Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 106
Dung (v. t.) (Calico Print.) 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. -- Swift.
Dung (n.) Fecal matter of animals [syn: droppings, dung, muck].
Dung (v.) Fertilize or dress with dung; "you must dung the land".
Dung (v.) Defecate; used of animals.
Dung, () Used as manure (Luke 13:8); collected outside the city walls (Neh. 2:13). Of sacrifices, burned outside the camp (Ex. 29:14; Lev. 4:11; 8:17; Num. 19:5). To be "cast out as dung," a figurative expression (1 Kings 14:10; 2 Kings 9:37; Jer. 8:2; Ps. 18:42), meaning to be rejected as unprofitable.
Dung, () Used as fuel, a substitute for firewood, which was with difficulty procured in Syria, Arabia, and Egypt (Ezek. 4:12-15), where cows' and camels' dung is used to the present day for this purpose.
DUNG. Manure. Sometimes it is real estate, and at other times personal property. When collected in a heap, it is personal estate; when spread out on the land, it becomes incorporated in it, and it is then real estate. Vide Manure.
Dungaree (n.) A coarse kind of unbleached cotton stuff.
Dungeon (n.) A close, dark prison, commonly, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons.
Down with him even into the deep dungeon. -- Tyndale.
Year after year he lay patiently in a dungeon. -- Macaulay.
Dungeon (v. t.) To shut up in a dungeon. -- Bp. Hall.
Dungeon (n.) The main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress [syn: keep, donjon, dungeon].
Dungeon (n.) A dark cell (usually underground) where prisoners can be Confined.
Zork Dungeon, () The second of the great early experiments in computer fantasy gaming; see ADVENT. Zork was originally written on MIT-DM during the late 1970s, later distributed with BSD Unix as a patched, sourceless RT-11 Fortran binary (see retrocomputing) and commercialised as "The Zork Trilogy" by Infocom. The Fortran source was later rewritten for portability and released to Usenet under the name "Dungeon".
Both Fortran "Dungeon" and translated C versions are available from many FTP archives. [{Jargon File] (1998-09-21)
Dungeon, () Different from the ordinary prison in being more severe as a place of punishment. Like the Roman inner prison (Acts 16:24), it consisted of a deep cell or cistern (Jer. 38:6). To be shut up in, a punishment common in Egypt (Gen. 39:20; 40:3; 41:10; 42:19). It is not mentioned, however, in the law of Moses as a mode of punishment. Under the later kings imprisonment was frequently used as a punishment (2 Chron. 16:10; Jer. 20:2; 32:2; 33:1; 37:15), and it was customary after the Exile (Matt. 11:2; Luke 3:20; Acts 5:18, 21; Matt. 18:30).
DUNGEON, () A cell under ground; a place in a prison built under ground, dark, or but indifferently lighted. In the prisons of the United States, there are few or no dungeons.
Dungfork (n.) A fork for tossing dung.
Dunghill (n.) A heap of dung.
Dunghill (n.) Any mean situation or condition; a vile abode.
He . . . lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill. -- 1. Sam. ii. 8.
Dunghill fowl, A domestic fowl of common breed.
Dunghill (n.) A foul or degraded condition.
Dunghill (n.) A heap of dung or refuse [syn: dunghill, midden, muckheap, muckhill].
Dung-hill, To sit on a, was a sign of the deepest dejection (1 Sam. 2:8; Ps. 113:7; Lam. 4:5).
Dungmeer (n.) A pit where dung and weeds rot for manure.
Dungy (a.) Full of dung; filthy; vile; low. -- Shak.
Dungyard (n.) A yard where dung is collected.
Dunbird (n.) [Named from its color.] (Zool.) The pochard; -- called also dunair, and dunker, or dun-curre.
Dunbird (n.) An American duck; the ruddy duck.
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.
Note: The denomination was founded in Germany in 1708, but after a few years the members emigrated to the United States; they were opposed to military service and taking legal oaths, and practiced trine immersion.
