English Dictionary: Dalea | by the DICT Development Group |
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d890toile \[d8][90]`toile"\ ([asl]`tw[aum]l"), n. [F.] (Her.) See {Estoile}. | |
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d8Ala \[d8]A"la\, n.; pl. {Al[91]}. [L., a wing.] (Biol.) A winglike organ, or part. | |
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d8Allah \[d8]Al"lah\, n. [ contr. fr. the article al the + ilah God.] The name of the Supreme Being, in use among the Arabs and the Mohammedans generally. | |
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d8Dal \[d8]Dal\, n. [Hind.] Split pulse, esp. of {Cajanus Indicus}. [East Indies] | |
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d8Deloo \[d8]De"loo\ (d[asl]"l[omac]), n. (Zo[94]l.) The duykerbok. | |
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d8Dhole \[d8]Dhole\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A fierce, wild dog ({Canis Dukhunensis}), found in the mountains of India. It is remarkable for its propensity to hunt the tiger and other wild animals in packs. | |
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d8Duelo \[d8]Du*e"lo\, n. [It. See {Duel}.] A duel; also, the rules of dueling. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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d8Dulia \[d8]Du*li"a\, n. [LL., fr. Gr. [?] servitude, fr. [?] slave.] (R. C. Ch.) An inferior kind of veneration or worship, given to the angels and saints as the servants of God. | |
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d8Hyalea \[d8]Hy*a"le*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] glassy, fr. [?] glass.] (Zo[94]l.) A pteroid of the genus {Cavolina}. See {Pteropoda}, and Illustration in Appendix. | |
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d8Leo \[d8]Le"o\ (l[emac]"[omac]), n. [L. See {Lion}.] (Astron.) 1. The Lion, the fifth sign of the zodiac, marked thus [[Leo]] in almanacs. 2. A northern constellation east of Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus at the end of the handle of the Sickle. {Leo Minor}, a small constellation between Leo and the Great Bear. | |
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d8Olay \[d8]O"lay\, n. pl. [Tamil [d3]lai.] Palm leaves, prepared for being written upon with a style pointed with steel. [Written also {ola}.] --Balfour (Cyc. of India). | |
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d8Olea \[d8]O"le*a\, n. [L. olive. See {Olive}.] (Bot.) A genus of trees including the olive. Note: The Chinese {Olea fragrans}, noted for its fragrance, and the American devilwood ({Olea Americana}) are now usually referred to another genus ({Osmanthus}). | |
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d8Thule \[d8]Thu"le\, n. [L. Thule, Thyle, Gr. [?], [?].] The name given by ancient geographers to the northernmost part of the habitable world. According to some, this land was Norway, according to others, Iceland, or more probably Mainland, the largest of the Shetland islands; hence, the Latin phrase ultima Thule, farthest Thule. | |
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d8Tilia \[d8]Til"i*a\, n. [L., linden. Cf. {Teil}.] (Bot.) A genus of trees, the lindens, the type of the family {Tiliace[91]}, distinguished by the winglike bract coalescent with the peduncle, and by the indehiscent fruit having one or two seeds. There are about twenty species, natives of temperate regions. Many species are planted as ornamental shade trees, and the tough fibrous inner bark is a valuable article of commerce. Also, a plant of this genus. | |
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d8Tola \[d8]To"la\, n. [Hind., from Skr. tul[be] a balance.] A weight of British India. The standard tola is equal to 180 grains. | |
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D91dal \D[91]"dal\, D91dalian \D[91]*dal"ian\, a. [L. daedalus cunningly wrought, fr. Gr. [?]; cf. [?] to work cunningly. The word also alludes to the mythical D[91]dalus (Gr. [?], lit., the cunning worker).] 1. Cunningly or ingeniously formed or working; skillful; artistic; ingenious. Our bodies decked in our d[91]dalian arms. --Chapman. The d[91]dal hand of Nature. --J. Philips. The doth the d[91]dal earth throw forth to thee, Out of her fruitful, abundant flowers. --Spenser. 2. Crafty; deceitful. [R.] --Keats. | |
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Dahlia \Dah"lia\ (d[aum]l"y[adot] or d[amac]l"y[adot]; 277, 106), n.; pl. {Dahlias}. [Named after Andrew Dahl a Swedish botanist.] (Bot.) A genus of plants native to Mexico and Central America, of the order Composit[91]; also, any plant or flower of the genus. The numerous varieties of cultivated dahlias bear conspicuous flowers which differ in color. | |
