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Duel

DUEL, noun [Latin]

1. Single combat; a premeditated combat between two persons, for the purpose of deciding some private difference or quarrel. A sudden fight, not premeditated, is called a rencounter. A duel is fought with deadly weapons and with a purpose to take life.

2. Any contention or contest.

DUEL, verb intransitive To fight in single combat.

DUEL, verb transitive To attack or fight singly.

Dueler

DUELER, noun A combatant in single fight.

Dueling

DUELING, participle present tense Fighting in single combat.

DUELING, noun The act or practice of fighting in single combat.

Duelist

DUELIST, noun

1. One who fights in single combat.

The duelist values his honor above the life of his antagonist, his own life, and the happiness of his family.

2. One who professes to study the rules of honor.

Duello

DUELLO, noun Duel; or rule of dueling. [Not used.]

Dueness

DUENESS, noun Duness. [See Due.] Fitness; propriety due quality.

Duenna

DUENNA, noun [See Don.] An old woman who is kept to guard a younger; a governess.

Duet

DUET, DUETTO, noun A song or air in two parts.

Duetto

DUET, DUETTO noun A song or air in two parts.

Duffel

DUFFEL, noun A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze.

Dug

DUG, noun [Latin] The pap or nipple of a cow or other beast. It is applied to a human female in contempt, but seems to have been used formerly of the human breast without reproach.

From tender dug of common nurse.

DUG, preterit tense and participle passive of dig; as, they dug a ditch; a ditch was dug

Duke

DUKE, noun [G., L, to lead; to draw, to tug. Gr.]

1. In Great Britain, one of the highest order of nobility; a title of honor or nobility next below the princes; as the duke of Bedford or of Cornwall.

2. In some countries on the Continent, a sovereign prince, without the title of king; as the duke of Holstein, of Savoy, of Parma, etc.

3. A chief; a prince; as the dukes of Edom. Genesis 36:15.

Dukedom

DUKEDOM, noun

1. The seignory or possessions of a duke; the territory of a duke.

2. The title or quality of a duke.

Dulbrained

DULBRAINED, adjective [dull and brain.] Stupid; doltish; of dull intellects. [See Dull and brained.]

Dulcet

DULCET, adjective [Latin , sweet.]

1. Sweet to the taste; luscious.

She tempers dulcet creams.

2. Sweet to the ear; melodious; harmonious; as dulcet sounds; dulcet symphonies.

Dulcification

DULCIFICATION, noun [See Dulcify.] The act of sweetening; the act of freeing from acidity, saltness or acrimony.

Dulcified

DULCIFIED, participle passive Sweetened; purified from salts.

DULCIFIED spirits, a term formerly applied to the different ethers; as dulcified spirits of niter and vitriol, nitric and sulphuric ethers.

Dulcify

DULCIFY, verb transitive [L, sweet; to make.] To sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness or acrimony.

Dulcimer

DULCIMER, noun An instrument of music played by striking brass wires with little sticks. Daniel 3:5.

Dulciness

DULCINESS, noun [Latin] Softness; easiness of temper. [Not used.]

Dulcorate

DULCORATE, verb transitive [Latin , sweet; to sweeten.]

1 To sweeten.

2. To make less acrimonious.

Dulcoration

DULCORATION, noun The act of sweetening.

Dulia

DULIA, noun [Gr., service.] An inferior kind of worship or adoration. [Not an English word.]

Dull

DULL, adjective [G.]

