Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 104
Ductor (n.) One who leads. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Ductor (n.) (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.
Ducture (n.) Guidance. [Obs.] -- South.
Dudder (v. t.) To confuse or confound with noise. -- Jennings.
Dudder (v. i.) To shiver or tremble; to dodder.
I dudder and shake like an aspen leaf. -- Ford.
Dudder (n.) A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer. [Eng.]
Duddery (n.) A place where rags are bought and kept for sale. [Eng.]
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.
Dude (n.) An informal form of address for a man; "Say, fellow, what are you doing?"; "Hey buster, what's up?" [syn: fellow, dude, buster].
Dude (n.) A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance [syn: dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse].
Dude (n.) -- Dudish (a.), -- Dudishly (adv.) : A man.
Dude (n.) A man extremely fastidious in dress and manner : Dandy.
Dude (n.) A city dweller unfamiliar with life on the range; especially : an Easterner in the West.
Dude (n.) Fellow, Guy sometimes used informally as a term of address <hey, dude, what's up>.
Dudeen (n.) A short tobacco pipe. [Written also dudheen.] [Irish]
Dudeen (n.) A clay pipe with a short stem.
Dudgeon (n.) The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made. -- Gerarde (1597).
Dudgeon (n.) The haft of a dagger. -- Shak.
Dudgeon (n.) A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger. -- Hudibras.
Dudgeon (n.) Resentment; ill will; anger; displeasure.
I drink it to thee in dudgeon and hostility. Sir T. Scott.
Dudgeon (a.) Homely; rude; coarse. [Obs.]
By my troth, though I am plain and dudgeon, I would not be an ass. -- Beau. & Fl.
Dudgeon (n.) A feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase `in high dudgeon') [syn: dudgeon, high dudgeon]
Dudish (a.) Like, or characterized of, a dude.
Duds (n. pl.) Old or inferior clothes; tattered garments. [Colloq.]
Duds (n. pl.) Effects, in general. [Slang]
Duds (n.) Informal terms for clothing [syn: togs, threads, duds].
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.
Her obedience, which is due to me. -- Shak.
With dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. -- Gray.
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.
This effect is due to the attraction of the sun. -- J. D. Forbes.
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.
He will give the devil his due. -- Shak.
Yearly little dues of wheat, and wine, and oil. -- Tennyson.
Due (n.) Right; just title or claim.
The key of this infernal pit by due . . . I keep. -- Milton.
Due (v. t.) To endue. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Due (adv.) Directly or exactly; straight; "went due North."
Due (a.) Owed and payable immediately or on demand; "payment is due" [ant: undue].
Due (a.) Scheduled to arrive; "the train is due in 15 minutes."
Due (a.) Suitable to or expected in the circumstances; "all due respect"; "due cause to honor them"; "a long due promotion"; "in due course"; "due esteem"; "exercising due care" [ant: undue].
Due (a.) Capable of being assigned or credited to; "punctuation errors ascribable to careless proofreading"; "the cancellation of the concert was due to the rain"; "the oversight was not imputable to him" [syn: ascribable, due, imputable, referable].
Due (n.) That which is deserved or owed; "give the devil his due."
Due (n.) A payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership); "the society dropped him for non-payment of dues."
DUE. () What ought to be paid; what may be demanded. It differs from owing in this, that, sometimes, what is owing is not due; a note, payable thirty days after date, is owing immediately after it is delivered to the payee, but it is not due until the thirty days have elapsed.
DUE. () Bills of exchange, and promissory notes, are not, due until the end of the three days of grace, (q.v.) unless the last of these days happen to fall on a Sunday, or other holy day, when it becomes due on the Saturday before, and not on the Monday following. Story, P. N. Sec. 440; 1 Bell's Com. 410 Story on Bills, Sec. 283; 2 Hill, N. Y. R. 587; 2 Applet. R. 264.
DUE. () Due also signifies just or proper; as, a due presentment, and demand of payraent, must be made. See 4 Rawle, 307; 3 Leigh, 389; 3 Cranch, 300.
Duebill (n.) (Com.) A brief written acknowledgment of a debt, not made payable to order, like a promissory note. -- Burrill.
DUE-BILL. () An acknowledgment of a debt, in writing, is so called. This instrument differs from a promissory note in many particulars; it is not payable to order, nor is it assignable by mere endorsement. See I 0 U; Promissory notes.
Dueful (a.) Fit; becoming. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
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.
Trial by duel (Old Law), A combat between two persons for proving a cause; trial by battel.
Duel (v. i. & t.) To fight in single combat. [Obs.]
Duel (n.) A prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor [syn: duel, affaire d'honneur].
