oxycalcium light, or lime light.

&hand_; The name is also applied sometimes to a heliostat, invented by Drummond, for rendering visible a distant point, as in geodetic surveying, by reflecting upon it a beam of light from the sun.


word: Drumstick
definition:
Drumstick

Drum"stick`
(?)
n.
1.
A stick with which a drum is beaten.

2.
Anything resembling a drumstick in form; -- applied especially to the tibiotarsus, or second joint, of the leg of a fowl, when cooked and served at the table.


word: Drum winding
definition:
Drum winding

Drum winding
(Elec.)
A method of armature winding in which the wire is wound upon the outer surface of a cylinder or drum from end to end of the cylinder; -- distinguished from ring winding, etc.


word: Drunk
definition:
Drunk

Drunk
(?)
a.
[OE. dronke, drunke, dronken, drunken, AS. druncen. Orig. the same as drunken, p. p. of drink. See Drink.]
1.
Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; -- never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man).

Be not drunk with wine, where in is excess.
 Eph. v. 18.

Drunk with recent prosperity.
Macaulay.

2.
Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.

I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.
 Deut. xxxii. 42.


word: Drunkard
definition:
Drunkard

Drunk"ard
(?)
n.
[Drunk + -ard.]
One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot.

The drunkard and glutton shall come to poverty.
 Prov. xxiii. 21.


word: Drunken
definition:
Drunken

Drunk"en
(?)
a.
[AS. druncen, prop., that has drunk, p. p. of drincan, taken as active. See Drink, v. i., and cf. Drunk.]
1.
Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated.

Drunken men imagine everything turneth round.
 Bacon.

2.
Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched.

Let the earth be drunken with our blood.
 Shak.

3.
Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication.

The drunken quarrels of a rake.
 Swift.


word: Drunkenness
definition:
Drunkenness

Drunk"en*ness
n.
1.
The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit.

The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company.
I. Watts.

2.
Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
 South.


word: Drunkship
definition:
Drunkship

Drunkenship

{ Drunk"en*ship, Drunk"ship, }
n.
The state of being drunk; drunkenness.
[Obs.]
Gower.


word: Drupaceous
definition:
Drupaceous

Dru*pa"ceous
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. drupacé.]
(Bot.)
Producing, or pertaining to, drupes; having the form of drupes; as, drupaceous trees or fruits.


word: Drupe
definition:
Drupe

Drupe
(dr&usuml_;p)
n.
[F. drupe, L. drupa an overripe, wrinkled olive, fr. Gr. dry`ppa.]
(Bot.)
A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut.


word: Drupelet
definition:
Drupelet

Drupel

{ Drup"el (?), Drupe"let (?), }
n.
[Dim. of Drupe.]
(Bot.)
A small drupe, as one of the pulpy grains of the blackberry.


word: Druse
definition:
Druse

Druse
(?)
n.
[Cf. G. druse bonny, crystallized piece of ore, Bohem. druza.  Cf. Dross.]
(Min.)
A cavity in a rock, having its interior surface studded with crystals and sometimes filled with water; a geode.


word: Druse₂
definition:
Druse

Druse
(?)
n.
One of a people and religious sect dwelling chiefly in the Lebanon mountains of Syria.

The Druses separated from the Muslim Arabs in the 9th century. Their characteristic dogma is the unity of God.
 Am. Cyc.


word: Drused
definition:
Drused

Drusy

{ Dru"sy (?), Drused (?), }
a.
(Min.)
Covered with a large number of minute crystals.


word: Druxy
definition:
Druxy

Druxey

{ Drux"ey, Drux"y  }
(?)
a.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
Having decayed spots or streaks of a whitish color; -- said of timber.
Weale.


word: Dry
definition:
Dry

Dry
(drī)
a.
[Compar. Drier (?); superl. Driest.]
[OE. dru&yogh_;e, druye, drie, AS. dryge; akin to LG. dröge, D. droog, OHG. trucchan, G. trocken, Icel. draugr a dry log.  Cf. Drought, Drouth, 3d Drug.]
1.
Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; -- said especially: (a) Of the weather: Free from rain or mist.

The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the season.
Addison.
Give the dry fool drink.
 Shak
Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly.
 Prescott.
2.
Destitute of that which interests or amuses; barren; unembellished; jejune; plain.

These epistles will become less dry, more susceptible of ornament.
Pope.

3.
Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry wit.

He was rather a dry, shrewd kind of body.
W. Irving.

4.
(Fine Arts)
Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring.

Dry area (Arch.), a small open space reserved outside the foundation of a building to guard it from damp. -- Dry blow. (a) (Med.) A blow which inflicts no wound, and causes no effusion of blood. (b) A quick, sharp blow. -- Dry bone (Min.), Smithsonite, or carbonate of zinc; -- a miner's term. -- Dry castor (Zool.) a kind of beaver; -- called also parchment beaver. -- Dry cupping. (Med.) See under Cupping. -- Dry dock. See under Dock. -- Dry fat. See Dry vat (below). -- Dry light, pure unobstructed light; hence, a clear, impartial view. Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
The scientific man must keep his feelings under stern control, lest they obtrude into his researches, and color the dry light in which alone science desires to see its objects.  J. C. Shairp.
-- Dry masonry. See Masonry. -- Dry measure, a system of measures of volume for dry or coarse articles, by the bushel, peck, etc. -- Dry pile (Physics), a form of the Voltaic pile, constructed without the use of a liquid, affording a feeble current, and chiefly useful in the construction of electroscopes of great delicacy; -- called also Zamboni's, from the names of the two earliest constructors of it. -- Dry pipe (Steam Engine), a pipe which conducts dry steam from a boiler. -- Dry plate (Photog.), a glass plate having a dry coating sensitive to light, upon which photographic negatives or pictures can be made, without moistening. -- Dry-plate process, the process of photographing with dry plates. -- Dry point. (Fine Arts) (a) An engraving made with the needle instead of the burin, in which the work is done nearly as in etching, but is finished without the use acid. (b) A print from such an engraving, usually upon paper. (c) Hence: The needle with which such an engraving is made. -- Dry rent (Eng. Law), a rent reserved by deed, without a clause of distress. Bouvier. -- Dry rot, a decay of timber, reducing its fibers to the condition of a dry powdery dust, often accompanied by the presence of a peculiar fungus (Merulius lacrymans), which is sometimes considered the cause of the decay; but it is more probable that the real cause is the decomposition of the wood itself. D. C. Eaton. Called also sap rot, and, in the United States, powder post. Hebert. -- Dry stove, a hothouse adapted to preserving the plants of arid climates. Brande & C. -- Dry vat, a vat, basket, or other receptacle for dry articles. -- Dry wine, that in which the saccharine matter and fermentation were so exactly balanced, that they have wholly neutralized each other, and no sweetness is perceptible; -- opposed to sweet wine, in which the saccharine matter is in excess.


word: Dry₂
definition:
Dry

Dry
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dried (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drying.]
[AS. drygan; cf. drugian to grow dry. See Dry, a.]
To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay.

To dry up. (a) To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of water; to consume.
[1913 Webster]
Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.  Is. v. 13.
[1913 Webster]
The water of the sea, which formerly covered it, was in time exhaled and dried up by the sun. Woodward.
(b) To make to cease, as a stream of talk.
[1913 Webster]
Their sources of revenue were dried up.  Jowett (Thucyd. )
-- To dry a cow, or To dry up a cow, to cause a cow to cease secreting milk. Tylor.


word: Dry₃
definition:
Dry

Dry
v. i.
1.
To grow dry; to become free from wetness, moisture, or juice; as, the road dries rapidly.

2.
To evaporate wholly; to be exhaled; -- said of moisture, or a liquid; -- sometimes with up; as, the stream dries, or dries up.

3.
To shrivel or wither; to lose vitality.

And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.
I Kings xiii. 4.


word: Dryad
definition:
Dryad

Dry"ad
(?)
n.
[L. dryas, pl. dryades, Gr. _;, pl. _;, fr. _; oak, tree. See Tree.]
(Class. Myth.)
A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.


word: Dryadella
definition:
Dryadella

Dryadella
n.
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.

Syn. -- genus Dryadella.


word: Dryandra
definition:
Dryandra

Dry*an"dra
(?)
n.
[NL. Named after J. Dryander.]
(Bot.)
A genus of shrubs growing in Australia, having beautiful, hard, dry, evergreen leaves.


word: dry-clean
definition:
dry-clean

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


word: dry-cleaned
definition:
dry-cleaned

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


word: Dry goods
definition:
Dry goods

Dry" goods`
(?)
A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries.
[U.S.]


word: Drying
definition:
Drying

Dry"ing
a.
1.
Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room.

2.
Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry.

Drying oil, an oil which, either naturally or after boiling with oxide of lead, absorbs oxygen from the air and dries up rapidly. Drying oils are used as the bases of many paints and varnishes.


word: Drymoglossum
definition:
Drymoglossum

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

Syn. -- genus Drymoglossum.


word: Drynaria
definition:
Drynaria

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

Syn. -- genus Drynaria.


word: Dry nurse
definition:
Dry nurse

Dry" nurse`
(?)
A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it.


word: dry-nurse
definition:
dry-nurse

Drynurse

Dry"nurse`, dry"-nurse`
v. t.
To feed, attend, and bring up without breastfeeding it.
Hudibras.


word: Dryobalanops
definition:
Dryobalanops

Dry`o*bal"a*nops
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. dry^s oak + ba`lanos acorn + 'o`psis appearance. The fruit remotely resembles an acorn in its cup.]
(Bot.)
The genus to which belongs the single species Dryobalanops Camphora, a lofty resinous tree of Borneo and Sumatra, yielding Borneo camphor and camphor oil.


word: drypis
definition:
drypis

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


word: Dry-rub
definition:
Dry-rub

Dry"-rub`
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dry-rubbed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dry-rubbing.]
To rub and cleanse without wetting.
Dodsley.


word: Drysalter
definition:
Drysalter

Dry"salt`er
(?)
n.
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.
Brande & C.


word: Drysaltery
definition:
Drysaltery

Dry"salt`er*y
(?)
n.
The articles kept by a drysalter; also, the business of a drysalter.


word: Dry-shod
definition:
Dry-shod

Dry"-shod`
(?)
a.
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.


word: Dual
definition:
Dual

Du"al
(?)
a.
[L. dualis, fr. duo two. See Two.]
Expressing, or consisting of, the number two; belonging to two; as, the dual number of nouns, etc. , in Greek.

Here you have one half of our dual truth.
Tyndall.


word: Dualin
definition:
Dualin

Du"a*lin
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
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.


word: Dualism
definition:
Dualism

Du"al*ism
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. dualisme.]
State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction
(a)
(Philos.)
A view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit.
(Theol.)
(b)
A system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, one good and the other evil.
(c)
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.
(d)
(Physiol.)
The theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts independently of the other.

An inevitable dualism bisects nature, so that each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole.
Emerson.


word: Dualist
definition:
Dualist

Du"al*ist
n.
[Cf. F. dualiste.]
1.
One who believes in dualism; a ditheist.

2.
One who administers two offices.
 Fuller.


word: Dualistic
definition:
Dualistic

Du`al*is"tic
(?)
a.
Consisting of two; pertaining to dualism or duality.

Dualistic system or Dualistic theory (Chem.), an old theory, originated by Lavoisier and developed by Berzelius, that all definite compounds are binary in their nature, and consist of two distinct constituents, themselves simple or complex, and possessed of opposite chemical or electrical affinities; -- superseded by later developments in chemical bonding theory, especially quantum mechanics.


word: Duality
definition:
Duality

Du"al"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. dualitas: cf. F. dualité.]
The quality or condition of being two or twofold; dual character or usage.


word: Duan
definition:
Duan

Du"an
(?)
n.
[Gael. & Ir.]
A division of a poem corresponding to a canto; a poem or song.
[R.]


word: Dub
definition:
Dub

Dub
(dŭb)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dubbed (dŭbd); p. pr. & vb. n. Dubbing.]
[AS. dubban to strike, beat (“dubbade his sunu . . . to rīdere.” AS. Chron. an. 1086); akin to Icel. dubba; cf. OF. adouber (prob. fr. Icel.) a chevalier, Icel. dubba til riddara.]
1.
To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight.

&hand_; The conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with the sword.

2.
To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call.

A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth.
Pope.

3.
To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
[Obs.]

His diadem was dropped down
Dubbed with stones.
Morte d'Arthure.

4.
To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab;
as:
(a)
To dress with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber smooth.

To dub a fly, to dress a fishing fly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. -- To dub out (Plastering), to fill out, as an uneven surface, to a plane, or to carry out a series of small projections.


word: Dub₃
definition:
Dub

Dub
(dŭb)
v. t.
1.
to add sound to an existing recording, audio or video; -- often used with in.  The sound may be of any type or of any duration.

2.
to mix together two or more sound or video recordings to produce a composite recording.


word: Dubber₂
definition:
Dubber

Dub"ber
n.
[Hind. dabbah.]
A globular vessel or bottle of leather, used in India to hold ghee, oil, etc.
[Also written dupper.]
M'Culloch.


word: Dubbing
definition:
Dubbing

Dub"bing
(?)
n.
1.
The act of dubbing, as a knight, etc.

2.
The act of rubbing, smoothing, or dressing; a dressing off smooth with an adz.

3.
A dressing of flour and water used by weavers; a mixture of oil and tallow for dressing leather; daubing.

4.
The body substance of an angler's fly.
Davy.


word: Dubiety
definition:
Dubiety

Du*bi"e*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Dubieties (#).
[L. dubietas, fr. dubius. See Dubious.]
Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt.
[R.]
Lamb.
dubiety
Sir W. Scott.


word: Dubiosity
definition:
Dubiosity

Du`bi*os"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Dubiosities (#).
[L. dubiosus.]
The state of being doubtful; a doubtful statement or thing.
[R.]

Men often swallow falsities for truths, dubiosities for certainties, possibilities for feasibilities.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Dubious
definition:
Dubious

Du"bi*ous
(?)
a.
[L. dubius, dubiosus, fr. duo two. See Two, and cf. Doubt.]
1.
Doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined.
Dubious
Sir T. Scott.

A dubious, agitated state of mind.
Thackeray.

2.
Occasioning doubt; not clear, or obvious; equivocal; questionable; doubtful; as, a dubious answer.

Wiping the dingy shirt with a still more dubious pocket handkerchief.
Thackeray.

3.
Of uncertain event or issue; as, in dubious battle.


word: Dubitable
definition:
Dubitable

Du"bi*ta*ble
(?)
a.
[L. dubitabilis.  Cf. Doubtable.]
Liable to be doubted; uncertain.
[R.]
Dr. H. More.
Du"bi*ta*bly, adv. [R.]


word: Dubitate
definition:
Dubitate

Du"bi*tate
(?)
v. i.
[L. dubitatus, p. p. of dubitare. See Doubt.]
To doubt.
[R.]

If he . . . were to loiter dubitating, and not come.
Carlyle.


word: Dubitative
definition:
Dubitative

Du"bi*ta*tive
(?)
a.
[L. dubitativus: cf. F. dubitatif.]
Tending to doubt; doubtful.
[R.]
Du"bi*ta*tive*ly, adv. [R.]
. Eliot.


word: Duboisine
definition:
Duboisine

Du*bois"ine
(?)
n.
(Med.)
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.


word: Ducal
definition:
Ducal

Du"cal
(?)
a.
[F. ducal. See Duke.]
Of or pertaining to a duke.

His ducal cap was to be exchanged for a kingly crown.
Motley.


word: Ducat
definition:
Ducat

Duc"at
(?)
n.
[F. ducat, It. ducato, LL. ducatus, fr. dux leader or commander. See Duke.]
A coin, either of gold or silver, of several countries in Europe; originally, one struck in the dominions of a duke.

&hand_; The gold ducat is generally of the value of nine shillings and four pence sterling, or somewhat more that two dollars. The silver ducat is of about half this value.


word: Ducatoon
definition:
Ducatoon

Duc`a*toon"
(?)
n.
[F. or Sp. ducaton, fr. ducat.]
A silver coin of several countries of Europe, and of different values.


word: Duces tecum
definition:
Duces tecum

Du"ces te"cum
(?)
[L., bring with thee.]
A judicial process commanding a person to appear in court and bring with him some piece of evidence or other thing to be produced to the court.


word: Duchess
definition:
Duchess

Duch"ess
(?)
n.
[F. duchesse, fr. duc duke.]
The wife or widow of a duke; also, a lady who has the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right.


word: Duchesse d'Angouleme
definition:
Duchesse d'Angouleme

Du`chesse" d'An`gou`lême"
(?)
[F.]
(Bot.)
A variety of pear of large size and excellent flavor.


word: Duchesse lace
definition:
Duchesse lace

Du`chesse" lace
(?)
A beautiful variety of Brussels pillow lace made originally in Belgium and resembling Honiton guipure. It is worked with fine thread in large sprays, usually of the primrose pattern, with much raised work.


word: Duchy
definition:
Duchy

Duch"y
(dŭch"&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Duchies (#).
[F. duché, OF. duchée, (assumed) LL. ducitas, fr. L. dux. See Duke.]
The territory or dominions of a duke; a dukedom.


word: Duck
definition:
Duck

Duck
(dŭk)
n.
[Cf. Dan. dukke, Sw. docka, OHG. doccha, G. docke.  Cf. Doxy.]
A pet; a darling.
Shak.


word: Duck₂
definition:
Duck

Duck
n.
[D. doek cloth, canvas, or Icel. dūkr cloth; akin to OHG. tuoh, G. tuch, Sw. duk, Dan. dug.]
1.
A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing.

2.
(Naut.)
pl.
The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates.
[Colloq.]


word: Duck₃
definition:
Duck

Duck
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Ducked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Ducking.]
[OE. duken, douken, to dive; akin to D. duiken, OHG. t_;hhan, MHG. tucken, tücken, t_;chen, G. tuchen.  Cf. 5th Duck.]
1.
To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.

Adams, after ducking the squire twice or thrice, leaped out of the tub.
Fielding.

2.
To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy.

3.
To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion.
duck
Swift.


word: Duck₄
definition:
Duck

Duck
(dŭk)
v. i.
1.
To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip.

In Tiber ducking thrice by break of day.
Dryden.

2.
To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow.

The learned pate
Ducks to the golden fool.
Shak.


word: Duck₅
definition:
Duck

Duck
n.
[OE. duke, doke. See Duck, v. t. ]
1.
(Zool.)
Any bird of the subfamily Anatinæ, family Anatidæ.

