Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 107
During (prep.) In the time of; as long as the action or existence of; as, during life; during the space of a year.
Durio (n.) (Bot.) A fruit tree ({D. zibethinus, the only species known) of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian.
Durio (n.) A genus of tall Asian trees of the family Bombacaceae [syn: Durio, genus Durio].
Durity (n.) [Obs.] Hardness; firmness. -- Sir T. Browne.
Durity (n.) Harshness; cruelty. -- Cockeram.
Durometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the degree of hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the like.
Durous (a.) Hard. [Obs. & R.]
Durra (n.) (Bot.) A kind of millet, cultivated throughout Asia, and introduced into the south of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; -- called also Indian millet, and Guinea corn. [Written also dhoorra, dhurra, doura, etc.]
Durra (n.) Sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa [syn: durra, doura, dourah, Egyptian corn, Indian millet, Guinea corn].
Durra, () Description language for coarse-grained concurrency on heterogeneous processors. "Durra: A Task-level Description Language", M.R. Barbacci et al, CMU/SEI-86-TR-3, CMU 1986.
Compare: Dare
Dare (v. i.) [imp. Durst or Dared; p. p. Dared; p. pr. & vb. n. Daring.] To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.
I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. -- Shak.
Why then did not the ministers use their new law?
Bacause they durst not, because they could not. -- Macaulay.
Who dared to sully her sweet love with suspicion. -- Thackeray.
The tie of party was stronger than the tie of blood, because a partisan was more ready to dare without asking why. -- Jowett (Thu?yd.).
Note: The present tense, I dare, is really an old past tense, so that the third person is he dare, but the form he dares is now often used, and will probably displace the obsolescent he dare, through grammatically as incorrect as he shalls or he cans. -- Skeat.
The pore dar plede (the poor man dare plead). -- P. Plowman.
You know one dare not discover you. -- Dryden.
The fellow dares not deceive me. -- Shak.
Here boldly spread thy hands, no venom'd weed Dares blister them, no slimy snail dare creep. -- Beau. & Fl.
Note: Formerly durst was also used as the present. Sometimes the old form dare is found for durst or dared.
Durst (imp.) of Dare. See Dare, v. i.
Compare: Douroucouli
Douroucouli (n.) (Zool.) A small, nocturnal, South American monkey of the genus Aotus (formerly Nyctipithecus trivirgatus), with large owl-like eyes; hence, the common name owl monkey. [Written also Durukuli and dourikuli.]
Durukuli (n.) (Zool.) A small, nocturnal, South American monkey of the genus Aotus (formerly Nyctipthecus trivirgatus). The owl monkey. See douroucouli. [Written also douroucouli.]
Durylic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, allied to, or derived from, durene; as, durylic acid.
Duse (n.) A demon or spirit. See Deuce.
Duse (n.) Italian actress best known for her performances in tragic roles (1858-1924) [syn: Duse, Eleonora Duse].
Dusk (a.) Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. -- Milton.
Dusk (n.) Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.
Dusk (n.) A darkish color.
Whose duck set off the whiteness of the skin. -- Dryden.
Dusk (v. t.) To make dusk. [Archaic]
After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth. -- Holland.
Dusk (v. i.) To grow dusk. [R.] -- Chaucer.
Dusk (n.) The time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn: twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle].
Dusk (v.) Become dusk.
Dusken (v. t.) To make dusk or obscure. [R.]
Not utterly defaced, but only duskened. -- Nicolls.
Duskily (adv.) In a dusky manner. -- Byron.
Duskiness (n.) The state of being dusky.
Duskiness (n.) The state of being poorly illuminated [syn: dimness, duskiness].
Duskiness (n.) A swarthy complexion [syn: darkness, duskiness, swarthiness].
Duskish (a.) Somewhat dusky. " Duskish smoke." -- Spenser. -- Dusk"ish*ly, adv. -- Dusk"ish*ness, n.
Duskness (n.) Duskiness. [R.] -- Sir T. Elyot.