Seventh-day Dunkers, A sect which separated from the Dunkers and formed a community, in 1728. They keep the seventh day or Saturday as the Sabbath.
Dunlin (n.) (Zool.) A species of sandpiper (Tringa alpina); -- called also churr, dorbie, grass bird, and red-backed sandpiper. It is found both in Europe and America.
Dunlin (n.) Small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions [syn: red-backed sandpiper, dunlin, Erolia alpina].
Dunnage (n.) (Naut.) 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.
DUNNAGE, mer. law. Pieces of wood placed against the sides and bottom of the hold of a vessel, to preserve the cargo from the effect of leakage, according to its nature and quality. 2 Magens, 101, art. 125, 126 Abbott on Shipp. 227.
Dunner (n.) One employed in soliciting the payment of debts.
Dunnish (a.) Inclined to a dun color. -- Ray.
Hedge (n.) A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.
The roughest berry on the rudest hedge. -- Shak.
Through the verdant maze Of sweetbrier hedges I pursue my walk. -- Thomson.
Note: Hedge, when used adjectively or in composition, often means rustic, outlandish, illiterate, poor, or mean; as, hedge priest; hedgeborn, etc.
Hedge bells, Hedge bindweed (Bot.), A climbing plant related to the morning-glory ({Convolvulus sepium).
Hedge bill, A long-handled billhook.
Hedge garlic (Bot.), A plant of the genus Alliaria. See Garlic mustard, under Garlic.
Hedge hyssop (Bot.), A bitter herb of the genus Gratiola, the leaves of which are emetic and purgative.
Hedge marriage, A secret or clandestine marriage, especially one performed by a hedge priest. [Eng.]
Hedge mustard (Bot.), A plant of the genus Sisymbrium, belonging to the Mustard family.
Hedge nettle (Bot.), An herb, or under shrub, of the genus Stachys, belonging to the Mint family. It has a nettlelike appearance, though quite harmless.
Hedge note. (a) The note of a hedge bird.
Hedge note. (b) Low, contemptible writing. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Hedge priest, A poor, illiterate priest. -- Shak.
Hedge school, An open-air school in the shelter of a hedge, in Ireland; a school for rustics.
Hedge sparrow (Zool.), A European warbler ({Accentor modularis) which frequents hedges. Its color is reddish brown, and ash; the wing coverts are tipped with white. Called also chanter, hedge warbler, dunnock, and doney.
Hedge writer, An insignificant writer, or a writer of low, scurrilous stuff. [Obs.] -- Swift.
To breast up a hedge. See under Breast.
To hang in the hedge, To be at a standstill. "While the business of money hangs in the hedge." -- Pepys.
Dunnock (n.) (Zool.) The hedge sparrow or hedge accentor. [Local, Eng.]
Dunnock (n.) Small brownish European songbird [syn: hedge sparrow, sparrow, dunnock, Prunella modularis].
Dunny (a.) Deaf; stupid. [Prov. Eng.]
My old dame Joan is something dunny, and will scarce know how to manage. -- Sir W. Scott.
Dunt (n.) A blow. [Obs.] -- R. of Glouc.
Dunted (a.) Beaten; hence, blunted. [Obs.]
Fencer's swords . . . having the edge dunted. -- Fuller.
Dunter (n.) (Zool.) A porpoise. [Scott.]
Dunter goose (Zool.) The eider duck. -- J. Brand.
Duo (n.) (Mus.) A composition for two performers; a duet. Duodecahedral
Duo (n.) Two items of the same kind [syn: couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad].
Duo (n.) Two performers or singers who perform together [syn: duet, duette, duo].
Duo (n.) A pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable twosome" [syn: couple, twosome, duo, duet].
Duo (n.) A musical composition for two performers [syn: duet, duette, duo].
Duodecahedral (n.) Alt. of Duodecahedron
Duodecahedron (n.) See Dodecahedral, and Dodecahedron.
Duodecennial (a.) Consisting of twelve years. [R.] -- Ash.
Duodecimal (a.) Proceeding in computation by twelves; expressed in the scale of twelves. -- Du`o*dec"i*mal*ly, adv.