&hand_; The genera and species are numerous. They are divided into river ducks and sea ducks. Among the former are the common domestic duck (Anas boschas); the wood duck (Aix sponsa); the beautiful mandarin duck of China (Dendronessa galeriliculata); the Muscovy duck, originally of South America (Cairina moschata). Among the sea ducks are the eider, canvasback, scoter, etc.

2.
A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water.

Here be, without duck or nod,
Other trippings to be trod.
Milton.

Bombay duck (Zool.), a fish. See Bummalo. -- Buffel duck, Spirit duck. See Buffel duck. -- Duck ant (Zool.), a species of white ant in Jamaica which builds large nests in trees. -- Duck barnacle. (Zool.) See Goose barnacle. -- Duck hawk. (Zool.) (a) In the United States: The peregrine falcon. (b) In England: The marsh harrier or moor buzzard. -- Duck mole (Zool.), a small aquatic mammal of Australia, having webbed feet and a bill resembling that of a duck (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). It belongs the subclass Monotremata and is remarkable for laying eggs like a bird or reptile; -- called also duckbill, platypus, mallangong, mullingong, tambreet, and water mole. -- To make ducks and drakes, to throw a flat stone obliquely, so as to make it rebound repeatedly from the surface of the water, raising a succession of jets; hence: To play at ducks and drakes, with property, to throw it away heedlessly or squander it foolishly and unprofitably. -- Lame duck. See under Lame.


word: duck-billed
definition:
duck-billed

duck-billed
adj.
1.
having a beak resembling that of a duck.


Syn. -- duckbill, duckbilled.


word: Duck-billed platypus
definition:
Duck-billed platypus

Duck"-billed` plat"y*pus
(?)
a.
same as Duck Mole, under Duck.

Syn. -- duck mole, duckbill, duck-bill platypus, platypus.


word: Ducker
definition:
Ducker

Duck"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, ducks; a plunger; a diver.

2.
A cringing, servile person; a fawner.


word: Ducking
definition:
Ducking

Duck"ing
n. & a., from Duck, v. t. & i.

Ducking stool, a stool or chair in which common scolds were formerly tied, and plunged into water, as a punishment. See Cucking stool.  The practice of ducking began in the latter part of the 15th century, and prevailed until the early part of the 18th, and occasionally as late as the 19th century. Blackstone. Chambers.


word: Duck's-bill
definition:
Duck's-bill

Duck's"-bill`
a.
Having the form of a duck's bill.

Duck's-bill limpet (Zool.), a limpet of the genus Parmaphorus; -- so named from its shape.


word: Duckweed
definition:
Duckweed

Duck"weed`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
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.


word: ducky
definition:
ducky

ducky
(dŭk"&ybreve_;)
a.
1.
fine; satisfactory; excellent.
[informal]

2.
charming; cute.
[informal]


word: ducky₂
definition:
ducky

ducky
(dŭk"&ybreve_;)
n.
a special loved one; a darling; -- used as a term of endearment.
[Brit.]

Syn. -- darling, favorite, favourite, pet, dearie, deary.


word: Duct
definition:
Duct

Duct
(dŭkt)
n.
[L. ductus a leading, conducting, conduit, fr. ducere, ductum, to lead. See Duke, and cf. Douche.]
1.
Any tube or canal by which a fluid or other substance is conducted or conveyed.

2.
(Anat.)
One of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination.

3.
(Bot.)
A large, elongated cell, either round or prismatic, usually found associated with woody fiber.

&hand_; Ducts are classified, according to the character of the surface of their walls, or their structure, as annular, spiral, scalariform, etc.

4.
Guidance; direction.
[Obs.]
Hammond.


word: Ductile
definition:
Ductile

Duc"tile
(?)
a.
[L. ductilis, fr. ducere to lead: cf. F. ductile. See Duct.]
1.
Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.
Addison.

Forms their ductile minds
To human virtues.
Philips.

2.
Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.

Gold . . . is the softest and most ductile of all metals.
Dryden.


word: Ductilimeter
definition:
Ductilimeter

Duc`ti*lim"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Ductile + -meter.]
An instrument for accurately determining the ductility of metals.


word: Ductility
definition:
Ductility

Duc*til"i*ty
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. ductilité.]
1.
The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.

2.
Tractableness; pliableness.
South.


word: Ductor
definition:
Ductor

Duc"tor
(?)
n.
[L., fr. ducere to lead.]
1.
One who leads.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.

2.
(Mach.)
A contrivance for removing superfluous ink or coloring matter from a roller. See Doctor, 4.
Knight.

Ductor roller (Printing), the roller which conveys or supplies ink to another roller. Knight.


word: Dudder
definition:
Dudder

Dud"der
(?)
v. t.
[In Suffolk, Eng., to shiver, shake, tremble; also written dodder.]
To confuse or confound with noise.
Jennings.


word: Dudder₂
definition:
Dudder

Dud"der
v. i.
To shiver or tremble; to dodder.

I dudder and shake like an aspen leaf.
Ford.


word: Dudder₃
definition:
Dudder

Dud"der
n.
[From Duds.]
A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer.
[Eng.]


word: Dude
definition:
Dude

Dude
(?)
n.
A kind of dandy; especially, one characterized by an ultrafashionable style of dress and other affectations.
[Recent]

The social dude who affects English dress and English drawl.
The American.


word: Dudgeon
definition:
Dudgeon

Dudg"eon
(?)
n.
1.
The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made.
Gerarde (1597).

2.
The haft of a dagger.
Shak.

3.
A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger.
Hudibras.


word: Dudgeon₂
definition:
Dudgeon

Dudg"eon
n.
[W. dygen anger, grudge.]
Resentment; ill will; anger; displeasure.

I drink it to thee in dudgeon and hostility.

Sir T. Scott.


word: Dudgeon₃
definition:
Dudgeon

Dudg"eon
a.
Homely; rude; coarse.
[Obs.]

By my troth, though I am plain and dudgeon,
I would not be an ass.
Beau. & Fl.


word: Duds
definition:
Duds

Duds
(?)
n. pl.
[Scot. dud rag, pl. duds clothing of inferior quality.]
1.
Old or inferior clothes; tattered garments.
[Colloq.]

2.
Effects, in general.
[Slang]


word: Due
definition:
Due

Due
(?)
a.
[OF. deu, F. dû, p. p. of devoir to owe, fr. L. debere. See Debt, Habit, and cf. Duty.]
1.
Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.

2.
Justly claimed as a right or property; proper; suitable; becoming; appropriate; fit.

Her obedience, which is due to me.
Shak.

With dirges due, in sad array,
Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne.
Gray.

3.
Such as (a thing) ought to be; fulfilling obligation; proper; lawful; regular; appointed; sufficient; exact; as, due process of law; due service; in due time.

4.
Appointed or required to arrive at a given time; as, the steamer was due yesterday.

5.
Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.

This effect is due to the attraction of the sun.
J. D. Forbes.


word: Due₃
definition:
Due

Due
n.
1.
That which is owed; debt; that which one contracts to pay, or do, to or for another; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done; a fee; a toll.

He will give the devil his due.
Shak.

Yearly little dues of wheat, and wine, and oil.
Tennyson.

2.
Right; just title or claim.

The key of this infernal pit by due . . . I keep.
Milton.


word: Duebill
definition:
Duebill

Due"bill`
(?)
n.
(Com.)
A brief written acknowledgment of a debt, not made payable to order, like a promissory note.
Burrill.


word: Duel
definition:
Duel

Du"el
(?)
n.
[It. duello, fr. L. duellum, orig., a contest between two, which passed into the common form bellum war, fr. duo two: cf. F. duel. See Bellicose, Two, and cf. Duello.]
A combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons, by agreement. It usually arises from an injury done or an affront given by one to the other.

Trial by duel (Old Law), a combat between two persons for proving a cause; trial by battel.


word: Dueling
definition:
Dueling

Du"el*ing
n.
The act or practice of fighting in single combat. Also adj.
[Written also duelling.]


word: Duelist
definition:
Duelist

Du"el*ist
(?)
n.
[F. duelliste.]
One who fights in single combat.
[Written also duellist.]

A duelist . . . always values himself upon his courage, his sense of honor, his fidelity and friendship.
Hume.


word: Duenna
definition:
Duenna

Du*en"na
(?)
n.
pl. Duennas (#).
[Sp. dueña, doña, fr. L. domina. See Dame.]
1.
The chief lady in waiting on the queen of Spain.
Brande.

2.
An elderly lady holding a station between a governess and companion, and appointed to have charge over the younger ladies in a Spanish or a Portuguese family.
Brande & C.

3.
Any old woman who is employed to guard a younger one; a governess.
Arbuthnot.


word: Duet
definition:
Duet

Du*et"
(?)
n.
[Duetto.]
(Mus.)
A composition for two performers, whether vocal or instrumental.


word: Duettino
definition:
Duettino

Du`et*ti"no
(?)
n.
[It ., dim. fr. duetto a duet.]
A duet of short extent and concise form.


word: Duff
definition:
Duff

Duff
(dŭf)
n.
[From OE. dagh. √67. See Dough.]
1.
Dough or paste.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

2.
A stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; -- a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff.


word: Duff₂
definition:
Duff

Duff
(dŭf)
n.
the buttocks; as, get off your duff and get to work.
[slang]

Syn. -- rump; ass.


word: Duff₃
definition:
Duff

Duff
(dŭf)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Duffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Duffing.]
[Etym. uncertain.]
[Colloq. or Slang]
1.
To treat or manipulate so as to give a specious appearance to; to fake; hence, to cheat.

2.
In Australia, to alter the brands on (cattle, horses, etc.); to steal (cattle, etc.), and alter their brands.


word: Duffel
definition:
Duffel

Duf"fel
(?)
n.
[D. duffel, from Duffel, a town not far from Antwerp.]
1.
A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze.
[Written also duffle.]

Good duffel gray and flannel fine.
 Wordsworth.

2.
Outfit or suppplies, collectively; kit.
[Colloq., U. S.]


word: Duffer
definition:
Duffer

Duf"fer
(?)
n.
1.
A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat.
[Slang, Eng.]
Halliwell.

2.
A stupid, awkward, inefficient person.
[Slang]


word: Duffer₃
definition:
Duffer

Duf"fer
n.
One who duffs cattle, etc.
[Australia]
Unluckily, cattle stealers are by no means so rare as would be desirable; they are locally known as duffers.
Baden-Powell.


word: Dufrenite
definition:
Dufrenite

Du*fren"ite
(?)
n.
[From _;_;ierre Armand Dufrénoy, a French geologist.]
(Min.)
A mineral of a blackish green color, commonly massive or in nodules. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.


word: Dug
definition:
Dug

Dug
(dŭg)
n.
[Akin to Sw. dägga to suckle (a child), Dan. dægge, and prob. to Goth. daddjan. √66.]
A teat, pap, or nipple; -- formerly that of a human mother, now that of a cow or other beast.

With mother's dug between its lips.
Shak.


word: Dugong
definition:
Dugong

Du*gong"
(d&usdot_;*g&obreve_;g")
n.
[Malayan dūy&omacrng, or Javan. duyung.]
(Zool.)
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.
[Written also duyong.]


word: Dugout
definition:
Dugout

Dug"out`
(dŭg"out)
n.
1.
A canoe or boat dug out from a large log.
[U.S.]

A man stepped from his slender dugout.
 G. W. Cable.

2.
A place dug out.

3.
A house made partly in a hillside or slighter elevation.
[Western U.S.]
Bartlett.

4.
(Baseball)
a structure on the edge of the playing field in foul territory, partly below ground and partly above ground, open toward the playing field but roofed and with the other three sides closed.  It is typically long and narrow, having benches where the players may sit when not on the playing field; as, the foul ball was tipped into the dugout.


word: Dugway
definition:
Dugway

Dug"way`
(?)
n.
A way or road dug through a hill, or sunk below the surface of the land.
[U.S.]


word: Duke
definition:
Duke

Duke
(dūk)
n.
[F. duc, fr. L. dux, ducis, leader, commander, fr. ducere to lead; akin to AS. teón to draw; cf. AS. heretoga (here army) an army leader, general, G. herzog duke. See Tue, and cf. Doge, Duchess, Ducat, Duct, Adduce, Deduct.]
1.
A leader; a chief; a prince.
[Obs.]

Hannibal, duke of Carthage.
Sir T. Elyot.

All were dukes once, who were “duces” -- captains or leaders of their people.
Trench.

2.
In England, one of the highest order of nobility after princes and princesses of the royal blood and the four archbishops of England and Ireland.

3.
In some European countries, a sovereign prince, without the title of king.

4.
pl.
The fists; as, put up your dukes.
[slang]

Duke's coronet. See Illust. of Coronet. -- To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner. See under Dine.


word: Duke₂
definition:
Duke

Duke
(dūk)
v. i.
To play the duke.
[Poetic]

Lord Angelo dukes it well in his absence.
 Shak.


word: duke
definition:
duke

duke
(dūk)
v. t.
To beat with the fists.
[slang]

to duke it out to fight; -- usually implying, to fight with the fists; to settle a dispute by fighting with the fists.  See duke, n. sense 4.


word: Dukeship
definition:
Dukeship

Duke"ship
n.
The quality or condition of being a duke; also, the personality of a duke.
Massinger.


word: Dukhobortsy
definition:
Dukhobortsy

Dukhobors

{ Du*kho*bors" (?), Du*kho*bor"tsy (?) }
n. pl.
[Russ. dukhobortsy spirit wrestlers; dukh spirit + bortsy wrestlers.]
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.


word: Dulcamara
definition:
Dulcamara

Dul`ca*ma"ra
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. L. dulcis sweet + amarus bitter.]
(Bot.)
A plant (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet, n., 3 (a).


word: Dulcamarin
definition:
Dulcamarin

Dul`ca*ma"rin
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A glucoside extracted from the bittersweet (Solanum Dulcamara), as a yellow amorphous substance. It probably occasions the compound taste. See Bittersweet, 3(a).


word: Dulcet
definition:
Dulcet

Dul"cet
(?)
a.
[OF. doucet, dim. of dous sweet, F. doux, L. dulcis; akin to Gr. _; .  Cf. Doucet.]
1.
Sweet to the taste; luscious.
[Obs.]

She tempers dulcet creams.
Milton.

2.
Sweet to the ear; melodious; harmonious.

Their dainty lays and dulcet melody.
Spenser.


word: Dulcification
definition:
Dulcification

Dul`ci*fi*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. dulcification.]
The act of dulcifying or sweetening.
Boyle.


word: Dulcified
definition:
Dulcified

Dul"ci*fied
(?)
a.
Sweetened; mollified.

Dulcified spirit or Dulcified spirits, a compound of alcohol with mineral acids; as, dulcified spirits of niter.


word: Dulcify
definition:
Dulcify

Dul"ci*fy
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dulcified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dulcifying.]
[L. dulcis sweet + -fy: cf. F. dulcifier.]
1.
(Pharm.)
To sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness, or acrimony.
Wiseman.

2.
Fig. : To mollify; to sweeten; to please.

As she . . . was further dulcified by her pipe of tobacco.
Hawthorne.


word: Dulcimer
definition:
Dulcimer

Dul"ci*mer
(?)
n.
[It. dolcemele,r Sp. dulcemele, fr. L. dulcis sweet + melos song, melody, Gr. _;; cf. OF.  doulcemele. See Dulcet, and Melody.]
(Mus.)
(a)
An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer.
(b)
An ancient musical instrument in use among the Jews. Dan. iii. 5. It is supposed to be the same with the psaltery.


word: Dulcinea
definition:
Dulcinea

Dul*cin"e*a
(?)
n.
[Sp., from Dulcinea del Toboso the mistress of the affections of Don Quixote.]
A mistress; a sweetheart.

I must ever have some Dulcinea in my head.
Sterne.


word: Dulcite
definition:
Dulcite

Dul"cite
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. dulcite, fr. L. dulcis sweet.]
(Chem.)
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.


word: Dulcorate
definition:
Dulcorate

Dul"co*rate
(?)
v. t.
[L. dulcoratus, p. p. of dulcorare, fr. dulcor sweetness, fr. dulcis sweet.]
To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.
[R.]
Bacon.


word: Duledge
definition:
Duledge

Du"ledge
(?)
n.
(Mil.)
One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage.
Wilhelm.


word: Dulia
definition:
Dulia

Du*li"a
(?)
n.
[LL., fr. Gr. _; servitude, fr. _; slave.]
(R. C. Ch.)
An inferior kind of veneration or worship, given to the angels and saints as the servants of God.


word: Dull
definition:
Dull

Dull
(?)
a.
[Compar. Duller (?); superl. Dullest.]
[AS. dol foolish; akin to gedwelan to err, D. dol mad, dwalen to wander, err, G. toll mad, Goth. dwals foolish, stupid, cf. Gr. _; turbid, troubled, Skr. dhvr to cause to fall.  Cf. Dolt, Dwale, Dwell, Fraud.]
1.
Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.
Dull
Thackeray.

She is not bred so dull but she can learn.
Shak.

2.
Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.

This people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing.
Matt. xiii. 15.

O, help my weak wit and sharpen my dull tongue.
Spenser.

3.
Insensible; unfeeling.

Think me not
So dull a devil to forget the loss
Of such a matchless wife.
 Beau. & Fl.

4.
Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt.
dull
Herbert.

5.
Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror.

6.
Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert.
dull
Shak.

As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of study a dull brain.
 Longfellow.

7.
Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day.

Along life's dullest, dreariest walk.
 Keble.


word: Dull₂
definition:
Dull

Dull
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Duller (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dulling.]
1.
To deprive of sharpness of edge or point.
dulled
Bacon.

Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Shak.

2.
To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.

Those [drugs] she has
Will stupefy and dull the sense a while.
Shak.

Use and custom have so dulled our eyes.
Trench.

3.
To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
Dulls
Bacon.

4.
To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.

Attention of mind . . . wasted or dulled through continuance.
Hooker.


word: Dullness
definition:
Dullness

Dull"ness
n.
The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness.
[Written also dulness.]

And gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
Pope.


word: Dully
definition:
Dully

Dul"ly
(?)
adv.
In a dull manner; stupidly; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit.

Supinely calm and dully innocent.
 G. Lyttelton.


word: Dulse
definition:
Dulse

Dulse
(dŭls)
n.
[Cf. Gael. duileasg; duille leaf + uisge water.  Cf. Whisky.]
(Bot.)
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 crimson leaf of the dulse is seen
To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter.
Percival.


word: Duly
definition:
Duly

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


word: Dumal
definition:
Dumal

Du"mal
(?)
a.
[L. dumus bramble.]
Pertaining to, or set with, briers or bushes; brambly.
[R.]


word: Dumb
definition:
Dumb

Dumb
(dŭm)
a.
[AS. dumb; akin to D. dom stupid, dumb, Sw. dumb, Goth. dumbs; cf. Gr. _; blind. See Deaf, and cf. Dummy.]
1.
Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes.

To unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures.
Hooker.

2.
Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words; as, dumb show.

This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.
Shak.

To pierce into the dumb past.
 J. C. Shairp.

3.
Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color.
[R.]

Her stern was painted of a dumb white or dun color.
De Foe.

4.
Lacking intelligence; having poor judgment; stupid; dull-witted; -- of persons.

5.
Exhibiting poor judgment or lack of wisdom; leading predictably to unfavorable consequences; -- of actions.

Deaf and dumb. See Deaf-mute. -- Dumb ague, or Dumb chill, a form of intermittent fever which has no well-defined “chill.” [U.S.] -- Dumb animal, any animal except man; -- usually restricted to a domestic quadruped; -- so called in contradistinction to man, who is a “speaking animal.” -- Dumb cake, a cake made in silence by girls on St. Mark's eve, with certain mystic ceremonies, to discover their future husbands. Halliwell. -- Dumb cane (Bot.), a west Indian plant of the Arum family (Dieffenbachia seguina), which, when chewed, causes the tongue to swell, and destroys temporarily the power of speech. -- Dumb crambo. See under crambo. -- Dumb show. (a) Formerly, a part of a dramatic representation, shown in pantomime. “Inexplicable dumb shows and noise.” Shak. (b) Signs and gestures without words; as, to tell a story in dumb show. -- To strike dumb, to confound; to astonish; to render silent by astonishment; or, it may be, to deprive of the power of speech.


word: dumb-bell
definition:
dumb-bell

dumbbell

dumb"bell`, dumb"-bell`
(?)
n.
An exercising weight, consisting of two spheres or spheroids, connected by a short bar for a handle; used (often in pairs) for gymnastic exercise.

2.
An ignorant or foolish person.

Syn. -- dummy, dope, boob, booby, pinhead.


word: dumbfound
definition:
dumbfound

dumbfound
v. t.
same as dumfound.

Syn. -- confuse, perplex, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, puzzle, mystify, baffle, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, stupify, nonplus, gravel, amaze, trounce, confound, be confusing to, make confused.


word: dumb down
definition:
dumb down

dumb` down"
(dŭm` doun")
v. t.
To render simpler, so as to be comprehensible or usable by unintelligent people; to simplify; -- of texts or devices.


word: dumbfounded
definition:
dumbfounded

dumbfounded
adj.
1.
same as astounded.

Syn. -- amazed, astonied, astonished, astounded, flabbergasted, stunned, stupefied, thunderstruck.

2.
astonished and confounded.

Syn. -- amazed, dumfounded.


word: dumbfounding
definition:
dumbfounding

dumbfounding
adj.
causing astonishment.
incredible (vs. credible), unbelievable

Syn. -- astonishing, astounding, dumfounding.


word: Dumbledor
definition:
Dumbledor

Dum"ble*dor`
(?)
n.
[The first part is prob. of imitative origin. See Dor a beetle.]
(Zool.)
A bumblebee; also, a cockchafer.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Dumb-waiter
definition:
Dumb-waiter

Dumb"-wait`er
(?)
n.
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.


word: Dumdum bullet
definition:
Dumdum bullet

Dum"dum bul"let
(?)
(Mil.)
A kind of man-stopping bullet, designed to fragment inside the body and thus inflict a severed and painful wound; -- so named from Dumdum, in India, where bullets are manufactured for the Indian army.


word: Dumfound
definition:
Dumfound

Dum"found`
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dumfounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Dumfounding.]
To strike dumb; to confuse with astonishment.
[Written also dumbfound.]
Spectator.


word: dumfounded
definition:
dumfounded

dumfounded
adj.
same as dumbfounded.

Syn. -- amazed, astonied, astonished, astounded, flabbergasted, stunned, stupefied, thunderstruck.


word: dumfounding
definition:
dumfounding

dumfounding
adj.
same as dumbfounding.

Syn. -- astonishing, astounding, dumbfounding.


word: Dummy
definition:
Dummy

Dum"my
(?)
a.
[See Dumb.]
1.
Silent; mute; noiseless; as a dummy engine.

2.
Fictitious or sham; feigned; as, a dummy watch.

Dummy car. See under Car.


word: Dummy₂
definition:
Dummy

Dum"my
n.
pl. Dummies (_;).
1.
One who is dumb.
H. Smith.

2.
A sham package in a shop, or one which does not contain what its exterior indicates.

3.
An imitation or copy of something, to be used as a substitute; a model; a lay figure; as, a figure on which clothing is exhibited in shop windows; a blank paper copy used to show the size of the future book, etc.

4.
(Drama)
One who plays a merely nominal part in any action; a sham character.

5.
An ignorant or thick-witted person; a foolish person; a dolt.

Syn. -- dope, boob, booby, pinhead, dumbbell.

6.
(Railroad)
A locomotive with condensing engines, and, hence, without the noise of escaping steam; also, a dummy car.

7.
(Card Playing)
The fourth or exposed hand when three persons play at a four-handed game of cards.

8.
A floating barge connected with a pier.
Knight.

To play dummy, to play the exposed or dummy hand in cards. The partner of the dummy plays it.


word: Dumous
definition:
Dumous

Dumose

{ Du`mose" (?), Du"mous (?), }
a.
[L. dumosus, fr. dumus a thornbush, a bramble.]
1.
Abounding with bushes and briers.

2.
(Bot.)
Having a compact, bushy form.


word: Dump
definition:
Dump

Dump
(dŭmp)
n.
[See Dumpling.]
A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.
[Eng.]
Smart.


word: Dump₂
definition:
Dump

Dump
n.
[Cf. dial. Sw.  dumpin melancholy, Dan.dump dull, low, D. dompig damp, G. dumpf damp, dull, gloomy, and E. damp, or rather perh. dump, v. t.  Cf. Damp, or Dump,    v. t.]
1.
A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits or a mild depression; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.

March slowly on in solemn dump.
Hudibras.

Doleful dumps the mind oppress.
Shak.

I was musing in the midst of my dumps.
Bunyan.

&hand_; The ludicrous associations now attached to this word did not originally belong to it. “Holland's translation of Livy represents the Romans as being `in the dumps' after the battle of Cannæ.”
Trench.

2.
Absence of mind; revery.
Locke.

3.
A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
[Obs.]
dump
dump
Shak.

4.
An old kind of dance.
[Obs.]
Nares.


word: Dump₃
definition:
Dump

Dump
(dŭmp)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dumped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dumping.]
[OE. dumpen to throw down, fall down, cf. Icel. dumpa to thump, Dan.  dumpe to fall suddenly, rush, dial. Sw.  dimpa to fall down plump.  Cf. Dump sadness.]
1.
To knock heavily; to stump.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

2.
To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc.
[U.S.]
Bartlett.

Dumping car or Dumping cart, a railway car, or a cart, the body of which can be tilted to empty the contents; -- called also dump car, or dump cart.


word: Dump₄
definition:
Dump

Dump
n.
1.
A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

2.
A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.

3.
That which is dumped.

4.
(Mining)
A pile of ore or rock.


word: Dumpage
definition:
Dumpage

Dump"age
(?)
n.
1.
The act of dumping loads from carts, especially loads of refuse matter; also, a heap of dumped matter.

2.
A fee paid for the privilege of dumping loads; called in some cases tipping fee.


word: dumpcart
definition:
dumpcart

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

Syn. -- tumbrel, tumbril.


word: Dumple
definition:
Dumple

Dum"ple
(?)
v. t.
[See Dumpling.]
To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another.
[R.]

He was a little man, dumpled up together.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Dumpling
definition:
Dumpling

Dump"ling
(?)
n.
[Dimin. of dump an illshapen piece; cf. D.  dompelen to plunge, dip, duck, Scot. to dump in to plunge into, and E. dump, v. t.]
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.


word: Dumps
definition:
Dumps

Dumps
(dŭmps)
n. pl.
a gloomy mental state; same as 2nd dump{1}; -- used mostly in the phrase “in the dumps”.


word: dump truck
definition:
dump truck

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

Syn. -- dumper.


word: Dumpy
definition:
Dumpy

Dump"y
(?)
a.
[Compar. Dumpier (?); superl. Dumpiest.]
[1. From Dump a short ill-shapen piece. 2. From Dump sadness.]
1.
Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout.

2.
Sullen or discontented.  See 2nd dump{1}.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Dumpy level
definition:
Dumpy level

Dump"y lev"el
(Surv.)
A level having a short telescope (hence its name) rigidly fixed to a table capable only of rotatory movement in a horizontal plane. The telescope is usually an inverting one. It is sometimes called the Troughton level, from the name of the inventor, and a variety improved by one Gavatt is known as the Gavatt level.


word: Dumuzi
definition:
Dumuzi

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

Syn. -- Tammuz.


word: Dun₂
definition:
Dun

Dun
v. t.
To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.


word: Dun₃
definition:
Dun

Dun
(dŭn)
v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Dunned (dŭnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Dunning (dŭn"nĭng).]
[AS. dyne noise, dynian to make a noise, or fr. Icel. dynr, duna, noise, thunder, duna to thunder; the same word as E. din. √74.  See Din.]
To ask or beset (e.g., a debtor), for payment; to urge importunately.

Hath she sent so soon to dun?
Swift.


word: Dun₄
definition:
Dun

Dun
n.
1.
One who duns; a dunner.

To be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun.
Arbuthnot.

2.
An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.


word: Dun₅
definition:
Dun

Dun
a.
[AS. dunn, of Celtic origin; cf. W. dwn, Ir. & Gael. donn.]
Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.

Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up.
 Pierpont.

Chill and dun
Falls on the moor the brief November day.
Keble.

Dun crow (Zool.), the hooded crow; -- so called from its color; -- also called hoody, and hoddy. -- Dun diver (Zool.), the goosander or merganser.


word: Dunbird
definition:
Dunbird

Dun"bird`
(?)
n.
[Named from its color.]
(Zool.)
(a)
The pochard; -- called also dunair, and dunker, or dun-curre.
(b)
An American duck; the ruddy duck.


word: Dunce
definition:
Dunce

Dunce
(?)
n.
[From Joannes Duns Scotus, a schoolman called the Subtle Doctor, who died in 1308. Originally in the phrase “a Duns man”. See Note below.]
One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.

I never knew this town without dunces of figure.
Swift.

&hand_; The schoolmen were often called, after their great leader Duns Scotus, Dunsmen or Duncemen. In the revival of learning they were violently opposed to classical studies; hence, the name of Dunce was applied with scorn and contempt to an opposer of learning, or to one slow at learning, a dullard.


word: Duncical
definition:
Duncical

Dun"ci*cal
(?)
a.
Like a dunce; duncish.

The most dull and duncical commissioner.
 Fuller.


word: Dunder
definition:
Dunder

Dun"der
(?)
n.
[Cf. Sp. redundar to overflow.]
The lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum.
[West Indies]

The use of dunder in the making of rum answers the purpose of yeast in the fermentation of flour.
B. Edwards.


word: Dunderhead
definition:
Dunderhead

Dun"der*head`
(?)
n.
[Prov. Eng. also dunderpoll, from dunder, same as thunder.]
A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead.
Beau. & Fl.


word: Dune
definition:
Dune

Dune
(dūn)
n.
[The same word as down: cf. D. duin. See Down a bank of sand.]
A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds.
[Written also dun.]

Three great rivers, the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt, had deposited their slime for ages among the dunes or sand banks heaved up by the ocean around their mouths.
Motley.


word: Dung
definition:
Dung

Dung
(dŭng)
n.
[AS. dung; akin to G. dung, dünger, OHG. tunga, Sw. dynga; cf. Icel. dyngja heap, Dan. dynge, MHG. tunc underground dwelling place, orig., covered with dung.  Cf. Dingy.]
The excrement of an animal.
Bacon.


word: Dung₂
definition:
Dung

Dung
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dunged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dunging.]
1.
To manure with dung.
Dryden.

2.
(Calico Print.)
To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.


word: Dungaree
definition:
Dungaree

Dun`ga*ree"
(?)
n.
1.
A coarse kind of unbleached cotton fabric; blue denim.
[Written also dungari.]
[India]

2.
pl.
Trousers, overalls or similar work clothes made of blue denim.

3.
pl.
Same as blue jeans.


word: dungeon
definition:
dungeon

dun"geon
(dŭn"jŭn)
n.
[OE. donjoun highest tower of a castle, tower, prison, F. donjon tower or platform in the midst of a castle, turret, or closet on the top of a house, a keep of a castle, LL. domnio, the same word as LL. dominus lord. See Dame, Don, and cf. Dominion, Domain, Demesne, Danger, Donjon.]
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.

Down with him even into the deep dungeon.
 Tyndale.

Year after year he lay patiently in a dungeon.
 Macaulay.


word: Dunghill
definition:
Dunghill

Dung"hill`
(?)
n.
1.
A heap of dung.

2.
Any mean situation or condition; a vile abode.

He . . . lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill.
 1. Sam. ii. 8.

Dunghill fowl, a domestic fowl of common breed.


word: Dungmeer
definition:
Dungmeer

Dung"meer`
(?)
n.
[Dung + (prob.) meer a pool.]
A pit where dung and weeds rot for manure.


word: Dunker
definition:
Dunker

Dun"ker
(?)
prop. n.
[G. tunken to dip.]
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.

&hand_; The denomination was founded in Germany in 1708, but after a few years the members emigrated to the United States; they were opposed to military service and taking legal oaths, and practiced trine immersion.

Seventh-day Dunkers, a sect which separated from the Dunkers and formed a community, in 1728. They keep the seventh day or Saturday as the Sabbath.


word: Dunkerque
definition:
Dunkerque

Dunkerque
prop. n.
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.

Syn. -- Dunkirk.


word: Dunkirk
definition:
Dunkirk

Dunkirk
prop. n.
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.

Syn. -- Dunkerque.


word: Dunlin
definition:
Dunlin

Dun"lin
(?)
n.
[Prob. of Celtic origin; cf. Gael. dun hill (E. dune), and linne pool, pond, lake, E. lin.]
(Zool.)
A species of sandpiper (Tringa alpina); -- called also churr, dorbie, grass bird, and red-backed sandpiper. It is found both in Europe and America.


word: Dunnage
definition:
Dunnage

Dun"nage
(?)
n.
[Cf. Dun a mound.]
(Naut.)
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.


word: Dunner
definition:
Dunner

Dun"ner
(?)
n.
[From Dun to ask payment from.]
One employed in soliciting the payment of debts.


word: dunno
definition:
dunno

dun*no"
(dŭn*n&omacr")
phrase
[Spelled as often pronounced in rapid or slurred speech.]
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..


word: Dunny
definition:
Dunny

Dun"ny
(?)
a.
Deaf; stupid.
[Prov. Eng.]

My old dame Joan is something dunny, and will scarce know how to manage.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Dunted
definition:
Dunted

Dunt"ed
a.
Beaten; hence, blunted.
[Obs.]

Fencer's swords . . . having the edge dunted.
Fuller.


word: Dunter
definition:
Dunter

Dun"ter
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A porpoise.
[Scott.]

Dunter goose (Zool.) the eider duck. J. Brand.


word: Duo
definition:
Duo

Du"o
(?)
n.
[It. duo, fr. L. duo two. See Duet.]
(Mus.)
A composition for two performers; a duet.


word: Duodecahedron
definition:
Duodecahedron

Duodecahedral

Du`o*dec`a*he"dral (?), a., Du`o*dec`a*he"dron (_;), n.
See Dodecahedral, and Dodecahedron.


word: Duodecennial
definition:
Duodecennial

Du`o*de*cen"ni*al
(?)
a.
[L. duodecennis; duodecim twelve + annus year.]
Consisting of twelve years.
[R.]
Ash.


word: Duodecimal
definition:
Duodecimal

Du`o*dec"i*mal
(?)
a.
[L. duodecim twelve. See Dozen.]
Proceeding in computation by twelves; expressed in the scale of twelves.
Du`o*dec"i*mal*ly, adv.


word: Duodecimal₂
definition:
Duodecimal

Du`o*dec"i*mal
n.
1.
A twelfth part; as, the duodecimals of an inch.

2.
pl.
(Arch.)
A system of numbers, whose denominations rise in a scale of twelves, as of feet and inches. The system is used chiefly by artificers in computing the superficial and solid contents of their work.


word: Duodecimfid
definition:
Duodecimfid

Du`o*dec"im*fid
(?)
a.
[L. duodecim twelve + findere to cleave.]
Divided into twelve parts.


word: Duodecimo
definition:
Duodecimo

Du`o*dec"i*mo
(?)
a.
[L. in duodecimo in twelfth, fr. duodecimus twelfth, fr. duodecim twelve. See Dozen.]
Having twelve leaves to a sheet; as, a duodecimo from, book, leaf, size, etc.


word: Duodecimo₂
definition:
Duodecimo

Du*o*dec"i*mo
n.
pl. Duodecimos (_;).
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°.


word: Duodenal
definition:
Duodenal

Du`o*de"nal
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. duodénal.]
Of or pertaining to the duodenum; as, duodenal digestion.


word: Duodenary
definition:
Duodenary

Du`o*den"a*ry
(?)
a.
[L. duodenarius, fr. duodeni twelve each: cf. F. duodénaire.]
Containing twelve; twelvefold; increasing by twelves; duodecimal.


word: Duodenum
definition:
Duodenum

Du`o*de"num
(?)
n.
[NL., fr.  duodeni twelve each: cf. F. duodenum. So called because its length is about twelve fingers' breadth.]
(Anat.)
The part of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.


word: Duograph
definition:
Duograph

Du"o*graph
(?)
n.
[L. duo two + -graph.]
(Photo-engraving)
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.


word: Duoliteral
definition:
Duoliteral

Du`o*lit"er*al
(?)
a.
[L. duo two + E.  literal.]
Consisting of two letters only; biliteral.
Stuart.


word: Duomo
definition:
Duomo

Duo"mo
(?)
n.
[It. See Done.]
A cathedral. See Dome, 2.