1. Stupid; doltish; blockish; slow of understanding; as a lad of dull genius.

2. Heavy; sluggish; without life or spirit; as a surfeit leaves a man very dull

3. Slow of motion; sluggish; as a dull stream.

4. Slow of hearing or seeing; as dull of hearing; dull of seeing.

5. Slow to learn or comprehend; unready; awkward; as a dull scholar.

6. Sleepy; drowsy.

7. Sad; melancholy.

8. Gross; cloggy; insensible; as the dull earth.

9. Not pleasing or delightful; not exhilarating; cheerless; as, to make dictionaries is dull work.

10. Not bright or clear; clouded; tarnished; as, the mirror is dull

11. Not bright; not briskly burning; as a dull fire.

12 Dim; obscure; not vivid; as a dull light.

13. Blunt; obtuse; having a thick edge; as a dull knife or ax.

14. Cloudy; overcast; not clear; not enlivening; as dull weather.

15. With seamen, being without wind; as, a ship has a dull time.

16. Not lively or animated; as a dull eye.

DULL, verb transitive

1. To make dull; to stupify; as, to dull the senses.

2. To blunt; as, to dull a sword or an ax.

3. To make sad or melancholy.

4. To hebetate; to make insensible or slow to perceive; as, to dull the ears; to dull the wits.

5. To damp; to render lifeless; as, to dull the attention.

6. To make heavy or slow of motion; as, to dull industry.

7. To sully; to tarnish or cloud; as, the breath dulls a mirror.

DULL, verb intransitive To become dull or blunt; to become stupid.

Dull-Brained

DULL-BRAINED, adjective Stupid; of dull intellect.

Dull-Browed

DULL-BROWED, adjective Having a gloomy look.

Dull-Disposed

DULL-DISPOSED, adjective Inclined to dullness or sadness.

Dull-Eyed

DULL-EYED, adjective Having a downcast look.

Dull-Head

DULL-HEAD, noun A person of dull understanding; a dolt; a blockhead.

Dull-Sighted

DULL-SIGHTED, adjective Having imperfect sigh; purblind.

Dull-Witted

DULL-WITTED, adjective Having a dull intellect; heavy.

Dullard

DULLARD, adjective Doltish; stupid.

DULLARD, noun A stupid person; a dot; a blockhead; a dunce.

Dulled

DULLED, participle passive Made dull; blunted.

Duller

DULLER, noun That which makes dull.

Dulling

DULLING, participle present tense Making dull.

Dullness

DULLNESS, noun

1. Stupidity; slowness of comprehension; weakness of intellect; indocility; as the dullness of a student.

2. Want of quick perception or eager desire.

3. Heaviness; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.

4. Heaviness; disinclination to motion.

5. Sluggishness; slowness.

6. Dimness; want of clearness or luster.

7. Bluntness; want of edge.

8. Want of brightness or vividness; as dullness of color.

Dully

DULLY, adverb Stupidity; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit.

Duly

DULY, adverb [from due.]

1. Properly; fitly; in a suitable or becoming manner; as, let the subject be duly considered.

2. Regularly; at the proper time; as, a man duly attended church with his family.

Dumb

DUMB, adjective Dum.

1. Mute; silent; not speaking.

I was dumb with silence; I held my peace. Psalms 34:1.

2. Destitute of the power of speech; unable to utter articulate sounds; as the dumb brutes. The asylum at Hartford in Connecticut was the first institution in America for teaching the deaf and dumb to read and write.

3. Mute; not using or accompanied with speech; as a dumb show; dumb signs.

To strike dumb is to confound; to astonish; to render silent by astonishment; or it may be, to deprive of the power of speech.

DUMB, verb transitive To silence.

Dumbly

DUMBLY, adverb dumly. Mutely; silently; without words or speech.

Dumbness

DUMBNESS, noun Dumness.

1. Muteness; silence or holding the peace; omission of speech. This is voluntary dumbness

2. In capacity to speak; inability to articulate sounds. This is involuntary dumbness

Dumfound

DUMFOUND, verb transitive To strike dumb; to confuse. [A low word.]

Dummerer

DUMMERER, noun One who feigns dumbness. [Not in use.]

Dump

DUMP, noun [G.]

1. A dull gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; sorrow; heaviness of heart.

In doleful dumps.

2. Absence of mind; reverie.

3. A melancholy tune or air. [This is not an elegant word, and in America, I believe, is always used in the plural; as, the woman is in the dumps.]

Dumpish

DUMPISH, adjective Dull; stupid; sad; melancholy; depressed in spirits; as, he lives a dumpish life.

Dumpishly

DUMPISHLY, adverb In a moping manner.

Dumpishness

DUMPISHNESS, noun A state of being dull, heavy and moping.

