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d8Aga \[d8]A*ga"\ or d8Agha \[d8]A*gha"\, n. [Turk. adh[be] a great lord, chief master.] In Turkey, a commander or chief officer. It is used also as a title of respect. | |
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d8Aga \[d8]A*ga"\ or d8Agha \[d8]A*gha"\, n. [Turk. adh[be] a great lord, chief master.] In Turkey, a commander or chief officer. It is used also as a title of respect. | |
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d8Aqua \[d8]A"qua\, n. [L. See {Ewer}.] Water; -- a word much used in pharmacy and the old chemistry, in various signification, determined by the word or words annexed. {Aqua ammoni[91]}, the aqueous solution of ammonia; liquid ammonia; often called {aqua ammonia}. {Aqua marine}, or {Aqua marina}. Same as {Aquamarine}. {Aqua regia}. [L., royal water] (Chem.), a very corrosive fuming yellow liquid consisting of nitric and hydrochloric acids. It has the power of dissolving gold, the [bd]royal[b8] metal. {Aqua Tofana}, a fluid containing arsenic, and used for secret poisoning, made by an Italian woman named Tofana, in the middle of the 17th century, who is said to have poisoned more than 600 persons. --Francis. {Aqua vit[91]}[L., water of life. Cf. {Eau de vie}, {Usquebaugh}], a name given to brandy and some other ardent spirits. --Shak. | |
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d8As \[d8]As\, n.; pl. {Asses}. [L. as. See {Ace}.] 1. A Roman weight, answering to the libra or pound, equal to nearly eleven ounces Troy weight. It was divided into twelve ounces. 2. A Roman copper coin, originally of a pound weight (12 oz.); but reduced, after the first Punic war, to two ounces; in the second Punic war, to one ounce; and afterwards to half an ounce. | |
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d8Asa \[d8]As"a\, n. [NL. asa, of oriental origin; cf. Per. az[be] mastic, Ar. as[be] healing, is[be] remedy.] An ancient name of a gum. | |
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d8Asci \[d8]As"ci\, n. pl. See {Ascus}. | |
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d8Ascii \[d8]As"ci*i\, Ascians \As"cians\, n. pl. [L. ascii, pl. of ascius, Gr. [?] without shadow; 'a priv. + [?] shadow.] Persons who, at certain times of the year, have no shadow at noon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a year, a vertical sun. | |
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d8Assai \[d8]As*sa"i\ [It., fr. L. ad + satis enough. See {Assets}.] (Mus.) A direction equivalent to very; as, adagio assai, very slow. | |
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d8Asse \[d8]Asse\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A small foxlike animal ({Vulpes cama}) of South Africa, valued for its fur. | |
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d8C91ca \[d8]C[91]"ca\, n. pl. See {C[91]cum}. | |
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d8Cayo \[d8]Ca"yo\, n.; pl. {-yos}. [Sp.] A small island or ledge of rock in the water; a key. [Sp. Am.] | |
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d8Chou \[d8]Chou\, n.; pl. {Choux}. [F., fr. L. caulis stalk.] 1. A cabbage. 2. A kind of light pastry, usually in the form of a small round cake, and with a filling, as of jelly or cream. 3. A bunch, knot, or rosette of ribbon or other material, used as an ornament in women's dress. | |
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d8Dawk \[d8]Dawk\, n. See {Dak}. | |
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d8Degu \[d8]De"gu\, n. [Native name.] (Zo[94]l.) A small South American rodent ({Octodon Cumingii}), of the family {Octodontid[91]}. | |
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d8Dika \[d8]Di"ka\, n. [Native West African name.] A kind of food, made from the almondlike seeds of the {Irvingia Barteri}, much used by natives of the west coast of Africa; -- called also {dika bread}. | |
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d8Dis \[d8]Dis\, n. [L.] The god Pluto. --Shak. | |
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d8Doko \[d8]Do"ko\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Lepidosiren}. | |
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d8Dux \[d8]Dux\, n. [L., leader.] (Mus.) The scholastic name for the theme or subject of a fugue, the answer being called the comes, or companion. | |
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d8Dyas \[d8]Dy"as\, n. [L. dyas the number two.] (Geol.) A name applied in Germany to the Permian formation, there consisting of two principal groups. | |
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d8Ejoo \[d8]E"joo\ ([emac]"j[oomac]), n. [Malay [c6]j[umac] or h[c6]j[umac].] Gomuti fiber. See {Gomuti}. | |
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d8Eos \[d8]E"os\, n. [L., fr. Gr. 'Hw`s.] (Gr. Myth.) Aurora, the goddess of morn. | |
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d8Euge \[d8]Eu"ge\, n. [L., well done! bravo! Gr. [?].] Applause. [Obs.] --Hammond. | |
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d8Haik \[d8]Haik\ (h[amac]k; Ar. h[aum]*[esl]k), n. [Ar. h[amac][ium]k, fr. h[be]ka to weave.] A large piece of woolen or cotton cloth worn by Arabs as an outer garment. [Written also {hyke}.] --Heyse. | |
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d8Huch \[d8]Huch\, d8Huchen \[d8]Hu"chen\, n. [G.] (Zo[94]l.) A large salmon ({Salmo, [or] Salvelinus, hucho}) inhabiting the Danube; -- called also {huso}, and {bull trout}. | |
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d8O94zoa \[d8]O`[94]*zo"a\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] an egg + [?] an animal.] (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Acrita}. | |
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d8Oca \[d8]O"ca\, n. [Sp.] (Bot.) A Peruvian name for certain species of Oxalis ({O. crenata}, and {O. tuberosa}) which bear edible tubers. | |
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d8Ojo \[d8]O"jo\, n. [Sp., prop., an eye.] A spring, surrounded by rushes or rank grass; an oasis. [Southwestern U.S.] --Bartlett. | |
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d8Os \[d8]Os\, n.; pl. {Ora}. [L.] A mouth; an opening; an entrance. | |
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d8Os \[d8]Os\, n.; pl. {Ossa}. [L.] A bone. | |
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d8Sahui \[d8]Sa*hui"\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A marmoset. | |
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d8Sai \[d8]Sa"i\, n. [Cf. Pg. sahi.] (Zo[94]l.) See {Capuchin}, 3 (a) . | |
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d8Sao \[d8]Sa"o\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any marine annelid of the genus {Hyalin[91]cia}, especially {H. tubicola} of Europe, which inhabits a transparent movable tube resembling a quill in color and texture. | |
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d8Seah \[d8]Se"ah\, n. A Jewish dry measure containing one third of an an ephah. | |
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d8Tazza \[d8]Taz"za\, n. [It.] An ornamental cup or vase with a large, flat, shallow bowl, resting on a pedestal and often having handles. | |
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d8Theca \[d8]The"ca\, n.; pl. {Thec[91]}. [L., fr. Gr. [?] a case to put anything in. See {Tick} a cover.] 1. A sheath; a case; as, the theca, or cell, of an anther; the theca, or spore case, of a fungus; the theca of the spinal cord. 2. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The chitinous cup which protects the hydranths of certain hydroids. (b) The more or less cuplike calicle of a coral. (c) The wall forming a calicle of a coral. | |
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d8Thuja \[d8]Thu"ja\, n. [NL., from Gr. [?] an African tree with sweet-smelling wood.] (Bot.) A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves. [Written also {thuya}.] See {Thyine wood}. Note: {Thuja occidentalis} is the {Arbor vit[91]} of the Eastern and Northern United States. {T. gigantea} of North-waetern America is a very large tree, there called {red cedar}, and {canoe cedar}, and furnishes a useful timber. | |
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d8Thus \[d8]Thus\, n. [L. thus, better tus, frankincense. See {Thurible}.] The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers. | |
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d8Toga \[d8]To"ga\, n.; pl. E. {Togas}, L. {Tog[91]}. [L., akin to tegere to cover. See {Thatch}.] (Rom. Antiq.) The loose outer garment worn by the ancient Romans, consisting of a single broad piece of woolen cloth of a shape approaching a semicircle. It was of undyed wool, except the border of the toga pr[91]texta. {[d8]Toga pr[91]texta}. [L.], a toga with a broad purple border, worn by children of both sexes, by magistrates, and by persons engaged in sacred rites. {[d8]Toga virilis} [L.], the manly gown; the common toga. This was assumed by Roman boys about the time of completing their fourteenth year. | |
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d8Tusche \[d8]Tusch"e\, n. Also Tushe \Tushe\, Tousche \Tousche\, etc. [G. tusche, fr. F. toucher to touch.] A lithographic drawing or painting material of the same nature as lithographic ink. It is also used as a resistant in the biting-in process. | |
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d8Yaksha \[d8]Yak"sha\, n. [Skr.] (Hindoo Myth.) A kind of demigod attendant on Kuvera, the god of wealth. | |
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d8Yoga \[d8]Yo"ga\, n. [Skr. y[d3]ga union.] A species of asceticism among the Hindoos, which consists in a complete abstraction from all worldly objects, by which the votary expects to obtain union with the universal spirit, and to acquire superhuman faculties. | |
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d8Yucca \[d8]Yuc"ca\, n. [NL., from Yuca, its name in St. Domingo.] (Bot.) A genus of American liliaceous, sometimes arborescent, plants having long, pointed, and often rigid, leaves at the top of a more or less woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms. Note: The species with more rigid leaves (as {Yucca aloifolia}, {Y. Treculiana}, and {Y. baccata}) are called {Spanish bayonet}, and one with softer leaves ({Y. filamentosa}) is called {bear grass}, and {Adam's needle}. {Yucca moth} (Zo[94]l.), a small silvery moth ({Pronuba yuccasella}) whose larv[91] feed on plants of the genus Yucca. | |
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Yug \Yug\, d8Yuga \[d8]Yu"ga\, n. [Skr. yuga an age, a yoke. See {Yoke}.] (Hindoo Cosmog.) Any one of the four ages, Krita, or Satya, Treta, Dwapara, and Kali, into which the Hindoos divide the duration or existence of the world. | |
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d8Zea \[d8]Ze"a\ (z[emac]"[adot]), n. [L., a kind of grain, fr. Gr. ze`a, zeia`; cf. Skr. yava barley.] (Bot.) A genus of large grasses of which the Indian corn ({Zea Mays}) is the only species known. Its origin is not yet ascertained. See {Maize}. | |
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d8Zo89a \[d8]Zo"[89]*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] life.] (Zo[94]l.) A peculiar larval stage of certain decapod Crustacea, especially of crabs and certain Anomura. [Written also {zo[91]a}.] Note: In this stage the anterior part of the body is relatively large, and usually bears three or four long spines. The years are conspicuous, and the antenn[91] and jaws are long, fringed organs used in swimming. The thoracic legs are undeveloped or rudimentary, the abdomen long, slender, and often without appendages. The zo[89]a, after casting its shell, changes to a megalops. | |
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Dace \Dace\, n. [Written also dare, dart, fr. F. dard dase, dart, of German origin. Dace is for an older darce, fr. an OF. nom. darz. See {Dart} a javelin.] (Zo[94]l.) A small European cyprinoid fish ({Squalius leuciscus} or {Leuciscus vulgaris}); -- called also {dare}. Note: In America the name is given to several related fishes of the genera {Squalius}, {Minnilus}, etc. The black-nosed dace is {Rhinichthys atronasus} the horned dace is {Semotilus corporalis}. For red dace, see {Redfin}. | |
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Dag \Dag\, v. i. To be misty; to drizzle. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Dag \Dag\ (d[acr]g), n. [Cf. F. dague, LL. daga, D. dagge (fr. French); all prob. fr. Celtic; Cf. Gael. dag a pistol, Armor. dag dagger, W. dager, dagr, Ir. daigear. Cf. {Dagger}.] 1. A dagger; a poniard. [Obs.] --Johnson. 2. A large pistol formerly used. [Obs.] The Spaniards discharged their dags, and hurt some. --Foxe. A sort of pistol, called dag, was used about the same time as hand guns and harquebuts. --Grose. 3. (Zo[94]l.) The unbranched antler of a young deer. | |
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Dag \Dag\, n. [Of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. dagg, Icel. d[94]gg. [root]71. See {Dew}.] A misty shower; dew. [Obs.] | |
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Dag \Dag\, n. [OE. dagge (cf. {Dagger}); or cf. AS. d[be]g what is dangling.] A loose end; a dangling shred. Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail. --Wedgwood. | |
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Dag \Dag\, v. t. [1, from {Dag} dew. 2, from {Dag} a loose end.] 1. To daggle or bemire. [Prov. Eng.] --Johnson. 2. To cut into jags or points; to slash; as, to dag a garment. [Obs.] --Wright. | |
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Dago \Da"go\ (d[amac]"g[osl]), n.; pl. {Dagos} (-g[omac]z). [Cf. Sp. Diego, E. James.] A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent. [U. S.] | |