Duodecimal (n.) A twelfth part; as, the duodecimals of an inch.
Duodecimal (n.) pl. (Arch.) 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.
Duodecimal (a.) Based on twelve; "the duodecimal number system".
Duodecimal (n.) One part in twelve equal parts [syn: one-twelfth, twelfth, twelfth part, duodecimal].
Duodecimfid (a.) Divided into twelve parts.
Duodecimo (a.) Having twelve leaves to a sheet; as, a duodecimo from, book, leaf, size, etc.
Duodecimos (n. pl. ) of Duodecimo
Duodecimo (n.; pl.) Duodecimos. 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[deg].
Duodecuple (a.) Consisting of twelves. -- Arbuthnot.
Duodenal (a.) Of or pertaining to the duodenum; as, duodenal digestion.
Duodenary (a.) Containing twelve; twelvefold; increasing by twelves; duodecimal.
Duodenum (n.) (Anat.) The part of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.
Duodenum (n.) The part of the small intestine between the stomach and the jejunum.
Duoliteral (a.) Consisting of two letters only; biliteral. -- Stuart.
Duomo (n.) A cathedral. See Dome, 2.
Of tower or duomo, sunny sweet. -- Tennyson.
Duomo (n.) The principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese [syn: cathedral, duomo].
Dup (v. t.) To open; as, to dup the door. [Obs.] -- Shak.
DUP, () Distribution Unit Profile (MS, OSD, DU, MSIE)
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.
Ne'er have I duped him with base counterfeits. -- Coleridge.
Dupe (n.) A person who is tricked or swindled [syn: victim, dupe].
Dupe (v.) Fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he truste everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one across]
Duper (n.) One who dupes another.
Dupery (n.) The act or practice of duping. [R.]
Dupery (n.) Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage [syn: fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on].
Dupion (n.) A double cocoon, made by two silkworms.
Duple (a.) Double.
Duple ratio (Math.), That in which the antecedent term is double the consequent, as of 2 to 1, 8 to 4, etc.
Duple (a.) Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs; "an egg with a double yolk"; "a double (binary) star"; "double doors"; "dual controls for pilot and copilot"; "duple (or double) time consists of two (or a multiple of two) beats to a measure" [syn: double, dual, duple].
Duplex (a.) Double; twofold.
Duplex (a.) (Computers)
Organized so that data may be transmitted in two opposite directions over the
same channel; -- of communications channels, such as data transfer lines
between computers.
Duplex escapement, A peculiar kind of watch escapement, in which the
scape-wheel has two sets of teeth. See Escapement.
Duplex
lathe, One for
turning off, screwing, and surfacing, by means of two cutting tools, on
opposite sides of the piece operated upon.
Duplex pumping engine, A steam pump in which two steam cylinders are
placed side by side, one operating the valves of the other.
Duplex querela (Eccl. Law), A complaint in the nature of an appeal from the ordinary to his immediate superior, as from a bishop to an archbishop. -- Mozley & W.
Duplex telegraphy, A system of telegraphy for sending two messages over the same wire simultaneously.
Duplex watch, One with a duplex escapement.
Half duplex (Computers) (a) Arranged so that the information may be transmitted in both directions, but only in one direction at a time; -- of communications channels between computers; contrasted with full duplex(a).
Half duplex (Computers) (b) arranged so that the information transmitted to the remote computer also appears on the local terminal; -- of communications channels between computers; contrasted with full duplex(b).
Full duplex, (Computers) (a) arranged so that the information may be transmitted in both directions simultaneously; -- of communications channels between computers; contrasted with half duplex(a).
Full duplex, (Computers) (b) arranged so that the information transmitted to the remote computer does not appear on the local terminal; -- of communications channels between computers; contrasted with half duplex(b).
Duplex (v. t.) (Teleg.) To arrange, as a telegraph line, so that two messages may be transmitted simultaneously; to equip with a duplex telegraphic outfit.
