Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 105
Dull (v. t.) To deprive of sharpness of edge or point. "This . . . dulled their swords." -- Bacon.
Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. -- Shak.
Dull (v. t.) To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.
Those [drugs] she has Will stupefy and dull the sense a while. -- Shak.
Use and custom have so dulled our eyes. -- Trench.
Dull (v. t.) To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish. "Dulls the mirror." -- Bacon.
Dull (v. t.) To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.
Attention of mind . . . wasted or dulled through continuance. -- Hooker.
Dull (v. i.) To become dull or stupid. -- Rom. of R.
Dull (a.) Lacking in liveliness or animation; "he was so dull at parties"; "a dull political campaign"; "a large dull impassive man"; "dull days with nothing to do"; "how dull and dreary the world is"; "fell back into one of her dull moods" [ant: lively].
Dull (a.) Emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky" [ant: bright].
Dull (a.) Being or made softer or less loud or clear; "the dull boom of distant breaking waves"; "muffled drums"; "the muffled noises of the street"; "muted trumpets" [syn: dull, muffled, muted, softened].
Dull (a.) So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome].
Dull (a.) (Of color) Very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull greens and blues."
Dull (a.) Not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain" [ant: sharp].
Dull (a.) Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students" [syn: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow].
Dull (a.) (Of business) Not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" [syn: dull, slow, sluggish].
Dull (a.) Not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to be of any use" [ant: sharp].
Dull (a.) Blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her." -- Willa Cather
Dull (a.) Not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets" [syn: dull, thudding].
Dull (a.) Darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "the sky was leaden and thick" [syn: dull, leaden].
Dull (v.) Make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface."
Dull (v.) Become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time."
Dull (v.) Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping [syn: muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down].
Dull (v.) Make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" [syn: numb, benumb, blunt, dull].
Dull (v.) Make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge" [syn: dull, blunt] [ant: sharpen].
Dull (v.) Become less interesting or attractive [syn: pall, dull].
Dull (v.) Make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel."
Dullard (n.) A stupid person; a dunce. -- Shak. -- a. Stupid. -- Bp. Hall.
Dullard (n.) A person who is not very bright; "The economy, stupid!" [syn: stupid, stupid person, stupe, dullard, dolt, pudding head, pudden-head, poor fish, pillock].
Dullard (n.) A person who evokes boredom [syn: bore, dullard].
Dullard (n.) A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life.
The Dullards came in with Adam, and being both numerous and sturdy have overrun the habitable world. The secret of their power is their insensibility to blows; tickle them with a bludgeon and they laugh with a platitude. The Dullards came originally from Boeotia, whence they were driven by stress of starvation, their dullness having blighted the crops. For some centuries they infested Philistia, and many of them are called Philistines to this day. In the turbulent times of the Crusades they withdrew thence and gradually overspread all Europe, occupying most of the high places in politics, art, literature, science and theology. Since a detachment of Dullards came over with the Pilgrims in the _Mayflower_ and made a favorable report of the country, their increase by birth, immigration, and conversion has been rapid and steady. According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians. The intellectual centre of the race is somewhere about Peoria, Illinois, but the New England Dullard is the most shockingly moral.
Dullard (n.) A stupid person.
Dull-brained (a.) Stupid; doltish. -- Shak.
Dull-browed (a.) Having a gloomy look.
Duller (n.) One who, or that which, dulls.
Dull-eyed (a.) Having eyes wanting brightness, liveliness, or vivacity. -- Shak.
Dullhead (n.) A blockhead; a dolt. -- Ascham.
Dullish (a.) Somewhat dull; uninteresting; tiresome. "A series of dullish verses." -- Prof. Wilson.
Dullness (n.) The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness. [Written also dulness.]
And gentle dullness ever loves a joke. -- Pope.
Dullness (n.) The quality of being slow to understand [syn: dullness, obtuseness].
Dullness (n.) The quality of lacking interestingness; "the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees."
Dullness (n.) A lack of visual brightness; "the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea" [ant: brightness].
Dullness (n.) Lack of sensibility; "there was a dullness in his heart"; "without him the dullness of her life crept into her work no matter how she tried to compartmentalize it."
Dullness (n.) Without sharpness or clearness of edge or point; "the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible" [syn: dullness, bluntness] [ant: asperity, keenness, sharpness].
Dull-sighted (a.) Having poor eyesight.
Dullsome (a.) Dull. [R.] -- Gataker.
Dullsville (n.) [Mass noun] (North American) (Informal) 【俚】無聊（單調）的東西（人、情況等） A dull or monotonous place or condition.