Of tower or duomo, sunny sweet.
Tennyson.


word: Duotone
definition:
Duotone

Du"o*tone
(?)
n.
[L. duo two + tone.]
(Photoengraving)
Any picture printed in two shades of the same color, as duotypes and duographs are usually printed.


word: Duotype
definition:
Duotype

Du"o*type
(?)
n.
[L. duo two + type.]
(Photoengraving)
A print made from two half-tone plates made from the same negative, but etched differently.


word: Dup
definition:
Dup

Dup
(dŭp)
v. t.
[Contr. fr. do up, that is, to lift up the latch.  Cf. Don, Doff.]
To open; as, to dup the door.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Dupe
definition:
Dupe

Dupe
(dūp)
n.
[F., prob. from Prov. F.  dupe, dube; of unknown origin; equiv. to F. huppe hoopoe, a foolish bird, easily caught.  Cf. Armor. houpérik hoopoe, a man easily deceived.  Cf. also Gull, Booby.]
One who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull; as, the dupe of a schemer.


word: Dupe₂
definition:
Dupe

Dupe
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Duped (dūpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Duping.]
[Cf. F. duper, fr. dupe. See Dupe, n.]
To deceive; to trick; to mislead by imposing on one's credulity; to gull; as, dupe one by flattery.

Ne'er have I duped him with base counterfeits.
 Coleridge.


word: Dupery
definition:
Dupery

Dup"er*y
(dūp"ẽr*&ybreve_;)
n.
[F. duperie, fr. duper.]
The act or practice of duping.
[R.]


word: Dupion
definition:
Dupion

Du"pi*on
(?)
n.
[F. doupion, It. doppione, fr. doppio double, L. duplus. See Double, and cf. Doubloon.]
A double cocoon, made by two silkworms.


word: Duple
definition:
Duple

Du"ple
(?)
a.
[L. duplus. See Double.]
Double.

Duple ratio (Math.), that in which the antecedent term is double the consequent, as of 2 to 1, 8 to 4, etc.


word: Duplex
definition:
Duplex

Du"plex
(?)
a.
[L., fr.  duo two + plicare to fold. See Two, and Complex.]
1.
Double; twofold.

2.
(Computers)
organized so that data may be transmitted in two opposite directions over the same channel; -- of communications channels, such as data transfer lines between computers.

Duplex escapement, a peculiar kind of watch escapement, in which the scape-wheel has two sets of teeth. See Escapement. -- Duplex lathe, one for turning off, screwing, and surfacing, by means of two cutting tools, on opposite sides of the piece operated upon. -- Duplex pumping engine, a steam pump in which two steam cylinders are placed side by side, one operating the valves of the other. -- Duplex querela [L., double complaint] (Eccl. Law), a complaint in the nature of an appeal from the ordinary to his immediate superior, as from a bishop to an archbishop. Mozley & W. -- Duplex telegraphy, a system of telegraphy for sending two messages over the same wire simultaneously. -- Duplex watch, one with a duplex escapement. -- half duplex (Computers) (a) arranged so that the information may be transmitted in both directions, but only in one direction at a time; -- of communications channels between computers; contrasted with full duplex(a). (b) arranged so that the information transmitted to the remote computer also appears on the local terminal; -- of communications channels between computers; contrasted with full duplex(b). -- full duplex, (Computers) (a) arranged so that the information may be transmitted in both directions simultaneously; -- of communications channels between computers; contrasted with half duplex(a). (b) arranged so that the information transmitted to the remote computer does not appear on the local terminal; -- of communications channels between computers; contrasted with half duplex(b).


word: Duplex₂
definition:
Duplex

Du"plex
(?)
v. t.
[See Duplex, a.]
(Teleg.)
To arrange, as a telegraph line, so that two  messages may be transmitted simultaneously; to equip with a duplex telegraphic outfit.


word: duplex
definition:
duplex

du"plex
(?)
n.
[See Duplex, a.]
1.
something which is duplex; -- used mostly in reference to a living unit, such as an apartment, in a building having two similar living units.

2.
(Biology, Genetics)
a double-stranded region in a nucleic acid molecule.  See deoxyribonucleic acid.


word: duplexer
definition:
duplexer

du"plex*er
(?)
n.
(Radio)
a device which switches electronic circuitry so that a radio antenna can function as either a transmitting or receiving antenna.


word: duplicate
definition:
duplicate

du"pli*cate
(?)
a.
[L. duplicatus, p. p. of duplicare to double, fr. duplex double, twofold. See Duplex.]
Double; twofold.

Duplicate proportion or Duplicate ratio (Math.), the proportion or ratio of squares. Thus, in geometrical proportion, the first term to the third is said to be in a duplicate ratio of the first to the second, or as its square is to the square of the second. Thus, in 2, 4, 8, 16, the ratio of 2 to 8 is a duplicate of that of 2 to 4, or as the square of 2 is to the square of 4.


word: Duplicate
definition:
Duplicate

Du"pli*cate
n.
1.
That which exactly resembles or corresponds to something else; another, correspondent to the first; hence, a copy; a transcript; a counterpart.

I send a duplicate both of it and my last dispatch.
 Sir W. Temple.

2.
(Law)
An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original.
Burrill.


word: Duplicate₂
definition:
Duplicate

Du"pli*cate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Duplicated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Duplicating.]
1.
To double; to fold; to render double.

2.
To make a duplicate of (something); to make a copy or transcript of.
Glanvill.

3.
(Biol.)
To divide into two by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, infusoria duplicate themselves.


word: duplication
definition:
duplication

du`pli*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[L. duplicatio: cf. F. duplication.]
1.
The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold.

2.
(Biol.)
The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells.
Carpenter.

duplication of the cube (Math.), the operation of finding a cube having a volume which is double that of a given cube.


word: duplicative
definition:
duplicative

du"pli*ca*tive
(?)
a.
1.
Having the quality of duplicating or doubling.

2.
(Biol.)
Having the quality of subdividing into two by natural growth.
Duplicative
Carpenter.


word: duplicitous
definition:
duplicitous

du*plic"i*tous
adj.
exhibiting duplicity{2}; deceitful; double-dealing.

Syn. -- ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, two-faced.


word: duplicity
definition:
duplicity

du*plic"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. duplicities (#).
[F. duplicité, L. duplicitas, fr. duplex double. See Duplex.]
1.
Doubleness; a twofold state.
[Archaic]

Do not affect duplicities nor triplicities, nor any certain number of parts in your division of things.
I. Watts.

2.
Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one set of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith.

Far from the duplicity wickedly charged on him, he acted his part with alacrity and resolution.
Burke.

3.
(Law)
(a)
The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient.
Blackstone.
(b)
In indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses.
Wharton.


word: Dur
definition:
Dur

Dur
(?)
a.
[G., fr. L. durus hard, firm, vigorous.]
(Mus.)
Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major.


word: Durability
definition:
Durability

Du`ra*bil"i*ty
n.
[L. durabilitas.]
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.

A Gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our minds by the size, its height, . . . its antiquity, and its durability.
Blair.


word: Durable
definition:
Durable

Du"ra*ble
(?)
a.
[L. durabilis, fr. durare to last: cf. F. durable. See Dure.]
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.

Riches and honor are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
Prov. viii. 18.

An interest which from its object and grounds must be so durable.
De Quincey.


word: Durableness
definition:
Durableness

Du"ra*ble*ness
n.
Power of lasting, enduring, or resisting; durability.

The durableness of the metal that supports it.
Addison.


word: Duralumin
definition:
Duralumin

Duralumin
prop. n.
[a trademark.]
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.


word: Dura mater
definition:
Dura mater

Du"ra ma"ter
(?)
[L., lit., hard mother. The membrane was called mater, or mother, because it was formerly thought to give rise to every membrane of the body.]
(Anat.)
The tough, fibrous membrane, which lines the cavity of the skull and spinal column, and surrounds the brain and spinal cord; -- frequently abbreviated to dura.


word: Duramen
definition:
Duramen

Du*ra"men
(?)
n.
[L., hardness, a hardened, i. e., ligneous, vine branch, fr. durare to harden. See Dure.]
(Bot.)
The heartwood of an exogenous tree.


word: Durance
definition:
Durance

Dur"ance
(?)
n.
[OF. durance duration, fr. L. durans, -antis, p. pr. durare to endure, last. See Dure, and cf. Durant.]
1.
Continuance; duration. See Endurance.
[Archaic]

Of how short durance was this new-made state!
Dryden.

2.
Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak.
Durance
Burns.

In durance, exile, Bedlam or the mint.
Pope.

3.
(a)
A stout cloth stuff, formerly made in imitation of buff leather and used for garments; a sort of tammy or everlasting.

Where didst thou buy this buff? let me not live but I will give thee a good suit of durance.
J. Webster.


word: Durante
definition:
Durante

Du*ran"te
(?)
prep.
[L., abl. case of the p. pr. of durare to last.]
(Law)
During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure.


word: Duration
definition:
Duration

Du*ra"tion
(?)
n.
[OF. duration. See Dure.]
The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists.

It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should be limited.
Macaulay.

Soon shall have passed our own human duration.
D. Webster.


word: Durative
definition:
Durative

Dur"a*tive
(?)
a.
Continuing; not completed; implying duration.

Its durative tense, which expresses the thought of it as going on.
J. Byrne.


word: Durbar
definition:
Durbar

Dur"bar
(?)
n.
[Hind. darbār, fr. Per dar_;ār house, court, hall of audience; dar door, gate + bār court, assembly.]
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.
[India]
[Written also darbar.]


word: Dure
definition:
Dure

Dure
(?)
a.
[L. durus; akin to Ir. & Gael. dur _;, stubborn, W. dir certain, sure, cf. Gr. _; force.]
Hard; harsh; severe; rough; toilsome.
[R.]

The winter is severe, and life is dure and rude.
W. H. Russell.


word: Dure₂
definition:
Dure

Dure
v. i.
[F. durer, L. durare to harden, be hardened, to endure, last, fr. durus hard. See Dure, a.]
To last; to continue; to endure.
[Obs.]
Sir W. Raleigh.

Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while.
Matt. xiii. 21.


word: Durene
definition:
Durene

Du"rene
(?)
n.
[L. durus hard; -- so called because solid at ordinary temperatures.]
(Chem.)
A colorless, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C6H2(CH3)4, off artificial production, with an odor like camphor.


word: Duress
definition:
Duress

Du"ress
(?)
n.
[OF. duresse, du_;, hardship, severity, L. duritia, durities, fr. durus hard. See Dure.]
1.
Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.

The agreements . . . made with the landlords during the time of slavery, are only the effect of duress and force.
Burke.

2.
(Law)
The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense.


word: Durham
definition:
Durham

Dur"ham
(?)
n.
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.


word: Durion
definition:
Durion

Durian

{ Du"ri*an (?), or Du"ri*on (?) }
n.
(Bot.)
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.


word: During
definition:
During

Dur"ing
(?)
prep.
[Orig., p. pr. of dure.]
In the time of; as long as the action or existence of; as, during life; during the space of a year.


word: Durio
definition:
Durio

Du"ri*o
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Malay d_;ri thorn.]
(Bot.)
A fruit tree (Durio zibethinus, the only species known) of the Indian Archipelago.  It bears the durian.


word: Durity
definition:
Durity

Du"ri*ty
(?)
n.
[L. duritas, fr. durus hard.]
[Obs.]
1.
Hardness; firmness.
Sir T. Browne.

2.
Harshness; cruelty.
Cockeram.


word: Durometer
definition:
Durometer

Du*rom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[L. durus hard + -meter.]
An instrument for measuring the degree of hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the like.


word: Durra
definition:
Durra

Dur"ra
(?)
n.
[Ar. dhorra.]
(Bot.)
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.
[Written also dhoorra, dhurra, doura, etc.]


word: Durukuli
definition:
Durukuli

Du`ru*ku"li
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A small, nocturnal, South American monkey of the genus Aotus (formerly Nyctipthecus trivirgatus). The owl monkey.  See douroucouli.
[Written also douroucouli.]


word: Durylic
definition:
Durylic

Du*ryl"ic
(?)
a.
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, allied to, or derived from, durene; as, durylic acid.


word: Dushanbe
definition:
Dushanbe

Dushanbe
prop. n.
(Geography)
The capital city of Tajikistan.  Population (2000) = 524,000.


word: Dusk
definition:
Dusk

Dusk
(?)
a.
[OE. dusc, dosc, deosc; cf. dial. Sw. duska to drizzle, dusk a slight shower. _;_;_;.]
Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.
Milton.


word: Dusk₂
definition:
Dusk

Dusk
n.
1.
Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.

2.
A darkish color.

Whose duck set off the whiteness of the skin.
Dryden.


word: Dusk₃
definition:
Dusk

Dusk
v. t.
To make dusk.
[Archaic]

After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth.
Holland.


word: Dusken
definition:
Dusken

Dusk"en
(?)
v. t.
To make dusk or obscure.
[R.]

Not utterly defaced, but only duskened.
Nicolls.


word: Dusky
definition:
Dusky

Dusk"y
(?)
a.
1.
Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley.

Through dusky lane and wrangling mart.
Keble.

2.
Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown.
Bacon.

When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky.
Dryden.

The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur.
Hawthorne.

3.
Gloomy; sad; melancholy.

This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect.
Bentley.

4.
Intellectually clouded.

Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology.
Sir P. Sidney.


word: Dust
definition:
Dust

Dust
(dŭst)
n.
[AS. dust; cf. LG. dust, D. duist meal dust, OD. doest, donst, and G. dunst vapor, OHG. tunist, dunist, a blowing, wind, Icel. dust dust, Dan. dyst mill dust; perh. akin to L. fumus smoke, E. fume. √71.]
1.
Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled to minute portions; fine powder; as, clouds of dust; bone dust.

Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Gen. iii. 19.

Stop! -- for thy tread is on an empire's dust.
Byron.

2.
A single particle of earth or other matter.
[R.]
dust
Shak.

3.
The earth, as the resting place of the dead.

For now shall sleep in the dust.
Job vii. 21.

4.
The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.

And you may carve a shrine about my dust.
Tennyson.

5.
Figuratively, a worthless thing.

And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust.
Shak.

6.
Figuratively, a low or mean condition.

[God] raiseth up the poor out of the dust.
1 Sam. ii. 8.

7.
Gold dust
Slang
Coined money; cash.

Down with the dust, deposit the cash; pay down the money. [Slang] “My lord, quoth the king, presently deposit your hundred pounds in gold, or else no going hence all the days of your life. . . . The Abbot down with his dust, and glad he escaped so, returned to Reading.” Fuller. -- Dust brand (Bot.), a fungous plant (Ustilago Carbo); -- called also smut. -- Gold dust, fine particles of gold, such as are obtained in placer mining; -- often used as money, being transferred by weight. -- In dust and ashes. See under Ashes. -- To bite the dust. See under Bite, v. t. -- To raise dust, or To kick up dust, to make a commotion. [Colloq.] -- To throw dust in one's eyes, to mislead; to deceive. [Colloq.]


word: Dust₂
definition:
Dust

Dust
(dŭst)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Dusting.]
1.
To free from dust; to brush, wipe, or sweep away dust from; as, to dust a table or a floor.

2.
To sprinkle with dust.

3.
To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.
Sprat.

To dyst one's jacket, to give one a flogging. [Slang.]


word: dustbin
definition:
dustbin

dustbin
(dŭst"bĭn)
n.
a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected.

Syn. -- ashcan, trash can, garbage can, wastebin, ashbin, trash barrel, trash bin.


word: Dustbrush
definition:
Dustbrush

Dust"brush`
(dŭst"brŭsh)
n.
A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture.


word: dustcart
definition:
dustcart

dust"cart
(dŭst"kärt)
n.
a truck for collecting domestic refuse; as, in England a garbage truck is called a dustcart.

Syn. -- garbage truck.


word: dustcloth
definition:
dustcloth

dust"cloth`
(dŭst"kl&obreve_;th`)
n.
A piece of cloth used for wiping dust from objects or surfaces.

Syn. -- dustrag, duster.


word: duster
definition:
duster

dust"er
(dŭst"ẽr)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, dusts; a utensil that frees from dust.
Specifically:
(a)
(Paper Making)
A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.
(b)
(Milling)
A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.
(c)
A dustcloth or a brush used for removing dust from objects or surfaces.

2.
A long light overgarment;
specifically
(a)
a light over-garment, formerly worn when traveling in open vehicles to protect the clothing from dust.
[U.S.]
(b)
A light housecoat worn by women.
(c)
A light overcoat worn by women, often having no lining.

3.
A device for spreading a powder, especially one for spreading insecticide on plants.

4.
(Baseball)
A pitch intentionally thrown by a pitcher directly at or very close to the batter, intended to make the batter stand further away from home plate; also called a dust-back pitch or a dust-back.

5.
A dust storm.


word: dustman
definition:
dustman

dust"man
(dŭst"măn)
n.
pl. dustmen (dŭst"mĕn).
One whose employment is to remove dirt and refuse; a garbage man.
Gay.


word: dustpan
definition:
dustpan

dust"pan`
(dŭst"păn`)
n.
A shovel-like utensil with a short handle used for conveying away dust brushed from the floor.


word: dust-point
definition:
dust-point

dust"-point`
(dŭst"point`)
n.
An old rural game.

With any boy at dust-point they shall play.
Peacham (1620).


word: dust storm
definition:
dust storm

dust" storm`
(dŭst"stôrm`)
n.
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.


word: dusty
definition:
dusty

dust"y
(dŭst"&ybreve_;)
a.
[Compar. Dustier (dŭst"ĭ*ẽr); superl. Dustiest (dŭst"ĭ*ĕst).]
[AS. dystig. See Dust.]
1.
Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table;  a dusty attic; also, reducing to dust.

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
Shak.

2.
Like dust; of the color of dust; as, a dusty white.

Dusty miller (Bot.), a plant (Cineraria maritima); -- so called because of the ashy-white coating of its leaves.


word: Dutch
definition:
Dutch

Dutch
(?)
a.
[D. duitsch German; or G. deutsch, orig., popular, national, OD. dietsc, MHG. diutsch, tiutsch, OHG. diutisk, fr. diot, diota, a people, a nation; akin to AS. peód, OS. thiod, thioda, Goth. piuda; cf. Lith. tauta land, OIr. tuath people, Oscan touto. The English have applied the name especially to the Germanic people living nearest them, the Hollanders.  Cf. Derrick, Teutonic.]
Pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabitants.