Dusky (a.) Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley.
Through dusky lane and wrangling mart. -- Keble.
Dusky (a.) Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. -- Bacon.
When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky. -- Dryden.
The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur. -- Hawthorne.
Dusky (a.) Gloomy; sad; melancholy.
This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect. -- Bentley.
Dusky (a.) Intellectually clouded.
Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Dusky (a.) Lighted by or as if by twilight; "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn" -- Henry Fielding; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river" [syn: dusky, twilight(a), twilit].
Dusky (a.) Naturally having skin of a dark color; "a dark-skinned beauty"; "gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks"; "a smile on his swarthy face"; "`swart' is archaic" [syn: dark-skinned, dusky, swart, swarthy].
Dust (n.) Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too minute portions; fine powder; as, clouds of dust; bone dust.
Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. -- Gen. iii. 19.
Stop! -- for thy tread is on an empire's dust. -- Byron.
Dust (n.) A single particle of earth or other matter. [R.] "To touch a dust of England's ground." -- Shak.
Dust (n.) The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
For now shall sleep in the dust. -- Job vii. 21.
Dust (n.) The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
And you may carve a shrine about my dust. -- Tennyson.
Dust (n.) Figuratively, a worthless thing.
And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust. -- Shak.
Dust (n.) Figuratively, a low or mean condition.
[God] raiseth up the poor out of the dust. -- 1 Sam. ii. 8.
Dust (n.) Gold dust ; hence: (Slang) Coined money; cash.
Down with the dust, Deposit the cash; pay down the money.
[Slang] "My lord, quoth the king, presently deposit your hundred pounds in gold, or else no going hence all the days of your life. . . . The Abbot down with his dust, and glad he escaped so, returned to Reading." -- Fuller.
Dust brand (Bot.), A fungous plant ({Ustilago Carbo"> Dust brand (Bot.), a fungous plant ({Ustilago Carbo); -- called also smut.
Gold dust, fine particles of gold, such as are obtained in placer mining; -- often used as money, being transferred by weight.
In dust and ashes. See under Ashes.
To bite the dust. See under Bite, v. t.
To raise dust, or
To kick up dust, To make a commotion. [Colloq.]
To throw dust in one's eyes, To mislead; to deceive. [Colloq.]
Dusted (imp. & p. p.) of Dust.
Dusting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dust.
Dust (v. t.) To free from dust; to brush, wipe, or sweep away dust from; as, to dust a table or a floor.
Dust (v. t.) To sprinkle with dust.
Dust (v. t.) To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate. -- Sprat.
To dyst one's jacket, To give one a flogging. [Slang.]
Dust (n.) Fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air; "the furniture was covered with dust."
Dust (n.) The remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up [syn: debris, dust, junk, rubble, detritus].
Dust (n.) Free microscopic particles of solid material; "astronomers say that the empty space between planets actually contains measurable amounts of dust."
Dust (v.) Remove the dust from; "dust the cabinets."
Dust (v.)
Rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape;
"The artist dusted the charcoal drawing down to a faint image."
Dust (v.) Cover with a light dusting of a
substance; "dust the bread with flour."
Dust (v.) Distribute loosely; "He scattered gun powder under the wagon" [syn: scatter, sprinkle, dot, dust, disperse].
Dust, () Storms of sand and dust sometimes overtake Eastern travellers. They are very dreadful, many perishing under them. Jehovah threatens to bring on the land of Israel, as a punishment for forsaking him, a rain of "powder and dust" (Deut. 28:24).
To cast dust on the head was a sign of mourning (Josh. 7:6); and to sit in dust, of extreme affliction (Isa. 47:1). "Dust" is used to denote the grave (Job 7:21). "To shake off the dust from one's feet" against another is to renounce all future intercourse with him (Matt. 10:14; Acts 13:51). To "lick the dust" is a sign of abject submission (Ps. 72:9); and to throw dust at one is a sign of abhorrence (2 Sam. 16:13; comp. Acts 22:23).