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Dais \Da"is\ (d[amac]"[icr]s), n. [OE. deis, des, table, dais, OF. deis table, F. dais a canopy, L. discus a quoit, a dish (from the shape), LL., table, fr. Gr. [?] a quoit, a dish. See {Dish}.] 1. The high or principal table, at the end of a hall, at which the chief guests were seated; also, the chief seat at the high table. [Obs.] 2. A platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the chief guests. 3. A canopy over the seat of a person of dignity. [Obs.] --Shiply. | |
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Daisy \Dai"sy\, n.; pl. {Daisies}. [OE. dayesye, AS. d[91]ges[?]eage day's eye, daisy. See {Day}, and {Eye}.] (Bot.) (a) A genus of low herbs ({Bellis}), belonging to the family Composit[91]. The common English and classical daisy is {B. prennis}, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays. (b) The whiteweed ({Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum}), the plant commonly called {daisy} in North America; -- called also {oxeye daisy}. See {Whiteweed}. Note: The word daisy is also used for composite plants of other genera, as {Erigeron}, or fleabane. {Michaelmas daisy} (Bot.), any plant of the genus Aster, of which there are many species. {Oxeye daisy} (Bot.), the whiteweed. See {Daisy} (b) . | |
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Daisy \Dai"sy\, n.; pl. {Daisies}. [OE. dayesye, AS. d[91]ges[?]eage day's eye, daisy. See {Day}, and {Eye}.] (Bot.) (a) A genus of low herbs ({Bellis}), belonging to the family Composit[91]. The common English and classical daisy is {B. prennis}, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays. (b) The whiteweed ({Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum}), the plant commonly called {daisy} in North America; -- called also {oxeye daisy}. See {Whiteweed}. Note: The word daisy is also used for composite plants of other genera, as {Erigeron}, or fleabane. {Michaelmas daisy} (Bot.), any plant of the genus Aster, of which there are many species. {Oxeye daisy} (Bot.), the whiteweed. See {Daisy} (b) . | |
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Dak \Dak\ (d[add]k or d[aum]k), n. [Hind. [dsdot][be]k.] Post; mail; also, the mail or postal arrangements; -- spelt also {dawk}, and {dauk}. [India] {Dak boat}, a mail boat. --Percy Smith. {Dak bungalow}, a traveler's rest-house at the end of a dak stage. {To travel by dak}, to travel by relays of palanquins or other carriage, as fast as the post along a road. | |
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Dase \Dase\ (d[amac]z), v. t. See {Daze}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Dasewe \Dase"we\, v. i. [OE. dasewen, daswen; cf. AS. dysegian to be foolish.] To become dim-sighted; to become dazed or dazzled. [Obs.] --Chauscer. | |
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Dash \Dash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dashing}.] [Of. Scand. origin; cf. Dan daske to beat, strike, Sw. & Icel. daska, Dan. & Sw. dask blow.] 1. To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against. If you dash a stone against a stone in the botton of the water, it maketh a sound. --Bacon. 2. To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin. Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. --Ps. ii. 9. A brave vessel, . . . Dashed all to pieces. --Shak. To perplex and dash Maturest counsels. --Milton. 3. To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress. --South. Dash the proud games[?]er in his gilded car. --Pope. 4. To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there; as, to dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture. I take care to dash the character with such particular circumstance as may prevent ill-natured applications. --Addison. The very source and fount of day Is dashed with wandering isles of night. --Tennyson. 5. To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash off a review or sermon. 6. To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with out; as, to dash out a word. | |
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Dash \Dash\, v. i. To rust with violence; to move impetuously; to strike violently; as, the waves dash upon rocks. [He] dashed through thick and thin. --Dryden. On each hand the gushing waters play, And down the rough cascade all dashing fall. --Thomson. | |
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Dash \Dash\, n. 1. Violent striking together of two bodies; collision; crash. 2. A sudden check; abashment; frustration; ruin; as, his hopes received a dash. 3. A slight admixture, infusion, or adulteration; a partial overspreading; as, wine with a dash of water; red with a dash of purple. Innocence when it has in it a dash of folly. --Addison. 4. A rapid movement, esp. one of short duration; a quick stroke or blow; a sudden onset or rush; as, a bold dash at the enemy; a dash of rain. She takes upon her bravely at first dash. --Shak. 5. Energy in style or action; animation; spirit. 6. A vain show; a blustering parade; a flourish; as, to make or cut a great dash. [Low] 7. (Punctuation) A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis. --John Wilson. 8. (Mus.) (a) The sign of staccato, a small mark [[?]] denoting that the note over which it is placed is to be performed in a short, distinct manner. (b) The line drawn through a figure in the thorough bass, as a direction to raise the interval a semitone. 9. (Racing) A short, spirited effort or trial of speed upon a race course; -- used in horse racing, when a single trial constitutes the race. | |
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Dashy \Dash"y\, a. [From {Dash}.] Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy. [Colloq.] | |
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Daman \Da"man\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A small herbivorous mammal of the genus {Hyrax}. The species found in Palestine and Syria is {Hyrax Syriacus}; that of Northern Africa is {H. Brucei}; -- called also {ashkoko}, {dassy}, and {rock rabbit}. See {Cony}, and {Hyrax}. | |
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Daswe \Das"we\, v. i. See {Dasewe} [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Dauk \Dauk\, v. t. See {Dawk}, v. t., to cut or gush. | |
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Dak \Dak\ (d[add]k or d[aum]k), n. [Hind. [dsdot][be]k.] Post; mail; also, the mail or postal arrangements; -- spelt also {dawk}, and {dauk}. [India] {Dak boat}, a mail boat. --Percy Smith. {Dak bungalow}, a traveler's rest-house at the end of a dak stage. {To travel by dak}, to travel by relays of palanquins or other carriage, as fast as the post along a road. | |
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Dauk \Dauk\, v. t. See {Dawk}, v. t., to cut or gush. | |
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Dak \Dak\ (d[add]k or d[aum]k), n. [Hind. [dsdot][be]k.] Post; mail; also, the mail or postal arrangements; -- spelt also {dawk}, and {dauk}. [India] {Dak boat}, a mail boat. --Percy Smith. {Dak bungalow}, a traveler's rest-house at the end of a dak stage. {To travel by dak}, to travel by relays of palanquins or other carriage, as fast as the post along a road. | |
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Dawish \Daw"ish\, a. Like a daw. | |
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Dawk \Dawk\, v. t. [Prov. E. dauk to cut or pierce with a jerk; cf. OE. dalk a dimple. Cf. Ir. tolch, tollachd, tolladh, a hole, crevice, toll to bore, pierce, W. tyllu.] To cut or mark with an incision; to gash. --Moxon. | |
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Dawk \Dawk\, n. A hollow, crack, or cut, in timber. --Moxon. | |
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Dak \Dak\ (d[add]k or d[aum]k), n. [Hind. [dsdot][be]k.] Post; mail; also, the mail or postal arrangements; -- spelt also {dawk}, and {dauk}. [India] {Dak boat}, a mail boat. --Percy Smith. {Dak bungalow}, a traveler's rest-house at the end of a dak stage. {To travel by dak}, to travel by relays of palanquins or other carriage, as fast as the post along a road. | |
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Dawk \Dawk\, v. t. [Prov. E. dauk to cut or pierce with a jerk; cf. OE. dalk a dimple. Cf. Ir. tolch, tollachd, tolladh, a hole, crevice, toll to bore, pierce, W. tyllu.] To cut or mark with an incision; to gash. --Moxon. | |
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Dawk \Dawk\, n. A hollow, crack, or cut, in timber. --Moxon. | |
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Dak \Dak\ (d[add]k or d[aum]k), n. [Hind. [dsdot][be]k.] Post; mail; also, the mail or postal arrangements; -- spelt also {dawk}, and {dauk}. [India] {Dak boat}, a mail boat. --Percy Smith. {Dak bungalow}, a traveler's rest-house at the end of a dak stage. {To travel by dak}, to travel by relays of palanquins or other carriage, as fast as the post along a road. | |
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Dayaks \Day"aks\ (d[imac]"[acr]ks), n. pl. (Ethnol.) See {Dyaks}. | |
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Daze \Daze\, n. 1. The state of being dazed; as, he was in a daze. [Colloq.] 2. (Mining) A glittering stone. | |
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Daze \Daze\ (d[amac]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dazed} (d[amac]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Dazing}.] [OE. dasen, prob. from Icel. dasask to become weary, a reflexive verb; cf. Sw. dasa to lie idle, and OD. daesen to be foolish, insane, daes, dwaes, D. dwaas, foolish, insane, AS. dw[aemac]s, dysig, stupid. [root]71. Cf. {Dizzy}, {Doze}.] To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb. While flashing beams do daze his feeble eyen. --Spenser. Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world. --Sir H. Taylor. He comes out of the room in a dazed state, that is an odd though a sufficient substitute for interest. --Dickens. | |
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Deas \De"as\, n. See {Dais}. [Scot.] | |
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Bandeau \Ban*deau"\, n.; pl. {-deaux}. [F.] A narrow band or fillet, as for the hair, part of a headdress, etc. | |
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Deca- \Dec"a-\ [Cf. {Ten}.] A prefix, from Gr. de`ka, signifying ten; specifically (Metric System), a prefix signifying the weight or measure that is ten times the principal unit. | |
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Decay \De*cay"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Decayed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Decaying}.] [OF. decaeir, dechaer, decheoir, F. d[82]choir, to decline, fall, become less; L. de- + cadere to fall. See {Chance}.] To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. --Goldsmith. | |
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Decay \De*cay"\, v. t. 1. To cause to decay; to impair. [R.] Infirmity, that decays the wise. --Shak. 2. To destroy. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Decay \De*cay"\, n. 1. Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline; deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay. Perhaps my God, though he be far before, May turn, and take me by the hand, and more - May strengthen my decays. --Herbert. His [Johnson's] failure was not to be ascribed to intellectual decay. --Macaulay. Which has caused the decay of the consonants to follow somewhat different laws. --James Byrne. 2. Destruction; death. [Obs.] --Spenser. 3. Cause of decay. [R.] He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers, is the decay of the whole age. --Bacon. Syn: Decline; consumption. See {Decline}. | |
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Deck \Deck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Decked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Decking}.] [D. dekken to cover; akin to E. thatch. See {Thatch}.] 1. To cover; to overspread. To deck with clouds the uncolored sky. --Milton. 2. To dress, as the person; to clothe; especially, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish. Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency. --Job xl. 10. And deck my body in gay ornaments. --Shak. The dew with spangles decked the ground. --Dryden. 3. To furnish with a deck, as a vessel. | |
