Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 103

Drysaltery (n.) The articles kept by a drysalter; also, the business of a drysalter.

Dry-shod (a.) Without wetting the feet.

Dry-stone (a.) Constructed of uncemented stone.

Dryth (n.) Alt. of Drith

Drith (n.) Drought.

Duad (n.) A union of two; duality.

Dual (a.) Expressing, or consisting of, the number two; belonging to two; as, the dual number of nouns, etc. , in Greek.

Dualin (n.) 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.

Dualism (n.) State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction

Dualism (n.) A view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit.

Dualism (n.) A system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, one good and the other evil.

Dualism (n.) 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.

Dualism (n.) The theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts independently of the other.

Dualist (n.) One who believes in dualism; a ditheist.

Dualist (n.) One who administers two offices.

Dualistic (a.) Consisting of two; pertaining to dualism or duality.

Duality (n.) The quality or condition of being two or twofold; dual character or usage.

Duan (n.) A division of a poem corresponding to a canto; a poem or song.

Duarchy (n.) Government by two persons.

Dubbed (imp. & p. p.) of Dub

Dubbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dub

Dub (v. t.) To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight.

Dub (v. t.) To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call.

Dub (v. t.) To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.

Dub (v. t.) To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab;

Dub (v. t.) To dress with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber smooth.

Dub (v. t.) To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.

Dub (v. t.) To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of cyrrying it.

Dub (v. t.) To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.

Dub (v. i.) To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.

Dub (n.) A blow.

Dub (n.) A pool or puddle.

Dubb (n.) The Syrian bear. See under Bear.

Dubber (n.) One who, or that which, dubs.

Dubber (n.) A globular vessel or bottle of leather, used in India to hold ghee, oil, etc.

Dubbing (n.) The act of dubbing, as a knight, etc.

Dubbing (n.) The act of rubbing, smoothing, or dressing; a dressing off smooth with an adz.

Dubbing (n.) A dressing of flour and water used by weavers; a mixture of oil and tallow for dressing leather; daubing.

Dubbing (n.) The body substance of an angler's fly.

Dubieties (pl. ) of Dubiety

Dubiety (n.) Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt.

Dubiosities (pl. ) of Dubiosity

Dubiosity (n.) The state of being doubtful; a doubtful statement or thing.

Dubious (a.) Doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined.

Dubious (a.) Occasioning doubt; not clear, or obvious; equivocal; questionable; doubtful; as, a dubious answer.

Dubious (a.) Of uncertain event or issue; as, in dubious battle.

Dubiously (adv.) In a dubious manner.

Dubiousness (n.) State of being dubious.

Dubitable (a.) Liable to be doubted; uncertain.

Dubitancy (n.) Doubt; uncertainty.

Dubitate (v. i.) To doubt.

Dubitation (n.) Act of doubting; doubt.

Dubitative (a.) Tending to doubt; doubtful.

Duboisia (n.) Same as Duboisine.

Duboisine (n.) 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.

Ducal (a.) Of or pertaining to a duke.

Ducally (adv.) In the manner of a duke, or in a manner becoming the rank of a duke.

Ducat (n.) A coin, either of gold or silver, of several countries in Europe; originally, one struck in the dominions of a duke.

Ducatoon (n.) A silver coin of several countries of Europe, and of different values.

Duces tecum () 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.

Duchess (n.) The wife or widow of a duke; also, a lady who has the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right.

Duchesse d'Angouleme () A variety of pear of large size and excellent flavor.

Duchies (pl. ) of Duchy

Duchy (n.) The territory or dominions of a duke; a dukedom.

Duck (n.) A pet; a darling.

Duck (n.) 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.

Duck (n.) The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates.

Ducked (imp. & p. p.) of Duck

Ducking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Duck

Duck (v. t.) To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.

Duck (v. t.) To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy.

Duck (v. t.) To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion.

Duck (v. i.) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip.

Duck (v. i.) To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow.

Duck (v. t.) Any bird of the subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae.

Duck (v. t.) A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water.

Duckbill (n.) See Duck mole, under Duck, n.

Duck-billed (a.) Having a bill like that of a duck.

Ducker (n.) One who, or that which, ducks; a plunger; a diver.

Ducker (n.) A cringing, servile person; a fawner.

Ducking () n. & a., from Duck, v. t. & i.

Duck-legged (a.) Having short legs, like a waddling duck; short-legged.

Duckling (n.) A young or little duck.

Duckmeat (n.) Alt. of Duck's-meat

Duck's-meat (n.) Duckweed.

Duck's-bill (a.) Having the form of a duck's bill.

Duck's-foot (n.) The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum).

Duckweed (n.) 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.

Duct (n.) Any tube or canal by which a fluid or other substance is conducted or conveyed.

Duct (n.) One of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination.

Duct (n.) A large, elongated cell, either round or prismatic, usually found associated with woody fiber.

Duct (n.) Guidance; direction.

Ductible (a.) Capable of being drawn out

Ductile (a.) Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.

Ductile (a.) Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.

Ductilimeter (n.) An instrument for accurately determining the ductility of metals.

Ductility (n.) The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.

Ductility (n.) Tractableness; pliableness.

Duction (n.) Guidance.

Ductless (a.) Having to duct or outlet; as, a ductless gland.

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