Dustbrush (n.) A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture.
Duster (n.) One who, or that which, dusts; a utensil that frees from dust. Specifically:
Duster (n.) (Paper Making) A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.
Duster (n.) (Milling) A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.
Duster (n.) A dustcloth or a brush used for removing dust from objects or surfaces.
Duster (n.) A light over-garment, worn in traveling to protect the clothing from dust. [U.S.]
Duster (n.) A light housecoat worn by women.
Duster (n.) A light overcoat worn by women, often having no lining.
Duster (n.) A device for spreading
a powder, especially one for spreading insecticide on plants.
Duster (n.) (Baseball) A pitch intentionally thrown by a pitcher directly
at or very close to the batter, intended to make the batter stand further away
from home plate; also called a dust-back pitch or a dust-back.
Duster (n.) A dust storm.
Duster (n.) A windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand; "it was the kind of duster not experienced in years" [syn: dust storm, duster, sandstorm, sirocco].
Duster (n.) A loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles [syn: duster, gaberdine, gabardine, smock, dust coat].
Duster (n.) A piece of cloth used for dusting [syn: dustcloth, dustrag, duster].
Duster (n.) A pitch thrown deliberately close to the batter.
Dustiness (n.) The state of being dusty.
Dustiness (n.) The state of being covered with dust.
Dustless (a.) Without dust; as a dustless path.
Dustmen (n. pl. ) of Dustman.
Dustman (n.) One whose employment is to remove dirt and refuse; a garbage man. -- Gay.
Dustman (n.) Someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse [syn: garbage man, garbageman, garbage collector, garbage carter, garbage hauler, refuse collector, dustman].
Dustpan (n.) A shovel-like utensil for conveying away dust brushed from the floor.
Dustpan (n.) The quantity that a dustpan will hold [syn: dustpan, dustpanful].
Dustpan (n.) A short-handled receptacle into which dust can be swept.
Dust-point (n.) An old rural game.
With any boy at dust-point they shall play. -- Peacham (1620).
Dusty (a.) Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. -- Shak.
Dusty (a.) Like dust; of the color of dust; as a dusty white.
{Dusty miller} (Bot.), A plant ({Cineraria maritima}); -- so called because of the ashy-white coating of its leaves.
Dusty (a.) Covered with a layer of dust; "a dusty pile of books" [syn: {dusty}, {dust-covered}].
Dusty (a.) Lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth- eaten theories about race"; "stale news" [syn: {cold}, {stale}, {dusty}, {moth-eaten}].
Compare: German
German (n.; pl. Germans) A native or one of the people of Germany.
German (n.; pl. Germans) The German language.
German (n.; pl. Germans) (a) A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures.
German (n.; pl. Germans) (b) A social party at which the german is danced.
High German, The Teutonic dialect of Upper or Southern Germany, -- comprising Old High German, used from the 8th to the 11th century; Middle H. G., from the 12th to the 15th century; and Modern or New H. G., the language of Luther's Bible version and of modern German literature.
The dialects of Central Germany, The basis of the modern literary language, are often called Middle German, and the Southern German dialects Upper German; but High German is also used to cover both groups.
Low German, The language of Northern Germany and the Netherlands, -- including Friesic; Anglo-Saxon or Saxon; Old Saxon; Dutch or Low Dutch, with its dialect, Flemish; and Plattdeutsch (called also Low German), spoken in many dialects.
Dutch (a.) Pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabitants.
Dutch auction. See under Auction.
Dutch cheese, A small, pound, hard cheese, made from skim milk.
Dutch clinker, A kind of brick made in Holland. It is yellowish, very hard, and long and narrow in shape.
Dutch clover (Bot.), Common white clover ({Trifolium repens), the seed of which was largely imported into England from Holland.
Dutch concert, A so-called concert in which all the singers sing at the same time different songs. [Slang]
Dutch courage, The courage of partial intoxication. [Slang] -- Marryat.
Dutch door, A door divided into two parts, horizontally, so arranged that the lower part can be shut and fastened, while the upper part remains open.