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Deck \Deck\, n. [D. dek. See {Deck}, v.] 1. The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks. Note: The following are the more common names of the decks of vessels having more than one. {Berth deck} (Navy), a deck next below the gun deck, where the hammocks of the crew are swung. {Boiler deck} (River Steamers), the deck on which the boilers are placed. {Flush deck}, any continuous, unbroken deck from stem to stern. {Gun deck} (Navy), a deck below the spar deck, on which the ship's guns are carried. If there are two gun decks, the upper one is called the main deck, the lower, the lower gun deck; if there are three, one is called the middle gun deck. {Half-deck}, that portion of the deck next below the spar deck which is between the mainmast and the cabin. {Hurricane deck} (River Steamers, etc.), the upper deck, usually a light deck, erected above the frame of the hull. {Orlop deck}, the deck or part of a deck where the cables are stowed, usually below the water line. {Poop deck}, the deck forming the roof of a poop or poop cabin, built on the upper deck and extending from the mizzenmast aft. {Quarter-deck}, the part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one. {Spar deck}. (a) Same as the upper deck. (b) Sometimes a light deck fitted over the upper deck. {Upper deck}, the highest deck of the hull, extending from stem to stern. 2. (arch.) The upper part or top of a mansard roof or curb roof when made nearly flat. 3. (Railroad) The roof of a passenger car. 4. A pack or set of playing cards. The king was slyly fingered from the deck. --Shak. 5. A heap or store. [Obs.] Who . . . hath such trinkets Ready in the deck. --Massinger. {Between decks}. See under {Between}. {Deck bridge} (Railroad Engineering), a bridge which carries the track upon the upper chords; -- distinguished from a through bridge, which carries the track upon the lower chords, between the girders. {Deck curb} (Arch.), a curb supporting a deck in roof construction. {Deck floor} (Arch.), a floor which serves also as a roof, as of a belfry or balcony. {Deck hand}, a sailor hired to help on the vessel's deck, but not expected to go aloft. {Deck molding} (Arch.), the molded finish of the edge of a deck, making the junction with the lower slope of the roof. {Deck roof} (Arch.), a nearly flat roof which is not surmounted by parapet walls. {Deck transom} (Shipbuilding), the transom into which the deck is framed. {To clear the decks} (Naut.), to remove every unnecessary incumbrance in preparation for battle; to prepare for action. {To sweep the deck} (Card Playing), to clear off all the stakes on the table by winning them. | |
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Deck \Deck\, n. (A[89]ronautics) A main a[89]roplane surface, esp. of a biplane or multiplane. | |
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Decoy \De*coy"\ (d[esl]*koi"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Decoyed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Decoying}.] [Pref. de- + coy; orig., to quiet, soothe, caress, entice. See {Coy}.] To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net. Did to a lonely cot his steps decoy. --Thomson. E'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy. --Goldsmith. Syn: To entice; tempt; allure; lure. See {Allure}. | |
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Decoy \De*coy"\, n. 1. Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait. 2. A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot. 3. A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them. 4. A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection. | |
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Dees \Dees\, n. pl. Dice. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Dees \Dees\, n. A dais. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Deess \De"ess\ (d[esl]*[ecr]"s), n. [F. d[82]esse, fem. of dieu god.] A goddess. [Obs.] --Croft. | |
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Dehisce \De*hisce"\, v. i. [L. dehiscere; de- + hiscere to gape.] To gape; to open by dehiscence. | |
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Dehusk \De*husk"\, v. t. To remove the husk from. [Obs.] [bd]Wheat dehusked upon the floor.[b8] --Drant. | |
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Deis \De"is\ (d[emac]"[icr]s), n. See {Dais}. | |
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Deka- \Dek"a-\ (Metric System) A prefix signifying ten. See {Deca-}. | |
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Desk \Desk\, n. [OE. deske, the same word as dish, disk. See {Dish}, and cf. {Disk}.] 1. A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath. 2. A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (esp. in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for [bd]the clerical profession.[b8] | |
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Desk \Desk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Desked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Desking}.] To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure. | |
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Dess \Dess\, n. Dais. [Obs.] | |
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Deuce \Deuce\ (d[umac]s), n. [F. deux two, OF. deus, fr. L. duo. See {Two}.] 1. (Gaming) Two; a card or a die with two spots; as, the deuce of hearts. 2. (Tennis) A condition of the score beginning whenever each side has won three strokes in the same game (also reckoned [bd]40 all[b8]), and reverted to as often as a tie is made until one of the sides secures two successive strokes following a tie or deuce, which decides the game. | |
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Deuce \Deuce\, n. [Cf. LL. dusius, Armor, dus, te[96]z, phantom, specter; Gael. taibhs, taibhse, apparition, ghost; or fr. OF. deus God, fr. L. deus (cf. {Deity}).] The devil; a demon. [A euphemism, written also {deuse}.] [Low] | |
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Deuse \Deuse\ (d[umac]s), n.; Deused \Deu"sed\ (d[umac]"s[ecr]d), a. See {Deuce}, {Deuced}. | |
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Deuce \Deuce\, n. [Cf. LL. dusius, Armor, dus, te[96]z, phantom, specter; Gael. taibhs, taibhse, apparition, ghost; or fr. OF. deus God, fr. L. deus (cf. {Deity}).] The devil; a demon. [A euphemism, written also {deuse}.] [Low] | |
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Deuse \Deuse\ (d[umac]s), n.; Deused \Deu"sed\ (d[umac]"s[ecr]d), a. See {Deuce}, {Deuced}. | |
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Deuce \Deuce\, n. [Cf. LL. dusius, Armor, dus, te[96]z, phantom, specter; Gael. taibhs, taibhse, apparition, ghost; or fr. OF. deus God, fr. L. deus (cf. {Deity}).] The devil; a demon. [A euphemism, written also {deuse}.] [Low] | |
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Dey \Dey\, n.; pl. {Deys}. [Turk. d[be]i, orig., a maternal uncle, then a friendly title formerly given to middle-aged or old people, especially among the Janizaries; and hence, in Algiers, consecrated at length to the commanding officer of that corps, who frequently became afterward pasha or regent of that province; hence the European misnomer of dey, as applied to the latter: cf. F. dey.] The governor of Algiers; -- so called before the French conquest in 1830. | |
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Diazo- \Di*az"o-\ [Pref. di- + azo-] (Chem.) A combining form (also used adjectively), meaning pertaining to, or derived from, a series of compounds containing a radical of two nitrogen atoms, united usually to an aromatic radical; as, diazo-benzene, {C6H5.N2.OH}. Note: Diazo compounds are in general unstable, but are of great importance in recent organic chemistry. They are obtained by a partial reduction of the salts of certain amido compounds. {Diazo reactions} (Chem.), a series of reactions whereby diazo compounds are employed in substitution. These reactions are of great importance in organic chemistry. | |
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{To turn one's coat}, to change one's uniform or colors; to go over to the opposite party. {To turn one's goods} [or] {money}, and the like, to exchange in the course of trade; to keep in lively exchange or circulation; to gain or increase in trade. {To turn one's hand to}, to adapt or apply one's self to; to engage in. {To turn out}. (a) To drive out; to expel; as, to turn a family out of doors; to turn a man out of office. I'll turn you out of my kingdom. -- Shak. (b) to put to pasture, as cattle or horses. (c) To produce, as the result of labor, or any process of manufacture; to furnish in a completed state. (d) To reverse, as a pocket, bag, etc., so as to bring the inside to the outside; hence, to produce. (e) To cause to cease, or to put out, by turning a stopcock, valve, or the like; as, to turn out the lights. {To turn over}. (a) To change or reverse the position of; to overset; to overturn; to cause to roll over. (b) To transfer; as, to turn over business to another hand. (c) To read or examine, as a book, while, turning the leaves. [bd]We turned o'er many books together.[b8] --Shak. (d) To handle in business; to do business to the amount of; as, he turns over millions a year. [Colloq.] {To turn over a new leaf}. See under {Leaf}. {To turn tail}, to run away; to retreat ignominiously. {To turn the back}, to flee; to retreat. {To turn the back on} [or] {upon}, to treat with contempt; to reject or refuse unceremoniously. {To turn the corner}, to pass the critical stage; to get by the worst point; hence, to begin to improve, or to succeed. {To turn the die} [or] {dice}, to change fortune. {To turn the edge} [or] {point of}, to bend over the edge or point of so as to make dull; to blunt. {To turn the head} [or] {brain of}, to make giddy, wild, insane, or the like; to infatuate; to overthrow the reason or judgment of; as, a little success turned his head. {To turn the scale} [or] {balance}, to change the preponderance; to decide or determine something doubtful. {To turn the stomach of}, to nauseate; to sicken. {To turn the tables}, to reverse the chances or conditions of success or superiority; to give the advantage to the person or side previously at a disadvantage. {To turn tippet}, to make a change. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. {To turn to} {profit, advantage}, etc., to make profitable or advantageous. {To turn up}. (a) To turn so as to bring the bottom side on top; as, to turn up the trump. (b) To bring from beneath to the surface, as in plowing, digging, etc. (c) To give an upward curve to; to tilt; as, to turn up the nose. {To turn upon}, to retort; to throw back; as, to turn the arguments of an opponent upon himself. {To turn upside down}, to confuse by putting things awry; to throw into disorder. This house is turned upside down since Robin Ostler died. --Shak. | |
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Dice \Dice\, n.; pl. of {Die}. Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See {Die}, n. {Dice coal}, a kind of coal easily splitting into cubical fragments. --Brande & C. | |
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Dice \Dice\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Diced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dicing}.] 1. To play games with dice. I . . . diced not above seven times a week. --Shak. 2. To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes. | |
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Die \Die\, n.; pl. in 1 and (usually) in 2, {Dice} (d[c6]s); in 4 & 5, {Dies} (d[c6]z). [OE. dee, die, F. d[82], fr. L. datus given, thrown, p. p. of dare to give, throw. See {Date} a point of time.] 1. A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See {Dice}. 2. Any small cubical or square body. Words . . . pasted upon little flat tablets or dies. --Watts. 3. That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance. Such is the die of war. --Spenser. 4. (Arch.) That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado. 5. (Mach.) (a) A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc. (b) A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing. (c) A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool. {Cutting die} (Mech.), a thin, deep steel frame, sharpened to a cutting edge, for cutting out articles from leather, cloth, paper, etc. {The die is cast}, the hazard must be run; the step is taken, and it is too late to draw back; the last chance is taken. | |
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{To turn one's coat}, to change one's uniform or colors; to go over to the opposite party. {To turn one's goods} [or] {money}, and the like, to exchange in the course of trade; to keep in lively exchange or circulation; to gain or increase in trade. {To turn one's hand to}, to adapt or apply one's self to; to engage in. {To turn out}. (a) To drive out; to expel; as, to turn a family out of doors; to turn a man out of office. I'll turn you out of my kingdom. -- Shak. (b) to put to pasture, as cattle or horses. (c) To produce, as the result of labor, or any process of manufacture; to furnish in a completed state. (d) To reverse, as a pocket, bag, etc., so as to bring the inside to the outside; hence, to produce. (e) To cause to cease, or to put out, by turning a stopcock, valve, or the like; as, to turn out the lights. {To turn over}. (a) To change or reverse the position of; to overset; to overturn; to cause to roll over. (b) To transfer; as, to turn over business to another hand. (c) To read or examine, as a book, while, turning the leaves. [bd]We turned o'er many books together.[b8] --Shak. (d) To handle in business; to do business to the amount of; as, he turns over millions a year. [Colloq.] {To turn over a new leaf}. See under {Leaf}. {To turn tail}, to run away; to retreat ignominiously. {To turn the back}, to flee; to retreat. {To turn the back on} [or] {upon}, to treat with contempt; to reject or refuse unceremoniously. {To turn the corner}, to pass the critical stage; to get by the worst point; hence, to begin to improve, or to succeed. {To turn the die} [or] {dice}, to change fortune. {To turn the edge} [or] {point of}, to bend over the edge or point of so as to make dull; to blunt. {To turn the head} [or] {brain of}, to make giddy, wild, insane, or the like; to infatuate; to overthrow the reason or judgment of; as, a little success turned his head. {To turn the scale} [or] {balance}, to change the preponderance; to decide or determine something doubtful. {To turn the stomach of}, to nauseate; to sicken. {To turn the tables}, to reverse the chances or conditions of success or superiority; to give the advantage to the person or side previously at a disadvantage. {To turn tippet}, to make a change. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. {To turn to} {profit, advantage}, etc., to make profitable or advantageous. {To turn up}. (a) To turn so as to bring the bottom side on top; as, to turn up the trump. (b) To bring from beneath to the surface, as in plowing, digging, etc. (c) To give an upward curve to; to tilt; as, to turn up the nose. {To turn upon}, to retort; to throw back; as, to turn the arguments of an opponent upon himself. {To turn upside down}, to confuse by putting things awry; to throw into disorder. This house is turned upside down since Robin Ostler died. --Shak. | |