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Daily \Dai"ly\ (d[amac]"l[ycr]), a. [AS. d[91]gl[c6]c; d[91]g day + -l[c6]c like. See {Day}.] Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal; as, daily labor; a daily bulletin. Give us this day our daily bread. --Matt. vi. 11. Bunyan has told us . . . that in New England his dream was the daily subject of the conversation of thousands. --Macaulay. Syn: {Daily}, {Diurnal}. Usage: Daily is Anglo-Saxon, and diurnal is Latin. The former is used in reference to the ordinary concerns of life; as, daily wants, daily cares, daily employments. The latter is appropriated chiefly by astronomers to what belongs to the astronomical day; as, the diurnal revolution of the earth. Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heaven on all his ways. --Milton. Half yet remains unsung, but narrower bound Within the visible diurnal sphere. --Milton. | |
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Daily \Dai"ly\, n.; pl. {Dailies}. A publication which appears regularly every day; as, the morning dailies. | |
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Daily \Dai"ly\, adv. Every day; day by day; as, a thing happens daily. | |
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Dale \Dale\, n. [AS. d[91]l; akin to LG., D., Sw., Dan., OS., & Goth. dal, Icel. dalr, OHG. tal, G. thal, and perth. to Gr. [?] a rotunda, Skr. dh[be]ra depth. Cf. {Dell}.] 1. A low place between hills; a vale or valley. Where mountaines rise, umbrageous dales descend. --Thomson. 2. A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump. --Knight. | |
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Dally \Dal"ly\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dallied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dallying}.] [OE. [?]alien, dailien; cf. Icel. pylja to talk, G. dallen, dalen, dahlen, to trifle, talk nonsense, OSw. tule a droll or funny man; or AS. dol foolish, E. dull.] 1. To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle. We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer. --Calamy. We have put off God, and dallied with his grace. --Barrow. 2. To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport. Not dallying with a brace of courtesans. --Shak. Our aerie . . . dallies with the wind. --Shak. | |
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Dally \Dal"ly\, v. t. To delay unnecessarily; to while away. Dallying off the time with often skirmishes. --Knolles. | |
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{Anniversary day}. See {Anniversary}, n. {Astronomical day}, a period equal to the mean solar day, but beginning at noon instead of at midnight, its twenty-four hours being numbered from 1 to 24; also, the sidereal day, as that most used by astronomers. {Born days}. See under {Born}. {Canicular days}. See {Dog day}. {Civil day}, the mean solar day, used in the ordinary reckoning of time, and among most modern nations beginning at mean midnight; its hours are usually numbered in two series, each from 1 to 12. This is the period recognized by courts as constituting a day. The Babylonians and Hindoos began their day at sunrise, the Athenians and Jews at sunset, the ancient Egyptians and Romans at midnight. {Day blindness}. (Med.) See {Nyctalopia}. {Day by day}, or {Day after day}, daily; every day; continually; without intermission of a day. See under {By}. [bd]Day by day we magnify thee.[b8] --Book of Common Prayer. {Days in bank} (Eng. Law), certain stated days for the return of writs and the appearance of parties; -- so called because originally peculiar to the Court of Common Bench, or Bench (bank) as it was formerly termed. --Burrill. {Day in court}, a day for the appearance of parties in a suit. {Days of devotion} (R. C. Ch.), certain festivals on which devotion leads the faithful to attend mass. --Shipley. {Days of grace}. See {Grace}. {Days of obligation} (R. C. Ch.), festival days when it is obligatory on the faithful to attend Mass. --Shipley. {Day owl}, (Zo[94]l.), an owl that flies by day. See {Hawk owl}. {Day rule} (Eng. Law), an order of court (now abolished) allowing a prisoner, under certain circumstances, to go beyond the prison limits for a single day. {Day school}, one which the pupils attend only in daytime, in distinction from a boarding school. {Day sight}. (Med.) See {Hemeralopia}. {Day's work} (Naut.), the account or reckoning of a ship's course for twenty-four hours, from noon to noon. {From day to day}, as time passes; in the course of time; as, he improves from day to day. {Jewish day}, the time between sunset and sunset. {Mean solar day} (Astron.), the mean or average of all the apparent solar days of the year. {One day}, {One of these days}, at an uncertain time, usually of the future, rarely of the past; sooner or later. [bd]Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.