Dutch foil, Dutch leaf, or Dutch gold, A kind of brass rich in copper, rolled or beaten into thin sheets, used in Holland to ornament toys and paper; -- called also Dutch mineral, Dutch metal, brass foil, and bronze leaf.
Dutch liquid (Chem.), A thin, colorless, volatile liquid, C2H4Cl2, of a sweetish taste and a pleasant ethereal odor, produced by the union of chlorine and ethylene or olefiant gas; -- called also Dutch oil. It is so called because discovered (in 1795) by an association of four Hollandish chemists. See Ethylene, and Olefiant.
Dutch oven, A tin screen for baking before an open fire or kitchen range; also, in the United States, a shallow iron kettle for baking, with a cover to hold burning coals.
Dutch pink, Chalk, or whiting dyed yellow, and used in distemper, and for paper staining. etc. -- Weale.
Dutch rush (Bot.), A species of horsetail rush or Equisetum ({Equisetum hyemale"> Equisetum ({Equisetum hyemale) having a rough, siliceous surface, and used for scouring and polishing; -- called also scouring rush, and shave grass. See Equisetum.
Dutch tile, A glazed and painted ornamental tile, formerly much exported, and used in the jambs of chimneys and the like.
Note: Dutch was formerly used for German.
Germany is slandered to have sent none to this war [the Crusades] at this first voyage; and that other pilgrims, passing through that country, were mocked by the Dutch, and called fools for their pains. -- Fuller.
Dutch (n.) pl. The people of Holland; Dutchmen.
Dutch (n.) The language spoken in Holland.
Dutch (a.) Of or relating to the Netherlands or its people or culture; "Dutch painting"; "Dutch painters."
Dutch (n.) The people of the Netherlands; "the Dutch are famous for their tulips" [syn: Dutch, Dutch people].
Dutch (n.) The West Germanic language of the Netherlands.
Dutch language (n.) 荷蘭語（荷蘭語：Nederlands，英語：Dutch），又稱尼德蘭語，屬於印歐語系日耳曼語族下的西日耳曼語支，主要通行於荷蘭，在比利時與蘇利南有六成人口使用它，這三個國家共同組成荷蘭語聯盟。是荷蘭、比利時、蘇利南和荷屬安的列斯群島的官方語言。在荷蘭全境和比利時北部的佛蘭德斯地區通用。歐洲約有2300萬人以荷蘭語為第一語言，還有曾經被荷蘭統治了四個世紀的印度尼西亞也有日常的使用。[1] 荷蘭語字母表由26或27個拉丁字母組成，除A至Z外，在Y後面有一個 IJ 。荷蘭語有時用 IJ 代替Y。
Dutch ( Nederlands (help·info)) is a West Germanic language that is spoken by around 24 million people as a first language—including the population of the Netherlands and about sixty percent that of Belgium—and by another 5 million as a second language. [2] [3] [5] [6] It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after English and German.
Outside of the Low Countries, it is the native language of the majority of the population of Suriname, and also holds official status in Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten, which are constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Historical minorities on the verge of extinction remain in parts of France [7] and Germany, and in Indonesia, [n 1] while up to half a million native speakers may reside in the United States, Canada and Australia combined. [n 2] The Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa have evolved into Afrikaans, a mutually intelligible daughter language [n 3] which is spoken to some degree by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia. [n 4]
Dutch is one of the closest relatives of both German and English [n 5] and is said to be roughly in between them. [n 6] Dutch, like English, has not undergone the High German consonant shift, does not use Germanic umlaut as a grammatical marker, has largely abandoned the use of the subjunctive, and has levelled much of its morphology, including most of its case system. [n 7] Features shared with German include the survival of three grammatical genders—albeit with few grammatical consequences [n 8]—as well as the use of modal particles, [8] final-obstruent devoicing, and a similar word order. [n 9] Dutch vocabulary is mostly Germanic and incorporates slightly more Romance loans than German but far fewer than English. [n 10]
Dutchmen (n. pl. ) of Dutchman.