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Dice \Dice\, n.; pl. of {Die}. Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See {Die}, n. {Dice coal}, a kind of coal easily splitting into cubical fragments. --Brande & C. | |
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Dice \Dice\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Diced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dicing}.] 1. To play games with dice. I . . . diced not above seven times a week. --Shak. 2. To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes. | |
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Die \Die\, n.; pl. in 1 and (usually) in 2, {Dice} (d[c6]s); in 4 & 5, {Dies} (d[c6]z). [OE. dee, die, F. d[82], fr. L. datus given, thrown, p. p. of dare to give, throw. See {Date} a point of time.] 1. A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See {Dice}. 2. Any small cubical or square body. Words . . . pasted upon little flat tablets or dies. --Watts. 3. That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance. Such is the die of war. --Spenser. 4. (Arch.) That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado. 5. (Mach.) (a) A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc. (b) A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing. (c) A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool. {Cutting die} (Mech.), a thin, deep steel frame, sharpened to a cutting edge, for cutting out articles from leather, cloth, paper, etc. {The die is cast}, the hazard must be run; the step is taken, and it is too late to draw back; the last chance is taken. | |
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Dich \Dich\, v. i. To ditch. [Obs.] | |
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Dickey \Dick"ey\, 1. A hat; esp., in U. S., a stiff hat or derby; in Eng., a straw hat. [Slang] | |
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Dickey \Dick"ey\, Dicky \Dick"y\, n. 1. A seat behind a carriage, for a servant. 2. A false shirt front or bosom. 3. A gentleman's shirt collar. [Local, U. S.] | |
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Haddock \Had"dock\, n. [OE. hadoc, haddok, of unknown origin; cf. Ir. codog, Gael. adag, F. hadot.] (Zo[94]l.) A marine food fish ({Melanogrammus [91]glefinus}), allied to the cod, inhabiting the northern coasts of Europe and America. It has a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also {haddie}, and {dickie}. {Norway haddock}, a marine edible fish ({Sebastes marinus}) of Northern Europe and America. See {Rose fish}. | |
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Dickey \Dick"ey\, Dicky \Dick"y\, n. 1. A seat behind a carriage, for a servant. 2. A false shirt front or bosom. 3. A gentleman's shirt collar. [Local, U. S.] | |
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Die \Die\, n.; pl. in 1 and (usually) in 2, {Dice} (d[c6]s); in 4 & 5, {Dies} (d[c6]z). [OE. dee, die, F. d[82], fr. L. datus given, thrown, p. p. of dare to give, throw. See {Date} a point of time.] 1. A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See {Dice}. 2. Any small cubical or square body. Words . . . pasted upon little flat tablets or dies. --Watts. 3. That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance. Such is the die of war. --Spenser. 4. (Arch.) That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado. 5. (Mach.) (a) A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc. (b) A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing. (c) A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool. {Cutting die} (Mech.), a thin, deep steel frame, sharpened to a cutting edge, for cutting out articles from leather, cloth, paper, etc. {The die is cast}, the hazard must be run; the step is taken, and it is too late to draw back; the last chance is taken. | |
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Dig \Dig\, n. 1. A tool for digging. [Dial. Eng.] 2. An act of digging. 3. An amount to be dug. 4. (Mining) = {Gouge}. | |
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Dig \Dig\, v. i. 1. To work hard or drudge; specif. (U. S.): To study ploddingly and laboriously. [Colloq.] Peter dug at his books all the harder. --Paul L. Ford. 2. (Mach.) Of a tool: To cut deeply into the work because ill set, held at a wrong angle, or the like, as when a lathe tool is set too low and so sprung into the work. {To dig out}, to depart; to leave, esp. hastily; decamp. [Slang, U. S.] | |
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Dig \Dig\, v. i. 1. To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve. Dig for it more than for hid treasures. --Job iii. 21. I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed. --Luke xvi. 3. 2. (Mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore. 3. To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously. [Cant, U.S.] | |
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Dig \Dig\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dug}or {Digged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Digging}. -- Digged is archaic.] [OE. diggen, perh. the same word as diken, dichen (see {Dike}, {Ditch}); cf. Dan. dige to dig, dige a ditch; or (?) akin to E. 1st dag. [?][?][?].] 1. To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade. Be first to dig the ground. --Dryden. 2. To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold. 3. To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well. 4. To thrust; to poke. [Colloq.] You should have seen children . . . dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls. --Robynson (More's Utopia). {To dig down}, to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall. {To dig from}, {out of}, {out}, [or] {up}, to get out or obtain by digging; as, to dig coal from or out of a mine; to dig out fossils; to dig up a tree. The preposition is often omitted; as, the men are digging coal, digging iron ore, digging potatoes. {To dig in}, to cover by digging; as, to dig in manure. | |
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Dig \Dig\, n. 1. A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See {Dig}, v. t., 4. [Colloq.] 2. A plodding and laborious student. [Cant, U.S.] | |
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Digue \Digue\, n. [F. See {Dike}.] A bank; a dike. [Obs.] --Sir W. Temple. | |
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Dike \Dike\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Diked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Diking}.] [OE. diken, dichen, AS. d[c6]cian to dike. See {Dike}.] 1. To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank. 2. To drain by a dike or ditch. | |
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Dike \Dike\, n. [OE. dic, dike, diche, ditch, AS. d[?]c dike, ditch; akin to D. dijk dike, G. deich, and prob. teich pond, Icel. d[?]ki dike, ditch, Dan. dige; perh. akin to Gr. [?] (for [?]) wall, and even E. dough; or perh. to Gr. [?] pool, marsh. Cf. {Ditch}.] 1. A ditch; a channel for water made by digging. Little channels or dikes cut to every bed. --Ray. 2. An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee. Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . . Shut out the turbulent tides. --Longfellow. 3. A wall of turf or stone. [Scot.] 4. (Geol.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata. | |
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Dike \Dike\, v. i. To work as a ditcher; to dig. [Obs.] He would thresh and thereto dike and delve. --Chaucer. | |
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Dis- \Dis-\ (?; 258) . 1. A prefix from the Latin, whence F. d[82]s, or sometimes d[82]-, dis-. The Latin dis-appears as di-before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, v, becomes dif-before f, and either dis-or di- before j. It is from the same root as bis twice, and duo, E. two. See {Two}, and cf. {Bi-}, {Di-}, {Dia-}. Dis-denotes separation, a parting from, as in distribute, disconnect; hence it often has the force of a privative and negative, as in disarm, disoblige, disagree. Also intensive, as in dissever. Note: Walker's rule of pronouncing this prefix is, that the s ought always to be pronounced like z, when the next syllable is accented and begins with [bd]a flat mute [b, d, v, g, z], a liquid [l, m, n, r], or a vowel; as, disable, disease, disorder, disuse, disband, disdain, disgrace, disvalue, disjoin, dislike, dislodge, dismay, dismember, dismiss, dismount, disnatured, disrank, disrelish, disrobe.[b8] Dr. Webster's example in disapproving of Walker's rule and pronouncing dis-as diz in only one (disease) of the above words, is followed by recent ortho[89]pists. See {Disable}, {Disgrace}, and the other words, beginning with dis-, in this Dictionary. 2. A prefix from Gr. di`s- twice. See {Di-}. | |
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Disc \Disc\, n. [See {Disk}, {Dish}.] A flat round plate; (Biol.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc. Same as {Disk}. | |
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Disk \Disk\, n. [L. discus, Gr. [?]. See {Dish}.] [Written also {disc}.] 1. A discus; a quoit. Some whirl the disk, and some the javelin dart. --Pope. 2. A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper. 3. (Astron.) The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens. 4. (Biol.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc. 5. (Bot.) (a) The whole surface of a leaf. (b) The central part of a radiate compound flower, as in sunflower. (c) A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil. 6. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The anterior surface or oral area of c[d2]lenterate animals, as of sea anemones. (b) The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk. (c) In owls, the space around the eyes. {Disk engine}, a form of rotary steam engine. {Disk shell} (Zo[94]l.), any species of Discina. | |
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Disc \Disc\, n. [See {Disk}, {Dish}.] A flat round plate; (Biol.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc. Same as {Disk}. | |
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Disk \Disk\, n. [L. discus, Gr. [?]. See {Dish}.] [Written also {disc}.] 1. A discus; a quoit. Some whirl the disk, and some the javelin dart. --Pope. 2. A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper. 3. (Astron.) The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens. 4. (Biol.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc. 5. (Bot.) (a) The whole surface of a leaf. (b) The central part of a radiate compound flower, as in sunflower. (c) A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil. 6. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The anterior surface or oral area of c[d2]lenterate animals, as of sea anemones. (b) The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk. (c) In owls, the space around the eyes. {Disk engine}, a form of rotary steam engine. {Disk shell} (Zo[94]l.), any species of Discina. | |
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Discus \Dis"cus\, n.; pl. E. {Discuses}, L. {Disci}. [L. See {Disk}.] 1. (a) A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of strength and skill. (b) The exercise with the discus. Note: This among the Greeks was one of the chief gymnastic exercises and was included in the Pentathlon (the contest of the five exercises). The chief contest was that of throwing the discus to the greatest possible distance. 2. A disk. See {Disk}. | |
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Dish \Dish\, n. [AS. disc, L. discus dish, disc, quoit, fr. Gr. [?] quoit, fr. [?] to throw. Cf. {Dais}, {Desk}, {Disc}, {Discus}.] 1. A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table. She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. --Judg. v. 25. 2. The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. [bd]A dish fit for the gods.[b8] --Shak. Home-home dishes that drive one from home. --Hood. 3. The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel. 4. A hollow place, as in a field. --Ogilvie. 5. (Mining) (a) A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured. (b) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor. | |
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Dish \Dish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dished}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dishing}.] 1. To put in a dish, ready for the table. 2. To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes. 3. To frustrate; to beat; to ruin. [Low] {To dish out}. 1. To serve out of a dish; to distribute in portions at table. 2. (Arch.) To hollow out, as a gutter in stone or wood. {To dish up}, to take (food) from the oven, pots, etc., and put in dishes to be served at table. | |
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Disk \Disk\, n. [L. discus, Gr. [?]. See {Dish}.] [Written also {disc}.] 1. A discus; a quoit. Some whirl the disk, and some the javelin dart. --Pope. 2. A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper. 3. (Astron.) The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens. 4. (Biol.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc. 5. (Bot.) (a) The whole surface of a leaf. (b) The central part of a radiate compound flower, as in sunflower. (c) A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil. 6. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The anterior surface or oral area of c[d2]lenterate animals, as of sea anemones. (b) The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk. (c) In owls, the space around the eyes. {Disk engine}, a form of rotary steam engine. {Disk shell} (Zo[94]l.), any species of Discina. | |