Dumpling

DUMPLING, noun [from dump.] A kind of pudding or mass of paste in cookery; usually, a cover of paste inclosing an apple and boiled, called apple-dumpling.

Dumpy

DUMPY, adjective Short and thick.

Dun

DUN, adjective

1. Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.

2. Dark; gloomy.

In the dun air sublime.

DUN, verb transitive To cure, as fish, in a manner to give them a dun color. [See Dunning.]

DUN, verb transitive [See Din.]

1. Literally, to clamor for payment of a debt. Hence, to urge for payment; to demand a debt in a pressing manner; to urge for payment with importunity. But in common usage, dun is often used in a milder sense, and signifies to call for, or ask for payment.

2. To urge importunately, in a general sense, but not an elegant word.

DUN, noun

1. An importunate creditor who urges for payment.

2. An urgent request or demand of payment in writing; as, he sent his debtor a dun

3. An eminence or mound. [See Down and Town.]

Dun-Fish

DUN-FISH, noun Codfish cured in a particular manner. [See Dunning.]

Dunce

DUNCE, noun Duns. [G.] A person of weak intellects; a dullard; a dolt; a thickskull.

I never knew this town without dunces of figure.

Duncery

DUNCERY, noun Dullness; stupidity.

Duncify

DUNCIFY, verb transitive To make stupid in intellect. [Not used.]

Dunder

DUNDER, noun [Latin] Lees; dregs; a word used in Jamaica.

The use of dunder in the making of run answers the purpose of yeast int he fermentation of flour.

Dune

DUNE, noun A hill. [See Down.]

Dung

DUNG, noun [G.] The excrement of animals.

DUNG, verb transitive To manure with dung

DUNG, verb intransitive To void excrement.

Dunged

DUNGED, participle passive Manured with dung.

Dungeon

DUNGEON, noun

1. A close prison; or a deep, dark place of confinement.

And in a dungeon deep.

They brought Joseph hastily out of the dungeon Genesis 41:14.

2. A subterraneous place of close confinement.

DUNGEON, verb transitive To confine in a dungeon

Dungfork

DUNGFORK, noun A fork used to throw dung from a stable or into a cart, or to spread it over land.

Dunghill

DUNGHILL, noun

1. A heap of dung.

2. A mean or vile abode.

3. Any mean situation or condition.

He lifteth the beggar from the dunghill 1 Samuel 2:8.

4. A term of reproach for a man meanly born. [Not used.]

DUNGHILL, adjective Sprung from the dunghill; mean; low; base; vile.

Dungy

DUNGY, adjective Full of dung; filthy; vile.

Dungyard

DUNGYARD, noun A yard or inclosure where dung is collected.

Dunlin

DUNLIN, noun A fowl, a species of sandpiper.

Dunnage

DUNNAGE, noun Faggots, boughs or loose wood laid on the bottom of a ship to raise heavy goods above the bottom.

Dunned

DUNNED, participle passive [from dun.] Importuned to pay a dept; urged.

Dunner

DUNNER, noun [from dun.] One employed in soliciting the payment of debts.

Dunning

DUNNING, participle present tense [from dun.] Urging for payment of a debt, or for the grant of some favor, or for the obtaining any request; importuning.

DUNNING, participle present tense Or noun [from dun, a color.] The operation of curing codfish, in such a manner as to give it a particular color and quality. Fish for dunning are caught early in spring, and often in February. At the Isles of Shoals, off Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, the cod are taken in deep water, split and slack-salted; then laid in a pile for two or three months, in a dark store, covered, for the greatest part of the time, with salt-hay or eel-grass, and pressed with some weight. In April or May, they are opened and piled again as close as possible in the same dark store, till July or August, when they are fit for use.

Dunnish

DUNNISH, adjective Inclined to a dun color; somewhat dun.

Dunny

DUNNY, adjective Deaf; dull of apprehension. [Local.]

Duo

DUO, noun [Latin , two.] A song in two parts.

Duodecahedral

DUODECAHEDRAL, DUODECAHEDRON, [See Dodecahedral, Dodecahedron.]