Dutchman (n.) A native, or one of the people, of Holland.
Dutchman's laudanum (Bot.), A West Indian passion flower ({Passiflora Murucuja); also, its fruit.
Dutchman's pipe (Bot.), . Dutchman's breeches.
Dutchman (n.) A native or inhabitant of Holland [syn: Netherlander, Dutchman, Hollander].
Duteous (a.) Fulfilling duty; dutiful; having the sentiments due to a superior, or to one to whom respect or service is owed; obedient; as, a duteous son or daughter.
Duteous (a.) Subservient; obsequious.
Duteous to the vices of thy mistress. -- Shak. -- Du"te*ous*ly, adv. -- Du"te*ous*ness, n.
Duteous (a.) Willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect; "a dutiful child"; "a dutiful citizen"; "Patient Griselda was a chaste and duteous wife"; [syn: dutiful, duteous].
Dutiable (a.) Subject to the payment of a duty; as dutiable goods. [U.S.]
All kinds of dutiable merchandise. -- Hawthorne.
Dutiable (a.) Subject to import tax; "dutiable imports."
Dutied (a.) Subjected to a duty. -- Ames.
Dutiful (a.) Performing, or ready to perform, the duties required by one who has the right to claim submission, obedience, or deference; submissive to natural or legal superiors; obedient, as to parents or superiors; as, a dutiful son or daughter; a dutiful ward or servant; a dutiful subject.
Dutiful (a.) Controlled by, proceeding from, a sense of duty; respectful; deferential; as, dutiful affection.
Syn: Duteous; obedient; reverent; reverential; submissive; docile; respectful; compliant. -- Du"ti*ful*ly, adv. -- Du"ti*ful*ness, n.
Dutiful (a.) Willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect; "a dutiful child"; "a dutiful citizen"; "Patient Griselda was a chaste and duteous wife"; [syn: dutiful, duteous].
Dutiful (a.) 盡責的，盡職的 Doing everything that you should do.
// A dutiful son/ husband.
Duties (n. pl.) of Duty.
Duty (n.) 責任；義務；本分 [C] [U]；稅 [C] [U]；職責；職務 [P1] That which is due; payment. [Obs. as signifying a material thing.]
When thou receivest money for thy labor or ware, thou receivest thy duty. -- Tyndale.
Duty (n.) That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory.
Forgetting his duty toward God, his sovereign lord, and his country. -- Hallam.
Duty (n.) Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty.
With records sweet of duties done. -- Keble.
To employ him on the hardest and most imperative duty. -- Hallam.
Duty is a graver term than obligation. A duty hardly exists to do trivial things; but there may be an obligation to do them. -- C. J. Smith.
Duty (n.) Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors. -- Shak.
Duty (n.) Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage. "My duty to you." -- Shak.
Duty (n.) (Engin.) The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States).
Duty (n.) (Com.) Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods.
Note: An impost on land or other real estate, and on the stock of farmers, is not called a duty, but a direct tax. [U.S.]
{Ad valorem duty}, A duty which is graded according to the cost, or market value, of the article taxed. See {Ad valorem}.
{Specific duty}, A duty of a specific sum assessed on an article without reference to its value or market.
{On duty}, Actually engaged in the performance of one's assigned task.
Duty (n.) The social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force; "we must instill a sense of duty in our children"; "every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty" -- John D.Rockefeller Jr [syn: {duty}, {responsibility}, {obligation}].
Duty (n.) Work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons; "the duties of the job."
Duty (n.) A government tax on imports or exports; "they signed a treaty to lower duties on trade between their countries" [syn: {duty}, {tariff}].
Duty (n.) That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
Sir Lavender Portwine, in favor at court, Was wroth at his master, who'd kissed Lady Port. His anger provoked him to take the king's head, But duty prevailed, and he took the king's bread, Instead. G.J. E
Duty (n.), natural law. A human action which is, exactly conformable to the laws which require us to obey them.