[b8] --Shak. {Only from day to day}, without certainty of continuance; temporarily. --Bacon. {Sidereal day}, the interval between two successive transits of the first point of Aries over the same meridian. The Sidereal day is 23 h. 56 m. 4.09 s. of mean solar time. {To win the day}, to gain the victory, to be successful. --S. Butler. {Week day}, any day of the week except Sunday; a working day. {Working day}. (a) A day when work may be legally done, in distinction from Sundays and legal holidays. (b) The number of hours, determined by law or custom, during which a workman, hired at a stated price per day, must work to be entitled to a day's pay. | |
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Deal \Deal\ (d[emac]l), n. [OE. del, deel, part, AS. d[aemac]l; akin to OS. d[emac]l, D. & Dan. deel, G. theil, teil, Icel. deild, Sw. del, Goth. dails. [root]65. Cf. 3d {Dole}.] 1. A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold. Three tenth deals [parts of an ephah] of flour. --Num. xv. 9. As an object of science it [the Celtic genius] may count for a good deal . . . as a spiritual power. --M. Arnold. She was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect. --W. Black. Note: It was formerly limited by some, every, never a, a thousand, etc.; as, some deal; but these are now obsolete or vulgar. In general, we now qualify the word with great or good, and often use it adverbially, by being understood; as, a great deal of time and pains; a great (or good) deal better or worse; that is, better by a great deal, or by a great part or difference. 2. The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the portion disturbed. The deal, the shuffle, and the cut. --Swift. 3. Distribution; apportionment. [Colloq.] 4. An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations and political bargains. [Slang] 5. [Prob. from D. deel a plank, threshing floor. See {Thill}.] The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end. Note: Whole deal is a general term for planking one and one half inches thick. 6. Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal. {Deal tree}, a fir tree. --Dr. Prior. | |
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Deal \Deal\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dealt} (d[ecr]lt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Dealing}.] [OE. delen, AS. d[aemac]lan, fr. d[aemac]l share; akin to OS. d[emac]lian, D. deelen, G. theilen, teilen, Icel. deila, Sw. dela, Dan. dele, Goth. dailjan. See {Deal}, n.] 1. To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; -- sometimes with out. Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry? --Is. lviii. 7. And Rome deals out her blessings and her gold. --Tickell. The nightly mallet deals resounding blows. --Gay. Hissing through the skies, the feathery deaths were dealt. --Dryden. 2. Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal one a jack. | |
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Deal \Deal\, v. i. 1. To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players. 2. To do a distributing or retailing business, as distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to traffic; to trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour. They buy and sell, they deal and traffic. --South. This is to drive to wholesale trade, when all other petty merchants deal but for parcels. --Dr. H. More. 3. To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or with. Sometimes he that deals between man and man, raiseth his own credit with both, by pretending greater interest than he hath in either. --Bacon. 4. To conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or towards any one; to treat. If he will deal clearly and impartially, . . . he will acknowledge all this to be true. --Tillotson. 5. To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with. {To deal by}, to treat, either well or ill; as, to deal well by servants. [bd]Such an one deals not fairly by his own mind.[b8] --Locke. {To deal in}. (a) To have to do with; to be engaged in; to practice; as, they deal in political matters. (b) To buy and sell; to furnish, as a retailer or wholesaler; as, they deal in fish. {To deal with}. (a) To treat in any manner; to use, whether well or ill; to have to do with; specifically, to trade with. [bd]Dealing with witches.[b8] --Shak. (b) To reprove solemnly; to expostulate with. The deacons of his church, who, to use their own phrase, [bd]dealt with him[b8] on the sin of rejecting the aid which Providence so manifestly held out. --Hawthorne. Return . . . and I will deal well with thee. --Gen. xxxii. 9. | |