Duodecahedron

DUODECAHEDRAL, DUODECAHEDRON [See Dodecahedral, Dodecahedron.]

Duodecimfid

DUODECIMFID, adjective [Latin , twelve; to cleave.] Divided into twelve parts.

Duodecimo

DUODECIMO, adjective [Latin , twelve.] Having or consisting of twelve leaves to a sheet; as a book of duodecimo form or size.

DUODECIMO, noun A book in which a sheet is folded into twelve leaves.

Duodecuple

DUODECUPLE, adjective [Latin , two; tenfold.] Consisting of twelves.

Duodenum

DUODENUM, noun [Latin] The first of the small intestines.

Duoliteral

DUOLITERAL, adjective [Latin , two; a letter.] Consisting of two letters only; biliteral.

Dupe

DUPE, noun [See the verb.] A person who is deceived; or one easily led astray by his credulity; as the dupe of a party.

DUPE, verb transitive To deceive; to trick; to mislead by imposing on ones credulity; as, to be duped by flattery.

Dupion

DUPION, noun A double cocoon, formed by two or more silk-worms.

Duple

DUPLE, adjective [Latin] Double. duple ratio is that of 2 to 1, 8 to 4, etc.

Duplicate

DUPLICATE, adjective [Latin , to double; twofold; to fold. See Double.] Double; twofold.

DUPLICATE proportion or ratio, is 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.

DUPLICATE, noun

1. Another corresponding to the first; or a second thing of the same kind.

2. A copy; a transcript. Thus a second letter or bill of exchange exactly like the first is called a duplicate

DUPLICATE, verb transitive [Latin] To double; to fold.

Duplication

DUPLICATION, noun

1. The act of doubling; the multiplication of a number by 2.

2. A folding; a doubling; also, a fold; as the duplication of a membrane.

Duplicature

DUPLICATURE, noun A doubling; a fold. In anatomy, the fold of a membrane or vessel.

Duplicity

DUPLICITY, noun [Latin , double.]

1. Doubleness; the number two.

2. Doubleness of heart or speech; the act or practice of exhibiting a different or contrary conduct, or uttering different or contrary sentiments, at different times, in relation to the same thing; or the act of dissembling ones real opinions for the purpose of concealing them and misleading persons in the conversation and intercourse of life; double-dealing; dissimulation; deceit.

3. In law, duplicity is the pleading of two or more distinct matters or single pleas.

Durability

DURABILITY, noun [See Durable.] The power of lasting or continuing, in any given state, without perishing; as the durability of cedar or oak timber; the durability of animal and vegetable life is very limited.

Durable

DURABLE, adjective [Latin , to last; hard.] Having the quality of lasting or continuing long in being, without perishing or wearing out as durable timber; durable cloth; durable happiness.

Durableness

DURABLENESS, noun Power of lasting; durability; as the durableness of honest fame.

Durably

DURABLY, adverb In a lasting manner; with long continuance.

Durance

DURANCE, noun [Latin]

1. Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody of the jailer.

2. Continuance; duration. [See Endurance.]

Durant

DURANT, noun A glazed woolen stuff; called by some everlasting.

Duration

DURATION, noun

1. Continuance in time; length or extension of existence, indefinitely; as the duration of life; the duration of a partnership; the duration of any given period of time; everlasting duration This holding on or continuance of time is divided by us arbitrarily into certain portions, as minutes, hours and days; or it is measured by a succession of events, as by the diurnal and annual revolutions of the earth, or any other succession; and the interval between two events is called a part of duration This interval may be of any indefinite length, a minute or a century.

2. Power of continuance.

Dure

DURE, verb intransitive [Latin See Durable.] To last; to hold on in time or being; to continue; to endure. [This word is obsolete; endure being substituted.]

Dureful

DUREFUL, adjective Lasting.

Dureless

DURELESS, adjective Not lasting; fading.

Duress

DURESS, noun [Latin See Durable.]

1. Literally, hardship; hence, constraint. Technically, duress in law, is of two kinds; duress of imprisonment, which is imprisonment or restraint of personal liberty; and duress by menaces or threats [per minas, ] when a person is threatened with loss of life or limb. Fear of battery is no duress duress then is imprisonment or threats intended to compel a person to do a legal act, as to execute a deed; or to commit an offense; in which cases the act is voidable or excusable.