Duplex (n.) Something which is duplex; -- used mostly in reference to a living unit, such as an apartment, in a building having two similar living units.
Duplex (n.) (Biology, Genetics) A double-stranded region in a nucleic acid molecule. See deoxyribonucleic acid.
Duplex (a.) (Used technically of a device or process) Having two parts; "a duplex transaction".
Duplex (a.) Allowing communication in opposite directions simultaneously; "duplex system"; "duplex telephony"
Duplex (n.) A house with two units sharing a common wall [syn: duplex house, duplex, semidetached house].
Duplex (n.) An apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase [syn: duplex apartment, duplex].
Duplex (v.) Change into a duplex
Duplex, () Used to describe a communications channel that can carry signals in both directions, in contrast to a simplex channel which only ever carries a signal in one direction.
If signals can only flow in one direction at a time the communications is "{half-duplex", like a single-lane road with traffic lights at each end. Walkie-talkies with a "press-to-talk" button provide half-duplex communications.
If signals can flow in both directions simultaneously the communications is "{full-duplex", like a normal two-lane road. Telephones provide full-duplex communications.
The term "duplex" was first used in wireless, telegraph, and telephone communications. Nearly all communications circuits used by computers are two-way, so the term is seldom used. (2001-07-21)
Duplicate (a.) Double; twofold.
Duplicate proportion or Duplicate ratio (Math.), 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 (n.) That which exactly resembles or corresponds to something else; another, correspondent to the first; hence, a copy; a transcript; a counterpart.
I send a duplicate both of it and my last dispatch. -- Sir W. Temple.
Duplicate (n.) (Law) 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. -- Burrill.
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. -- Glanvill.
Duplicate (v. t.) (Biol.) To divide into two by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, infusoria duplicate themselves.
Duplicate (a.) Identically copied from an original; "a duplicate key".
Duplicate (a.) Being two identical [syn: duplicate, matching, twin(a), twinned].
Duplicate (n.) Something additional of the same kind; "he always carried extras in case of an emergency" [syn: extra, duplicate].
Duplicate (n.) A copy that corresponds to an original exactly; "he made a duplicate for the files" [syn: duplicate, duplication].
Duplicate (v.) Make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn: duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate].
Duplicate (v.) Duplicate or match; "The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse" [syn: twin, duplicate, parallel].
Duplicate (v.) Make a duplicate or duplicates of; "Could you please duplicate this letter for me?"
Duplicate (v.) Increase twofold; "The population doubled within 50 years" [syn: double, duplicate].
Duplication (n.) The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold.
Duplication (n.) (Biol.) The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells. -- Carpenter.
Duplication of the cube (Math.), The operation of finding a cube having a volume which is double that of a given cube.
Duplication (n.) A copy that corresponds to an original exactly; "he made a duplicate for the files" [syn: duplicate, duplication].
Duplication (n.) The act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something; "this kind of duplication is wasteful" [syn: duplication, gemination].
Duplicative (a.) Having the quality of duplicating or doubling.
Duplicative (a.) (Biol.) Having the quality of subdividing into two by natural growth. "Duplicative subdivision." -- Carpenter.
Duplicature (n.) A doubling; a fold, as of a membrane.
Duplicities (n. pl. ) of Duplicity
Duplicity (n.) 口是心非；欺騙 Doubleness; a twofold state. [Archaic]
Do not affect duplicities nor triplicities, nor any certain number of parts in your division of things. -- I. Watts.
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.
Far from the duplicity wickedly charged on him, he acted his part with alacrity and resolution. -- Burke.
Duplicity (n.) (Law) The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient.
Duplicity (n.) (Law) In indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses. -- Wharton.
Syn: Double dealing; dissimulation; deceit; guile; deception; falsehood.
Duplicity (n.) A fraudulent or duplicitous representation [syn: fraudulence, duplicity].
Duplicity (n.) Acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another [syn: duplicity, double-dealing].