Duty (n.) It differs from a legal obligation, because a duty cannot always be enforced by the law; it is our duty, for example, to be temperate in eating, but we are under no legal obligation to be so; we ought to love our neighbors, but no law obliges us to love them.
Duty (n.) Duties may be considered in the relation of man towards God, towards himself, and towards mankind. 1. We are bound to obey the will of God as far as we are able to discover it, because he is the sovereign Lord of the universe who made and governs all things by his almighty power, and infinite wisdom. The general name of this duty is piety: which consists in entertaining just opinions concerning him, and partly in such affections towards him, and such, worship of him, as is suitable to these opinions.
Duty (n.) A man has a duty to perform towards himself; he is bound by the law of nature to protect his life and his limbs; it is his duty, too, to avoid all intemperance in eating and drinking, and in the unlawful gratification of all his other appetites.
Duty (n.) He has duties to perform towards others. He is bound to do to others the same justice which he would have a right to expect them to do to him.
Duty-free (a. & adv.) (a.) 免關稅的 (adv.) 免關稅地 Exempt from payment of duty.
[As adjective] ‘The permitted number of duty-free goods.’
[As adverb] ‘Most EC goods enter almost duty-free.’
Duty-free (a. & adv.) [As adjective] (Of a shop or area) Selling or trading in goods that are exempt from payment of duty.
Duty-free (n.) [Mass noun] (Also D uty-frees) 免稅貨物 Goods that are exempt from payment of duty.‘A bag of duty-free.’
Compare: Nontaxable
Nontaxable (a.) Not subject to taxation; -- of goods imported into a country or sold at retail outlets; as, most laws imposing sales taxes make food nontaxable. Opposite of taxable. [Narrower terms: duty-free; tax-exempt, tax-free; unratable; untaxed ].
Also See: exempt.
Duty-free (a.) Exempt from duty; "duty-free liquor."
Duumvirs (n. pl. ) of Duumvir.
Duumviri (n. pl. ) of Duumvir.
Duumvir (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) One of two Roman officers or magistrates united in the same public functions.
Duumviral (a.) Of or belonging to the duumviri or the duumvirate.
Duumvirate (n.) The union of two men in the same office; or the office, dignity, or government of two men thus associated, as in ancient Rome.
Dux (n.) (Mus.) The scholastic name for the theme or subject of a fugue, the answer being called the comes, or companion.
Duykerbok (n.) (Zool.) A small South African antelope ({Cephalous mergens); -- called also impoon, and deloo.
Duyoung (n.) (Zool.) See
Dugong.
Compare: Slide
Slide (n.) The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice.
Slide (n.) Smooth, even passage or progress.
A better slide into their business. -- Bacon.
Slide (n.) That on which anything moves by sliding. Specifically:
Slide (n.) (a) An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, esp. one constructed on a mountain side for conveying logs by sliding them down.
Slide (n.) (b) A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement.
Slide (n.) That which operates by sliding. Specifically:
Slide (n.) (a) A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it.
Slide (n.) (b) (Mach.) A moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides.
Slide (n.) (c) A clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like.
Slide (n.) A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope.
Slide (n.) The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide.
Slide (n.) (Geol.) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure. -- Dana.
Slide (n.) (Mus.) (a) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
Slide (n.) (Mus.) (b) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.
Slide (n.) (Phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
Slide (n.) (Steam Engine) (a) Same as Guide bar, under Guide.
Slide (n.) (Steam Engine) (b) A slide valve.
Slide box (Steam Engine), A steam chest. See under Steam.
Slide lathe, An engine lathe. See under Lathe.
Slide rest (Turning lathes), A contrivance for holding, moving, and guiding, the cutting tool, made to slide on ways or guides by screws or otherwise, and having compound motion.
Slide rule, A mathematical instrument consisting of two parts, one of which slides upon the other, for the mechanical performance of addition and subtraction, and, by means of logarithmic scales, of multiplication and division.