Duel (n.) Any struggle between two skillful opponents (individuals or groups).
Duel (v.) Fight a duel, as over one's honor or a woman; "In the 19th century, men often dueled over small matters."
DUEL, () A front end to gdb by Michael Golan. DUEL implements a language designed for debugging C programs. It features efficient ways to select and display data items. It is normally linked into the gdb executable, but could stand alone. It interprets a subset of C in addition to its own language. Version 1.10. (1993-03-20)
DUEL, (n.) A formal ceremony preliminary to the reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed the most unexpected and deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life in a duel.
That dueling's a gentlemanly vice I hold; and wish that it had been my lot To live my life out in some favored spot -- Some country where it is considered nice To split a rival like a fish, or slice A husband like a spud, or with a shot Bring down a debtor doubled in a knot And ready to be put upon the ice.
Some miscreants there are, whom I do long To shoot, to stab, or some such way reclaim The scurvy rogues to better lives and manners, I seem to see them now -- a mighty throng.
It looks as if to challenge _me_ they came, Jauntily marching with brass bands and banners!
Xamba Q. Dar
Dueler (n.) One who engages in a duel. [R.] [Written also dueller.] -- South.
Dueler (n.) A person who fights duels [syn: dueler, dueller, duelist, duellist].
Dueling (n.) The act or practice of fighting in single combat. Also adj. [Written also duelling.]
Duelist (n.) 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.
Duelist (n.) A person who fights duels [syn: dueler, dueller, duelist, duellist].
Duelo (n.) A duel; also, the rules of dueling. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Due-a (n.) See Do-a.
Dueness (n.) Quality of being due; debt; what is due or becoming. -- T. Goodwin.
Duennas (n. pl.) of Duenna.
Duenna (n.) The chief lady in waiting on the queen of Spain. -- Brande.
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. -- Brande & C.
Duenna (n.) Any old woman who is employed to guard a younger one; a governess. -- Arbuthnot.
Duet (n.) (Mus.) A composition for two performers, whether vocal or instrumental.
Duet (n.) Two items of the same kind [syn: couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad].
Duet (n.) Two performers or singers who perform together [syn: duet, duette, duo].
Duet (n.) A pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable twosome" [syn: couple, twosome, duo, duet].
Duet (n.) A musical composition for two performers [syn: duet, duette, duo].
Duet (n.) (Ballet) A dance for two people (usually a ballerina and a danseur noble) [syn: pas de deux, duet].
Duettino (n.) A duet of short extent and concise form.
Duetto (n.) See Duet.
Duff (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Duffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Duffing.] [Etym. uncertain.] [Colloq. or Slang] To treat or manipulate so as to give a specious appearance to; to fake; hence, to cheat.
Duff (v. t.) In Australia, to alter the brands on (cattle, horses, etc.); to steal (cattle, etc.), and alter their brands.
Duff (n.) Dough or paste. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Duff (n.) A stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; -- a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff.
Duff (n.) The buttocks; as, get off your duff and get to work. [slang]
Syn: rump; ass.
Duff (n.) A stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron [syn: duff, plum duff].
Duff, () Duff's device.
Duff, ()
Duffel (n.) A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze. [Written also duffle.]
Good duffel gray and flannel fine. -- Wordsworth.
Duffel (n.) Outfit or suppplies, collectively; kit. [Colloq., U. S.]
Duffel (n.) A large cylindrical bag of heavy cloth; for carrying personal belongings [syn: duffel bag, duffle bag, duffel, duffle].
Duffel (n.) A coarse heavy woolen fabric [syn: duffel, duffle].
Duffer (n.) A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat. [Slang, Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Duffer (n.) A stupid, awkward, inefficient person. [Slang]
Duffer (n.) (Mining) See Shicer.
Duffer (n.) (Zool.) Any common domestic pigeon.
Duffer (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.
Duffer (n.) An incompetent or clumsy person; "as a golfer he was only a duffer."
Duffel (n.) [D. duffel, from Duffel, a town not far from Antwerp.] A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze. [Written also duffle.]
Good duffel gray and flannel fine. -- Wordsworth.
Duffel (n.) Outfit or suppplies, collectively; kit. [Colloq., U. S.]
Duffle (n.) See Duffel.
Duffle (n.) A large cylindrical bag of heavy cloth; for carrying personal belongings [syn: duffel bag, duffle bag, duffel, duffle].
Duffle (n.) A coarse heavy woolen fabric [syn: duffel, duffle].
Dufrenite (n.) (Min.) A mineral of a blackish green color, commonly massive or in nodules. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.