Dutch auction. See under Auction. -- Dutch cheese, a small, pound, hard cheese, made from skim milk. -- Dutch clinker, a kind of brick made in Holland. It is yellowish, very hard, and long and narrow in shape. -- Dutch clover (Bot.), common white clover (Trifolium repens), the seed of which was largely imported into England from Holland. -- Dutch concert, a so-called concert in which all the singers sing at the same time different songs. [Slang] -- Dutch courage, the courage of partial intoxication. [Slang] Marryat. -- Dutch door, a door divided into two parts, horizontally, so arranged that the lower part can be shut and fastened, while the upper part remains open. -- Dutch foil, Dutch leaf, or Dutch gold, a kind of brass rich in copper, rolled or beaten into thin sheets, used in Holland to ornament toys and paper; -- called also Dutch mineral, Dutch metal, brass foil, and bronze leaf. -- Dutch liquid (Chem.), a thin, colorless, volatile liquid, C2H4Cl2, of a sweetish taste and a pleasant ethereal odor, produced by the union of chlorine and ethylene or olefiant gas; -- called also Dutch oil. It is so called because discovered (in 1795) by an association of four Hollandish chemists. See Ethylene, and Olefiant. -- Dutch oven, a tin screen for baking before an open fire or kitchen range; also, in the United States, a shallow iron kettle for baking, with a cover to hold burning coals. -- Dutch pink, chalk, or whiting dyed yellow, and used in distemper, and for paper staining. etc. Weale. -- Dutch rush (Bot.), a species of horsetail rush or Equisetum (Equisetum hyemale) having a rough, siliceous surface, and used for scouring and polishing; -- called also scouring rush, and shave grass. See Equisetum. -- Dutch tile, a glazed and painted ornamental tile, formerly much exported, and used in the jambs of chimneys and the like.

&hand_; Dutch was formerly used for German.

Germany is slandered to have sent none to this war [the Crusades] at this first voyage; and that other pilgrims, passing through that country, were mocked by the Dutch, and called fools for their pains.
Fuller.


word: Dutchman
definition:
Dutchman

Dutch"man
(?)
n.
pl. Dutchmen (_;).
A native, or one of the people, of Holland.

Dutchman's laudanum (Bot.), a West Indian passion flower (Passiflora Murucuja); also, its fruit. -- Dutchman's pipe (Bot.), .


word: Dutchman's-breeches
definition:
Dutchman's-breeches

Dutchman's breeches

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

Syn. -- Dicentra cucullaria.


word: Dutchman's-pipe
definition:
Dutchman's-pipe

Dutchman's-pipe
n.
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.

Syn. -- pipe vine, Aristolochia macrophylla, Aristolochia durior.


word: Duteous
definition:
Duteous

Du"te*ous
(?)
a.
[From Duty.]
1.
Fulfilling duty; dutiful; having the sentiments due to a superior, or to one to whom respect or service is owed; obedient; as, a duteous son or daughter.

2.
Subservient; obsequious.

Duteous to the vices of thy mistress.
Shak.


word: Dutiable
definition:
Dutiable

Du"ti*a*ble
(?)
a.
[From Duty.]
Subject to the payment of a duty; as dutiable goods.
[U.S.]

All kinds of dutiable merchandise.
Hawthorne.


word: Dutiful
definition:
Dutiful

Du"ti*ful
(?)
a.
1.
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.

2.
Controlled by, proceeding from, a sense of duty; respectful; deferential; as, dutiful affection.


word: Duty
definition:
Duty

Du"ty
(?)
n.
pl. Duties (#).
[From Due.]
1.
That which is due; payment.
[Obs. as signifying a material thing.]

When thou receivest money for thy labor or ware, thou receivest thy duty.
Tyndale.

2.
That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory.

Forgetting his duty toward God, his sovereign lord, and his country.
Hallam.

3.
Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty.

With records sweet of duties done.
Keble.

To employ him on the hardest and most imperative duty.
Hallam.

Duty is a graver term than obligation. A duty hardly exists to do trivial things; but there may be an obligation to do them.
C. J. Smith.

4.
Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors.
Shak.

5.
Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.
duty
Shak.

6.
(Engin.)
The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States).

7.
(Com.)
Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods.

&hand_; An impost on land or other real estate, and on the stock of farmers, is not called a duty, but a direct tax. [U.S.]

Ad valorem duty, a duty which is graded according to the cost, or market value, of the article taxed. See Ad valorem. -- Specific duty, a duty of a specific sum assessed on an article without reference to its value or market. -- On duty, actually engaged in the performance of one's assigned task.


word: Duumvir
definition:
Duumvir

Du*um"vir
(?)
n.
pl. E. Duumvirs (#), L. Duumviri (#).
[L., fr. duo two + vir man.]
(Rom. Antiq.)
One of two Roman officers or magistrates united in the same public functions.


word: Duumviral
definition:
Duumviral

Du*um"vi*ral
(?)
a.
[L. duumviralis.]
Of or belonging to the duumviri or the duumvirate.


word: Duumvirate
definition:
Duumvirate

Du*um"vi*rate
(?)
n.
[L. duumviratus, fr. duumvir.]
The union of two men in the same office; or the office, dignity, or government of two men thus associated, as in ancient Rome.


word: Dux
definition:
Dux

Dux
(?)
n.
[L., leader.]
(Mus.)
The scholastic name for the theme or subject of a fugue, the answer being called the comes, or companion.


word: Duykerbok
definition:
Duykerbok

Duy"ker*bok
(?)
n.
[D. duiker diver + bok a buck, lit., diver buck. So named from its habit of diving suddenly into the bush.]
(Zool.)
A small South African antelope (Cephalous mergens); -- called also impoon, and deloo.


word: Dvergr
definition:
Dvergr

Dver"gr
(?)
n.
pl. Dvergar (#).
[See Dwarf.]
(Scand. Myth.)
A dwarf supposed to dwell in rocks and hills and to be skillful in working metals.


word: Dwale
definition:
Dwale

Dwale
(?)
n.
[OE. dwale, dwole, deception, deadly nightshade, AS. dwala, dwola, error, doubt; akin to E. dull. See Dull, a.]
1.
(Bot.)
The deadly nightshade (Atropa Belladonna), having stupefying qualities.

2.
(Her.)
The tincture sable or black when blazoned according to the fantastic system in which plants are substituted for the tinctures.

3.
A sleeping potion; an opiate.
Chaucer.


word: Dwang
definition:
Dwang

Dwang
(?)
n.
[Cf. D. dwingen to force, compel.]
1.
(Carp.)
A piece of wood set between two studs, posts, etc., to stiffen and support them.

2.
(Mech.)
(a)
A kind of crowbar.
(b)
A large wrench.
Knight.


word: Dwarf
definition:
Dwarf

Dwarf
(?)
n.
pl. Dwarfs (#).
[OE. dwergh, dwerf, dwarf, AS. dweorg, dweorh; akin to D. dwerg, MHG. twerc, G. zwerg, Icel. dvergr, Sw. & Dan. dverg; of unknown origin.]
1.
An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind.

2.
Especially:
A diminutive human being, small in stature due to a pathological condition which causes a distortion of the proportions of body parts to each other, such as the limbs, torso, and head.  A person of unusually small height who has normal body proportions is usually called a midget.

&hand_; During the Middle Ages dwarfs as well as fools shared the favor of courts and the nobility.

3.
(Folklore)
A small, usually misshapen person, typically a man, who may have magical powers; mythical dwarves were often depicted as living underground in caves.

Dwarf is used adjectively in reference to anything much below the usual or normal size; as, a dwarf pear tree; dwarf honeysuckle.

Dwarf elder (Bot.), danewort. -- Dwarf wall (Arch.), a low wall, not as high as the story of a building, often used as a garden wall or fence. Gwilt.


word: Dwarf₂
definition:
Dwarf

Dwarf
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dwarfed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dwarfing.]
To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
Addison.

Even the most common moral ideas and affections . . . would be stunted and dwarfed, if cut off from a spiritual background.
J. C. Shairp.


word: Dwarf₃
definition:
Dwarf

Dwarf
v. i.
To become small; to diminish in size.

Strange power of the world that, the moment we enter it, our great conceptions dwarf.
Beaconsfield.


word: Dwarfish
definition:
Dwarfish

Dwarf"ish
a.
Like a dwarf; below the common stature or size; very small; petty; as, a dwarfish animal, shrub.
Dwarf"ish*ly, adv. -- Dwarf"ish*ness, n.


word: Dwell
definition:
Dwell

Dwell
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Dwelled (?), usually contracted into Dwelt (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Dwelling.]
[OE. dwellen, dwelien, to err, linger, AS. dwellan to deceive, hinder, delay, dwelian to err; akin to Icel. dvelja to delay, tarry, Sw. dväljas to dwell, Dan. dvæle to linger, and to E. dull. See Dull, and cf. Dwale.]
1.
To delay; to linger.
[Obs.]

2.
To abide; to remain; to continue.

I 'll rather dwell in my necessity.
Shak.

Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart.
Wordsworth.

3.
To abide as a permanent resident, or for a time; to live in a place; to reside.

The parish in which I was born, dwell, and have possessions.
Peacham.

The poor man dwells in a humble cottage near the hall where the lord of the domain resides.
C. J. Smith.

To dwell in, to abide in (a place); hence, to depend on.  “My hopes in heaven to dwell.” Shak. -- To dwell on or To dwell upon, to continue long on or in; to remain absorbed with; to stick to; to make much of; as, to dwell upon a subject; a singer dwells on a note.
[1913 Webster]
They stand at a distance, dwelling on his looks and language, fixed in amazement. Buckminster.


word: Dwelling
definition:
Dwelling

Dwell"ing
n.
Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile.

Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons.
Jer. xlix. 33.

God will deign
To visit oft the dwellings of just men.
Milton.

Philip's dwelling fronted on the street.
Tennyson.

Dwelling house, a house intended to be occupied as a residence, in distinction from a store, office, or other building. -- Dwelling place, place of residence.


word: Dwindle
definition:
Dwindle

Dwin"dle
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Dwindled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dwindling (?).]
[From OE. dwinen to languish, waste away, AS. dwīnan; akin to LG. dwinen, D. dwijnen to vanish, Icel. dvīna to cease, dwindle, Sw. tvina; of uncertain origin. The suffix -le, preceded by d excrescent after n, is added to the root with a diminutive force.]
To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away.

Weary sennights nine times nine
Shall he dwindle, peak and pine.
Shak.

Religious societies, though begun with excellent intentions,
are said to have dwindled into factious clubs.
Swift.


word: Dwindle₂
definition:
Dwindle

Dwin"dle
v. t.
1.
To make less; to bring low.

Our drooping days are dwindled down to naught.
Thomson.

2.
To break; to disperse.
[R.]
Clarendon.


word: Dwindlement
definition:
Dwindlement

Dwin"dle*ment
(?)
n.
The act or process of dwindling; a dwindling.
[R.]
Mrs. Oliphant.


word: dwindling
definition:
dwindling

dwindling
adj.
gradually decreasing until little remains.

Syn. -- tapering, tapering off.


word: dwindling₂
definition:
dwindling

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

Syn. -- dwindling away.


word: Dwine
definition:
Dwine

Dwine
(?)
v. i.
[See Dwindle.]
To waste away; to pine; to languish.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Gower.


word: Dy
definition:
Dy

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

Syn. -- dysprosium.


word: Dyad
definition:
Dyad

Dy"ad
(?)
n.
[L. dyas, dyadis, the number two. Gr. _;: cf. F. dyade. See two, and cf. Duad.]
1.
Two units treated as one; a couple; a pair.

2.
(Chem.)
An element, atom, or radical having a valence or combining power of two.


word: Dyad₂
definition:
Dyad

Dy"ad
a.
(Chem.)
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.


word: Dyadic
definition:
Dyadic

Dy*ad"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;, fr. _; two.]
Pertaining to the number two; of two parts or elements.

Dyadic arithmetic, the same as binary arithmetic.


word: Dyaks
definition:
Dyaks

Dy"aks
(?)
n. pl.
sing. Dyak.
(Ethnol.)
The aboriginal and most numerous inhabitants of Borneo. They are partially civilized, but retain many barbarous practices.


word: Dyas
definition:
Dyas

Dy"as
(?)
n.
[L. dyas the number two.]
(Geol.)
A name applied in Germany to the Permian formation, there consisting of two principal groups.


word: Dyaus-pitar
definition:
Dyaus-pitar

Dyaus-pitar
prop. n.
(Hinduism)
the Hindu god of the sky; same as Dyaus.

Syn. -- Dyaus.


word: dybbuk
definition:
dybbuk

dyb"buk
(dĭb"bŭk; Hebrew dē*bōk")
n.
pl. dybbuks; Hebr. dybbukim (dē`bōk*ēm").
(Jewish folklore)
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.

Syn. -- dibbuk.


word: Dye
definition:
Dye

Dye
(dī)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Dyed (dīd); p. pr. & vb. n. Dyeing.]
[OE. deyan, dyen, AS. deágian.]
To stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to, as by the application of dyestuffs.

Cloth to be dyed of divers colors.
Trench.

The soul is dyed by its thoughts.
Lubbock.

To dye in the grain, To dye in the wool (Fig.), to dye firmly; to imbue thoroughly.
[1913 Webster]

He might truly be termed a legitimate son of the revenue system dyed in the wool. Hawthorne.


word: dyed
definition:
dyed

dyed
adj.
1.
colored or impregnated with dye.
dyed-in-the-wool, yarn-dyed
hennaed
undyed

Syn. -- tinted.

2.
having a new color imparted by impregnation with dye; having an artificially produced color; not naturally colored.
bleached

Syn. -- colored.


word: dyed-in-the-wool
definition:
dyed-in-the-wool

dyed-in-the-wool
adj.
1.
thoroughly imbued; thoroughgoing; uncompromising; complete; unmitigated; through-and-through.

2.
dyed before being spun or woven into cloth.

Syn. -- yarn-dyed.


word: Dyeing
definition:
Dyeing

Dye"ing
(?)
n.
The process or art of fixing coloring matters permanently and uniformly in the fibers of wool, cotton, etc.


word: Dyer
definition:
Dyer

Dy"er
(?)
n.
One whose occupation is to dye cloth and the like.

dyer's rocket, Dyer's weed. Same as Dyer's broom.


word: dyer's-broom
definition:
dyer's-broom

dyer's broom

dyer's broom, dyer's-broom
n.
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.

Syn. -- woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's weed, dyer's rocket, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria.


word: Dying
definition:
Dying

Dy"ing
(?)
a.
1.
In the act of dying; destined to death; mortal; perishable; as, dying bodies.

2.
Of or pertaining to dying or death; as, dying bed; dying day; dying words; also, simulating a dying state.


word: Dyingness
definition:
Dyingness

Dy"ing*ness
n.
The state of dying or the stimulation of such a state; extreme languor; languishment.
[R.]

Tenderness becomes me best, a sort of dyingness; you see that picture, Foible, -- a swimmingness in the eyes; yes, I'll look so.
Congreve.


word: Dynactinometer
definition:
Dynactinometer

Dy*nac`ti*nom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; power + E. actinometer.]
An instrument for measuring the intensity of the photogenic (light-producing) rays, and computing the power of object glasses.


word: Dynam
definition:
Dynam

Dy"nam
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. dyname. See Dynamic.]
A unit of measure for dynamical effect or work; a foot pound. See Foot pound.
Whewell.


word: Dynameter
definition:
Dynameter

Dy*nam"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; power + -meter: cf. F. dynamètre.  Cf. Dynamometer.]
1.
A dynamometer.

2.
(Opt.)
An instrument for determining the magnifying power of telescopes, consisting usually of a doubleimage micrometer applied to the eye end of a telescope for measuring accurately the diameter of the image of the object glass there formed; which measurement, compared with the actual diameter of the glass, gives the magnifying power.


word: Dynamical
definition:
Dynamical

Dynamic

{ Dy*nam"ic (?), Dy*nam"ic*al (?), }
a.
[Gr. _; powerful, fr. _; power, fr. _; to be able; cf. L. durus hard, E. dure: cf. F. dynamique.]
1.
Of or pertaining to dynamics; belonging to energy or power; characterized by energy or production of force.

Science, as well as history, has its past to show, -- a past indeed, much larger; but its immensity is dynamic, not divine.
J. Martineau.

The vowel is produced by phonetic, not by dynamic, causes.
J. Peile.

2.
Relating to physical forces, effects, or laws; as, dynamical geology.

As natural science has become more dynamic, so has history.
Prof. Shedd.

Dynamical electricity. See under Electricity.


word: dynamical
definition:
dynamical

 WordNet lists a number of narrower terms for dynamic and dynamical adj.  [Narrower terms: can-do;  driving;  energizing, energising, kinetic;  forceful, slashing, vigorous;  projectile;  propellant, propellent, propelling, propulsive;  renascent, resurgent;  self-propelled, self-propelling;  high-octane, high-powered, high-power, high-voltage]


word: Dynamically
definition:
Dynamically

Dy*nam"ic*al*ly
adv.
In accordance with the principles of dynamics or moving forces.
J. Peile.


word: dynamic RAM
definition:
dynamic RAM

dynamic RAM
n.
[Random Access Memory.]
(Computers)
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.
[acron.]
dynamic RAM is cheaper to manufacture, but because of the need for a refresh cycle, is generally slower to access than static RAM.  It is usually implemented in integrated rircuit chips containing thousands to millions of bits of information storage capacity, and is commonly used as the main type of memory circuit in personal computers.

Syn. -- DRAM, D-RAM.


word: Dynamics
definition:
Dynamics

Dy*nam"ics
(?)
n.
1.
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.

2.
The moving moral, as well as physical, forces of any kind, or the laws which relate to them.

3.
(Mus.)
That department of musical science which relates to, or treats of, the power of tones.


word: Dynamism
definition:
Dynamism

Dy"na*mism
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. dynamisme. See Dynamics.]
The doctrine of Leibnitz, that all substance involves force.


word: Dynamist
definition:
Dynamist

Dy"na*mist
(?)
n.
One who accounts for material phenomena by a theory of dynamics.

Those who would resolve matter into centers of force may be said to constitute the school of dynamists.
Ward (Dyn. Sociol. ).


word: Dynamite
definition:
Dynamite

Dy"na*mite
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; power. See Dynamic.]
(Chem.)
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.


word: Dynamiter
definition:
Dynamiter

Dy"na*mi`ter
(?)
n.
One who uses dynamite; esp., one who uses it for the destruction of life and property.


word: Dynamiting
definition:
Dynamiting

Dy"na*mi`ting
(?)
n.
Destroying by dynamite, for political ends.

Dynamiting is not the American way.
The Century.


word: Dynamization
definition:
Dynamization

Dy"na*mi*za`tion
(?)
[Gr. _; power. See Dynamic.]
(Homeop.)
The act of setting free the dynamic powers of a medicine, as by shaking the bottle containing it.


word: Dynamo-electric
definition:
Dynamo-electric

Dy`na*mo-e*lec"tric
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; power + E. electric. See Dynamic.]
Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power.


word: Dynamograph
definition:
Dynamograph

Dy*nam"o*graph
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; power + -graph. See Dynamic.]
(Physiol.)
A dynamometer to which is attached a device for automatically registering muscular power.


word: Dynamometer
definition:
Dynamometer

Dy`na*mom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. dynamomètre. See Dynameter.]
An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery.