DUPLICITY, () pleading. Duplicity of pleading consists in multiplicity of distinct matter to one and the same thing, whereunto several answers are required. Duplicity may occur in one and the same pleading. Double pleading consists in alleging, for one single purpose or object, two or more distinct grounds of defence, when one of them would be as effectual in law, as both or all.
DUPLICITY, () This the common law does not allow, because it produces useless prolixity, and always tends to confusion, and to the multiplication of issues. Co. Litt. 304, a; Finch's Law, 393.; 3 Bl. Com. 311; Bac. Ab. Pleas, K 1.
DUPLICITY, () Duplicity may be in the declaration, or the subsequent proceedings: Duplicity in the declaration consists in joining, in one and the same count, different grounds of action, of different natures, Cro. Car. 20; or of the same nature, 2 Co. 4 a; 1 Saund. 58, n. 1; 2 Ventr. 198; Steph. Pl. 266; to enforce only a single right of recovery.
DUPLICITY, () This is a fault in pleading, only because it tends to useless prolixity and confusion, and is, therefore, only a fault in form. The rule forbidding double pleading "extends," according to Lord Coke, "to pleas perpetual or peremptory, and not to pleas dilatory; for in their time and place a man may use divers of them." Co. Litt. 304, a. But by this is not meant that any dilatory plea way be double, or, in other words, that it way consist of different matters, or answers to one and the same thing; but merely that, as there are several kinds or classes of dilatory pleas, having distinct offices or effects, a defendant may use "divers of them" successively, (each being in itself single,) in their proper order. Steph. Pl. App. note 56.
DUPLICITY, () The inconveniences which were felt in consequence of this strictness were remedied by the statute, 4 Ann. c. 16, s. 4, which provides, that " it shall be lawful for any defendant, or tenant, in any action or suit, or for any plaintiff in replevin, in any court of record, with leave of the court to plead as many several matters thereto as he shall think necessary for his defence."
DUPLICITY, () This provision, or a similar one, is in force, probably, in most of the states of the American Union.
DUPLICITY, () Under this statute, the defendant may, with leave of court, plead as many different pleas in bar, (each being a single,) as he may think proper; but although this statute allows the defendant to plead several distinct and substantive matters of defence, in several distinct pleas, to the whole, or one and the same part of the plaintiff's demand; yet, it does not authorize him to allege more than one, ground of defence in one plea. Each plea must still be single, as by the rules of the common law. Lawes, Pl. 131; 1 Chit. Pl. 512.
DUPLICITY, () This statute extends only to pleas to the declaration, and does not embrace replications, rejoinders, nor any of the subsequent pleadings. Lawes, Pl. 132; 2 chit. Pl. 421; Com. Dig. Pleader, E 2; Story's Pl. 72, 76; 5 Am. Jur. 260-288. Vide) generally, 1 Chit. Pl. 230, 512; Steph. Pl. c. 2, s. 3, rule 1; Gould on Pl. c. 8, p. 1; Archb. Civ. Pl. 191; Doct. Pl. 222; 5 John. 240; 8 Vin. Ab. 183; U. S. Dig. Pleading, II. e and f.
Duplicity (n.) [ U ] (Formal) 欺騙；（尤指）搞兩面派 Dishonest talk or behaviour, especially by saying different things to two people.
// They were accused of duplicity in their dealings with both sides.
Dubber (n.) [Hind. dabbah.] A globular vessel or bottle of leather, used in India to hold ghee, oil, etc. [Also written dupper.] -- M'Culloch.
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.) 耐久性 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.
A Gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our minds by the size, its height, . . . its antiquity, and its durability. -- Blair.
Durability (n.) Permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force; "they advertised the durability of their products" [syn: lastingness, durability, enduringness, strength].
Durable (a.) 經久的，耐用的；持久的 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.
Riches and honor are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness. -- Prov. viii. 18.
An interest which from its object and grounds must be so durable. -- De Quincey.
Syn: Lasting; permanent; enduring; firm; stable; continuing; constant; persistent. See Lasting.
Durable (a.) Existing for a long time; "hopes for a durable peace"; "a long-lasting friendship" [syn: durable, lasting, long-lasting, long-lived].