Dig (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Dug ) or Digged; p. pr. & vb. n. Digging. -- Digged is archaic.] [OE. diggen, perh. the same word as diken, dichen (see Dike, Ditch); cf. Dan. dige to dig, dige a ditch; or (?) akin to E. 1st dag. [root]67.] To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.
Be first to dig the ground. -- Dryden.
Dig (v. t.) To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
Dig (v. t.) To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
Dig (v. t.) To thrust; to poke. [Colloq.]
You should have seen children . . . dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls. -- Robynson (More's Utopia).
Dig (v. t.) To like; enjoy; admire. The whole class digs Pearl Jam. [Colloq.]
To dig down, To undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall.
To dig from, To dig out of, To dig out, To dig up, to get out or obtain by digging; as, to dig coal from or out of a mine; to dig out fossils; to dig up a tree. The preposition is often omitted; as, the men are digging coal, digging iron ore, digging potatoes.
To dig in, (a) to cover by digging; as, to dig in manure.
To dig in, (b) To entrench oneself so as to give stronger resistance; -- used of warfare or negotiating situations.
To dig in one's heels, To offer stubborn resistance.
Dug (n.) 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.
Dug (imp. & p. p.) of Dig.
Dug (n.) An udder or breast or teat.
Dugong (n.) (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.]
Dugong (n.) Sirenian tusked mammal found from eastern Africa to Australia; the flat tail is bilobate [syn: dugong, Dugong dugon].
Dugout (n.) A canoe or boat dug out from a large log. [U.S.]
A man stepped from his slender dugout. -- G. W. Cable.
Dugout (n.) A place dug out.
Dugout (n.) A house made partly in a hillside or slighter elevation. [Western U.S.] -- Bartlett.
Dugout (n.) (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.
Dugout (n.) Either of two low shelters on either side of a baseball diamond where the players and coaches sit during the game.
Dugout (n.) A canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log [syn: dugout canoe, dugout, pirogue].
Dugout (n.) A fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground [syn: bunker, dugout].
Dugway (n.) A way or road dug through a hill, or sunk below the surface of the land. [U.S.]
Dugway, UT -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Utah
Population (2000): 2016
Housing Units (2000): 572
Land area (2000): 5.204458 sq. miles (13.479485 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.204458 sq. miles (13.479485 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20450
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 40.231175 N, 112.751309 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 84022
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Dugway, UT
Dugway
Duke (n.) 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.
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 (n.) 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.
Duke (v. i.) To play the duke. [Poetic]
Lord Angelo dukes it well in his absence. -- Shak.
Duke (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.
Duke (n.) A British peer of the highest rank.
Duke (n.) A nobleman (in various countries) of high rank.
Duke, () Derived from the Latin dux, meaning "a leader;" Arabic, "a sheik." This word is used to denote the phylarch or chief of a tribe (Gen. 36:15-43; Ex. 15:15; 1 Chr. 1:51-54).
Dukedom (n.) The territory of a duke.
Dukedom (n.) The title or dignity of a duke. -- Shak.
Dukedom (n.) The dignity or rank or position of a duke.
Dukedom (n.) The domain controlled by a duke or duchess [syn: duchy, dukedom].
Dukeling (n.) A little or insignificant duke. -- Ford.
Dukeship (n.) The quality or condition of being a duke; also, the personality of a duke. -- Massinger. Dukhobors
Compare: Bittersweet
Bittersweet (a.) Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
Bittersweet (n.) Anything which is bittersweet.
Bittersweet (n.) A kind of apple so called. -- Gower.
Bittersweet (n.) (Bot.) (a) A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries ({Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara.
Bittersweet (n.) (b) An American woody climber ({Celastrus scandens), whose yellow capsules open late in autumn, and disclose the red aril which covers the seeds; -- also called Roxbury waxwork.
Dulcamara (n.) (Bot.) A plant ({Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet, n., 3 (a).
Dulcamarin (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).
Dulce (v. t.) To make sweet; to soothe. [Obs.]
Dulce, NM -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New Mexico
Population (2000): 2623
Housing Units (2000): 899
Land area (2000): 12.945967 sq. miles (33.529898 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 12.945967 sq. miles (33.529898 sq. km)
FIPS code: 21390
Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location: 36.939557 N, 106.989600 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 87528
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Dulce, NM
Dulce
Dulceness (n.) Sweetness. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Dulcet (a.) Sweet to the taste; luscious. [Obs.]
She tempers dulcet creams. -- Milton.
Compare: Luscious
Luscious (a.) 甘美多汁的；美味的；味香的；滿足感官的；肉感的 (Of food or drink) having a pleasingly rich, sweet taste.