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Deil \Deil\ (d[emac]l), n. Devil; -- spelt also {deel}. [Scot.] {Deil's buckie}. See under {Buckie}. | |
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Deil \Deil\ (d[emac]l), n. Devil; -- spelt also {deel}. [Scot.] {Deil's buckie}. See under {Buckie}. | |
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Del \Del\, n. [See {Deal}, n.] Share; portion; part. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Delay \De*lay"\, n.; pl. {Delays}. [F. d[82]lai, fr. OF. deleer to delay, or fr. L. dilatum, which, though really from a different root, is used in Latin only as a p. p. neut. of differre to carry apart, defer, delay. See {Tolerate}, and cf. {Differ}, {Delay}, v.] A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat. --Acts xxv. 17. The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day. --Macaulay. | |
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Delay \De*lay"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Delayed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Delaying}.] [OF. deleer, delaier, fr. the noun d[82]lai, or directly fr. L. dilatare to enlarge, dilate, in LL., to put off. See {Delay}, n., and cf. {Delate}, 1st {Defer}, {Dilate}.] 1. To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before. My lord delayeth his coming. --Matt. xxiv. 48. 2. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow. Thyrsis! whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. --Milton. 3. To allay; to temper. [Obs.] The watery showers delay the raging wind. --Surrey. | |
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Delay \De*lay"\, v. i. To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry. There seem to be certain bounds to the quickness and slowness of the succession of those ideas, . . . beyond which they can neither delay nor hasten. --Locke. | |
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Dele \De"le\, imperative sing. of L. delere to destroy. [Cf. {Delete}.] (Print.) Erase; remove; -- a direction to cancel something which has been put in type; usually expressed by a peculiar form of d, thus: [dele]. | |
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Dele \De"le\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Deleing}.] [From the preceding word.] (Print.) To erase; to cancel; to delete; to mark for omission. | |
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Dele \Dele\, v. t. [See {Deal}.] To deal; to divide; to distribute. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Dell \Dell\, n. [AS. del, akin to E. dale; cf. D. delle, del, low ground. See {Dale}.] 1. A small, retired valley; a ravine. In dells and dales, concealed from human sight. --Tickell. 2. A young woman; a wench. [Obs.] Sweet doxies and dells. --B. Jonson. | |
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d8Duykerbok \[d8]Duy"ker*bok\, n. [D. duiker diver + bok a buck, lit., diver buck. So named from its habit of diving suddenly into the bush.] (Zo[94]l.) A small South African antelope ({Cephalous mergens}); -- called also {impoon}, and {deloo}. | |
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Dial \Di"al\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dialed}or {Dialled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dialing} or {Dialling}.] 1. To measure with a dial. Hours of that true time which is dialed in heaven. --Talfourd. 2. (Mining) To survey with a dial. --Raymond. | |
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Dial \Di"al\, n. [LL. dialis daily, fr. L. dies day. See {Deity}.] 1. An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp., a sundial; but there are lunar and astral dials. The style or gnomon is usually parallel to the earth's axis, but the dial plate may be either horizontal or vertical. 2. The graduated face of a timepiece, on which the time of day is shown by pointers or hands. 3. A miner's compass. {Dial bird} (Zo[94]l.), an Indian bird ({Copsychus saularius}), allied to the European robin. The name is also given to other related species. {Dial lock}, a lock provided with one or more plates having numbers or letters upon them. These plates must be adjusted in a certain determined way before the lock can be operated. {Dial plate}, the plane or disk of a dial or timepiece on which lines and figures for indicating the time are placed. | |