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Dixie \Dix"ie\, n. A colloquial name for the Southern portion of the United States, esp. during the Civil War. [U.S.] | |
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Dizz \Dizz\ (d[icr]z), v. t. [See {Dizzy}.] To make dizzy; to astonish; to puzzle. [Obs.] --Gayton. | |
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Dizzy \Diz"zy\ (d[icr]z"z[ycr]), a. [Compar. {Dizzier} (-z[icr]*[etil]r); superl. {Dizziest}.] [OE. dusi, disi, desi, foolish, AS. dysig; akin to LG. d[81]sig dizzy, OD. deuzig, duyzig, OHG. tusig foolish, OFries. dusia to be dizzy; LG. dusel dizziness, duselig, dusselig, D. duizelig, dizzy, Dan. d[94]sig drowsy, slepy, d[94]se to make dull, drowsy, d[94]s dullness, drowsiness, and to AS. dw[aemac]s foolish, G. thor fool. [root]71. Cf. {Daze}, {Doze}.] 1. Having in the head a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; vertiginous; giddy; hence, confused; indistinct. Alas! his brain was dizzy. --Drayton. 2. Causing, or tending to cause, giddiness or vertigo. To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder. --Macaulay. 3. Without distinct thought; unreflecting; thoughtless; heedless. [bd]The dizzy multitude.[b8] --Milton. | |
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Dizzy \Diz"zy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dizzied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dizzying}.] To make dizzy or giddy; to give the vertigo to; to confuse. If the jangling of thy bells had not dizzied thy understanding. --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Dock \Dock\, v. t. To draw, law, or place (a ship) in a dock, for repairing, cleaning the bottom, etc. | |
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Dock \Dock\ (d[ocr]k), n. [AS. docce; of uncertain origin; cf. G. docken-bl[84]tter, Gael. dogha burdock, OF. doque; perh. akin to L. daucus, daucum, Gr. [?], [?], a kind of parsnip or carrot, used in medicine. Cf. {Burdock}.] (Bot.) A genus of plants ({Rumex}), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination. Note: Yellow dock is {Rumex crispus}, with smooth curly leaves and yellow root, which that of other species is used medicinally as an astringent and tonic. | |
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Dock \Dock\, n. [Cf. Icel. dockr a short tail, Fries. dok a little bundle or bunch, G. docke bundle, skein, a short and thick column.] 1. The solid part of an animal's tail, as distinguished from the hair; the stump of a tail; the part of a tail left after clipping or cutting. --Grew. 2. A case of leather to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse. | |
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Dock \Dock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Docked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Docking}.] [See {Dock} a tail. Cf. W. tociaw, and twciaw, to dock, clip.] 1. to cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse. His top was docked like a priest biforn. -- Chaucer. 2. To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages. 3. To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail. | |
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Dock \Dock\, n. [Akin to D. dok; of uncertain origin; cf. LL. doga ditch, L. doga ditch, L. doga sort of vessel, Gr. [?] receptacle, fr. [?] to receive.] 1. An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide. 2. The slip or water way extending between two piers or projecting wharves, for the reception of ships; -- sometimes including the piers themselves; as, to be down on the dock. 3. The place in court where a criminal or accused person stands. {Balance dock}, a kind of {floating dock} which is kept level by pumping water out of, or letting it into, the compartments of side chambers. {Dry dock}, a dock from which the water may be shut or pumped out, especially, one in the form of a chamber having walls and floor, often of masonry and communicating with deep water, but having appliances for excluding it; -- used in constructing or repairing ships. The name includes structures used for the examination, repairing, or building of vessels, as graving docks, floating docks, hydraulic docks, etc. {Floating dock}, a dock which is made to become buoyant, and, by floating, to lift a vessel out of water. {Graving dock}, a dock for holding a ship for graving or cleaning the bottom, etc. {Hydraulic dock}, a dock in which a vessel is raised clear of the water by hydraulic presses. {Naval dock}, a dock connected with which are naval stores, materials, and all conveniences for the construction and repair of ships. {Sectional dock}, a form of {floating dock} made in separate sections or caissons. {Slip dock}, a dock having a sloping floor that extends from deep water to above high-water mark, and upon which is a railway on which runs a cradle carrying the ship. {Wet dock}, a dock where the water is shut in, and kept at a given level, to facilitate the loading and unloading of ships; -- also sometimes used as a place of safety; a basin. | |
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Does \Does\ The 3d pers. sing. pres. of {Do}. | |
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Sundog \Sun"dog`\, n. (Meteor.) A fragmentary rainbow; a small rainbow near the horizon; -- called also {dog} and {weathergaw}. | |
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Dog \Dog\ (d[ocr]g), n. [AS. docga; akin to D. dog mastiff, Dan. dogge, Sw. dogg.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A quadruped of the genus {Canis}, esp. the domestic dog ({C. familiaris}). Note: The dog is distinguished above all others of the inferior animals for intelligence, docility, and attachment to man. There are numerous carefully bred varieties, as the beagle, bloodhound, bulldog, coachdog, collie, Danish dog, foxhound, greyhound, mastiff, pointer, poodle, St. Bernard, setter, spaniel, spitz dog, terrier, etc. There are also many mixed breeds, and partially domesticated varieties, as well as wild dogs, like the dingo and dhole. (See these names in the Vocabulary.) 2. A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch. What is thy servant, which is but a dog, that he should do this great thing? -- 2 Kings viii. 13 (Rev. Ver. ) 3. A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog. [Colloq.] 4. (Astron.) One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius). 5. An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron. 6. (Mech.) (a) A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them. (b) An iron with fangs fastening a log in a saw pit, or on the carriage of a sawmill. (c) A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool. Note: Dog is used adjectively or in composition, commonly in the sense of relating to, or characteristic of, a dog. It is also used to denote a male; as, dog fox or g-fox, a male fox; dog otter or dog-otter, dog wolf, etc.; -- also to denote a thing of cheap or mean quality; as, dog Latin. {A dead dog}, a thing of no use or value. --1 Sam. xxiv. 14. {A dog in the manger}, an ugly-natured person who prevents others from enjoying what would be an advantage to them but is none to him. {Dog ape} (Zo[94]l.), a male ape. {Dog cabbage}, [or] {Dog's cabbage} (Bot.), a succulent herb, native to the Mediterranean region ({Thelygonum Cynocrambe}). {Dog cheap}, very cheap. See under {Cheap}. {Dog ear} (Arch.), an acroterium. [Colloq.] {Dog flea} (Zo[94]l.), a species of flea ({Pulex canis}) which infests dogs and cats, and is often troublesome to man. In America it is the common flea. See {Flea}, and {Aphaniptera}. {Dog grass} (Bot.), a grass ({Triticum caninum}) of the same genus as wheat. {Dog Latin}, barbarous Latin; as, the dog Latin of pharmacy. {Dog lichen} (Bot.), a kind of lichen ({Peltigera canina}) growing on earth, rocks, and tree trunks, -- a lobed expansion, dingy green above and whitish with fuscous veins beneath. {Dog louse} (Zo[94]l.), a louse that infests the dog, esp. {H[91]matopinus piliferus}; another species is {Trichodectes latus}. {Dog power}, a machine operated by the weight of a dog traveling in a drum, or on an endless track, as for churning. {Dog salmon} (Zo[94]l.), a salmon of northwest America and northern Asia; -- the {gorbuscha}; -- called also {holia}, and {hone}. {Dog shark}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Dogfish}. {Dog's meat}, meat fit only for dogs; refuse; offal. {Dog Star}. See in the Vocabulary. {Dog wheat} (Bot.), Dog grass. {Dog whelk} (Zo[94]l.), any species of univalve shells of the family {Nassid[91]}, esp. the {Nassa reticulata} of England. {To give, [or] throw}, {to the dogs}, to throw away as useless. [bd]Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.[b8] --Shak. {To go to the dogs}, to go to ruin; to be ruined. | |
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Dog \Dog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dogged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dogging}.] To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity. I have been pursued, dogged, and waylaid. -- Pope. Your sins will dog you, pursue you. --Burroughs. Eager ill-bred petitioners, who do not so properly supplicate as hunt the person whom they address to, dogging him from place to place, till they even extort an answer to their rude requests. -- South. | |
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Sundog \Sun"dog`\, n. (Meteor.) A fragmentary rainbow; a small rainbow near the horizon; -- called also {dog} and {weathergaw}. | |
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Dog \Dog\ (d[ocr]g), n. [AS. docga; akin to D. dog mastiff, Dan. dogge, Sw. dogg.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A quadruped of the genus {Canis}, esp. the domestic dog ({C. familiaris}). Note: The dog is distinguished above all others of the inferior animals for intelligence, docility, and attachment to man. There are numerous carefully bred varieties, as the beagle, bloodhound, bulldog, coachdog, collie, Danish dog, foxhound, greyhound, mastiff, pointer, poodle, St. Bernard, setter, spaniel, spitz dog, terrier, etc. There are also many mixed breeds, and partially domesticated varieties, as well as wild dogs, like the dingo and dhole. (See these names in the Vocabulary.) 2. A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch. What is thy servant, which is but a dog, that he should do this great thing? -- 2 Kings viii. 13 (Rev. Ver. ) 3. A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog. [Colloq.] 4. (Astron.) One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius). 5. An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron. 6. (Mech.) (a) A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them. (b) An iron with fangs fastening a log in a saw pit, or on the carriage of a sawmill. (c) A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool. Note: Dog is used adjectively or in composition, commonly in the sense of relating to, or characteristic of, a dog. It is also used to denote a male; as, dog fox or g-fox, a male fox; dog otter or dog-otter, dog wolf, etc.; -- also to denote a thing of cheap or mean quality; as, dog Latin. {A dead dog}, a thing of no use or value. --1 Sam. xxiv. 14. {A dog in the manger}, an ugly-natured person who prevents others from enjoying what would be an advantage to them but is none to him. {Dog ape} (Zo[94]l.), a male ape. {Dog cabbage}, [or] {Dog's cabbage} (Bot.), a succulent herb, native to the Mediterranean region ({Thelygonum Cynocrambe}). {Dog cheap}, very cheap. See under {Cheap}. {Dog ear} (Arch.), an acroterium. [Colloq.] {Dog flea} (Zo[94]l.), a species of flea ({Pulex canis}) which infests dogs and cats, and is often troublesome to man. In America it is the common flea. See {Flea}, and {Aphaniptera}. {Dog grass} (Bot.), a grass ({Triticum caninum}) of the same genus as wheat. {Dog Latin}, barbarous Latin; as, the dog Latin of pharmacy. {Dog lichen} (Bot.), a kind of lichen ({Peltigera canina}) growing on earth, rocks, and tree trunks, -- a lobed expansion, dingy green above and whitish with fuscous veins beneath. {Dog louse} (Zo[94]l.), a louse that infests the dog, esp. {H[91]matopinus piliferus}; another species is {Trichodectes latus}. {Dog power}, a machine operated by the weight of a dog traveling in a drum, or on an endless track, as for churning. {Dog salmon} (Zo[94]l.), a salmon of northwest America and northern Asia; -- the {gorbuscha}; -- called also {holia}, and {hone}. {Dog shark}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Dogfish}. {Dog's meat}, meat fit only for dogs; refuse; offal. {Dog Star}. See in the Vocabulary. {Dog wheat} (Bot.), Dog grass. {Dog whelk} (Zo[94]l.), any species of univalve shells of the family {Nassid[91]}, esp. the {Nassa reticulata} of England. {To give, [or] throw}, {to the dogs}, to throw away as useless. [bd]Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.[b8] --Shak. {To go to the dogs}, to go to ruin; to be ruined. | |
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Dog \Dog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dogged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dogging}.] To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity. I have been pursued, dogged, and waylaid. -- Pope. Your sins will dog you, pursue you. --Burroughs. Eager ill-bred petitioners, who do not so properly supplicate as hunt the person whom they address to, dogging him from place to place, till they even extort an answer to their rude requests. -- South. | |