‘A luscious and fragrant dessert wine.’
Luscious (a.) Appealing strongly to the senses; pleasingly rich.
‘The luscious brush strokes and warm colours of these late masterpieces.’
Luscious (a.) (Of a woman) Very sexually attractive.
‘He'll fall for a luscious Spanish girl who can match him in passion.’
Dulcet (a.) 優美的；悅耳的；怡人的 Sweet to the ear; melodious; harmonious.
Their dainty lays and dulcet melody. -- Spenser.
Dulcet (a.) Extremely pleasant in a gentle way; "the most dulcet swimming on the most beautiful and remote beaches".
Dulcet (a.) Pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello" [syn: {dulcet}, {honeyed}, {mellifluous}, {mellisonant}, {sweet}].
Dulcet (a.) (Literary) 柔和動聽的，輕柔悅耳的 Dulcet sounds are soft and pleasant to listen to.
Sb's dulcet tones (ph.) (Humorous) A person's voice.
Dulcet (a.) Pleasing to the ear.
Dulcet (a.) Extremely pleasant, in a gentle way.
Dulciana (n.) (Mus.) A sweet-toned stop of an organ.
Dulciana (n.) The organ stop having a tone of soft sweet string quality
Dulcification (n.) The act of dulcifying or sweetening. -- Boyle.
Dulcified (a.) Sweetened; mollified.
Dulcified spirit or Dulcified spirits, A compound of alcohol with mineral acids; as, dulcified spirits of niter.
Dulcifluous (a.) Flowing sweetly.
Dulcified (imp. & p. p.) of Dulcify.
Dulcifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dulcify.
Dulcify (v. t.) (Pharm.) To sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness, or acrimony. -- Wiseman.
Dulcify (v. t.) Fig. : To mollify; to sweeten; to please.
As she . . . was further dulcified by her pipe of tobacco. -- Hawthorne.
Dulciloquy (n.) A soft manner of speaking.
Dulcimer (n.) (Mus.) An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer.
Dulcimer (n.) (Mus.) An ancient musical instrument in use among the Jews. Dan. iii. 5. It is supposed to be the same with the psaltery.
Dulcimer (n.) A stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings.
Dulcimer (n.) A trapezoidal zither whose metal strings are struck with light hammers.
Dulcimer, () (Heb. sumphoniah), a musical instrument mentioned in Dan. 3:5, 15, along with other instruments there named, as sounded before the golden image. It was not a Jewish instrument. In the margin of the Revised Version it is styled the "bag-pipe." Luther translated it "lute," and Grotius the "crooked trumpet." It is probable that it was introduced into Babylon by some Greek or Western-Asiatic musician. Some Rabbinical commentators render it
by "organ," the well-known instrument composed of a series of pipes, others by "lyre." The most probable interpretation is that it was a bag-pipe similar to the zampagna of Southern Europe.
Dulcinea (n.) A mistress; a sweetheart.
I must ever have some Dulcinea in my head. -- Sterne.
Dulcinea (n.) A woman who is a man's sweetheart [syn: ladylove, dulcinea].
Dulciness (n.) See Dulceness. [Obs.]
Dulcite (n.) (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.
Dolcino, or Dulcino (n.) (Mus.) A small bassoon, formerly much used. -- Simmonds.
Dulcino (n.) (Mus.) See Dolcino.
Dulcitude (n.) Sweetness. [R.] -- Cockeram.
Dulcorate (v. t.) To sweeten; to make less acrimonious. [R.] -- Bacon.
Dulcoration (n.) The act of sweetening. [R.] -- Bacon.
Duledge (n.) (Mil.) One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage. --Wilhelm.
Dulia (n.) (R. C. Ch.) An inferior kind of veneration or worship, given to the angels and saints as the servants of God.
Dull (a.) Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish. "Dull at classical learning." -- Thackeray.
She is not bred so dull but she can learn. -- Shak.
Dull (a.) 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.
Dull (a.) Insensible; unfeeling.
Think me not So dull a devil to forget the loss Of such a matchless wife. -- Beau. & Fl.
Dull (a.) Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt. "Thy scythe is dull." -- Herbert.
Dull (a.) 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 (a.) Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert. "The dull earth." -- Shak.
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of study a dull brain. -- Longfellow.
Dull (a.) 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.
Syn: Lifeless; inanimate; dead; stupid; doltish; heavy; sluggish; sleepy; drowsy; gross; cheerless; tedious; irksome; dismal; dreary; clouded; tarnished; obtuse. See Lifeless.
Duller (imp. & p. p.) of Dull.
Dulling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dull.