Compare: Monotonous
Monotonous (a.) （聲音）單調的，無抑揚頓挫的；因單一而使人厭倦的；無變化的；無聊的 Dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest.
‘The statistics that he quotes with monotonous regularity.’
‘Her slurred monotonous speech.’
Dull-witted (a.) Stupid.
Dully (adv.) In a dull manner; stupidly; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit.
Supinely calm and dully innocent. -- G. Lyttelton.
Dully (adv.) Without liveliness; "she nodded her head dully."
Dully (adv.) Without luster or shine; "the light shone dully through the haze"; "unpolished buttons glinted dully."
Compare: Doulocracy
Doulocracy (n.) A government by slaves. [Written also dulocracy.] -- Hare.
Dulocracy (n.) See Doulocracy.
Dulse (n.) (Bot.) A seaweed of a reddish brown color, which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland. The true dulse is Sarcophyllis edulis; the common is Rhodymenia. [Written also dillisk.]
The crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter. -- Percival.
Dulse (n.) Coarse edible red seaweed [syn: dulse, Rhodymenia palmata].
Dulwilly (n.) (Zool.) The ring plover. [Prov. Eng.]
Duly (adv.) In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it (anything) ought to be; properly; regularly.
Duly (adv.) At the proper time; "she was duly apprised of the raise" [syn: punctually, duly].
Dumal (a.) Pertaining to, or set with, briers or bushes; brambly. [R.]
Dumb (a.) Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes.
Dumb (a.) Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words; as, dumb show.
Dumb (a.) Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color.
Dumb (v. t.) To put to silence.
Dumb-bell (n.) A weight, consisting of two spheres or spheroids, connected by a short bar for a handle; used (often in pairs) for gymnastic exercise.
Dumbledor (n.) A bumblebee; also, a cockchafer.
Dumbly (adv.) In silence; mutely.
Dumbness (n.) The quality or state of being dumb; muteness; silence; inability to speak.
Dumb-waiter (n.) A framework on which dishes, food, etc., are passed from one room or story of a house to another; a lift for dishes, etc.; also, a piece of furniture with movable or revolving shelves.
Dumb waiter (n.) [ C ] （尤指餐廳中將食物從廚房送到不同樓層的）升降架 A small lift (= device used to move things from one level of a building to another) used especially in restaurants to bring food from the kitchen.
Dumetose (a.) Dumose.
Dumfounded (imp. & p. p.) of Dumfound
Dumfounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dumfound
Dumfound (v. t.) To strike dumb; to confuse with astonishment.
Dumfounder (v. t.) To dumfound; to confound.
Dummador (n.) A dumbledor.
Dummerer (n.) One who feigns dumbness.
Dummy (a.) Silent; mute; noiseless; as a dummy engine.
Dummy (a.) Fictitious or sham; feigned; as, a dummy watch.
Dummies (n. pl. ) of Dummy
Dummy (n.) One who is dumb.
Dummy (n.) A sham package in a shop, or one which does not contain what its exterior indicates.
Dummy (n.) An imitation or copy of something, to be used as a substitute; a model; a lay figure; as, a figure on which clothing is exhibited in shop windows; a blank paper copy used to show the size of the future book, etc.
Dummy (n.) One who plays a merely nominal part in any action; a sham character.
Dummy (n.) A thick-witted person; a dolt.
Dummy (n.) A locomotive with condensing engines, and, hence, without the noise of escaping steam; also, a dummy car.
Dummy (n.) The fourth or exposed hand when three persons play at a four-handed game of cards.
Dummy (n.) A floating barge connected with a pier.
Dumose (a.) Alt. of Dumous
Dumous (a.) Abounding with bushes and briers.
Dumous (a.) Having a compact, bushy form.
Dump (n.) <Operating system> An undigested and voluminous mass of information about a problem or the state of a system, especially one routed to the slowest available output device (compare core dump), and most especially one consisting of hexadecimal or octal runes describing the byte-by-byte state of memory, mass storage, or some file. In elder days, debugging was generally done by "groveling over" a dump (see grovel); increasing use of high-level languages and interactive debuggers has made such tedium uncommon, and the term "dump" now has a faintly archaic flavour.
Dump (n.) A backup. This usage is typical only at large time-sharing installations.
Unix manual page: dump (1). [Jargon File] (1994-12-01)
Dump (n.) An undigested and voluminous mass of information about a problem or the state of a system, especially one routed to the slowest available output device (compare {core dump}), and most especially one consisting of hex or octal {runes} describing the byte-by-byte state of memory, mass storage, or some file. In {elder days}, debugging was generally done by groveling over a dump (see {grovel}); increasing use of high-level languages and interactive debuggers has made such tedium uncommon, and the term dump now has a faintly archaic flavor.