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Dill \Dill\, v. t. [OE. dillen, fr. dul dull, a.] To still; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain. [Obs.] | |
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Dill \Dill\ (d[icr]l), n. [AS dile; akin to D. dille, OHG. tilli, G. dill, dille, Sw. dill, Dan. dild.] (Bot.) An herb ({Peucedanum graveolens}), the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, and were formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; -- called also {dillseed}. | |
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Dilly \Dil"ly\ (d[icr]l"l[ycr]), n. [Contr. fr. diligence.] A kind of stagecoach. [bd]The Derby dilly.[b8] --J. H. Frere. | |
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Do-all \Do"-all`\, n. General manager; factotum. Under him, Dunstan was the do-all at court, being the king's treasurer, councilor, chancellor, confessor, all things. -- Fuller. | |
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Doily \Doi"ly\, n. [So called from the name of the dealer.] 1. A kind of woolen stuff. [Obs.] [bd]Some doily petticoats.[b8] --Dryden. A fool and a doily stuff, would now and then find days of grace, and be worn for variety. -- Congreve. 2. A small napkin, used at table with the fruit, etc.; -- commonly colored and fringed. | |
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Dole \Dole\, n. [AS. d[be]l portion; same word as d[?]l. See {Deal}.] 1. Distribution; dealing; apportionment. At her general dole, Each receives his ancient soul. -- Cleveland. 2. That which is dealt out; a part, share, or portion also, a scanty share or allowance. | |
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Dole \Dole\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Doled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Doling}.] To deal out in small portions; to distribute, as a dole; to deal out scantily or grudgingly. The supercilious condescension with which even his reputed friends doled out their praises to him. --De Quincey. | |
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Dole \Dole\, n. [OE. deol, doel, dol, OF. doel, fr. doloir to suffer, fr. L. dolere; perh. akin to dolare to hew.] grief; sorrow; lamentation. [Archaic] And she died. So that day there was dole in Astolat. -- Tennyson. | |
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Dole \Dole\, n. [L. dolus: cf. F. dol.] (Scots Law) See {Dolus}. | |
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Doll \Doll\, n. [A contraction of Dorothy; or less prob. an abbreviation of idol; or cf. OD. dol a whipping top, D. dollen to rave, and E. dull.] A child's puppet; a toy baby for a little girl. | |
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Dolly \Dol"ly\, n. A child's mane for a doll. {Dolly shop}, a shop where rags, old junk, etc., are bought and sold; usually, in fact, an unlicensed pawnbroker's shop, formerly distinguished by the sign of a black doll. [England] | |
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Dolly \Dol"ly\, n.; pl. {Dollies}. 1. (Mining) A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer. 2. (Mach.) A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet. --Knight. 3. In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver. 4. A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building. 5. A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Doole \Doole\, n. Sorrow; dole. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dooly \Doo"ly\, n.; pl. {Doolies}. [Skr. d[?]la.] A kind of litter suspended from men's shoulders, for carrying persons or things; a palanquin. [Written also {doolee} and {doolie}.] [East Indies] Having provided doolies, or little bamboo chairs slung on four men's shoulders, in which I put my papers and boxes, we next morning commenced the ascent. --J. D. Hooker. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dooly \Doo"ly\, n.; pl. {Doolies}. [Skr. d[?]la.] A kind of litter suspended from men's shoulders, for carrying persons or things; a palanquin. [Written also {doolee} and {doolie}.] [East Indies] Having provided doolies, or little bamboo chairs slung on four men's shoulders, in which I put my papers and boxes, we next morning commenced the ascent. --J. D. Hooker. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dooly \Doo"ly\, n.; pl. {Doolies}. [Skr. d[?]la.] A kind of litter suspended from men's shoulders, for carrying persons or things; a palanquin. [Written also {doolee} and {doolie}.] [East Indies] Having provided doolies, or little bamboo chairs slung on four men's shoulders, in which I put my papers and boxes, we next morning commenced the ascent. --J. D. Hooker. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dowel \Dow"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Doweled}[or] {Dowelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Doweling} or {Dowelling}.] To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as, a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dowel \Dow"el\, n. [Cf. G. d[94]bel peg, F. douelle state of a cask, surface of an arch, douille socket, little pipe, cartridge.] (Mech.) 1. A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position. 2. A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it. {Dowel joint}, a joint secured by a dowel or dowels. {Dowel pin}, a dowel. See {Dowel}, n., 1. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dowl \Dowl\, n. Same as {Dowle}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dowle \Dowle\, n. [Cf. OF. douille soft. Cf. {Ductile}.] Feathery or wool-like down; filament of a feather. --Shak. No feather, or dowle of a feather. --De Quincey. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Doyly \Doy"ly\, n. See {Doily}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dual \Du"al\, a. [L. dualis, fr. duo two. See {Two}.] Expressing, or consisting of, the number two; belonging to two; as, the dual number of nouns, etc., in Greek. Here you have one half of our dual truth. --Tyndall. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Duel \Du"el\, n. [It. duello, fr. L. duellum, orig., a contest between two, which passed into the common form bellum war, fr. duo two: cf. F. duel. See {Bellicose}, {Two}, and cf. {Duello}.] 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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Duel \Du"el\, v. i. & t. To fight in single combat. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dull \Dull\, a. [Compar. {Duller}; superl. {Dullest}.] [AS. dol foolish; akin to gedwelan to err, D. dol mad, dwalen to wander, err, G. toll mad, Goth. dwals foolish, stupid, cf. Gr. [?] turbid, troubled, Skr. dhvr to cause to fall. Cf. {Dolt}, {Dwale}, {Dwell}, {Fraud}.] 1. Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish. [bd]Dull at classical learning.[b8] --Thackeray. She is not bred so dull but she can learn. --Shak. 2. 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. 3. Insensible; unfeeling. Think me not So dull a devil to forget the loss Of such a matchless wife. -- Beau. & Fl. 4. Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt. [bd]Thy scythe is dull.[b8] --Herbert. 5. 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. 6. Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert. [bd]The dull earth.[b8] --Shak. As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of study a dull brain. -- Longfellow. 7. 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}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dull \Dull\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Duller}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dulling}.] 1. To deprive of sharpness of edge or point. [bd]This . . . dulled their swords.[b8] --Bacon. Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. --Shak. 2. 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. 3. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish. [bd]Dulls the mirror.[b8] --Bacon. 4. 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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dull \Dull\, v. i. To become dull or stupid. --Rom. of R. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dully \Dul"ly\, adv. In a dull manner; stupidly; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit. Supinely calm and dully innocent. -- G. Lyttelton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Duly \Du"ly\, adv. In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it (anything) ought to be; properly; regularly. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dwale \Dwale\, n. [OE. dwale, dwole, deception, deadly nightshade, AS. dwala, dwola, error, doubt; akin to E. dull. See {Dull}, a.] 1. (Bot.) The deadly nightshade ({Atropa Belladonna}), having stupefying qualities. 2. (Her.) The tincture sable or black when blazoned according to the fantastic system in which plants are substituted for the tinctures. 3. A sleeping potion; an opiate. --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dwaul \Dwaul\, Dwaule \Dwaule\, v. i. [See {Dull}, {Dwell}.] To be delirious. [Obs.] --Junius. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dwaul \Dwaul\, Dwaule \Dwaule\, v. i. [See {Dull}, {Dwell}.] To be delirious. [Obs.] --Junius. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dwell \Dwell\, v. t. To inhabit. [R.] --Milton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dwell \Dwell\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dwelled}, usually contracted into {Dwelt} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Dwelling}.] [OE. dwellen, dwelien, to err, linger, AS. dwellan to deceive, hinder, delay, dwelian to err; akin to Icel. dvelja to delay, tarry, Sw. dv[84]ljas to dwell, Dan. dv[91]le to linger, and to E. dull. See {Dull}, and cf. {Dwale}.] 1. To delay; to linger. [Obs.] 2. To abide; to remain; to continue. I 'll rather dwell in my necessity. --Shak. Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart. --Wordsworth. 3. To abide as a permanent resident, or for a time; to live in a place; to reside. The parish in which I was born, dwell, and have possessions. --Peacham. The poor man dwells in a humble cottage near the hall where the lord of the domain resides. --C. J. Smith. {To dwell in}, to abide in (a place); hence, to depend on. [bd]My hopes in heaven to dwell.[b8] --Shak. {To dwell on} [or] {upon}, to continue long on or in; to remain absorbed with; to stick to; to make much of; as, to dwell upon a subject; a singer dwells on a note. They stand at a distance, dwelling on his looks and language, fixed in amazement. --Buckminster. Syn: To inhabit; live; abide; sojourn; reside; continue; stay; rest. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Dale, IL Zip code(s): 62829 Dale, IN (town, FIPS 16624) Location: 38.16720 N, 86.98661 W Population (1990): 1553 (599 housing units) Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 47523 Dale, NY Zip code(s): 14039 Dale, PA (borough, FIPS 18000) Location: 40.31185 N, 78.90409 W Population (1990): 1642 (799 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Dale, TX Zip code(s): 78616 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Deal, NJ (borough, FIPS 16660) Location: 40.24980 N, 73.99725 W Population (1990): 1179 (977 housing units) Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 07723 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Deale, MD (CDP, FIPS 22050) Location: 38.79320 N, 76.54658 W Population (1990): 4151 (1721 housing units) Area: 11.2 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 20751 | |
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Delhi, CA (CDP, FIPS 18464) Location: 37.43413 N, 120.77692 W Population (1990): 3280 (952 housing units) Area: 4.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 95315 Delhi, CO Zip code(s): 81059 Delhi, IA (city, FIPS 19675) Location: 42.43001 N, 91.33150 W Population (1990): 485 (216 housing units) Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 52223 Delhi, LA (town, FIPS 20190) Location: 32.45640 N, 91.48922 W Population (1990): 3169 (1226 housing units) Area: 5.5 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Delhi, MN (city, FIPS 15544) Location: 44.59818 N, 95.21303 W Population (1990): 69 (41 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56283 Delhi, NY (village, FIPS 20126) Location: 42.27995 N, 74.91451 W Population (1990): 3064 (755 housing units) Area: 8.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Delia, KS (city, FIPS 17525) Location: 39.23933 N, 95.96428 W Population (1990): 172 (59 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 66418 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Dell, AR (town, FIPS 18160) Location: 35.85518 N, 90.03344 W Population (1990): 258 (128 housing units) Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 72426 Dell, MT Zip code(s): 59724 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Dille, WV Zip code(s): 26617 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Dilley, TX (city, FIPS 20428) Location: 28.66882 N, 99.17100 W Population (1990): 2632 (910 housing units) Area: 4.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 78017 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
D'Lo, MS (town, FIPS 19340) Location: 31.98651 N, 89.90095 W Population (1990): 421 (200 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Doe Hill, VA Zip code(s): 24433 | |
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Dola, OH Zip code(s): 45835 | |
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Doole, TX Zip code(s): 76836 | |