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Doge \Doge\, n. [It doge, dogio, for duce, duca, fr. L. dux, ducis, a leader, commander. See {Duke}.] The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa. | |
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Lepidosiren \Lep`i*do*si"ren\ (-s[imac]"r[ecr]n), n. [Gr. lepi`s -i`dos, a scale + seirh`n a siren.] (Zo[94]l.) An eel-shaped ganoid fish of the order Dipnoi, having both gills and lungs. It inhabits the rivers of South America. The name is also applied to a related African species ({Protopterus annectens}). The lepidosirens grow to a length of from four to six feet. Called also {doko}. | |
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Dose \Dose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dosed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {dosing}.] [Cf. F. doser. See {Dose}, n.] 1. To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses. 2. To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need. A self-opinioned physician, worse than his distemper, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill him, [bd]secundum artem.[b8] -- South 3. To give anything nauseous to. | |
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Dose \Dose\ (d[omac]s), n. [F. dose, Gr. do`sis a giving, a dose, fr. dido`nai to give; akin to L. dare to give. See {Date} point of time.] 1. The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time. 2. A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive. 3. Anything nauseous that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one. I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not by violent doses. -- W. Irving. I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give him, he shall readily take it down. -- South. | |
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Doss \Doss\, n. [Etym. uncertain.] A place to sleep in; a bed; hence, sleep. [Slang] | |
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Douc \Douc\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A monkey ({Semnopithecus nem[91]us}), remarkable for its varied and brilliant colors. It is a native of Cochin China. | |
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Douce \Douce\, a. [F. doux, masc., douce, fem., sweet, fr. L. duleis sweet.] 1. Sweet; pleasant. [Obs.] 2. Sober; prudent; sedate; modest. [Scot.] And this is a douce, honest man. --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Douche \Douche\, n. [F., fr. It. doccia, fr. docciare to flow, pour, fr. an assumed LL. ductiare, fr. L. ducere, ductum, to lead, conduct (water). See {Duct}.] 1. A jet or current of water or vapor directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; a douche bath. 2. (Med.) A syringe. | |
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Dough \Dough\, n. [OE. dagh, dogh, dow, AS. d[be]h; akin to D. deeg, G. teig, Icel. deig, Sw. deg, Dan. deig, Goth. daigs; also, to Goth. deigan to knead, L. fingere to form, shape, Skr. dih to smear; cf. Gr. [?] wall, [?] to touch, handle. [?]. Cf. {Feign}, {Figure}, {Dairy}, {Duff}.] 1. Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough. 2. Anything of the consistency of such paste. {To have one's cake dough}. See under {Cake}. | |
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Doughy \Dough"y\, a. Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion. | |
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Douse \Douse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Doused}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dousing}.] [Cf. {Dowse}, and OD. donsen to strike with the fist on the back, Sw. dunsa to fall down violently and noisily; perh. akin to E. din.] 1. To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse. --Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. (Naut.) To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly; as, douse the topsail. | |
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Douse \Douse\, v. i. To fall suddenly into water. --Hudibras. | |
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Douse \Douse\, v. t. [AS. dw[91]scan. (Skeat.)] To put out; to extinguish. [Slang] [bd] To douse the glim.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Dowse \Dowse\, v. t. [Cf. 1st {Douse}.] 1. To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse. 2. [Cf. OD. doesen to strike, Norw. dusa to break.] To beat or thrash. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. | |
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Dowse \Dowse\, v. i. To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc. Adams had the reputation of having dowsed successfully for more than a hundred wells. --Eng. Cyc. | |
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Dowse \Dowse\, n. A blow on the face. [Low] --Colman. | |
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Doxy \Dox"y\, n.; pl. {Doxies}. [See {Duck} a pet.] A loose wench; a disreputable sweetheart. --Shak. | |
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Doze \Doze\, n. A light sleep; a drowse. --Tennyson. | |
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Doze \Doze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dozed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dozing}.] [Prob. akin to daze, dizzy: cf. Icel. d[?]sa to doze, Dan. d[94]se to make dull, heavy, or drowsy, d[94]s dullness, drowsiness, d[94]sig drowsy, AS. dw[?]s dull, stupid, foolish. [?][?][?]. Cf. {Dizzy}.] To slumber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy. If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him. --L'Estrange. | |
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Doze \Doze\, v. t. 1. To pass or spend in drowsiness; as, to doze away one's time. 2. To make dull; to stupefy. [Obs.] I was an hour . . . in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work. --Pepys. They left for a long time dozed and benumbed. --South. | |
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Dozy \Doz"y\, a. Drowsy; inclined to doze; sleepy; sluggish; as, a dozy head. --Dryden. | |
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Duchy \Duch"y\ (d[ucr]ch"[ycr]), n.; pl. {Duchies}. [F. duch[82], OF. duch[82]e, (assumed) LL. ducitas, fr. L. dux. See {Duke}.] The territory or dominions of a duke; a dukedom. | |
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Widgeon \Widg"eon\, n. [Probably from an old French form of F. vigeon, vingeon, gingeon; of uncertain origin; cf. L. vipio, -onis, a kind of small crane.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of fresh-water ducks, especially those belonging to the subgenus {Mareca}, of the genus {Anas}. The common European widgeon ({Anas penelope}) and the American widgeon ({A. Americana}) are the most important species. The latter is called also {baldhead}, {baldpate}, {baldface}, {baldcrown}, {smoking duck}, {wheat}, {duck}, and {whitebelly}. {Bald-faced}, [or] {Green-headed}, widgeon, the American widgeon. {Black widgeon}, the European tufted duck. {Gray widgeon}. (a) The gadwall. (b) The pintail duck. {Great headed widgeon}, the poachard. {Pied widgeon}. (a) The poachard. (b) The goosander. {Saw-billed widgeon}, the merganser. {Sea widgeon}. See in the Vocabulary. {Spear widgeon}, the goosander. [Prov. Eng.] {Spoonbilled widgeon}, the shoveler. {White widgeon}, the smew. {Wood widgeon}, the wood duck. | |
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Duck \Duck\ (d[ucr]k), v. i. 1. To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip. In Tiber ducking thrice by break of day. --Dryden. 2. To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow. The learned pate Ducks to the golden fool. --Shak. | |
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Duck \Duck\, n. [OE. duke, doke. See {Duck}, v. t. ] 1. (Zool.) Any bird of the subfamily {Anatin[91]}, family {Anatid[91]}. Note: The genera and species are numerous. They are divided into {river ducks} and {sea ducks}. Among the former are the common domestic duck ({Anas boschas}); the wood duck ({Aix sponsa}); the beautiful mandarin duck of China ({Dendronessa galeriliculata}); the Muscovy duck, originally of South America ({Cairina moschata}). Among the sea ducks are the eider, canvasback, scoter, etc. 2. A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water. Here be, without duck or nod, Other trippings to be trod. --Milton. {Bombay duck} (Zo[94]l.), a fish. See {Bummalo}. {Buffel duck}, [or] {Spirit duck}. See {Buffel duck}. {Duck ant} (Zo[94]l.), a species of white ant in Jamaica which builds large nests in trees. {Duck barnacle}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Goose barnacle}. {Duck hawk}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) In the United States: The peregrine falcon. (b) In England: The marsh harrier or moor buzzard. {Duck mole} (Zo[94]l.), a small aquatic mammal of Australia, having webbed feet and a bill resembling that of a duck ({Ornithorhynchus anatinus}). It belongs the subclass Monotremata and is remarkable for laying eggs like a bird or reptile; -- called also {duckbill}, {platypus}, {mallangong}, {mullingong}, {tambreet}, and {water mole}. {To make ducks and drakes}, to throw a flat stone obliquely, so as to make it rebound repeatedly from the surface of the water, raising a succession of jets | |
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Duck \Duck\ (d[ucr]k), n. [Cf. Dan. dukke, Sw. docka, OHG. doccha, G. docke. Cf. {Doxy}.] A pet; a darling. --Shak. | |
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Duck \Duck\, n. [D. doek cloth, canvas, or Icel. d[umac]kr cloth; akin to OHG. tuoh, G. tuch, Sw. duk, Dan. dug.] 1. A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing. 2. (Naut.) pl. The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates. [Colloq.] | |
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Duck \Duck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ducked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ducking}.] [OE. duken, douken, to dive; akin to D. duiken, OHG. t[?]hhan, MHG. tucken, t[81]cken, t[?]chen, G. tuchen. Cf. 5th {Duck}.] 1. To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw. Adams, after ducking the squire twice or thrice, leaped out of the tub. --Fielding. 2. To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy. 3. To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion. [bd] Will duck his head aside.[b8] --Swift. | |
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Widgeon \Widg"eon\, n. [Probably from an old French form of F. vigeon, vingeon, gingeon; of uncertain origin; cf. L. vipio, -onis, a kind of small crane.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of fresh-water ducks, especially those belonging to the subgenus {Mareca}, of the genus {Anas}. The common European widgeon ({Anas penelope}) and the American widgeon ({A. Americana}) are the most important species. The latter is called also {baldhead}, {baldpate}, {baldface}, {baldcrown}, {smoking duck}, {wheat}, {duck}, and {whitebelly}. {Bald-faced}, [or] {Green-headed}, widgeon, the American widgeon. {Black widgeon}, the European tufted duck. {Gray widgeon}. (a) The gadwall. (b) The pintail duck. {Great headed widgeon}, the poachard. {Pied widgeon}. (a) The poachard. (b) The goosander. {Saw-billed widgeon}, the merganser. {Sea widgeon}. See in the Vocabulary. {Spear widgeon}, the goosander. [Prov. Eng.] {Spoonbilled widgeon}, the shoveler. {White widgeon}, the smew. {Wood widgeon}, the wood duck. | |
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Duck \Duck\ (d[ucr]k), v. i. 1. To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip. In Tiber ducking thrice by break of day. --Dryden. 2. To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow. The learned pate Ducks to the golden fool. --Shak. | |
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Duck \Duck\, n. [OE. duke, doke. See {Duck}, v. t. ] 1. (Zool.) Any bird of the subfamily {Anatin[91]}, family {Anatid[91]}. Note: The genera and species are numerous. They are divided into {river ducks} and {sea ducks}. Among the former are the common domestic duck ({Anas boschas}); the wood duck ({Aix sponsa}); the beautiful mandarin duck of China ({Dendronessa galeriliculata}); the Muscovy duck, originally of South America ({Cairina moschata}). Among the sea ducks are the eider, canvasback, scoter, etc. 2. A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water. Here be, without duck or nod, Other trippings to be trod. --Milton. {Bombay duck} (Zo[94]l.), a fish. See {Bummalo}. {Buffel duck}, [or] {Spirit duck}. See {Buffel duck}. {Duck ant} (Zo[94]l.), a species of white ant in Jamaica which builds large nests in trees. {Duck barnacle}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Goose barnacle}. {Duck hawk}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) In the United States: The peregrine falcon. (b) In England: The marsh harrier or moor buzzard. {Duck mole} (Zo[94]l.), a small aquatic mammal of Australia, having webbed feet and a bill resembling that of a duck ({Ornithorhynchus anatinus}). It belongs the subclass Monotremata and is remarkable for laying eggs like a bird or reptile; -- called also {duckbill}, {platypus}, {mallangong}, {mullingong}, {tambreet}, and {water mole}. {To make ducks and drakes}, to throw a flat stone obliquely, so as to make it rebound repeatedly from the surface of the water, raising a succession of jets | |
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Duck \Duck\ (d[ucr]k), n. [Cf. Dan. dukke, Sw. docka, OHG. doccha, G. docke. Cf. {Doxy}.] A pet; a darling. --Shak. | |