&hand_; It usually embodies a spring to be compressed or weight to be sustained by the force applied, combined with an index, or automatic recorder, to show the work performed.


word: Dynamometrical
definition:
Dynamometrical

Dynamometric

{ Dy`na*mo*met"ric (?), Dy`na*mo*met"ric*al (?), }
a.
Relating to a dynamometer, or to the measurement of force doing work; as, dynamometrical instruments.


word: Dynast
definition:
Dynast

Dy"nast
(?)
n.
[L. dynastes, Gr. _;, fr. _; to be able or strong: cf. F. dynaste. See Dynamic.]
1.
A ruler; a governor; a prince.

2.
A dynasty; a government.
[Obs.]


word: Dynastic
definition:
Dynastic

Dy*nas"tic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; of a dynast, fr. _;: cf. F. dunastique.]
Of or relating to a dynasty or line of kings.
Motley.


word: Dynastidan
definition:
Dynastidan

Dy*nas"ti*dan
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, fem. of _;. See Dynast. The name alludes to the immense size of some species.]
(Zool.)
One of a group of gigantic, horned beetles, including Dynastus Neptunus, and the Hercules beetle (Dynastus Hercules) of tropical America, which grow to be six inches in length.


word: Dynasty
definition:
Dynasty

Dy"nas*ty
(dī"nas*t&ybreve_; or dĭn"as*t&ybreve_;; 277)
n.
pl. Dynasties (-tĭz).
[Gr. dynastei`a lordship, fr. dynastey`ein to hold power or lordship, fr. dyna`sths: cf. F. dynastie dynasty. See Dynast.]
1.
Sovereignty; lordship; dominion.
Johnson.

2.
A race or succession of kings, of the same line or family; the continued lordship of a race of rulers.


word: Dyne
definition:
Dyne

Dyne
(?)
n.
[Formed fr. Gr. _; power. See Dynamic.]
(Physics)
The unit of force, in the C. G. S. (Centimeter Gram Second) system of physical units; that is, the force which, acting on a gram for a second, generates a velocity of a centimeter per second.


word: Dys-
definition:
Dys-

Dys-
(?)
An inseparable prefix, fr. the Greek dys- hard, ill, and signifying ill, bad, hard, difficult, and the like; cf. the prefixes, Skr. dus-, Goth. tuz-, OHG. zur-, G. zer-, AS. to-, Icel. tor-, Ir. do-.


word: Dysaesthesia
definition:
Dysaesthesia

Dys`æs*the"si*a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. dys- ill, bad + _; to perceive, to feel.]
(Med.)
Impairment of any of the senses, esp. of touch.


word: Dyscrasia
definition:
Dyscrasia

Dys*cra"si*a
(?)
n.
[NL. dyscrasia, fr. Gr. dyskrasi`a; dys- bad + kra^sis mixture, fr. keranny`nai to mix: cf. F. dycrasie.]
(Med.)
An ill habit or state of the constitution; -- formerly regarded as dependent on a morbid condition of the blood and humors.


word: Dyscrasite
definition:
Dyscrasite

Dys"cra*site
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; bad + _; compound.]
(Min.)
A mineral consisting of antimony and silver.


word: Dyscrasy
definition:
Dyscrasy

Dys"cra*sy
(?)
n.
pl. Discrasies (_;).
Dycrasia.

Sin is a cause of dycrasies and distempers.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Dysenterical
definition:
Dysenterical

Dysenteric

{ Dys`en*ter"ic (?), Dys`en*ter"ic*al (?), }
a.
[L. dysentericus, Gr. _;; cf. F. dysentérigue.]
Of or pertaining to dysentery; having dysentery; as, a dysenteric patient.
Dysenteric
Copland.


word: Dysentery
definition:
Dysentery

Dys"en*ter*y
(?)
n.
[L. dysenteria, Gr. _;; dys- ill, bad + _;, pl. _;, intestines, fr. 'ento`s within, fr. _; in, akin to E. in: cf. F. dysenterie. See Dys, and In.]
(Med.)
A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood.

&hand_; When acute, dysentery is usually accompanied with high fevers. It occurs epidemically, and is believed to be communicable through the medium of the alvine discharges.


word: dysfunctional
definition:
dysfunctional

dysfunctional
adj.
1.
impaired in function; especially of a bodily system or organ.

2.
(Psychol.)
failing to serve an adjustive purpose; -- of a trait or condition; as, dysfunctional behavior.

Syn. -- nonadaptive.


word: Dysgenesic
definition:
Dysgenesic

Dys`ge*nes"ic
(?)
a.
Not procreating or breeding freely; as, one race may be dysgenesic with respect to another.
Darwin.


word: Dysgenesis
definition:
Dysgenesis

Dys*gen"e*sis
(?)
n.
[Pref. dys- + genesis.]
(Biol.)
A condition of not generating or breeding freely; infertility; a form of homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race.


word: dysgenics
definition:
dysgenics

dysgenics
n.
the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced.

Syn. -- cacogenics.


word: dyslectic
definition:
dyslectic

dyslectic
adj.
Suffering from dyslexia; having impaired ability to comprehend written words; a condition usually associated with a neurologic disorder.

Syn. -- dyslexic.


word: dyslexia
definition:
dyslexia

dys*lex"i*a
(dĭs*lĕks"e̝*ȧ)
n.
Any of various reading disorders caused by a damaged or congenitally faulty structure within the central nervous system, and causing an impairment of the ability to interpret spatial relationships or to integrate auditory and visual information.  A common example is when letter sequences are interpreted as inverted in order, as in bat/tab.
RHUD


word: dyslexic
definition:
dyslexic

dyslexic
adj.
1.
Of or pertaining to dyslexia.

2.
same as dyslectic.

Syn. -- dyslectic.


word: Dyslogistic
definition:
Dyslogistic

Dys`lo*gis"tic
(?)
a.
[Gr. dys- ill, bad, + _; discourse, fr. _; to speak.]
Unfavorable; not commendatory; -- opposed to eulogistic.

There is no course of conduct for which dyslogistic or eulogistic epithets may be found.
J. F. Stephen.

The paternity of dyslogistic -- no bantling, but now almost a centenarian -- is adjudged to that genius of common sense, Jeremy Bentham.
Fitzed. Hall.


word: Dysluite
definition:
Dysluite

Dys"lu*ite
(?)
n.
[Gr. dys- ill, hard + _; to loose, dissolve.]
(Min.)
A variety of the zinc spinel or gahnite.


word: Dyslysin
definition:
Dyslysin

Dys"ly*sin
(?)
n.
[Gr. dys- ill, hard + _; a loosing.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
A resinous substance formed in the decomposition of cholic acid of bile; -- so called because it is difficult to solve.


word: Dysmenorrhea
definition:
Dysmenorrhea

Dys*men`or*rhe"a
(?)
n.
[Gr. dys- ill, hard + _; month + _; to flow.]
(Med.)
Difficult and painful menstruation.


word: Dysnomy
definition:
Dysnomy

Dys"no*my
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;; dys- ill, bad + _; law.]
Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws.
Cockeram.


word: Dysodile
definition:
Dysodile

Dys"o*dile
(?)
n.
[Gr.  _; ill smell, from _; ill-smelling; dys- ill, bad + _; to smell.]
(Min.)
An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning.


word: Dyspepsy
definition:
Dyspepsy

Dyspepsia

{ Dys*pep"si*a (?), Dys*pep"sy (?; 277), }
[L. dyspepsia, Gr. _;, fr. _; hard to digest; dys- ill, hard + _; to cook, digest; akin to E. cook: cf. F. dyspepsie. See Dys-, and 3d Cook.]
(Med.)
A kind of indigestion; a state of the stomach in which its functions are disturbed, without the presence of other diseases, or, if others are present, they are of minor importance. Its symptoms are loss of appetite, nausea, heartburn, acrid or fetid eructations, a sense of weight or fullness in the stomach, etc.
Dunglison.


word: Dyspeptical
definition:
Dyspeptical

Dyspeptic

{ Dys*pep"tic (?), Dys*pep"tic*al (?), }
a.
Pertaining to dyspepsia; having dyspepsia; as, a dyspeptic or dyspeptical symptom.


word: Dyspeptone
definition:
Dyspeptone

Dys*pep"tone
(?)
n.
[Pref. dys- + peptone.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
An insoluble albuminous body formed from casein and other proteid substances by the action of gastric juice.
Meissner.


word: Dysphagy
definition:
Dysphagy

Dysphagia

{ &VerbarDys*pha"gi*a (?), Dys"pha*gy (?), }
n.
[NL. dysphagia, fr. Gr. dys- ill, hard + _; to eat.]
(Med.)
Difficulty in swallowing, or inability to swallow.

Syn. -- aglutition.


word: Dysphony
definition:
Dysphony

Dysphonia

{ &VerbarDys*pho"ni*a (?), Dys"pho*ny (?), }
n.
[NL. dysphonia, Gr. _;; dys- ill, hard + _; sound, voice: cf. F. dysphonie.]
(Med.)
A difficulty in producing vocal sounds; enfeebled or depraved voice.


word: Dysphoria
definition:
Dysphoria

Dys*pho"ri*a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;, fr. _; hard to bear; dys- ill, hard + fe`rein to bear:  cf. F. dysphorie.]
(Med.)
Impatience under affliction; morbid restlessness; dissatisfaction; the fidgets.


word: Dyspnoea
definition:
Dyspnoea

Dysp*nœ"a
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _;, fr. _; short of breath; pref. dys- ill, hard + _;, _;, breathing, _; to blow, breathe: cf.  F. dyspnée.]
(Med.)
Difficulty of breathing.


word: Dysprosium
definition:
Dysprosium

Dys*pro"si*um
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. dyspro`sitos hard to get at.]
(Chem.)
An element of the rare earth-group. Symbol Dy; at. wt., 162.5.


word: Dysteleology
definition:
Dysteleology

Dys*te`le*ol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Pref. dys- + teleology.]
(Biol.)
The doctrine of purposelessness; a term applied by Haeckel to that branch of physiology which treats of rudimentary organs, in view of their being useless to the life of the organism.

To the doctrine of dysteleology, or the denial of final causes, a proof of the real existence of such a thing as instinct must necessarily be fatal.
Word (Dynamic Sociology).


word: Dystocia
definition:
Dystocia

Dys*to"ci*a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;; dys- ill, hard + to`kos delivery.]
(Med.)
Difficult delivery pr parturition.


word: Dystome
definition:
Dystome

Dys"tome
(?)
a.
[Gr. dys- ill, hard + tomo`s cutting, diate`mnein to cut.]
(Min.)
Cleaving with difficulty.

&hand_; Datolite was called dystome spar by Mohs.


word: Dysury
definition:
Dysury

Dysuria

{ &VerbarDys*u"ri*a (?), Dys"u*ry (?), }
n.
[L. dysuria, Gr. _;; dys- + _; urine: cf. F. dysurie.]
(Med.)
Difficult or painful discharge of urine.


word: Dzeron
definition:
Dzeron

Dzeren

{ Dze"ren (?), Dze"ron (?), }
n.
(Zool.)
The Chinese yellow antelope (Procapra gutturosa), a remarkably swift-footed animal, inhabiting the deserts of Central Asia, Tibet, and China.


word: Dziggetai
definition:
Dziggetai

Dzig"ge*tai
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
The kiang, a wild horse or wild ass of Tibet (Asinus hemionus).

&hand_; The name is sometimes applied also to the koulan or onager. See Koulan.


word: E
definition:
E

E
(ē)
1.
The fifth letter of the English alphabet.
It derives its form, name, and value from the Latin, the form and value being further derived from the Greek, into which it came from the Phœnician, and ultimately, probably, from the Egyptian. Its etymological relations are closest with the vowels i, a, and o, as illustrated by to fall, to fell; man, pl. men; drink, drank, drench; dint, dent; doom, deem; goose, pl. geese; beef, OF. boef, L. bos; and E. cheer, OF. chiere, LL. cara.

The letter e has in English several vowel sounds, the two principal being its long or name sound, as in eve, me, and the short, as in end, best. Usually at the end of words it is silent, but serves to indicate that the preceding vowel has its long sound, where otherwise it would be short, as in māne, cāne, mēte, which without the final e would be pronounced măn, căn, mĕt. After c and g, the final e indicates that these letters are to be pronounced as s and j; respectively, as in lace, rage.
2.
(Mus.)
E is the third tone of the model diatonic scale. E&flat  (E flat) is a tone which is intermediate between D and E.


word: Ea
definition:
Ea

Ea
prop. n.
1.
the Akkadian god of wisdom; son of Apsu and father of Marduk; counterpart of the Sumerian Enki.

2.
the Babylonian god of waters and one of the supreme triad including Anu and Bel.


word: Each
definition:
Each

Each
(ēch)
a. or a. pron.
[OE. eche, ælc, elk, ilk, AS. ælc; ā always + gelīc like; akin to OD. iegelik, OHG. ēogilīh, MHG. iegelīch, G. jeglich. √209. See 3d Aye, Like, and cf. Either, Every, Ilk.]
1.
Every one of the two or more individuals composing a number of objects, considered separately from the rest. It is used either with or without a following noun; as, each of you or each one of you.
Each
Fielding.

&hand_; To each corresponds other. “Let each esteem other better than himself.” Each other, used elliptically for each the other. It is our duty to assist each other; that is, it is our duty, each to assist the other, each being in the nominative and other in the objective case.

It is a bad thing that men should hate each other; but it is far worse that they should contract the habit of cutting one another's throats without hatred.
Macaulay.

Let each
His adamantine coat gird well.
Milton.

In each cheek appears a pretty dimple.
Shak.

Then draw we nearer day by day,
Each to his brethren, all to God.
Keble.

The oak and the elm have each a distinct character.
Gilpin.

2.
Every; -- sometimes used interchangeably with every.
Shak.

I know each lane and every alley green.
Milton.

In short each man's happiness depends upon himself.
Sterne.

&hand_; This use of each for every, though common in Scotland and in America, is now un-English.
Fitzed. Hall.


word: Eachwhere
definition:
Eachwhere

Each"where`
(?)
adv.
Everywhere.
[Obs.]

The sky eachwhere did show full bright and fair.
Spenser.


word: Eacles
definition:
Eacles

Eacles
n.
a genus of moths including the imperial moth (Eacles imperialis).

Syn. -- genus Eacles.


word: Eager
definition:
Eager

Ea"ger
(?)
a.
[OE. egre sharp, sour, eager, OF. agre, aigre, F. aigre, fr. L. acer sharp, sour, spirited, zealous; akin to Gr. _; highest, extreme, Skr. a_;ra point; fr. a root signifying to be sharp.  Cf. Acrid, Edge.]
1.
Sharp; sour; acid.
[Obs.]
eager
Shak.

2.
Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.
[Obs.]
eager
Eager
Shak.

3.
Excited by desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to pursue, perform, or obtain; keenly desirous; hotly longing; earnest; zealous; impetuous; vehement; as, the hounds were eager in the chase.

And gazed for tidings in my eager eyes.
Shak.

How eagerly ye follow my disgraces!
Shak.

When to her eager lips is brought
Her infant's thrilling kiss.
Keble.

A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys.
Hawthorne.

Conceit and grief an eager combat fight.
Shak.

4.
Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.
[Obs.]

Gold will be sometimes so eager, as artists call it, that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself.
Locke.


word: Eagerness
definition:
Eagerness

Ea"ger*ness
n.
1.
The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire.
eagerness
Addison.

2.
Tartness; sourness.
[Obs.]


word: Eagle
definition:
Eagle

Ea"gle
(?)
n.
[OE. egle, F. aigle, fr. L. aquila; prob. named from its color, fr. aquilus dark-colored, brown; cf. Lith. aklas blind.  Cf. Aquiline.]
1.
(Zoöl.)
Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Haliæetus.  The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure, keenness of vision, and extraordinary flight.  The most noted species are the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaëtus); the imperial eagle of Europe (Aquila mogilnik or Aquila imperialis); the American bald eagle (Haliæetus leucocephalus); the European sea eagle (Haliæetus albicilla); and the great harpy eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia).  The figure of the eagle, as the king of birds, is commonly used as an heraldic emblem, and also for standards and emblematic devices.  See Bald eagle, Harpy, and Golden eagle.

2.
A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars.

3.
(Astron.)
A northern constellation, containing Altair, a star of the first magnitude. See Aquila.

4.
The figure of an eagle borne as an emblem on the standard of the ancient Romans, or so used upon the seal or standard of any people.

Though the Roman eagle shadow thee.
Tennyson.

&hand_; Some modern nations, as the United States, and France under the Bonapartes, have adopted the eagle as their national emblem. Russia, Austria, and Prussia have for an emblem a double-headed eagle.

Bald eagle. See Bald eagle. -- Bold eagle. See under Bold. -- Double eagle, a gold coin of the United States worth twenty dollars. -- Eagle hawk (Zoöl.), a large, crested, South American hawk of the genus Morphnus. -- Eagle owl (Zoöl.), any large owl of the genus Bubo, and allied genera; as the American great horned owl (Bubo Virginianus), and the allied European species (B. maximus). See Horned owl. -- Eagle ray (Zoöl.), any large species of ray of the genus Myliobatis (esp. M. aquila). -- Eagle vulture (Zoöl.), a large West African bid (Gypohierax Angolensis), intermediate, in several respects, between the eagles and vultures.


word: Eaglestone
definition:
Eaglestone

Ea"gle*stone
(?)
n.
(Min.)
A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aëtites.


word: Eagle-winged
definition:
Eagle-winged

Ea"gle-winged`
(?)
a.
Having the wings of an eagle; swift, or soaring high, like an eagle.
Shak.


word: Eaglewood
definition:
Eaglewood

Ea"gle*wood`
(?)
n.
[From Skr. aguru, through Pg. aguila; cf. F. bois d'aigle.]
A kind of fragrant wood. See Agallochum.


word: Eagre
definition:
Eagre

Ea"gre
(?)
n.
[AS. eágor, _;gor, in comp., water, sea, eágor-streám water stream, sea.]
A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly called the bore or tidal bore. See Bore.


word: Eame
definition:
Eame

Eame
(ēm)
n.
[AS. eám; akin to D. oom, G. ohm, oheim; cf. L. avunculus.]
Uncle.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Ear
definition:
Ear

Ear
(ēr)
n.
[AS. eáre; akin to OFries. áre, ár, OS. &omacrra, D. oor, OHG. &omacrra, G. ohr, Icel. eyra, Sw. öra, Dan. öre, Goth. auso, L. auris, Lith. ausis, Russ. ukho, Gr. o'y^s; cf. L. audire to hear, Gr. 'ai`ein, Skr. av to favor , protect.  Cf. Auricle, Orillon.]
1.
The organ of hearing; the external ear.