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Dowell, IL (village, FIPS 20565) Location: 37.93950 N, 89.23947 W Population (1990): 465 (206 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Doyle, CA Zip code(s): 96109 Doyle, TN (town, FIPS 21500) Location: 35.85211 N, 85.51276 W Population (1990): 345 (149 housing units) Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 38559 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DDL 1. ["A Digital System Design Language (DDL)", J.R. Duley, IEEE Trans on Computers c-17(9), pp. 850-861, Sep 1968]. 2. M. Urban, C. Kostanick et al of the {UCLA} Computer Club. DDL was the forerunner of {ADL}. 3. {Data Definition Language}. 4. {Document Description Language}. 5. {Dynamic Data Exchange}. (Originally "Linking"). (1997-06-05) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DIL {Dual In-Line Package} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DL/1 Query language, linear keyword. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DLE (1996-06-24) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DL/I The data manipulation language of IMS. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DLL 1. 2. 3. {Dial Long Line} equipment. (2000-04-05) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DOL Display Oriented Language. Subsystem of DOCUS. Sammet 1969, p.678. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
dual meaning of dual. Loosely, where there is some binary symmetry of a theory, the image of what you look at normally under this symmetry is referred to as the dual of your normal things. In linear algebra for example, for any {vector space} V, over a {field}, F, the vector space of {linear maps} from V to F is known as the dual of V. It can be shown that if V is finite-dimensional, V and its dual are {isomorphic} (though no isomorphism between them is any more natural than any other). There is a natural {embedding} of any vector space in the dual of its dual: V -> V'': v -> (V': w -> wv : F) (x' is normally written as x with a horizontal bar above it). I.e. v'' is the linear map, from V' to F, which maps any w to the scalar obtained by applying w to v. In short, this double-dual mapping simply exchanges the roles of function and argument. It is conventional, when talking about vectors in V, to refer to the members of V' as covectors. (1997-03-16) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DUAL-607 An early system on the {IBM 701}. [CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. (1994-12-13) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DUEL A front end to {gdb} by Michael Golan DUEL implements a language designed for debugging {C} programs. It mainly 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. {(ftp://ftp.cs.princeton.edu/duel/)}. (1993-03-20) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Delaiah freed by Jehovah. (1.) The head of the twenty-third division of the priestly order (1 Chr. 24:18). (2.) A son of Shemaiah, and one of the courtiers to whom Jeremiah's first roll of prophecy was read (Jer. 36:12). (3.) The head of one of the bands of exiles that returned under Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (Ezra 2:60; Neh. 7:62). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Dial for the measurement of time, only once mentioned in the Bible, erected by Ahaz (2 Kings 20:11; Isa. 38:8). The Hebrew word (ma'aloth) is rendered "steps" in Ex. 20:26, 1 Kings 10:19, and "degrees" in 2 Kings 20:9, 10, 11. The _ma'aloth_ was probably stairs on which the shadow of a column or obelisk placed on the top fell. The shadow would cover a greater or smaller number of steps, according as the sun was low or high. Probably the sun-dial was a Babylonian invention. Daniel at Babylon (Dan. 3:6) is the first to make mention of the "hour." | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Dwell Tents were in primitive times the common dwellings of men. Houses were afterwards built, the walls of which were frequently of mud (Job 24:16; Matt. 6:19, 20) or of sun-dried bricks. God "dwells in light" (1 Tim. 6:16; 1 John 1:7), in heaven (Ps. 123:1), in his church (Ps. 9:11; 1 John 4:12). Christ dwelt on earth in the days of his humiliation (John 1:14). He now dwells in the hearts of his people (Eph. 3:17-19). The Holy Spirit dwells in believers (1 Cor. 3:16; 2 Tim. 1:14). We are exhorted to "let the word of God dwell in us richly" (Col. 3:16; Ps. 119:11). Dwell deep occurs only in Jer. 49:8, and refers to the custom of seeking refuge from impending danger, in retiring to the recesses of rocks and caverns, or to remote places in the desert. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Dalaiah, the poor of the Lord | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Delaiah, the poor of the Lord | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Deuel, the knowledge of God |