2. Imprisonment; restraint of liberty.

During

DURING, participle present tense Of dure. Continuing; lasting; holding on; as during life, that is, life continuing; during our earthly pilgrimage; during the space of a year; during this or that. These phrases are the case absolute, or independent clauses; durante vita, durante hoc.

Durity

DURITY, noun [Latin]

1. Hardness; firmness.

2. Hardness of mind; harshness. [Little used.]

Durous

DUROUS, adjective Hard. [Not used.]

Durra

DURRA, noun A kind of millet, cultivated in North Africa.

Durst

DURST, preterit tense Of dare.

Duse

DUSE, noun A demon or evil spirit. Quosdam daemones quos dusios Galli nuncupant. August. De Civ. Dei, 15. 23. What the duse is the matter? The duse is in you. [Vulgar.]

Dusk

DUSK, adjective [G., tarnish; to tarnish; to become dull or obscure. Gr.]

1. Tending to darkness, or moderately dark.

2. Tending to a dark or black color; moderately black.

DUSK, noun

1. A tending to darkness; incipient or imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as the dusk of the evening.

2. Tendency to a black color; darkness of color.

Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.

DUSK, verb transitive To make dusky. [Little used.]

DUSK, verb intransitive To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dark. [Little used.]

Duskily

DUSKILY, adverb With partial darkness; with a tendency to blackness or darkness.

Duskiness

DUSKINESS, noun Incipient or partial darkness; a slight or moderate degree of darkness or blackness.

Duskish

DUSKISH, adjective Moderately dusky; partially obscure; slightly dark or black; as duskish smoke.

DUSKISH tincture.

Duskishly

DUSKISHLY, adverb Cloudily; darkly.

Duskishness

DUSKISHNESS, noun Duskiness; approach to darkness.

Dusky

DUSKY, adjective

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

A dusky torch.

2. Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as a dusky brown.

DUSKY clouds.

3. Gloomy; sad.

This dusky scene of horror.

4. Intellectually clouded; as a dusky sprite.

Dust

DUST, noun

1. Fine dry particles of earth or other matter, so attenuated that it may be raised and wafted by the wind; powder; as clouds of dust and seas of blood.

2. Fine dry particles of earth; fine earth.

The peacock warmeth her eggs in the dust Job 34:15.

3. Earth; unorganized earthy matter.

DUST thou art, and to dust shalt thou return. Genesis 3:14.

4. The grave.

For now shall I sleep in the dust Job 7:5.

5. A low condition.

God raiseth the poor out of the dust 1 Samuel 2:8.

DUST, verb transitive

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

2. To sprinkle with dust

3. To levigate.

Dust-Brush

DUST-BRUSH, noun A brush for cleaning rooms and furniture.

Dust-Man

DUST-MAN, noun One whose employment is to carry away dirt and filth.

Duster

DUSTER, noun An utensil to clear from dust; also, a sieve.

Dustiness

DUSTINESS, noun The state of being dusty.

Dusty

DUSTY, adjective

1. Filled, covered or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust.

2. Like dust; of the color of dust; as a dusty white; a dusty red.

Dutch

DUTCH, noun The people of Holland; also, their language.

DUTCH, adjective Pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabitants.

Duteous

DUTEOUS, adjective [from duty.]

1. Performing that which is due, or that which law, justice or propriety requires; obedient; respectful to those who have natural or legal authority to require service or duty; as a duteous child or subject.

2. Obedient; obsequious; in a good or bad sense.

DUTEOUS to the vices of thy mistress.

3. Enjoined by duty, or by the relation of one to another; as duteous ties. [Little used.]

Dutiable

DUTIABLE, adjective [See Duty.] Subject to the imposition of duty or customs; as dutiable goods.

Dutied

DUTIED, adjective Subjected to duties or customs.

Dutiful

DUTIFUL, adjective

1. Performing the duties or obligations required by law, justice or propriety; obedient; submissive to natural or legal superiors; respectful; as a dutiful son or daughter; a dutiful ward or servant; a dutiful subject.

