English Dictionary: diddley | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Datura \[d8]Da*tu"ra\, n. [NL.; cf. Skr. dhatt[?]ra, Per. & Ar. tat[?]ra, Tat[?]la.] (Bot.) A genus of solanaceous plants, with large funnel-shaped flowers and a four-celled, capsular fruit. Note: The commonest species are the thorn apple ({D. stramonium}), with a prickly capsule (see Illust. of {capsule}), white flowers and green stem, and {D. tatula}, with a purplish tinge of the stem and flowers. Both are narcotic and dangerously poisonous. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Atole \[d8]A*to"le\, n. [Mex. Sp.] A porridge or gruel of maize meal and water, milk, or the like. [Sp. Amer.] | |
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Dadle \Dad"le\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Daddled}, p. pr. & vb. n. {Daddling}.] [Prob. freq. of dade.] To toddle; to walk unsteadily, like a child or an old man; hence, to do anything slowly or feebly. | |
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Dawdle \Daw"dle\, v. t. To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning. | |
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Dawdle \Daw"dle\, n. A dawdler. --Colman & Carrick. | |
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Dawdle \Daw"dle\ (d[add]"d'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dawdled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dawdling}.] [Cf. {Daddle}.] To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter. Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me. --Johnson. We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall. --Thackeray. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{Dead letter}. (a) A letter which, after lying for a certain fixed time uncalled for at the post office to which it was directed, is then sent to the general post office to be opened. (b) That which has lost its force or authority; as, the law has become a dead letter. {Dead-letter office}, a department of the general post office where dead letters are examined and disposed of. {Dead level}, a term applied to a flat country. {Dead lift}, a direct lift, without assistance from mechanical advantage, as from levers, pulleys, etc.; hence, an extreme emergency. [bd](As we say) at a dead lift.[b8] --Robynson (More's Utopia). {Dead line} (Mil.), a line drawn within or around a military prison, to cross which involves for a prisoner the penalty of being instantly shot. {Dead load} (Civil Engin.), a constant, motionless load, as the weight of a structure, in distinction from a moving load, as a train of cars, or a variable pressure, as of wind. {Dead march} (Mus.), a piece of solemn music intended to be played as an accompaniment to a funeral procession. {Dead nettle} (Bot.), a harmless plant with leaves like a nettle ({Lamium album}). {Dead oil} (Chem.), the heavy oil obtained in the distillation of coal tar, and containing phenol, naphthalus, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{Dead plate} (Mach.), a solid covering over a part of a fire grate, to prevent the entrance of air through that part. {Dead pledge}, a mortgage. See {Mortgage}. {Dead point}. (Mach.) See {Dead center}. {Dead reckoning} (Naut.), the method of determining the place of a ship from a record kept of the courses sailed as given by compass, and the distance made on each course as found by log, with allowance for leeway, etc., without the aid of celestial observations. {Dead rise}, the transverse upward curvature of a vessel's floor. {Dead rising}, an elliptical line drawn on the sheer plan to determine the sweep of the floorheads throughout the ship's length. {Dead-Sea apple}. See under {Apple}. {Dead set}. See under {Set}. {Dead shot}. (a) An unerring marksman. (b) A shot certain to be made. {Dead smooth}, the finest cut made; -- said of files. {Dead wall} (Arch.), a blank wall unbroken by windows or other openings. {Dead water} (Naut.), the eddy water closing in under a ship's stern when sailing. {Dead weight}. (a) A heavy or oppressive burden. --Dryden. (b) (Shipping) A ship's lading, when it consists of heavy goods; or, the heaviest part of a ship's cargo. (c) (Railroad) The weight of rolling stock, the live weight being the load. --Knight. {Dead wind} (Naut.), a wind directly ahead, or opposed to the ship's course. {To be dead}, to die. [Obs.] I deme thee, thou must algate be dead. --Chaucer. Syn: Inanimate; deceased; extinct. See {Lifeless}. | |
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Deadly \Dead"ly\, a. 1. Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound. 2. Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies. Thy assailant is quick, skillful, and deadly. --Shak. 3. Subject to death; mortal. [Obs.] The image of a deadly man. --Wyclif (Rom. i. 23). {Deadly nightshade} (Bot.), a poisonous plant; belladonna. See under {Nightshade}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Deadly \Dead"ly\, adv. 1. In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death. [bd]Deadly pale.[b8] --Shak. 2. In a manner to occasion death; mortally. The groanings of a deadly wounded man. --Ezek. xxx. 24. 3. In an implacable manner; destructively. 4. Extremely. [Obs.] [bd]Deadly weary.[b8] --Orrery. [bd]So deadly cunning a man.[b8] --Arbuthnot. | |