&hand_; In man and the higher vertebrates, the organ of hearing is very complicated, and is divisible into three parts: the external ear, which includes the pinna or auricle and meatus or external opening; the middle ear, drum, or tympanum; and the internal ear, or labyrinth. The middle ear is a cavity connected by the Eustachian tube with the pharynx, separated from the opening of the external ear by the tympanic membrane, and containing a chain of three small bones, or ossicles, named malleus, incus, and stapes, which connect this membrane with the internal ear. The essential part of the internal ear where the fibers of the auditory nerve terminate, is the membranous labyrinth, a complicated system of sacs and tubes filled with a fluid (the endolymph), and lodged in a cavity, called the bony labyrinth, in the periotic bone. The membranous labyrinth does not completely fill the bony labyrinth, but is partially suspended in it in a fluid (the perilymph). The bony labyrinth consists of a central cavity, the vestibule, into which three semicircular canals and the canal of the cochlea (spirally coiled in mammals) open. The vestibular portion of the membranous labyrinth consists of two sacs, the utriculus and sacculus, connected by a narrow tube, into the former of which three membranous semicircular canals open, while the latter is connected with a membranous tube in the cochlea containing the organ of Corti. By the help of the external ear the sonorous vibrations of the air are concentrated upon the tympanic membrane and set it vibrating, the chain of bones in the middle ear transmits these vibrations to the internal ear, where they cause certain delicate structures in the organ of Corti, and other parts of the membranous labyrinth, to stimulate the fibers of the auditory nerve to transmit sonorous impulses to the brain.

2.
The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; the power of discriminating between different tones; as, a nice ear for music; -- in the singular only.

Songs . . . not all ungrateful to thine ear.
Tennyson.

3.
That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; any prominence or projection on an object, -- usually one for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; as, the ears of a tub, a skillet, or dish. The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow. See Illust. of Bell.

4.
(Arch.)
(a)
Same as Acroterium.
(b)
Same as Crossette.

5.
Privilege of being kindly heard; favor; attention.

Dionysius . . . would give no ear to his suit.
Bacon.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
Shak.

About the ears, in close proximity to; near at hand. -- By the ears, in close contest; as, to set by the ears; to fall together by the ears; to be by the ears. -- Button ear (in dogs), an ear which falls forward and completely hides the inside. -- Ear finger, the little finger. -- Ear of Dionysius, a kind of ear trumpet with a flexible tube; -- named from the Sicilian tyrant, who constructed a device to overhear the prisoners in his dungeons. -- Ear sand (Anat.), otoliths. See Otolith. -- Ear snail (Zoöl.), any snail of the genus Auricula and allied genera. -- Ear stones (Anat.), otoliths. See Otolith. -- Ear trumpet, an instrument to aid in hearing. It consists of a tube broad at the outer end, and narrowing to a slender extremity which enters the ear, thus collecting and intensifying sounds so as to assist the hearing of a partially deaf person. -- Ear vesicle (Zoöl.), a simple auditory organ, occurring in many worms, mollusks, etc. It consists of a small sac containing a fluid and one or more solid concretions or otocysts. -- Rose ear (in dogs), an ear which folds backward and shows part of the inside. -- To give ear to, to listen to; to heed, as advice or one advising. “Give ear unto my song.” Goldsmith. -- To have one's ear, to be listened to with favor. -- Up to the ears, deeply submerged; almost overwhelmed; as, to be in trouble up to one's ears. [Colloq.]


word: Ear₂
definition:
Ear

Ear
(ēr)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Eared (ērd); p. pr. & vb. n. Earing.]
To take in with the ears; to hear.
[Sportive]
eared
Two Noble Kinsmen.


word: Ear₃
definition:
Ear

Ear
n.
[AS. ear; akin to D. aar, OHG. ahir, G. ähre, Icel., Sw., & Dan. ax, Goth. ahs. √1.  Cf. Awn, Edge.]
The spike or head of any cereal  (as, wheat, rye, barley, Indian corn, etc.), containing the kernels.

First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
Mark iv. 28.


word: Ear₅
definition:
Ear

Ear
v. t.
[OE. erien, AS. erian; akin to OFries. era, OHG. erran, MHG. eren, ern, Prov. G. aren, ären, Icel. erja, Goth. arjan, Lith. arti, OSlav. orati, L. arare, Gr. _;.  Cf. Arable.]
To plow or till; to cultivate.
ear
Shak.


word: Earcockle
definition:
Earcockle

Ear"coc`kle
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A disease in wheat, in which the blackened and contracted grain, or ear, is filled with minute worms.


word: Eardrop
definition:
Eardrop

Ear"drop`
(?)
n.
1.
A pendant for the ear; an earring; as, a pair of eardrops.

2.
(Bot.)
A species of primrose. See Auricula.


word: Eared
definition:
Eared

Eared
(?)
a.
1.
Having (such or so many) ears; -- used in composition; as, long-eared-eared; sharp-eared; full-eared; ten-eared.

2.
(Zoöl.)
Having external ears; having tufts of feathers resembling ears.

Eared owl (Zoöl.), an owl having earlike tufts of feathers, as the long-eared owl, and short-eared owl. -- Eared seal (Zoöl.), any seal of the family Otariidæ, including the fur seals and hair seals. See Seal.


word: earflap
definition:
earflap

earflap
n.
one of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm.  On some hats the earflaps may be adjusted or tied to the top of the hat, and lowered when needed in colder weather.

Syn. -- earlap.


word: Eariness
definition:
Eariness

Ear"i*ness
(?)
n.
[Scotch ery or eiry affected with fear.]
Fear or timidity, especially of something supernatural.
[Written also eiryness.]

The sense of eariness, as twilight came on.
De Quincey.


word: Earing
definition:
Earing

Ear"ing
n.
(Naut.)
(a)
A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; -- also called head earing.
(b)
A line for hauling the reef cringle to the yard; -- also called reef earing.
(c)
A line fastening the corners of an awning to the rigging or stanchions.


word: Earl
definition:
Earl

Earl
(?)
n.
[OE. eorl, erl, AS. eorl man, noble; akin to OS. erl boy, man, Icel. jarl nobleman, count, and possibly to Gr. _; male, Zend arshan man.  Cf. Jarl.]
A nobleman of England ranking below a marquis, and above a viscount. The rank of an earl corresponds to that of a count (comte) in France, and graf in Germany. Hence the wife of an earl is still called countess. See Count.


word: Earldom
definition:
Earldom

Earl"dom
(?)
n.
[AS. eorl-d_;m; eorl man, noble + -d_;m -dom.]
1.
The jurisdiction of an earl; the territorial possessions of an earl.

2.
The status, title, or dignity of an earl.

He [Pulteney] shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.
Chesterfield.


word: Earles penny
definition:
Earles penny

Earles" pen`ny
(?)
[Cf. Arles, 4th Earnest.]
Earnest money. Same as Arles penny.
[Obs.]


word: Earlet
definition:
Earlet

Ear"let
(?)
n.
[Ear + -let.]
An earring.
[Obs.]

The Ismaelites were accustomed to wear golden earlets.
Judg. viii. 24 (Douay version).


word: Earl marshal
definition:
Earl marshal

Earl" mar"shal
(?)
An officer of state in England who marshals and orders all great ceremonials, takes cognizance of matters relating to honor, arms, and pedigree, and directs the proclamation of peace and war. The court of chivalry was formerly under his jurisdiction, and he is still the head of the herald's office or college of arms.


word: Earlock
definition:
Earlock

Ear"lock`
(?)
n.
[AS. eár-locca.]
A lock or curl of hair near the ear; a lovelock. See Lovelock.


word: Early
definition:
Early

Ear"ly
(ẽr"l&ybreve_;)
adv.
[OE. erli, erliche, AS. &aemacr_;rlīce; &aemacr_;r sooner + līc like. See Ere, and Like.]
Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early.

Those that me early shall find me.
Prov. viii. 17.

You must wake and call me early.
Tennyson.


word: Early₂
definition:
Early

Ear"ly
a.
[Compar. Earlier (ẽr"lĭ*ẽr); superl. Earliest.]
[OE. earlich. √204. See Early, adv.]
1.
In advance of the usual or appointed time; in good season; prior in time; among or near the first; -- opposed to late; as, the early bird; an early spring; early fruit.

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
Burke.

The doorsteps and threshold with the early grass springing up about them.
Hawthorne.

2.
Coming in the first part of a period of time, or among the first of successive acts, events, etc.

Seen in life's early morning sky.
Keble.

The forms of its earlier manhood.
Longfellow.

The earliest poem he composed was in his seventeenth summer.
J. C. Shairp.

Early English (Philol.) See the Note under English. -- Early English architecture, the first of the pointed or Gothic styles used in England, succeeding the Norman style in the 12th and 13th centuries.


word: Earmark
definition:
Earmark

Ear"mark`
(ēr"märk`)
n.
1.
A mark on the ear of sheep, oxen, dogs, etc., as by cropping or slitting.

2.
A mark for identification; a distinguishing mark.

Money is said to have no earmark.
Wharton.

Flying, he [a slave] should be described by the rounding of his head, and his earmark.
Robynson (More's Utopia).

A set of intellectual ideas . . . have earmarks upon them, no tokens of a particular proprietor.
Burrow.


word: Earmark₂
definition:
Earmark

Ear"mark`
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Earmarked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Earmarking.]
1.
To mark, as sheep, by cropping or slitting the ear.

2.
To designate or reserve for a specific purpose; as, the alumni fund was earmarked for dormitory construction.


word: Ear-minded
definition:
Ear-minded

Ear"-mind"ed
(?)
a.
(Physiol. Psychol.)
Thinking chiefly or most readily through, or in terms related to, the sense of hearing; specif., thinking words as spoken, as a result of familiarity with speech or of mental peculiarity; -- opposed to eye-minded.


word: Earn₂
definition:
Earn

Earn
(ẽrn)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Earned (ẽrnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Earning.]
[AS. earnian; akin to OHG. arn&omacrn to reap, aran harvest, G. ernte, Goth. asans harvest, asneis hireling, AS. esne; cf. Icel. önn working season, work.]
1.
To merit or deserve, as by labor or service; to do that which entitles one to (a reward, whether the reward is received or not).

The high repute
Which he through hazard huge must earn.
Milton.

2.
To acquire by labor, service, or performance; to deserve and receive as compensation or wages; as, to earn a good living; to earn honors or laurels.

I earn that [what] I eat.
Shak.

The bread I have earned by the hazard of my life or the sweat of my brow.
Burke.

Earned run (Baseball), a run which is made without the assistance of errors on the opposing side.


word: Earn₄
definition:
Earn

Earn
v. i.
[See 4th Yearn.]
To long; to yearn.
[Obs.]

And ever as he rode, his heart did earn
To prove his puissance in battle brave.
Spenser.


word: Earn₅
definition:
Earn

Earn
v. i.
[AS. irnan to run. √11. See Rennet, and cf. Yearnings.]
To curdle, as milk.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: earned
definition:
earned

earned
(ẽrnd)
adj.
1.
Gained as a result of effort or action; -- used especially of income; as, earned income.  Contrasted with unearned.

2.
(Baseball)
not resulting from an error by an opposing team; -- used in the phrase earned runs.


word: Earnest
definition:
Earnest

Ear"nest
(ẽr"nĕst)
n.
[AS. eornost, eornest; akin to OHG. ernust, G. ernst; cf. Icel. orrosta battle, perh. akin to Gr. 'orny`nai to excite, L. oriri to rise.]
Seriousness; reality; fixed determination; eagerness; intentness.

Take heed that this jest do not one day turn to earnest.
Sir P. Sidney.

And given in earnest what I begged in jest.
Shak.

In earnest, serious; seriously; not in jest; earnestly.


word: Earnest₂
definition:
Earnest

Ear"nest
a.
1.
Ardent in the pursuit of an object; eager to obtain or do; zealous with sincerity; with hearty endeavor; heartfelt; fervent; hearty; -- used in a good sense; as, earnest prayers.

An earnest advocate to plead for him.
Shak.

2.
Intent; fixed closely; as, earnest attention.

3.
Serious; important.
[Obs.]

They whom earnest lets do often hinder.
Hooker.


word: Earnest₃
definition:
Earnest

Ear"nest
v. t.
To use in earnest.
[R.]

To earnest them [our arms] with men.
Pastor Fido (1602).


word: Earnest₄
definition:
Earnest

Ear"nest
n.
[Prob. corrupted fr. F. arrhes, L. arra, arrha, arrhabo, Gr. 'arrabw`n, of Semitic origin, cf. Heb. ērāv&omacrn; or perh. fr. W. ernes, akin to Gael. earlas, perh. fr. L. arra.  Cf. Arles, Earles penny.]
1.
Something given, or a part paid beforehand, as a pledge; pledge; handsel; a token of what is to come.

Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
2 Cor. i. 22.

And from his coffers
Received the golden earnest of our death.
Shak.

2.
(Law)
Something of value given by the buyer to the seller, by way of token or pledge, to bind the bargain and prove the sale.
Kent. Ayliffe. Benjamin.

Earnest money (Law), money paid as earnest, to bind a bargain or to ratify and prove a sale.


word: Earnestness
definition:
Earnestness

Ear"nest*ness
n.
The state or quality of being earnest; intentness; anxiety.

An honest earnestness in the young man's manner.
W. Irving.


word: Earning
definition:
Earning

Earn"ing
n.
pl. Earnings (_;).
That which is earned; wages gained by work or services; money earned; -- used commonly in the plural.

As to the common people, their stock is in their persons and in their earnings.
Burke.


word: earpiece
definition:
earpiece

earpiece
n.
a device for converting electric signals into sounds, designed to be held over or inserted into the ear; as, The common telephone handset has a speaker and an earpiece.

Syn. -- earphone, headphone, phone.


word: Earring
definition:
Earring

Ear"ring`
(?)
n.
An ornament consisting of a ring passed through the lobe of the ear, with or without a pendant.


word: Ear-shell
definition:
Ear-shell

Ear"-shell`
(?)
n.
(Zoöl.)
any of various large edible marine gastropod mollusks of the genus Haliotis, having a flattened ear-shaped shell with a pearly interior; -- called also sea-ear. See Abalone.

Syn. -- abalone.


word: Earsore
definition:
Earsore

Ear"sore`
(?)
n.
An annoyance to the ear.
[R.]

The perpetual jangling of the chimes . . . is no small earsore _;s.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Ear-splitting
definition:
Ear-splitting

Ear"-split`ting
(?)
a.
Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains.


word: Earth
definition:
Earth

Earth
(ẽrth)
n.
[AS. eorðe; akin to OS. ertha, OFries. irthe, D. aarde, OHG. erda, G. erde, Icel. jörð, Sw. & Dan. jord, Goth. aīrþa, OHG. ero, Gr. _;, adv., to earth, and perh. to E. ear to plow.]
1.
The globe or planet which we inhabit; the world, in distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, this world as the dwelling place of mortals, in distinction from the dwelling place of spirits.

That law preserves the earth a sphere
And guides the planets in their course.
S. Rogers.

In heaven, or earth, or under earth, in hell.
Milton.

2.
The solid materials which make up the globe, in distinction from the air or water; the dry land.

God called the dry land earth.
Gen. i. 10.

He is pure air and fire, and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him.
Shak.

3.
The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the firm rock; soil of all kinds, including gravel, clay, loam, and the like; sometimes, soil favorable to the growth of plants; the visible surface of the globe; the ground; as, loose earth; rich earth.

Give him a little earth for charity.
Shak.

4.
A part of this globe; a region; a country; land.

Would I had never trod this English earth.
Shak.

5.
Worldly things, as opposed to spiritual things; the pursuits, interests, and allurements of this life.

Our weary souls by earth beguiled.
Keble.

6.
The people on the globe.

The whole earth was of one language.
Gen. xi. 1.

7.
(Chem.)
(a)
Any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina, glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria.
(b)
A similar oxide, having a slight alkaline reaction, as lime, magnesia, strontia, baryta.

8.
A hole in the ground, where an animal hides himself; as, the earth of a fox.
Macaulay.

They [ferrets] course the poor conies out of their earths.
Holland.

9.
(Elec.)
The connection of any part an electric conductor with the ground; specif., the connection of a telegraph line with the ground through a fault or otherwise.
&hand_; When the resistance of the earth connection is low it is termed a good earth.

&hand_; Earth is used either adjectively or in combination to form compound words; as, earth apple or earth-apple; earth metal or earth-metal; earth closet or earth-closet.

Adamic earth, Bitter earth, Bog earth, Chian earth, etc. See under Adamic, Bitter, etc. -- Alkaline earths. See under Alkaline. -- Earth apple. (Bot.) (a) A potato. (b) A cucumber. -- Earth auger, a form of auger for boring into the ground; -- called also earth borer. -- Earth bath, a bath taken by immersing the naked body in earth for healing purposes. -- Earth battery (Physics), a voltaic battery the elements of which are buried in the earth to be acted on by its moisture. -- Earth chestnut, the pignut. -- Earth closet, a privy or commode provided with dry earth or a similar substance for covering and deodorizing the fæcal discharges. -- Earth dog (Zoöl.), a dog that will dig in the earth, or enter holes of foxes, etc. -- Earth hog, Earth pig (Zoöl.), the aard-vark. -- Earth hunger, an intense desire to own land, or, in the case of nations, to extend their domain. -- Earth light (Astron.), the light reflected by the earth, as upon the moon, and corresponding to moonlight; -- called also earth shine. Sir J. Herschel. -- Earth metal. See 1st Earth, 7. (Chem.) -- Earth oil, petroleum. -- Earth pillars or Earth pyramids (Geol.), high pillars or pyramids of earth, sometimes capped with a single stone, found in Switzerland. Lyell. -- Earth pitch (Min.), mineral tar, a kind of asphaltum. -- Earth quadrant, a fourth of the earth's circumference. -- Earth table (Arch.), the lowest course of stones visible in a building; the ground table. -- On earth, an intensive expression, oftenest used in questions and exclamations; as, What on earth shall I do? Nothing on earth will satisfy him. [Colloq.]


word: Earth₂
definition:
Earth

Earth
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Earthed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Earthing.]
1.
To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
earthed
Dryden.

2.
To cover with earth or mold; to inter; to bury; -- sometimes with up.

The miser earths his treasure, and the thief,
Watching the mole, half beggars him ere noon.
Young.

Why this in earthing up a carcass?
R. Blair.


word: Earth₄
definition:
Earth

Earth
n.
[From Ear to plow.]
A plowing.
[Obs.]