Durable (a.) Capable of withstanding wear and tear and decay; "durable denim jeans" [syn: durable, long-wearing].
Durable (a.) Very long lasting; "less durable rocks were gradually worn away to form valleys"; "the perdurable granite of the ancient Appalachian spine of the continent" [syn: durable, indestructible, perdurable, undestroyable].
Durable (a.) Able to resist wear, decay, etc., well; lasting; enduring.
Durable (n.) (pl. Durables.) 耐用品 [P] Durable goods.
Durableness (n.) 經久；耐久性 Power of lasting, enduring, or resisting; durability.
The durableness of the metal that supports it. -- Addison.
Durably (adv.) 經久地；持久地 In a lasting manner; with long continuance.
Dural (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to the dura, or dura mater.
Dural (a.) Of or relating to the dura mater.
Dura mater () (Anat.) 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.
Dura mater (n.) The outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges [syn: dura mater, dura].
Duramen (n.) The older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood [syn: heartwood, duramen].
Duramen (n.) (Bot.) The heartwood of an exogenous tree.
Compare: Heartwood
Heartwood (n.) The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.
Duramen (n.) The older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood [syn: heartwood, duramen].
Durance (n.) Continuance; duration. See Endurance. [Archaic]
Of how short durance was this new-made state! -- Dryden.
Durance (n.) Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak. "Durance vile." -- Burns.
In durance, exile, Bedlam or the mint. -- Pope.
Durance (n.) A stout cloth stuff, formerly made in imitation of buff leather and used for garments; a sort of tammy or everlasting.
Where didst thou buy this buff? let me not live but I will give thee a good suit of durance. -- J. Webster.
Durance (n.) In modern manufacture, a worsted of one color used for window blinds and similar purposes.
Durance (n.) Imprisonment (especially for a long time).
Durancy (n.) Duration. [Obs.] -- Dr. H. More.
Durant (n.) See Durance, 3.
Durant (n.) United States historian (1885-1981) [syn: Durant, Will Durant, William James Durant].
Durant, OK -- U.S. city in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 13549
Housing Units (2000): 6082
Land area (2000): 19.025820 sq. miles (49.276645 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.031109 sq. miles (0.080573 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 19.056929 sq. miles (49.357218 sq. km)
FIPS code: 22050
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 33.999834 N, 96.384825 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 74701
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Durant, OK
Durant
Durant, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 1677
Housing Units (2000): 702
Land area (2000): 0.995019 sq. miles (2.577086 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.995019 sq. miles (2.577086 sq. km)
FIPS code: 22980
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.600973 N, 90.909183 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 52747
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Durant, IA
Durant
Durant, MS -- U.S. city in Mississippi
area Population (2000): 2932
Housing Units (2000): 1209
Land area (2000): 2.227340 sq. miles (5.768785 sq. km)
Water (2000): 0.023821 sq. miles (0.061695 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.251161 sq. miles (5.830480 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20500
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 33.076313 N, 89.856405 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 39063
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Durant, MS
Durant
Durante (prep.) (Law) During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure.
Durante (n.) United States comedian remembered for his large nose and hoarse voice (1893-1980) [syn: Durante, Jimmy Durante].
Duration (n.) The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists.
It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should be limited. -- Macaulay.
Soon shall have passed our own human duration. -- D. Webster.
Duration (n.) The period of time during which something continues [syn: duration, continuance].
Duration (n.) The property of enduring or continuing in time [syn: duration, continuance].
Duration (n.) Continuance in time; "the ceremony was of short duration"; "he complained about the length of time required" [syn: duration, length].
Durative (a.) Continuing; not completed; implying duration.
Its durative tense, which expresses the thought of it as going on. -- J. Byrne.
Durative (n.) The aspect of a verb that expresses its duration [syn: durative, durative aspect].
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. [India] [Written also darbar.]
Durbar (n.) The room in the palace of a native prince of India in which audiences and receptions occur.