2. Expressive of respect or a sense of duty; respectful; reverential; required by duty; as dutiful reverence; dutiful attentions.

Dutifully

DUTIFULLY, adverb In a dutiful manner; with a regard to duty; obediently; submissively; reverently; respectfully.

Dutifulness

DUTIFULNESS, noun

1. Obedience; submission to just authority; habitual performance of duty; as dutifulness to parents.

2. Reverence; respect.

Duty

DUTY, noun

1. That which a person owes to another; that which a person is bound, by any natural, moral or legal obligation, to pay, do or perform. Obedience to princes, magistrates and the laws is the duty of every citizen and subject; obedience, respect and kindness to parents are duties of children; fidelity to friends is a duty; reverence, obedience and prayer to God are indispensable duties; the government and religious instruction of children are duties of parents which they cannot neglect without guilt.

2. Forbearance of that which is forbid by morality, law, justice or propriety. It is our duty to refrain from lewdness, intemperance, profaneness and injustice.

3. Obedience; submission.

4. Act of reverence or respect.

They both did duty to their lady.

5. The business of a soldier or marine on guard; as, the company is on duty It is applied also to other services or labor.

6. The business of war; military service; as, the regiment did duty in Flanders.

7. Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods. An impost on land or other real estate, and on the stock of farmers, is not called a duty but a direct tax.

Duumvir

DUUMVIR, noun [Latin , two; man.] One of two Roman officers or magistrates united int he same public functions.

Duumviral

DUUMVIRAL, adjective Pertaining to the duumvirs or duumvirate of Rome.

Duumvirate

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

Dwale

DWALE, noun

1. In heraldry, a sable or black color.

2. The deadly nightshade, a plant or a sleepy potion.

Dwarf

DWARF, noun

1. A general name for an animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of the species or kind. A man that never grows beyond two or three feet in highth, is a dwarf This word when used alone usually refers to the human species, but sometimes to other animals. When it is applied to plants, it is more generally used in composition; as a dwarf-tree; dwarf-elder.

2. An attendant on a lady or knight in romances.

DWARF, verb transitive To hinder from growing to the natural size; to lessen; to make or keep small.

Dwarfish

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

Dwarfishly

DWARFISHLY, adverb Like a dwarf.

Dwarfishness

DWARFISHNESS, noun Smallness of stature; littleness of size.

Dwaul

DWAUL, verb intransitive To be delirious.

Dwell

DWELL, verb intransitive preterit tense dwelled, usually contracted into dwelt. [See Dally.]

1. To abide as a permanent resident, or to inhabit for a time; to live in a place; to have a habitation for some time or permanence.

God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem. Genesis 9:27.

DWELL imports a residence of some continuance. We use abide for the resting of a night or an hour; but we never say, he dwelt in a place a day or a night. dwell may signify a residence for life or for a much shorter period, but not for a day. In scripture, it denotes a residence of seven days during the feast of tabernacles.

Ye shall dwell in booths seven days. Leviticus 23:42.

The word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. John 1:38.

2. To be in any state or condition; to continue.

To dwell in doubtful joy.

3. To continue; to be fixed in attention; to hang upon with fondness.

The attentive queen dwelt on his accents.

They stand at a distance, dwelling on his looks and language, fixed in amazement.

4. To continue long; as, to dwell on a subject, in speaking, debate or writing; to dwell on a note in music.

DWELL, as a verb transitive, is not used. We who dwell this wild, in Milton, is not a legitimate phrase.

Dweller

DWELL'ER, noun An inhabitant; a resident of some continuance in a place.

Dwelling

DWELL'ING, participle present tense Inhabiting; residing; sojourning; continuing with fixed attention.

DWELL'ING, noun Habitation; place of residence; abode.

Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons. Jeremiah 49:33.

1. Continuance; residence; state of life.

Thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. Daniel 4:25.

Dwelling-House

DWELL'ING-HOUSE, noun The house in which one lives.

Dwelling-Place

DWELL'ING-PLACE, noun The place of residence.