Such land as ye break up for barley to sow,
Two earths at the least, ere ye sow it, bestow.
Tusser.


word: Earthbag
definition:
Earthbag

Earth"bag`
(ẽrth"băg`)
n.
(Mil.)
A bag filled with earth, used commonly to raise or repair a parapet.


word: earthball
definition:
earthball

earth"ball`
n.
any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean trufflelike fruiting bodies.

Syn. -- earth-ball, false truffle.


word: Earthboard
definition:
Earthboard

Earth"board`
(ẽrth"b&omacrrd`)
n.
(Agric.)
The part of a plow, or other implement, that turns over the earth; the moldboard.


word: earth-born
definition:
earth-born

Earthborn

Earth"born`, earth"-born
(ẽrth"bôrn`)
a.
1.
Born of the earth; terrigenous; springing originally from the earth; human; having the characteristics of earthly life; as, earth-born beings.

Some earthborn giant.
Milton.

2.
Relating to, or occasioned by, earthly objects.

All earthborn cares are wrong.
Goldsmith.


word: earth-closet
definition:
earth-closet

earth-closet
n.
a small building with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate.

Syn. -- outhouse, privy, jakes.


word: earth colors
definition:
earth colors

earth colors
n. pl.
colors like those of soil or earth; brownish-reds and browns.

Syn. -- earth tones.


word: earth-colored
definition:
earth-colored

earth-colored
adj.
having the color of soil or earth; reddish or reddish-brown.

Syn. -- earthlike.


word: Earthdrake
definition:
Earthdrake

Earth"drake`
(ẽrth"drāk`)
n.
A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon.
W. Spalding.


word: Earthen
definition:
Earthen

Earth"en
(ẽrth"'n)
a.
Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.


word: Earthenware
definition:
Earthenware

Earth"en*ware`
(?)
n.
Vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain.


word: Earthiness
definition:
Earthiness

Earth"i*ness
(?)
n.
The quality or state of being earthy, or of containing earth; hence, grossness.


word: Earthliness
definition:
Earthliness

Earth"li*ness
(?)
n.
The quality or state of being earthly; worldliness; grossness; perishableness.


word: Earthling
definition:
Earthling

Earth"ling
(?)
n.
[Earth + -ling.]
An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal.

Earthlings oft her deemed a deity.
Drummond.


word: Earthlight
definition:
Earthlight

Earth"light`
(?)
n.
(Astron.)
The sunlight reflected from the earth to the moon, by which we see faintly, when the moon is near the sun (either before or after new moon), that part of the moon's disk unillumined by direct sunlight, or “the old moon in the arms of the new.”


word: Earthly
definition:
Earthly

Earth"ly
a.
1.
Pertaining to the earth; belonging to this world, or to man's existence on the earth; not heavenly or spiritual; carnal; worldly; as, earthly joys; earthly flowers; earthly praise.

This earthly load
Of death, called life.
Milton.

Whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.
Phil. iii. 19.

2.
Of all things on earth; possible; conceivable.

What earthly benefit can be the result?
Pope.

3.
Made of earth; earthy.
[Obs.]
Holland.


word: Earthly₂
definition:
Earthly

Earth"ly
adv.
In the manner of the earth or its people; worldly.

Took counsel from his guiding eyes
To make this wisdom earthly wise.
Emerson.


word: Earthly-minded
definition:
Earthly-minded

Earth"ly-mind`ed
(?)
a.
Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded.
Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.


word: Earthmad
definition:
Earthmad

Earth"mad`
(?)
n.
[Earth + mad an earthworm.]
(Zoöl.)
The earthworm.
[Obs.]

The earthmads and all the sorts of worms . . . are without eyes.
Holland.


word: Earthnut
definition:
Earthnut

Earth"nut`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground
(a)
The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum.
(b)
The peanut. See Peanut.


word: Earthpea
definition:
Earthpea

Earth"pea`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A species of pea (Amphicarpæa monoica). It is a climbing leguminous plant, with hairy underground pods.


word: Earthquake
definition:
Earthquake

Earth"quake`
(?)
n.
A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also earthdin, earthquave, and earthshock.

Earthquake alarm, a bell signal constructed to operate on the theory that a few seconds before the occurrence of an earthquake the magnet temporarily loses its power.


word: Earthquake₂
definition:
Earthquake

Earth"quake`
a.
Like, or characteristic of, an earthquake; loud; startling.

The earthquake voice of victory.
Byron.


word: earth-shaking
definition:
earth-shaking

earth-shaking
adj.
sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; as, earth-shaking proposals; an earth-shaking event.

Syn. -- world-shaking, world-shattering(predicate), world shattering(predicate).


word: Earthstar
definition:
Earthstar

Earth"star`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.


word: earth tones
definition:
earth tones

earth tones
n. pl.
colors like those of soil or earth; brownish-reds and browns.

Syn. -- earth colors.


word: Earthwards
definition:
Earthwards

Earthward

{ Earth"ward (?), Earth"wards (_;), }
adv.
Toward the earth; -- opposed to heavenward or skyward.


word: Earthwork
definition:
Earthwork

Earth"work`
(?)
n.
1.
(Mil.)
Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth.

2.
(Engin.)
(a)
The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings, in constructing canals, railroads, etc.
(b)
An embankment or construction made of earth.


word: Earthworm
definition:
Earthworm

Earth"worm`
(?)
n.
1.
(Zoöl.)
Any worm of the genus Lumbricus and allied genera, found in damp soil. One of the largest and most abundant species in Europe and America is L. terrestris; many others are known; -- called also angleworm and dewworm.

2.
A mean, sordid person; a niggard.
Norris.


word: Earthy
definition:
Earthy

Earth"y
(?)
a.
1.
Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike; as, earthy matter.

How pale she looks,
And of an earthy cold!
Shak.

All over earthy, like a piece of earth.
Tennyson.

2.
Of or pertaining to the earth or to, this world; earthly; terrestrial; carnal.
[R.]
earthy
Milton.

The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy.
1 Cor. xv. 47, 48 (Rev. Ver. )

Earthy spirits black and envious are.
Dryden.

3.
Gross; low; unrefined.
earthy
Shak.

4.
(Min.)
Without luster, or dull and roughish to the touch; as, an earthy fracture.


word: Earwig
definition:
Earwig

Ear"wig`
(ēr"wĭg`)
n.
[AS. eárwicga; eáre ear + wicga beetle, worm: cf. Prov. E. erri-wiggle.]
1.
(Zoöl.)
Any insect of the genus Forficula and related genera, belonging to the order Dermaptera (formerly Euplexoptera).  They have elongated bodies and a prominent pair of curved pincers at the rear of their abdomen.

2.
(Zoöl.)
In America, any small chilopodous myriapod, esp. of the genus Geophilus.  See Geophilus

&hand_; Both insects are so called from the supposition that they creep into the human ear.

3.
A whisperer of insinuations; a secret counselor.
Johnson.


word: Earwig₂
definition:
Earwig

Ear"wig`
(ēr"wĭg`)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Earwigged (ēr"wĭgd`); p. pr. & vb. n. Earwigging (ēr"wĭg*gĭng).]
To influence, or attempt to influence, by whispered insinuations or private talk.
earwigged
Lord Campbell.


word: Earwitness
definition:
Earwitness

Ear"wit`ness
(?)
n.
A witness by means of his ears; one who is within hearing and does hear; a hearer.
Fuller.


word: Ease
definition:
Ease

Ease
(ēz)
n.
[OE. ese, eise, F. aise; akin to Pr. ais, aise, OIt. asio, It. agio; of uncertain origin; cf. L. ansa handle, occasion, opportunity.  Cf. Agio, Disease.]
1.
Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment.
[Obs.]

They him besought
Of harbor and or ease as for hire penny.
Chaucer.

2.
Freedom from anything that pains or troubles; as: (a) Relief from labor or effort; rest; quiet; relaxation; as, ease of body.

Usefulness comes by labor, wit by ease.
Herbert.

Give yourself ease from the fatigue of watching.
Swift.
Among these nations shalt thou find no ease.
Deut. xxviii. 65.

Take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Luke xii. 19.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance.
Pope.

Whate'er he did was done with so much ease,
In him alone 't was natural to please.
Dryden.

At ease, free from pain, trouble, or anxiety. “His soul shall dwell at ease.” Ps. xxv. 12. -- Chapel of ease. See under Chapel. -- Ill at ease, not at ease, disquieted; suffering; anxious. -- To stand at ease (Mil.), to stand in a comfortable attitude in one's place in the ranks. -- With ease, easily; without much effort.


word: Ease₂
definition:
Ease

Ease
(ēz)
v. t. &  i.
[imp. & p. p. Eased (ēzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Easing.]
[OE. esen, eisen, OF. aisier. See Ease, n.]
1.
To free from anything that pains, disquiets, or oppresses; to relieve from toil or care; to give rest, repose, or tranquillity to; -- often with of; as, to ease of pain; to ease the body or mind.

Eased [from] the putting off
These troublesome disguises which we wear.
Milton.

Sing, and I 'll ease thy shoulders of thy load.
Dryden.

2.
To render less painful or oppressive; to mitigate; to alleviate.

My couch shall ease my complaint.
Job vii. 13.

3.
To release from pressure or restraint; to move gently; to lift slightly; to shift a little; as, to ease a bar or nut in machinery.

4.
To entertain; to furnish with accommodations.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

To ease off, To ease away (Naut.), to slacken a rope gradually. -- To ease a ship (Naut.), to put the helm hard, or regulate the sail, to prevent pitching when closehauled. -- To ease the helm (Naut.), to put the helm more nearly amidships, to lessen the effect on the ship, or the strain on the wheel rope. Ham. Nav. Encyc.


word: Easeful
definition:
Easeful

Ease"ful
(?)
a.
Full of ease; suitable for affording ease or rest; quiet; comfortable; restful.
Shak.
Ease"ful*ly, adv. -- Ease"ful*ness, n.


word: Easel
definition:
Easel

Ea"sel
(?)
n.
[D. ezel ass, donkey, hence, easel, or G. esel; akin to E. ass. See Ass.]
A frame (commonly) of wood serving to hold a canvas upright, or nearly upright, for the painter's convenience or for exhibition.

Easel picture, Easel piece, a painting of moderate size such as is made while resting on an easel, as distinguished from a painting on a wall or ceiling.


word: Easement
definition:
Easement

Ease"ment
(?)
n.
[OF. aisement. See Ease, n.]
1.
That which gives ease, relief, or assistance; convenience; accommodation.

In need of every kind of relief and easement.
Burke.

2.
(Law)
A liberty, privilege, or advantage, which one proprietor has in the estate of another proprietor, distinct from the ownership of the soil, as a way, water course, etc. It is a species of what the civil law calls servitude.
Kent.

3.
(Arch.)
A curved member instead of an abrupt change of direction, as in a baseboard, hand rail, etc.


word: Easily
definition:
Easily

Eas"i*ly
(?)
adv.
[From Easy.]
1.
With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen.

2.
Without pain, anxiety, or disturbance; as, to pass life well and easily.
Sir W. Temple.

3.
Readily; without reluctance; willingly.

Not soon provoked, she easily forgives.
Prior.

4.
Smoothly; quietly; gently; gracefully; without _;umult or discord.

5.
Without shaking or jolting; commodiously; as, a carriage moves easily.


word: Easiness
definition:
Easiness

Eas"i*ness
(?)
n.
1.
The state or condition of being easy; freedom from distress; rest.

2.
Freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the easiness of a task.

3.
Freedom from emotion; compliance; disposition to yield without opposition; unconcernedness.

Give to him, and he shall but laugh at your easiness.
South.

4.
Freedom from effort, constraint, or formality; -- said of style, manner, etc.

With painful care, but seeming easiness.
Roscommon.

5.
Freedom from jolting, jerking, or straining.


word: easing
definition:
easing

easing
n.
1.
a change for the better.

Syn. -- moderation, relief.

2.
the act of reducing something unpleasant, such as pain.

Syn. -- alleviation, relief.


word: East
definition:
East

East
(ēst)
n.
[OE. est, east, AS. eást; akin to D. oost, oosten, OHG. &omacrstan, G. ost, osten, Icel. austr, Sw. ost, Dan. öst, östen, Lith. auszra dawn, L. aurora (for ausosa), Gr. 'hw`s, "e`os, 'a`yws, Skr. ushas; cf. Skr. ush to burn, L. urere. √149, 288.  Cf. Aurora, Easter, Sterling.]
1.
The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and which is toward the right hand of one who faces the north; the point directly opposite to the west.

The east began kindle.
E. Everett.

2.
The eastern parts of the earth; the regions or countries which lie east of Europe; the orient. In this indefinite sense, the word is applied to Asia Minor, Syria, Chaldea, Persia, India, China, etc.; as, the riches of the East; the diamonds and pearls of the East; the kings of the East.

The gorgeous East, with richest hand,
Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold.
Milton.

3.
(U. S. Hist. and Geog.)
Formerly, the part of the United States east of the Alleghany Mountains, esp. the Eastern, or New England, States; now, commonly, the whole region east of the Mississippi River, esp. that which is north of Maryland and the Ohio River; -- usually with the definite article; as, the commerce of the East is not independent of the agriculture of the West.

East by north, East by south, according to the notation of the mariner's compass, that point which lies 111/4° to the north or south, respectively, of the point due east. -- East-northeast, East-southeast, that which lies 221/2° to the north or south of east, or half way between east and northeast or southeast, respectively. See Illust. of Compass.


word: East₂
definition:
East

East
(?)
a.
1.
Toward the rising sun; or toward the point where the sun rises when in the equinoctial; as, the east gate; the east border; the east side; the east wind is a wind that blows from the east.

2.
(Eccl.)
Designating, or situated in, that part of a church which contains the choir or chancel; as, the east front of a cathedral.


word: East₄
definition:
East

East
v. i.
To move toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east; to orientate.


word: eastbound
definition:
eastbound

eastbound
adj.
1.
moving toward the east; as, eastbound trains.

Syn. -- eastward.

2.
designated for traffic moving toward the east; -- of lanes in roads or railroads, or other traffic lanes; as, the eastbound lanes of Interstate 80 are blocked by an overturned tractor-trailer; the train will leave on eastbound platform 5.


word: east-central
definition:
east-central

east-central
adj.
of a region of the U. S. generally including Kentucky and West Virginia.


word: Easter
definition:
Easter

Eas"ter
(ēs"tẽr)
n.
[AS. eáster, eástran, paschal feast, Easter; akin to G. ostern; fr. AS. Eástre, a goddess of light or spring, in honor of whom a festival was celebrated in April; whence this month was called in AS. Eásterm&omacrnað. From the root of E. east. See East.]
1.
An annual church festival commemorating Christ's resurrection, and occurring on Sunday, the second day after Good Friday. It corresponds to the pascha or passover of the Jews, and most nations still give it this name under the various forms of pascha, pasque, pâque, or pask.

2.
The day on which the festival is observed; Easter day.

&hand_; Easter is used either adjectively or as the first element of a compound; as, Easter day or Easter-day, Easter Sunday, Easter week, Easter gifts, Easter eggs.

Sundays by thee more glorious break,
An Easter day in every week.
Keble.

&hand_; Easter day, on which the rest of the movable feasts depend, is always the first Sunday after the fourteenth day of the calendar moon which (fourteenth day) falls on, or next after, the 21st of March, according to the rules laid down for the construction of the calendar; so that if the fourteenth day happen on a Sunday, Easter day is the Sunday after.
Eng. Cyc.

Easter dues (Ch. of Eng.), money due to the clergy at Easter, formerly paid in communication of the tithe for personal labor and subject to exaction. For Easter dues, Easter offerings, voluntary gifts, have been substituted. -- Easter egg. (a) A painted or colored egg used as a present at Easter. (b) An imitation of an egg, in sugar or some fine material, sometimes made to serve as a box for jewelry or the like, used as an Easter present.


word: Easter lily
definition:
Easter lily

Eas"ter lil`y
(Bot.)
Any one of various lilies or lilylike flowers which bloom about Easter;
specif.
(a)
The common white lily (Lilium candidum), called also Annunciation lily.
(b)
The larger white lily (Lilium longiflorum eximium, syn. L. Harrisii) called also Bermuda lily.
(c)
The daffodil (Narcissus Pseudo-Narcissus).
(d)
The Atamasco lily.


word: Easterling
definition:
Easterling

East"er*ling
(?)
n.
[Cf. Sterling.]
1.
A native of a country eastward of another; -- used, by the English, of traders or others from the coasts of the Baltic.

Merchants of Norway, Denmark, . . . called . . . Easterlings because they lie east in respect of us.
Holinshed.

2.
A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of England.
Crabb.

3.
(Zoöl.)
The smew.


word: Easterling₂
definition:
Easterling

East"er*ling
a.
Relating to the money of the Easterlings, or Baltic traders. See Sterling.


word: Easterly
definition:
Easterly

East"er*ly
a.
1.
Coming from the east; as, it was easterly wind.

2.
Situated, directed, or moving toward the east; as, the easterly side of a lake; an easterly course or voyage.


word: Eastern
definition:
Eastern

East"ern
(?)
a.
[AS. eástern.]
1.
Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries.

Eastern churches first did Christ embrace.
Stirling.

2.
Going toward the east, or in the direction of east; as, an eastern voyage.


word: Eastern Church
definition:
Eastern Church

Eastern Church
That portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them. Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern Church. It became estranged from the Western, or Roman, Church over the question of papal supremacy and the doctrine of the filioque, and a separation, begun in the latter part of the 9th century, became final in 1054. The Eastern Church consists of twelve (thirteen if the Bulgarian Church be included) mutually independent churches (including among these the Hellenic Church, or Church of Greece, and the Russian Church), using the vernacular (or some ancient form of it) in divine service and varying in many points of detail, but standing in full communion with each other and united as equals in a great federation. The highest five authorities are the patriarch of Constantinople, or ecumenical patriarch (whose position is not one of supremacy, but of precedence), the patriarch of Alexandria, the patriarch of Jerusalem, the patriarch of Antioch, and the Holy Synod of Russia. The Eastern Church accepts the first seven ecumenical councils (and is hence styled only schismatic, not heretical, by the Roman Catholic Church), has as its creed the Niceno-Constantinopolitan (without the later addition of the filioque, which, with the doctrine it represents, the church decisively rejects), baptizes infants with trine immersion, makes confirmation follow immediately upon baptism, administers the Communion in both kinds (using leavened bread) and to infants as well as adults, permits its secular clergy to marry before ordination and to keep their wives afterward, but not to marry a second time, selects its bishops from the monastic clergy only, recognizes the offices of bishop, priest, and deacon as the three necessary degrees of orders, venerates relics and icons, and has an elaborate ritual. See also Greek Church, under Greek.