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Sin \Sin\, n. [OE. sinne, AS. synn, syn; akin to D. zonde, OS. sundia, OHG. sunta, G. s[81]nde, Icel., Dan. & Sw. synd, L. sons, sontis, guilty, perhaps originally from the p. pr. of the verb signifying, to be, and meaning, the one who it is. Cf. {Authentic}, {Sooth}.] 1. Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission. Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. --John viii. 34. Sin is the transgression of the law. --1 John iii. 4. I think 't no sin. To cozen him that would unjustly win. --Shak. Enthralled By sin to foul, exorbitant desires. --Milton. 2. An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners. I grant that poetry's a crying sin. --Pope. 3. A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin. He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin. --2 Cor. v. 21. 4. An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person. [R.] Thy ambition, Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing land Of noble Buckingham. --Shak. Note: Sin is used in the formation of some compound words of obvious signification; as, sin-born; sin-bred, sin-oppressed, sin-polluted, and the like. {Actual sin}, {Canonical sins}, {Original sin}, {Venial sin}. See under {Actual}, {Canonical}, etc. {Deadly}, [or] {Mortal}, {sins} (R. C. Ch.), willful and deliberate transgressions, which take away divine grace; -- in distinction from vental sins. The seven deadly sins are pride, covetousness, lust, wrath, gluttony, envy, and sloth. {Sin eater}, a man who (according to a former practice in England) for a small gratuity ate a piece of bread laid on the chest of a dead person, whereby he was supposed to have taken the sins of the dead person upon himself. {Sin offering}, a sacrifice for sin; something offered as an expiation for sin. Syn: Iniquity; wickedness; wrong. See {Crime}. | |
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Deathly \Death"ly\, a. Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive. | |
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Deathly \Death"ly\, adv. Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick. | |
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Detail \De*tail"\, n. (Arch. & Mach.) (a) A minor part, as, in a building, the cornice, caps of the buttresses, capitals of the columns, etc., or (called {larger details}) a porch, a gable with its windows, a pavilion, or an attached tower. (b) A detail drawing. {In detail}, in subdivisions; part by part; item by item; circumstantially; with particularity. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Detail \De"tail\ (d[emac]"t[amac]l or d[esl]*t[amac]l"; 277), n. [F. d[82]tail, fr. d[82]tailler to cut in pieces, tell in detail; pref. d[82]- (L. de or dis-) + tailler to cut. See {Tailor}.] 1. A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction. The details of the campaign in Italy. --Motley. 2. A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars. 3. (Mil.) The selection for a particular service of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected. {Detail drawing}, a drawing of the full size, or on a large scale, of some part of a building, machine, etc. {In detail}, in subdivisions; part by part; item; circumstantially; with particularity. Syn: Account; relation; narrative; recital; explanation; narration. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Detail \De"tail\ (d[esl]*t[amac]l"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Detailed} (-t[amac]ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Detailing}.] [Cf. F. d[82]tailler to cut up in pieces, tell in detail. See {Detail}, n.] 1. To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order. 2. (Mil.) To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron. Syn: {Detail}, {Detach}. Usage: Detail respect the act of individualizing the person or body that is separated; detach, the removing for the given end or object. | |
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Didal \Di"dal\, n. A kind of triangular spade. [Obs.] | |
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Diddle \Did"dle\, v. i. [Cf. {Daddle}.] To totter, as a child in walking. [Obs.] --Quarles. | |
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Diddle \Did"dle\, v. t. [Perh. from AS. dyderian to deceive, the letter r being changed to l.] To cheat or overreach. [Colloq.] --Beaconsfield. | |
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Doodle \Doo"dle\, n. [Cf. {Dawdle}.] A trifler; a simple fellow. | |
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Dotal \Do"tal\, a. [L. dotalis, fr. dos, dotis, dowry: cf. F. dotal. See {Dot} dowry.] Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it. --Garth. | |
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Dowdy \Dow"dy\, a. [Compar. {Dowdier}; superl. {Dowdiest}.] [Scot. dawdie slovenly, daw, da sluggard, drab, Prov. E. dowd flat, dead.] Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking. -- {Dow"di*ly}, adv. -- {Dow"di*ness}, n. | |
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Datil, NM Zip code(s): 87821 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Dudley, GA (city, FIPS 24488) Location: 32.53282 N, 83.08068 W Population (1990): 430 (184 housing units) Area: 8.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 31022 Dudley, MA Zip code(s): 01571 Dudley, MO (city, FIPS 20296) Location: 36.78914 N, 90.09142 W Population (1990): 271 (131 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 63936 Dudley, NC Zip code(s): 28333 Dudley, PA (borough, FIPS 20152) Location: 40.20150 N, 78.17652 W Population (1990): 232 (94 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 16634 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
diddle 1. vt. To work with or modify in a not particularly serious manner. "I diddled a copy of {ADVENT} so it didn't double-space all the time." "Let's diddle this piece of code and see if the problem goes away." See {tweak} and {twiddle}. 2. n. The action or result of diddling. See also {tweak}, {twiddle}, {frob}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DETOL Language}. (1995-09-29) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
diddle 1. To work with or modify in a not particularly serious manner. "I diddled a copy of {ADVENT} so it didn't double-space all the time." "Let's diddle this piece of code and see if the problem goes away." See {tweak} and {twiddle}. 2. The action or result of diddling. See also {tweak}, {twiddle}, {frob}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-01-31) |