Ductor (n.) One who leads.
Ductor (n.) A contrivance for removing superfluous ink or coloring matter from a roller. See Doctor, 4.
Ducture (n.) Guidance.
Dudder (v. t.) To confuse or confound with noise.
Dudder (v. i.) To shiver or tremble; to dodder.
Dudder (n.) A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer.
Duddery (n.) A place where rags are bought and kept for sale.
Dude (n.) A kind of dandy; especially, one characterized by an ultrafashionable style of dress and other affectations.
Dudeen (n.) A short tobacco pipe.
Dudgeon (n.) The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made.
Dudgeon (n.) The haft of a dagger.
Dudgeon (n.) A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger.
Dudgeon (n.) Resentment; ill will; anger; displeasure.
Dudgeon (a.) Homely; rude; coarse.
Dudish (a.) Like, or characterized of, a dude.
Duds (n. pl.) Old or inferior clothes; tattered garments.
Duds (n. pl.) Effects, in general.
Due (a.) Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.
Due (a.) Justly claimed as a right or property; proper; suitable; becoming; appropriate; fit.
Due (a.) 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.
Due (a.) Appointed or required to arrive at a given time; as, the steamer was due yesterday.
Due (a.) Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
Due (adv.) Directly; exactly; as, a due east course.
Due (n.) 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.
Due (n.) Right; just title or claim.
Due (v. t.) To endue.
Duebill (n.) A brief written acknowledgment of a debt, not made payable to order, like a promissory note.
Dueful (a.) Fit; becoming.
Duel (n.) 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.
Duel (v. i. & t.) To fight in single combat.
Dueler (n.) One who engages in a duel.
Dueling (n.) The act or practice of fighting in single combat. Also adj.
Duelist (n.) One who fights in single combat.
Duelo (n.) A duel; also, the rules of dueling.
Due–a (n.) See Do–a.
Dueness (n.) Quality of being due; debt; what is due or becoming.
Duennas (pl. ) of Duenna
Duenna (n.) The chief lady in waiting on the queen of Spain.
Duenna (n.) 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.
Duenna (n.) Any old woman who is employed to guard a younger one; a governess.
Duet (n.) A composition for two performers, whether vocal or instrumental.
Duettino (n.) A duet of short extent and concise form.
Duetto (n.) See Duet.
Duff (n.) Dough or paste.
Duff (n.) A stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; -- a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff.
Duffel (n.) A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze.
Duffer (n.) A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat.
Duffer (n.) A stupid, awkward, inefficient person.
Duffle (n.) See Duffel.
Dufrenite (n.) A mineral of a blackish green color, commonly massive or in nodules. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.
Dug (n.) A teat, pap, or nipple; -- formerly that of a human mother, now that of a cow or other beast.
Dug (imp. & p. p.) of Dig.
Dugong (n.) 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.
Dugout (n.) A canoe or boat dug out from a large log.
Dugout (n.) A place dug out.
Dugout (n.) A house made partly in a hillside or slighter elevation.
Dugway (n.) A way or road dug through a hill, or sunk below the surface of the land.
Duke (n.) A leader; a chief; a prince.
Duke (n.) 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.
Duke (n.) In some European countries, a sovereign prince, without the title of king.
Duke (v. i.) To play the duke.
Dukedom (n.) The territory of a duke.
Dukedom (n.) The title or dignity of a duke.
Dukeling (n.) A little or insignificant duke.
Dukeship (n.) The quality or condition of being a duke; also, the personality of a duke.
Dulcamara (n.) A plant (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet, n., 3 (a).
Dulcamarin (n.) A glucoside extracted from the bittersweet (Solanum Dulcamara), as a yellow amorphous substance. It probably occasions the compound taste. See Bittersweet, 3(a).
Dulce (v. t.) To make sweet; to soothe.
Dulceness (n.) Sweetness.
Dulcet (a.) Sweet to the taste; luscious.
Dulcet (a.) Sweet to the ear; melodious; harmonious.
Dulciana (n.) A sweet-toned stop of an organ.
Dulcification (n.) The act of dulcifying or sweetening.
Dulcified (a.) Sweetened; mollified.
Dulcifluous (a.) Flowing sweetly.
Dulcified (imp. & p. p.) of Dulcify
Dulcifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dulcify
Dulcify (v. t.) To sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness, or acrimony.
Dulcify (v. t.) Fig. : To mollify; to sweeten; to please.
Dulciloquy (n.) A soft manner of speaking.
Dulcimer (n.) An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer.
Dulcimer (n.) An ancient musical instrument in use among the Jews. Dan. iii. 5. It is supposed to be the same with the psaltery.
Dulcinea (n.) A mistress; a sweetheart.
Dulciness (n.) See Dulceness.
Dulcite (n.) 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.
Dulcino (n.) See Dolcino.
Dulcitude (n.) Sweetness.
Dulcorate (v. t.) To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.
Dulcoration (n.) The act of sweetening.
Duledge (n.) One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage.
Dulia (n.) An inferior kind of veneration or worship, given to the angels and saints as the servants of God.
Dull (superl.) Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.
Dull (superl.) Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.
Dull (superl.) Insensible; unfeeling.
Dull (superl.) Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt.
Dull (superl.) 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.
Dull (superl.) Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert.
Dull (superl.) 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.
Duller (imp. & p. p.) of Dull
Dulling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dull