Slide valve. (a) Any valve which opens and closes a passageway by sliding over a port.
Slide valve. (b) A particular kind of sliding valve, often used in steam engines for admitting steam to the piston and releasing it, alternately, having a cuplike cavity in its face, through which the exhaust steam passes. It is situated in the steam chest, and moved by the valve gear. It is sometimes called a D valve, -- a name which is also applied to a semicylindrical pipe used as a sliding valve.
In the illustration, a is the cylinder of a steam engine, in which plays the piston p; b the steam chest, receiving its supply from the pipe i, and containing the slide valve s, which is shown as admitting steam to one end of the cylinder through the port e, and opening communication between the exhaust passage f and the port c, for the release of steam from the opposite end of the cylinder.
D valve () (Mech.) A kind of slide valve. See Slide valve, under Slide.
Dvergar (n. pl. ) of Dvergr.
Dvergr (n.) (Scand. Myth.) A dwarf supposed to dwell in rocks and hills and to be skillful in working metals.
Dwale (n.) (Bot.) The deadly nightshade ({Atropa Belladonna), having stupefying qualities.
Dwale (n.) (Her.) The tincture sable or black when blazoned according to the fantastic system in which plants are substituted for the tinctures.
Dwale (n.) A sleeping potion; an opiate. -- Chaucer.
Dwang (n.) (Carp.) A piece of wood set between two studs, posts, etc., to stiffen and support them.
Dwang (n.) (Mech.) A kind of crowbar.
Dwang (n.) (Mech.) A large wrench. -- Knight.
Dwarfs (n. pl. ) of Dwarf.
Dwarf (n.) An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind.
Dwarf (n.) Especially: A diminutive human being, small in stature due to a pathological condition which causes a distortion of the proportions of body parts to each other, such as the limbs, torso, and head. A person of unusually small height who has normal body proportions is usually called a midget.
Note: During the Middle Ages dwarfs as well as fools shared the favor of courts and the nobility.
Dwarf (n.) (Folklore) A small, usually misshapen person, typically a man, who may have magical powers; mythical dwarves were often depicted as living underground in caves.
Note: Dwarf is used adjectively in reference to anything much below the usual or normal size; as, a dwarf pear tree; dwarf honeysuckle.
Dwarf elder (Bot.), Danewort.
Dwarf wall (Arch.), A low wall, not as high as the story of a building, often used as a garden wall or fence. -- Gwilt.
Dwarfed (imp. & p. p.) of Dwarf.
Dwarfing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dwarf.
Dwarf (v. t.) To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt. -- Addison.
Even the most common moral ideas and affections . . . would be stunted and dwarfed, if cut off from a spiritual background. -- J. C. Shairp.
Dwarf (v. i.) To become small; to diminish in size.
Strange power of the world that, the moment we enter it, our great conceptions dwarf. -- Beaconsfield. Dwarf
Dwarf (n.) A person who is markedly small [syn: dwarf, midget, nanus].
Dwarf (n.) A legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure [syn: gnome, dwarf].
Dwarf (n.) A plant or animal that is atypically small.
Dwarf (v.) Make appear small by comparison; "This year's debt dwarfs that of last year" [syn: shadow, overshadow, dwarf].
Dwarf (v.) Check the growth of; "the lack of sunlight dwarfed these pines."
Dwarf, () A lean or emaciated person (Lev. 21:20).
Dwarfish (a.) Like a dwarf; below the common stature or size; very small; petty; as, a dwarfish animal, shrub. -- Dwarf"ish*ly, adv. -- Dwarf"ish*ness, n.
Dwarfish (a.) Atypically small; "dwarf tree"; "dwarf star."
Dwarfling (n.) A diminutive dwarf.
Dwarfy (a.) Much undersized. [R.] -- Waterhouse. Dwaul
Dwaul (v. i.) Alt. of Dwaule.
Dwaule (v. i.) To be delirious. [Obs.] -- Junius.
Dwelled (imp. & p. p.) of Dwell.
Dwelt () of Dwell.