Dure (a.) Hard; harsh; severe; rough; toilsome. [R.]
The winter is severe, and life is dure and rude. -- W. H. Russell.
Dure (a.) To last; to continue; to endure. [Obs.] -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while. -- Matt. xiii. 21.
Dureful (a.) Lasting. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Dureless (a.) Not lasting. [Obs.] -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Durene (n.) (Chem.) 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.
The agreements . . . made with the landlords during the time of slavery, are only the effect of duress and force. -- Burke.
Duress (n.) (Law) 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. "The party duressed." -- Bacon.
Duress (n.) Compulsory force or threat; "confessed under duress".
DURESS. () An actual or a threatened violence or restraint of a man's person, contrary to law, to compel him to enter into a contract, or to discharge one. 1 Fairf. 325.
DURESS. () Sir William Blackstone divides duress into two sorts: First. Duress of imprisonment, where a man actually loses his liberty. If a man be illegally deprived of his liberty until he sign and seal a bond, or the like, he may allege this duress, and avoid the bond. But, if a man be legally imprisoned, and either to procure his discharge, or on any other fair account, seal a bond or a deed, this is not by duress of imprisonment, and he is not at liberty to avoid it. 2 Inst. 482; 3 Caines' R. 168; 6 Mass. R. 511; 1 Lev. 69; 1 Hen. & Munf. 350; 5 Shepl. R. 338. Where the proceedings at, law are a mere pretext, the instrument may be avoided. Aleyn, 92; 1 Bl. Com. 136.
DURESS. () Second. Duress per minas, which is either for fear of loss of life, or else for fear of mayhem, or loss of limb,; and this must be upon a sufficient reason. 1 Bl. Com. 131. In this case, a man way avoid his own act. Id. Lord Coke enumerates four instances in which a man may avoid his own act by reason of menaces: 1st. For fear of loss of life. 2d. Of member. 3d. Of mayhem. 4th. Of imprisonment. 2 Inst. 483; 2 Roll. Abr. 124 Bac. Ab. Duress; Id. Murder, A; 2 Str. R. 856 Fost. Cr. Law, 322; 2 St. R. 884 2 Ld. Raym. 1578; Sav. Dr. Rom. Sec. 114.
DURESS. () In South Carolina, duress of goods, under circumstances of great hardship, will avoid a contract. 2 Bay R. 211 Bay, R. 470. But see Hardin, R. 605; 2 Gallis. R. 337.
DURESS. () In Louisiana consent to a contract is void if it be produced by violence or threats, and the contract is invalid. Civ. Code of Louis. art. 1844.
DURESS. () It is not every degree of violence or any hind of threats, that will invalidate a contract; they must be such as would naturally operate on a person of ordinary firmness, and inspire a just fear of great injury to person, reputation or fortune. The age, sex, state of health; temper and disposition of the party, and other circumstances calculated to give greater or less effect to the violence or threats, must be taken into consideration. Id. art. 1845. The author of Fleta states the rule of the ancient common law thus: "Est autem metus praesentis vel futuri periculi causa mentis trepidatio; est praesertim viri constantis et non cujuslibet vani hominis vel meticulosi et talis debet esse metus qui in se contineat, mortis periculum, vel corporis cruciatura."
DURESS. () A contract by violence or threats, is void, although the party in whose favor the contract is made, and not exercise the violence or make the threats, and although he were ignorant of them. Id. 1846.
DURESS. () Violence or threats are cause of nullity, not only where they are exercised on the contracting party, but when the wife, the husband, the descendants or ascendants of the party are the object of them. Id. 1847. Fleta adds on this subject: "et exceptionem habet si sibi ipsi inferatur vis et metus verumetiam si vis ut filio vel filiae, patri vel fratri, vel sorori et ahis domesticis et propinquis."
DURESS. () If the violence used be only a legal constraint, or the threats only of doing that which the party using them had a right to do, they shall not invalidate the contract A just and legal imprisonment, or threats of any measure authorized by law, and the circumstances of the case, are of this description. Id. 1850. See Norris Peake's Evid. 440, and the cases cited also, 6 Mass. Rep. 506, for the general rule at common law.