Dump (n.) A backup. This usage is typical only at large timesharing installations.
Dump (n.) [See {Dumpling}.] A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.
Dump (n.) A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.
March slowly on in solemn dump. -- Hudibras.
Doleful dumps the mind oppress. -- Shak.
I was musing in the midst of my dumps. -- Bunyan.
Note: The ludicrous associations now attached to this word did not originally belong to it. "Holland's translation of Livy represents the Romans as being `in the dumps' after the battle of Cann[ae]." -- Trench.
Dump (n.) Absence of mind; revery. -- Locke.
Dump (n.) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. [Obs.] "Tune a deploring dump." "Play me some merry dump." -- Shak.
Dump (n.) An old kind of dance. [Obs.] -- Nares.
Dump (n.) A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
Dump (n.) A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
Dump (n.) That which is dumped.
Dump (n.) (Mining) A pile of ore or rock.
Dump (n.) A coarse term for defecation.
Syn: shit.
Dumped (imp. & p. p.) of Dump
Dumping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dump
Dump (v. t.) To knock heavily; to stump. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Dump (v. t.) 傾倒；拋棄；傾銷，拋售；猛地扔下；沉重地放下 [O] To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc. [U.S.] -- Bartlett.
{Dumping car} or {Dumping cart}, A railway car, or a cart, the body of which can be tilted to empty the contents; -- called also {dump car}, or {dump cart}.
Dump (n.) A coarse term for defecation; "he took a shit" [syn: {shit}, {dump}].
Dump (n.) 垃圾場；髒亂的地方；下流場所 A piece of land where waste materials are dumped [syn: {dump}, {garbage dump}, {trash dump}, {rubbish dump}, {wasteyard}, {waste-yard}, {dumpsite}].
Dump (n.) (Computer science) A copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs.
Dump (n.) A place where supplies can be stored; "an ammunition dump".
Dump (v.) (v. i.) 倒垃圾 Throw away as refuse; "No dumping in these woods!".
Dump (v.) Sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly; "The company dumped him after many years of service"; "She dumped her boyfriend when she fell in love with a rich man" [syn: {dump}, {ditch}].
Dump (v.) (v. i.) 傾銷商品 Sell at artificially low prices [syn: {dump}, {underprice}].
Dump (v.) Drop (stuff) in a heap or mass; "The truck dumped the garbage in the street".
Dump (v.) (v. i.) 砰地落下 Fall abruptly; "It plunged to the bottom of the well" [syn: {plunge}, {dump}].
Dump (v.) Knock down with force; "He decked his opponent" [syn: {deck}, {coldcock}, {dump}, {knock down}, {floor}].
DUMP (Acronyms) Dial-Up Network Profile (Bluetooth, SPP, DUN).
Dumpage (n.) 卸貨；卸貨權；卸貨費；垃圾堆；倒垃圾權；倒垃圾費 The act of dumping loads from carts, especially loads of refuse matter; also, a heap of dumped matter.
Dumpage (n.) A fee paid for the privilege of dumping loads ; called in some cases {Tipping fee}.
Compare: Tipping fee
Tipping fee (n.) 倾卸费用 A Tipping Fee is a fee paid by anyone who disposes of waste in a landfill. Usually, this fee is based on the weight of the waste per ton. This serves in helping with the maintenance and other operating costs of a landfill.
Early landfills did not include a Tipping Fee, as they were mostly unused areas and in some cases were open pits where waste was dumped and buried; some examples of this practice included Sheol, located outside of Jerusalem and the Cretan capital, Knossos. Generally, these sites would have large fires to burn the waste so it could be used continuously.
The use of incineration as a way to dispose of garbage continued well into the nineteenth century where burning waste proved convenient in energy production when in 1874 the British introduced the first “destructor” incineration plant. Here trash was burned to power steam engines for the generation of electricity. Though lasting until the 1960s, combustion soon fell out of favour at the beginning of the 1900s with destructors being abandoned due to their emissions and being poorly built or run.
In 1937, the first sanitary landfill opened in Fresno, California. These landfills soon became the norm and moved away from burning and burying waste as a solution. During its early years, regulations for sanitary landfills were limited and only acted as guidelines, poor management and disposal to cause numerous issues on reclaimed land (see the Love Canal).
It wasn’t until 1965 when the United States Congress passed the Solid Waste Disposal Act, the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, and the advent of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act in 1976 where better rules were set up to ensure waste was disposed of in an appropriate manner. Tipping Fees help in making sure that landfills are able to keep up with state and federal regulations and are able to continue to meet the demand during its lifetime.
Dumpiness (n.) The state of being dumpy.
Dumpish (a.) Dull; stupid; sad; moping; melancholy.