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Duck \Duck\, n. [D. doek cloth, canvas, or Icel. d[umac]kr cloth; akin to OHG. tuoh, G. tuch, Sw. duk, Dan. dug.] 1. A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing. 2. (Naut.) pl. The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates. [Colloq.] | |
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Duck \Duck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ducked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ducking}.] [OE. duken, douken, to dive; akin to D. duiken, OHG. t[?]hhan, MHG. tucken, t[81]cken, t[?]chen, G. tuchen. Cf. 5th {Duck}.] 1. To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw. Adams, after ducking the squire twice or thrice, leaped out of the tub. --Fielding. 2. To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy. 3. To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion. [bd] Will duck his head aside.[b8] --Swift. | |
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Dig \Dig\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dug}or {Digged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Digging}. -- Digged is archaic.] [OE. diggen, perh. the same word as diken, dichen (see {Dike}, {Ditch}); cf. Dan. dige to dig, dige a ditch; or (?) akin to E. 1st dag. [?][?][?].] 1. To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade. Be first to dig the ground. --Dryden. 2. To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold. 3. To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well. 4. To thrust; to poke. [Colloq.] You should have seen children . . . dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls. --Robynson (More's Utopia). {To dig down}, to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall. {To dig from}, {out of}, {out}, [or] {up}, to get out or obtain by digging; as, to dig coal from or out of a mine; to dig out fossils; to dig up a tree. The preposition is often omitted; as, the men are digging coal, digging iron ore, digging potatoes. {To dig in}, to cover by digging; as, to dig in manure. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dug \Dug\, n. [Akin to Sw. d[84]gga to suckle (a child), Dan. d[91]gge, and prob. to Goth. daddjan. [?][?][?].] A teat, pap, or nipple; -- formerly that of a human mother, now that of a cow or other beast. With mother's dug between its lips. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dug \Dug\, imp. & p. p. of {Dig}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dugway \Dug"way`\, n. A way or road dug through a hill, or sunk below the surface of the land. [U.S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Duke \Duke\n. [F. duc, fr. L. dux, ducis, leader, commander, fr. ducere to lead; akin to AS. te[a2]n to draw; cf. AS. heretoga (here army) an army leader, general, G. herzog duke. See {Tue}, and cf. {Doge}, {Duchess}, {Ducat}, {Duct}, {Adduce}, {Deduct}.] 1. A leader; a chief; a prince. [Obs.] Hannibal, duke of Carthage. --Sir T. Elyot. All were dukes once, who were [bd]duces[b8] -- captains or leaders of their people. --Trench. 2. In England, one of the highest order of nobility after princes and princesses of the royal blood and the four archbishops of England and Ireland. 3. In some European countries, a sovereign prince, without the title of king. {Duke's coronet}. See {Illust}. of {Coronet}. {To dine with Duke Humphrey}, to go without dinner. See under {Dine}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Duke \Duke\, v. i. To play the duke. [Poetic] Lord Angelo dukes it well in his absence. -- Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Duse \Duse\, n. A demon or spirit. See {Deuce}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dusk \Dusk\, a. [OE. dusc, dosc, deosc; cf. dial. Sw. duska to drizzle, dusk a slight shower. [?][?][?].] Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky. A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. --Milton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dusk \Dusk\, n. 1. Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening. 2. A darkish color. Whose duck set off the whiteness of the skin. --Dryden. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dusk \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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dusk \Dusk\, v. i. To grow dusk. [R.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dusky \Dusk"y\, a. 1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley. Through dusky lane and wrangling mart. --Keble. 2. 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. 3. Gloomy; sad; melancholy. This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect. --Bentley. 4. Intellectually clouded. Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology. --Sir P. Sidney. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dyaks \Dy"aks\, n. pl.; sing. {Dyak}. (Ethnol.) The aboriginal and most numerous inhabitants of Borneo. They are partially civilized, but retain many barbarous practices. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dyaks \Dy"aks\, n. pl.; sing. {Dyak}. (Ethnol.) The aboriginal and most numerous inhabitants of Borneo. They are partially civilized, but retain many barbarous practices. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dyehouse \Dye"house`\, n. A building in which dyeing is carried on. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dyke \Dyke\, n. See {Dike}. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dys- \Dys-\ An inseparable prefix, fr. the Greek [?] hard, ill, and signifying ill, bad, hard, difficult, and the like; cf. the prefixes, Skr. dus-, Goth. tuz-, OHG. zur-, G. zer-, AS. to-, Icel. tor-, Ir. do-. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Daguao, PR (comunidad, FIPS 23062) Location: 18.22349 N, 65.68068 W Population (1990): 1628 (576 housing units) Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Daisy, AR (town, FIPS 17140) Location: 34.23309 N, 93.74189 W Population (1990): 122 (104 housing units) Area: 3.0 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water) Daisy, GA (city, FIPS 21268) Location: 32.15085 N, 81.83713 W Population (1990): 138 (57 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Daisy, KY Zip code(s): 41733 Daisy, MO Zip code(s): 63743 Daisy, OK Zip code(s): 74540 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Dazey, ND (city, FIPS 18340) Location: 47.18818 N, 98.20054 W Population (1990): 129 (52 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Decoy, KY Zip code(s): 41321 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Desha, AR Zip code(s): 72527 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Deweese, NE (village, FIPS 12945) Location: 40.35429 N, 98.13915 W Population (1990): 74 (40 housing units) Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68934 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Diaz, AR (city, FIPS 18940) Location: 35.64795 N, 91.25989 W Population (1990): 1363 (502 housing units) Area: 15.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Dice, KY Zip code(s): 41736 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Dickey, ND (city, FIPS 19580) Location: 46.53650 N, 98.46742 W Population (1990): 53 (31 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58431 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Diggs, VA Zip code(s): 23045 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Dike, IA (city, FIPS 21405) Location: 42.46310 N, 92.63014 W Population (1990): 875 (355 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 50624 Dike, TX Zip code(s): 75437 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Dix, IL (village, FIPS 20123) Location: 38.44063 N, 88.94240 W Population (1990): 456 (255 housing units) Area: 5.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62830 Dix, NE (village, FIPS 13190) Location: 41.23471 N, 103.48631 W Population (1990): 229 (108 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 69133 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Dixie, GA Zip code(s): 31629 Dixie, ID Zip code(s): 83525 Dixie, KY Zip code(s): 41017 Dixie, LA Zip code(s): 71107 Dixie, WV Zip code(s): 25059 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Doss, TX Zip code(s): 78618 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Dows, IA (city, FIPS 22305) Location: 42.65874 N, 93.50199 W Population (1990): 660 (331 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 50071 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Duck, WV Zip code(s): 25063 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Dugway, UT (CDP, FIPS 20450) Location: 40.23123 N, 112.75051 W Population (1990): 1761 (630 housing units) Area: 13.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 84022 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Duke, MO Zip code(s): 65461 Duke, OK Zip code(s): 73532 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Duque, PR (comunidad, FIPS 24395) Location: 18.24007 N, 65.74459 W Population (1990): 1445 (495 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Dyess, AR (town, FIPS 20230) Location: 35.58936 N, 90.21313 W Population (1990): 466 (181 housing units) Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 72330 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
DEC /dek/ n. 1. v. Verbal (and only rarely written) shorthand for decrement, i.e. `decrease by one'. Especially used by assembly programmers, as many assembly languages have a `dec' mnemonic. Antonym: {inc}. 2. n. Commonly used abbreviation for Digital Equipment Corporation, later deprecated by DEC itself in favor of "Digital" and now entirely obsolete following the buyout by Compaq. Before the {killer micro} revolution of the late 1980s, hackerdom was closely symbiotic with DEC's pioneering timesharing machines. The first of the group of cultures described by this lexicon nucleated around the PDP-1 (see {TMRC}). Subsequently, the PDP-6, {PDP-10}, {PDP-20}, PDP-11 and {VAX} were all foci of large and important hackerdoms, and DEC machines long dominated the ARPANET and Internet machine population. DEC was the technological leader of the minicomputer era (roughly 1967 to 1987), but its failure to embrace microcomputers and Unix early cost it heavily in profits and prestige after {silicon} got cheap. Nevertheless, the microprocessor design tradition owes a major debt to the PDP-11 instruction set, and every one of the major general-purpose microcomputer OSs so far (CP/M, MS-DOS, Unix, OS/2, Windows NT) was either genetically descended from a DEC OS, or incubated on DEC hardware, or both. Accordingly, DEC was for many years still regarded with a certain wry affection even among many hackers too young to have grown up on DEC machines. DEC reclaimed some of its old reputation among techies in the first half of the 1990s. The success of the Alpha, an innovatively-designed and very high-performance {killer micro}, helped a lot. So did DEC's newfound receptiveness to Unix and open systems in general. When Compaq acquired DEC at the end of 1998 there was some concern that these gains would be lost along with the DEC nameplate, but the merged company has so far turned out to be culturally dominated by the ex-DEC side. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
decay n.,vi [from nuclear physics] An automatic conversion which is applied to most array-valued expressions in {C}; they `decay into' pointer-valued expressions pointing to the array's first element. This term is borderline techspeak, but is not used in the official standard for the language. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
dehose /dee-hohz/ vt. To clear a {hosed} condition. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
dike vt. To remove or disable a portion of something, as a wire from a computer or a subroutine from a program. A standard slogan is "When in doubt, dike it out". (The implication is that it is usually more effective to attack software problems by reducing complexity than by increasing it.) The word `dikes' is widely used among mechanics and engineers to mean `diagonal cutters', esp. the heavy-duty metal-cutting version, but may also refer to a kind of wire-cutters used by electronics techs. To `dike something out' means to use such cutters to remove something. Indeed, the TMRC Dictionary defined dike as "to attack with dikes". Among hackers this term has been metaphorically extended to informational objects such as sections of code. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
doc /dok/ n. Common spoken and written shorthand for `documentation'. Often used in the plural `docs' and in the construction `doc file' (i.e., documentation available on-line). | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