DURESS. () But the mere forms of law to cover coercive proceedings for an unjust and illegal cause, if used or threatened in order to procure the assent to a contract, will invalidate it; an arrest without cause of action, or a demand of bail in an unreasonable sum, or threat of such proceeding, by this rule invalidate a contract made under their pressure. Id. 1851.
DURESS. () All the above, articles relate to cases where there may be some other motive besides the violence or threats for making the contract. When, however, there is no other cause for making the contract, any threats, even of slight injury, will invalidate it. Id. 1853. Vide, generally, 2 Watts, 167; 1 Bailey, 84; 6 Mass. 511; 6 N. H. Rep. 508; 2 Gallis. R. 337.
Duressor (n.) (Law) One who subjects another to duress. -- Bacon.
Durga (n.) (Myth.) Same as Doorga.
Durga (n.) Hindu goddess of war; a malevolent aspect of Devi; "the inaccessible Durga".
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
Durham (n.) A city of north central North Carolina; site of Duke University.
Durham (n.) English breed of short-horned cattle [syn: Durham, shorthorn].
Durham -- U.S. County in North Carolina
Population (2000): 223314
Housing Units (2000): 95452
Land area (2000): 290.317479 sq. miles (751.918788 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 7.474608 sq. miles (19.359145 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 297.792087 sq. miles (771.277933 sq. km)
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.998343 N, 78.900356 W
Headwords:
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Durham, NC
Durham County
Durham County, NC
Durham, CA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in California
Population (2000): 5220
Housing Units (2000): 1986
Land area (2000): 81.803499 sq. miles (211.870081 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.115381 sq. miles (0.298836 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 81.918880 sq. miles (212.168917 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20270
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 39.640086 N, 121.797797 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 95938
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Headwords:
Durham, CA
Durham
Durham, NH -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New Hampshire
Population (2000): 9024
Housing Units (2000): 1718
Land area (2000): 2.655097 sq. miles (6.876669 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.050562 sq. miles (0.130954 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.705659 sq. miles (7.007623 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19620
Located within: New Hampshire (NH), FIPS 33
Location: 43.138795 N, 70.925437 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
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Durham
Durham, CT -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Connecticut
Population (2000): 2773
Housing Units (2000): 1078
Land area (2000): 6.258246 sq. miles (16.208783 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.008122 sq. miles (0.021037 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.266368 sq. miles (16.229820 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20740
Located within: Connecticut (CT), FIPS 09
Location: 41.472741 N, 72.681534 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 06422
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Headwords:
Durham, CT
Durham
Durham, NC -- U.S. city in North Carolina
Population (2000): 187035
Housing Units (2000): 80797
Land area (2000): 94.633782 sq. miles (245.100359 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.283001 sq. miles (0.732970 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 94.916783 sq. miles (245.833329 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19000
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.988644 N, 78.907167 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 27701 27703 27704 27705 27706 27707 27712
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Headwords:
Durham, NC
Durham
Durham, OR -- U.S. city in Oregon
Population (2000): 1382
Housing Units (2000): 552
Land area (2000): 0.439529 sq. miles (1.138376 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.439529 sq. miles (1.138376 sq. km)
FIPS code: 21250
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 45.394507 N, 122.758689 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Durham, OR
Durham
Durham, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 114
Housing Units (2000): 64
Land area (2000): 0.210432 sq. miles (0.545016 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.210432 sq. miles (0.545016 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19050
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 38.484392 N, 97.227337 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 67438
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Durham, KS
Durham
Durian (n.) Alt. of Durion
Durion (n.) (Bot.) 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.
Durio (n.) (Bot.) A fruit tree ({Durio zibethinus, the only species known) of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian.
Durion (n.) Tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind [syn: durian, durion, durian tree, Durio zibethinus].
Durion (n.) Huge fruit native to southeastern Asia `smelling like Hell and tasting like Heaven'; seeds are roasted and eaten like nuts.