Dwindle

DWIN'DLE, verb intransitive

1. To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away. The body dwindles by pining or consumption; an estate swindles by waste, by want of industry or economy; an object dwindles in size, as it recedes from view; an army dwindles by death or desertion.

Our drooping days have dwindled down to naught.

2. To degenerate; to sink; to fall away.

Religious societies may dwindle into factious clubs.

DWIN'DLE, verb transitive To make less; to bring low.

1. To break; to disperse.

Dwindled

DWIN'DLED, adjective Shrunk; diminished in size.

Dwindling

DWIN'DLING, participle present tense Falling away; becoming less; pining; consuming; moldering away.

Dye

DYE, verb transitive [Latin tingo, for tigo.]

To stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to; applied particularly to cloth or the materials of cloth, as wool, cotton, silk and linen; also to hats, leather, etc. It usually expresses more or a deeper color than tinge.

Dyed

DY'ED, participle passive Stained; colored.

Dyeing

DY'EING, participle present tense Staining; giving a new and permanent color.

DY'EING, noun The art or practice of giving new and permanent colors; the art of coloring cloth, hats, etc.

Dyer

DY'ER, noun One whose occupation is to dye cloth and the like.

Dying

DY'ING, participle present tense [from die.] Losing life; perishing; expiring; fading away; languishing.

1. adjective Mortal; destined to death; as dying bodies.

Dynameter

DYNAM'ETER, noun [Gr. strength, and to measure.]

An instrument for determining the magnifying power of telescopes.

Dynametrical

DYNAMET'RICAL, adjective Pertaining to a dynameter.

Dynamical

DYNAM'ICAL, adjective [Gr. power.] Pertaining to strength or power.

Dynamics

DYNAMICS, noun [Gr., power.] That branch of mechanical philosophy which treats of the force of moving bodies; the science of moving powers, and the effect of moving bodies acting on each other and producing motion.

Dynamometer

DYNAMOM'ETER, noun [See Dynameter.] An instrument for measuring the relative strength of men and other animals.

Dynast

DY'NAST, noun [See Dynasty.] a ruler; a governor; a prince; a government.

Dynastic

DYNAST'IC, adjective Relating to a dynasty or line of kings.

Dynasty

DY'NASTY, noun [Gr. power, sovereignty; a lord or chief; to be able or strong, to prevail.]

Government; sovereignty; or rather a race or succession of kings of the same line or family, who govern a particular country; as the dynastics of Egypt or Persia.

The obligation of treaties and contracts is allowed to survive the change of dynasties.

Dyscrasy

DYS'CRASY, adjective [Gr. evil, and habit.] In medicine, an ill habit or state of the humors; distemperature of the juices.

Dysenteric

DYSENTER'IC, adjective Pertaining to dysentery; accompanied with dysentery; proceeding from dysentery.

1. Afflicted with dysentery; as a dysenteric patient.

Dysentery

DYS'ENTERY, noun [Latin dysenteria; Gr. bad; intestines.]

A flux in which the stools consist chiefly of blood and mucus or other morbid matter, accompanied with griping of the bowels, and followed by tenesmus.

Dysodile

DYS'ODILE, noun A species of coal of a greenish or yellowish gray color, in masses composed of thin layers. When burning, it emits a very fetid odor.

Dysorexy

DYS'OREXY, noun [Gr. bad, and appetite.] A bad or depraved appetite; a want of appetite.

Dyspepsy

DYSPEP'SY, noun [Gr. bad, and to concoct.] Bad digestion; indigestion, or difficulty of digestion.

Dyspeptic

DYSPEP'TIC, adjective Afflicted with indigestion; as a dyspeptic person.

1. Pertaining to or consisting in dyspepsy; as a dyspeptic complaint.

Dysphony

DYS'PHONY, noun [Gr. bad, hard; and voice.] A difficulty of speaking, occasioned by an ill disposition of the organs of speech.

Dyspnoea

DYSPNOE'A, noun A difficulty of breathing.

Dysury

DYS'URY, noun [Gr. urine.] Difficulty in discharging the urine, attended with pain and a sensation of heat.