Dumple (v. t.) To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another.
Compare: Crust
Crust (n.) 麵包皮；乾麵包片；派餅皮 [C] [U]；硬外皮，外殼；冰面；雪殼 [C] [U]；地殼 [the S] The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow.
I have known the statute of an emperor quite hid under a crust of dross. -- Addison.
Below this icy crust of conformity, the waters of infidelity lay dark and deep as ever. -- Prescott.
Crust (n.) (Cookery) The hard exterior or surface of bread, in distinction from the soft part or crumb; or a piece of bread grown dry or hard.
Crust (n.) (Cookery) The cover or case of a pie, in distinction from the soft contents.
Crust (n.) (Cookery) The dough, or mass of doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; -- also called {Dumpling}.
Th' impenetrable crust thy teeth defies. -- Dryden.
He that keeps nor crust nor crumb. -- Shak.
They . . . made the crust for the venison pasty. -- Macaulay.
Crust (n.) (Geol.) The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally supposed to inclose a molten interior.
Crust (n.) (Zool.) The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
Crust (n.) (Med.) A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus, occurring upon the surface of the body.
Crust (n.) An incrustation on the interior of wine bottles, the result of the ripening of the wine; a deposit of tartar, etc. See {Beeswing}.
Crust (n.) The tough outer part of a loaf of bread.
‘A sandwich with the crusts cut off.’
[Mass noun] ‘I tore off several pieces of crust from the loaf.’
Crust (n.) A hard, dry scrap of bread.
‘A kindly old woman might give her a crust.’
Crust (n.) A hardened layer, coating, or deposit on the surface of something soft.
‘A crust of snow.’
‘The earth's crust.’
Crust (n.) A deposit of tartrates and other substances formed in wine aged in the bottle, especially port.
Crust (n.) [British informal] A living or livelihood.
‘I've been earning a crust wherever I can.’
Crust (v.) [No object] Form into a hard outer layer.
‘The blisters eventually crust over.’
Crust (v.) [With object] 用硬皮覆蓋；在……上結硬皮 Cover with a hard outer layer.
‘The burns crusted his cheek.’
Dumpling (n.) 餃子；湯圓；湯糰；（水果）布丁 A roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and boiled or baked; as, an apple dumpling.
Dumpling (n.) Small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough [syn: {dumpling}, {dumplings}].
Dumpling (n.) Dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry.
Dumpy (a.) 【口】矮胖的，粗短的；【美】【俚】醜陋的，骯髒破舊的 Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout.
Compare : Disproportionately
Disproportionately (adv.) 不成比例地；太大或太小；不相稱地 In a way that is too large or too small when compared with something else.
Examples:
The lower-paid spend a disproportionately large amount of their earnings on food.
Dumpy (a.) Sullen or discontented. See 2nd {dump [1]}. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Dumpy (a.) Resembling a garbage dump.
Dumpy (a.) Short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; "some people seem born to be square and chunky"; "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman"; "dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure" [syn: {chunky}, {dumpy}, {low-set}, {squat}, {squatty}, {stumpy}].
Dumpy (a.) Short and plump [syn: {dumpy}, {podgy}, {pudgy}, {tubby}, {roly-poly}].
Dun (n.) A mound or small hill.
Dun (v. t.) To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.
Dunned (imp. & p. p.) of Dun
Dunning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dun
Dun (v. t. & i.) To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately.
Dun (n.) One who duns; a dunner.
Dun (n.) An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.
Dun (a.) Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
Dunbird (n.) The pochard; -- called also dunair, and dunker, or dun-curre.
Dunbird (n.) An American duck; the ruddy duck.
Dunce (n.) One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.
Duncedom (n.) The realm or domain of dunces.
Duncery (n.) Dullness; stupidity.
Duncical (a.) Like a dunce; duncish.
Duncify (v. t.) To make stupid in intellect.
Duncish (a.) Somewhat like a dunce.
Dunder (n.) The lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum.
Dunderhead (n.) A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead.
Dunder-headed (a.) Thick-headed; stupid.
Dunderpate (n.) See Dunderhead.
Dune (n.) A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds.
Dunfish (n.) Codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality.
Ding (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Dinged, Dang (Obs.), or Dung (Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Dinging.] To dash; to throw violently. [Obs.]
To ding the book a coit's distance from him. -- Milton.
Ding (v. t.) To cause to sound or ring.
To ding (anything) in one's ears, To impress one by noisy repetition, as if by hammering.
Dung (n.) The excrement of an animal. -- Bacon.
Dunged (imp. & p. p.) of Dung
Dunging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dung
Dung (v. t.) To manure with dung. -- Dryden.