Dung (v. t.) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.
Dung (v. i.) To void excrement.
Dungaree (n.) A coarse kind of unbleached cotton stuff.
Dungeon (n.) A close, dark prison, common/, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons.
Dungeon (v. t.) To shut up in a dungeon.
Dungfork (n.) A fork for tossing dung.
Dunghill (n.) A heap of dung.
Dunghill (n.) Any mean situation or condition; a vile abode.
Dungmeer (n.) A pit where dung and weeds rot for manure.
Dungy (a.) Full of dung; filthy; vile; low.
Dungyard (n.) A yard where dung is collected.
Dunker (n.) 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.
Dunlin (n.) A species of sandpiper (Tringa alpina); -- called also churr, dorbie, grass bird, and red-backed sandpiper. It is found both in Europe and America.
Dunnage (n.) Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion.
Dunner (n.) One employed in soliciting the payment of debts.
Dunnish (a.) Inclined to a dun color.
Dunnock (a.) The hedge sparrow or hedge accentor.
Dunny (a.) Deaf; stupid.
Dunt (n.) A blow.
Dunted (a.) Beaten; hence, blunted.
Dunter (n.) A porpoise.
Duo (n.) A composition for two performers; a duet.
Duodecahedral (n.) Alt. of Duodecahedron
Duodecahedron (n.) See Dodecahedral, and Dodecahedron.
Duodecennial (a.) Consisting of twelve years.
Duodecimal (a.) Proceeding in computation by twelves; expressed in the scale of twelves.
Duodecimal (n.) A twelfth part; as, the duodecimals of an inch.
Duodecimal (n.) 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.
Duodecimfid (a.) Divided into twelve parts.
Duodecimo (a.) Having twelve leaves to a sheet; as, a duodecimo from, book, leaf, size, etc.
Duodecimos (pl. ) of Duodecimo
Duodecimo (n.) 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¡.
Duodecuple (a.) Consisting of twelves.
Duodenal (a.) Of or pertaining to the duodenum; as, duodenal digestion.
Duodenary (a.) Containing twelve; twelvefold; increasing by twelves; duodecimal.
Duodenum (n.) The part of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.
Duoliteral (a.) Consisting of two letters only; biliteral.
Duomo (n.) A cathedral. See Dome, 2.
Dup (v. t.) To open; as, to dup the door.
Dupable (a.) Capable of being duped.
Dupe (n.) One who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull; as, the dupe of a schemer.
Duped (imp. & p. p.) of Dupe
Duping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dupe
Dupe (n.) To deceive; to trick; to mislead by imposing on one's credulity; to gull; as, dupe one by flattery.
Duper (n.) One who dupes another.
Dupery (n.) The act or practice of duping.
Dupion (n.) A double cocoon, made by two silkworms.
Duple (a.) Double.
Duplex (a.) Double; twofold.
Duplicate (a.) Double; twofold.
Duplicate (n.) That which exactly resembles or corresponds to something else; another, correspondent to the first; hence, a copy; a transcript; a counterpart.
Duplicate (n.) 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.
Duplicated (imp. & p. p.) of Duplicate
Duplicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Duplicate
Duplicate (v. t.) To double; to fold; to render double.
Duplicate (v. t.) To make a duplicate of (something); to make a copy or transcript of.
Duplicate (v. t.) To divide into two by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, infusoria duplicate themselves.
Duplication (n.) The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold.
Duplication (n.) The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells.
Duplicative (a.) Having the quality of duplicating or doubling.
Duplicative (a.) Having the quality of subdividing into two by natural growth.
Duplicature (n.) A doubling; a fold, as of a membrane.
Duplicities (pl. ) of Duplicity
Duplicity (n.) Doubleness; a twofold state.
Duplicity (n.) Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith.
Duplicity (n.) The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient.
Duplicity (n.) In indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses.
Dupper (n.) See 2d Dubber.
Dur (a.) Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major.
Dura (n.) Short form for Dura mater.
Durability (n.) 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.
Durable (a.) 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.
Durableness (n.) Power of lasting, enduring, or resisting; durability.
Durably (adv.) In a lasting manner; with long continuance.
Dural (a.) Pertaining to the dura, or dura mater.
Dura mater () 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.
Duramen (n.) The heartwood of an exogenous tree.
Durance (n.) Continuance; duration. See Endurance.
Durance (n.) Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak.
Durance (n.) A stout cloth stuff, formerly made in imitation of buff leather and used for garments; a sort of tammy or everlasting.
Durance (n.) In modern manufacture, a worsted of one color used for window blinds and similar purposes.
Durancy (n.) Duration.
Durant (n.) See Durance, 3.
Durante (prep.) During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure.
Duration (n.) The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists.
Durative (a.) Continuing; not completed; implying duration.
Durbar (n.) 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.
Dure (a.) Hard; harsh; severe; rough; toilsome.
Dure (a.) To last; to continue; to endure.
Dureful (a.) Lasting.
Dureless (a.) Not lasting.
Durene (n.) A colorless, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C6H2(CH3)4, off artificial production, with an odor like camphor.
Duress (n.) Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.
Duress (n.) 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.
Duress (v. t.) To subject to duress.
Duressor (n.) One who subjects another to duress
Durga (n.) Same as Doorga.
Durham (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.
Durian (n.) Alt. of Durion
Durion (n.) 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.