dogcow /dog'kow/ n. See {Moof}. The dogcow is a semi-legendary creature that lurks in the depths of the Macintosh Technical Notes Hypercard stack V3.1. The full story of the dogcow is told in technical note #31 (the particular dogcow illustrated is properly named `Clarus'). Option-shift-click will cause it to emit a characteristic `Moof!' or `!fooM' sound. _Getting_ to tech note 31 is the hard part; to discover how to do that, one must needs examine the stack script with a hackerly eye. Clue: {rot13} is involved. A dogcow also appears if you choose `Page Setup...' with a LaserWriter selected and click on the `Options' button. It also lurks in other Mac printer drivers, notably those for the now-discontinued Style Writers. Pointers to all things dogcowish can be found at `http://developer.apple.com/dev/dts/dogcow.html'. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DAC {Digital to Analog Converter} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DAG 1. 2. (1997-08-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Daisy A {functional language}. ["Daisy Programming Manual", S.D. Johnson, CS Dept TR, Indiana U, 1988]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DAISY 201 An early system on {G-15}. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DAS Digital Analog Simulator. Represents {analog computer} design. (1994-11-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DASE {Distributed Application Support Environment} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DC calculator and its language. Here is an example program which prints out {factorial}s: echo "[la1+dsa*pla2220>y]sy0sa1lyx" | dc {Unix manual page}: dc(1). {bc} provides a somewhat more readable syntax which is compiled into dc. There is also a {GNU DC}. (1995-03-17) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DC1 {control-Q} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DC2 {Device Control 2} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DC3 {Control-S} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DC4 {Device Control 4} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DCA 1. Defense Communications Agency. See {DISA}. 2. {Document Content Architecture} from {IBM}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DCC 1. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DCE 1. {Data Communication Equipment}. 2. Data Circuit-terminating Equipment. 3. {Distributed Computing Environment} from {OSF}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DCG {Definite Clause Grammar} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DCI {Display Control Interface} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DCS {Digital Cellular System} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DDS 1. {Digital Data Service}. 2. {Digital Data System}. 3. {Dataphone Digital Service}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DEC {Digital Equipment Corporation} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
dec used by {assembly language} programmers, as many assembly languages have a "dec" {mnemonic}. Opposite: {inc}. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DEC {Digital Equipment Corporation} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
dec used by {assembly language} programmers, as many assembly languages have a "dec" {mnemonic}. Opposite: {inc}. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
decay [Nuclear physics] An automatic conversion which is applied to most array-valued expressions in {C}; they "decay into" pointer-valued expressions pointing to the array's first element. This term is not used in the official standard for the language. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
dehose /dee-hohz/ To clear a {hosed} condition. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DEK {Data Encryption Key} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
deque {double-ended queue} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DES {Data Encryption Standard} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DESY Deutsches Electronen Synchrotron Laboratory, Hamburg, Germany. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DEX A cross between {Modula-2} and {C} by W. van Oortmerssen. {Amiga version 1.2 (ftp://ftp.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/amiga/fish/f7/ff743/TurboDEX.lzh)}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
dike To remove or disable a portion of something, as a wire from a computer or a subroutine from a program. A standard slogan is "When in doubt, dike it out". (The implication is that it is usually more effective to attack software problems by reducing complexity than by increasing it.) The word "dikes" is widely used among mechanics and engineers to mean "diagonal cutters", especially the heavy-duty metal-cutting version, but may also refer to a kind of wire-cutters used by electronics technicians. To "dike something out" means to use such cutters to remove something. Indeed, the TMRC Dictionary defined dike as "to attack with dikes". Among hackers this term has been metaphorically extended to informational objects such as sections of code. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DISA 1. {Defense Information Systems Agency}. 2. (1999-09-18) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
disc only used for "{compact disc}". (1995-07-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
disk 2. {compact disc}. 3. {optical disk}. Note: the american spelling, "disk", is normal for most computer disks whereas "compact disc", having come to computers via the audio world, is correctly spelled with a "c", indeed, this spelling is part of the CD standard. (1995-07-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
dj (1999-01-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
dk (1999-01-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DK {Datakit} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
dk (1999-01-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DK {Datakit} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
doc /dok/ Common spoken and written shorthand for "documentation". Often used in the plural "docs" and in the construction "doc file" (i.e. documentation available on-line). [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Doc {Directed Oc} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
doc /dok/ Common spoken and written shorthand for "documentation". Often used in the plural "docs" and in the construction "doc file" (i.e. documentation available on-line). [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Doc {Directed Oc} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
doco documentation writer. See also {devo} and {mango}. 2. (UK) A short technical document. A "doco" is often not the documentation passed to management. Compare {doc}. [{Jargon File}] (1999-10-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
dogcow /dog'kow/ See {Moof}. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DOS 2. {IBM}'s {Disk Operating System}. 3. Any {disk operating system}. (2001-03-16) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DOS/360 at the low end for the {System/360} in 1964 and delivered in 1965 or 1966. Following the failure of {OS}, IBM designed DOS for the low end machines, able to run in 16KB(?) and 64KB memory. DOS/360 used three {memory partitions}, but it had no serious {memory protection}. The three partitions were not specialised, but frequently one was used for {spooling} {punched cards} to {disk}, another one for {batch job} execution and another for spooling disk to printers. With DOS/VS, introduced in 1970, the number of partitions was increased, {virtual memory} was introduced and the minimum memory requirements increased. Later they released DOS/VSE and ESA/VSE. DOS/360 successors are still alive today (1997) though not as popular as in the late 1960s. Contrary to the Hacker's {Jargon File}, {GECOS} was not copied from DOS/360. (1997-09-22) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DS0 rate of 64,000 bits per second (64 kb/s), intended to carry one {voice channel} (a phone call). (2001-03-18) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DS1 synchronous digital streams, over circuits in the North American {digital transmission hierarchy}, at the {T1} transmission rate of 1,544,000 bits per second ({baud}). DS1 is commonly used to multiplex 24 {DS0} channels. Each DS0 channel, originally a digitised voice-grade telephone signal, carries 8000 bytes per second (64,000 bits per second). A DS1 frame includes one byte from each of the 24 DS0 channels and adds one {framing bit}, making a total of 193 bits per frame at 8000 frames per second. The result is 193*8000 = 1,544,000 bits per second. In the original standard, the successive framing bits continuously repeated the 12-bit sequence 110111001000, and such a 12-frame unit is called a super-frame. In voice telephony, errors are acceptable (early standards allowed as much as one frame in six to be missing entirely), so the least significant bit in two of the 24 streams was used for signaling between network equipments. This is called {robbed-bit signaling}. To promote error-free transmission, an alternative called the extended super-frame (ESF) of 24 frames was developed. In this standard, six of the 24 framing bits provide a six bit {cyclic redundancy check} (CRC-6), and six provide the actual framing. The other 12 form a virtual circuit of 4000 bits per second for use by the transmission equipment, for {call progress signals} such as busy, idle and ringing. DS1 signals using ESF equipment are nearly error-free, because the CRC detects errors and allows automatic re-routing of connections. Compare {T-carrier systems}. [Kenneth Sherman, "Data Communications : a user's guide", third edition (1990), Reston/Prentice-Hall/Simon & Schuster]. (1996-03-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DS1C digital signals in the North American digital transmission hierarchy. A DS1C signal uses 48 {PCM} channels and has a transmission rate of 3.15 Megabits per second, twice that of {DS1}. DS1C uses two {DS1} signals combined and sent on a 3.152 megabit per second {carrier} which allows 64 kilobits per second for synchronisation and {framing} using "{pulse stuffing}". The channel 2 signal is logically inverted, and a framing bit is stuffed in two out of three code words, resulting in 26-bit information units. The channels are interleaved and then scrambled by the addition {modulo} 2 of the signal with the previous bit. Finally the bit stream is combined with a control bit sequence that permits the {demultiplexor} to function by preceding each 52 bits with one DS1C framing bit. A series of 24 such 53-bit frames forms a 1272-bit "M-frame". (1995-02-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DS2 digital signals in the North American digital transmission hierarchy. A DS2 signal uses 96 {PCM} channels and has a transmission rate of 6.31 Megabits per second, twice that of {DS1C}. (1995-02-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DS3 specification} for digital signals in the North American digital transmission hierarchy. A DS3 signal has a transmission rate of 44.736 Megabits per second. DS3 is used, for example, on {T3} synchronous {Integrated Services Digital Network} lines. (1995-01-12) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DSA {Directory System Agent} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DSE 1. Display Screen Equipment. See {Visual Display Unit}. 2. {Data Structure Editor}. (2002-11-09) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DSEE {Domain Software Engineering Environment} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DSI {Delivered Source Instruction} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DSS 1. {Decision Support Systems}. 2. {Digital Signature Standard}. (1995-11-16) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DSU 1. 2. {Disk Subsystem Unit} ({Artecon}). 3. (1996-12-01) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DSW {penis war} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DTS 1. {Distributed Time Service}. 2. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DTSS created by {Dartmouth College} and sold by {General Electric} around 1967. GE's Information Service Divsion (ISD) marketed DTSS which was running on a system called {GE-265} (a combination of the {front-end processor} the {Datanet-30} and the {GE-235}). DTSS was ported (and significantly improved by GE ISD around 1965-1966 on a combination of DN-30 and {GE-635}). This proprietary system, called Mk-II, later improved by GE and renamed Mk-III, is still working today (1997) as part of the GE service bureau that also includes {IBM} and {Unix} computers. (1997-09-16) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
dwg {drawing} files. {(http://www.faqs.org/faqs/graphics/fileformats-faq/part3/)}. (2000-08-02) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
DX4 {Intel DX4} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
dz (1999-01-27) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Dish for eating from (2 Kings 21:13). Judas dipped his hand with a "sop" or piece of bread in the same dish with our Lord, thereby indicating friendly intimacy (Matt. 26:23). The "lordly dish" in Judg. 5:25 was probably the shallow drinking cup, usually of brass. In Judg. 6:38 the same Hebrew word is rendered "bowl." The dishes of the tabernacle were made of pure gold (Ex. 25:29; 37:16). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Doeg fearful, an Edomite, the chief overseer of Saul's flocks (1 Sam. 21:7). At the command of Saul he slew the high priest Ahimelech (q.v.) at Nob, together with all the priests to the number of eighty-five persons. (Comp. Ps. 52, title.) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Dog frequently mentioned both in the Old and New Testaments. Dogs were used by the Hebrews as a watch for their houses (Isa. 56:10), and for guarding their flocks (Job 30:1). There were also then as now troops of semi-wild dogs that wandered about devouring dead bodies and the offal of the streets (1 Kings 14:11; 16:4; 21:19, 23; 22:38; Ps. 59:6, 14). As the dog was an unclean animal, the terms "dog," "dog's head," "dead dog," were used as terms of reproach or of humiliation (1 Sam. 24:14; 2 Sam. 3:8; 9:8; 16:9). Paul calls false apostles "dogs" (Phil. 3:2). Those who are shut out of the kingdom of heaven are also so designated (Rev. 22:15). Persecutors are called "dogs" (Ps. 22:16). Hazael's words, "Thy servant which is but a dog" (2 Kings 8:13), are spoken in mock humility=impossible that one so contemptible as he should attain to such power. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Dough (batsek, meaning "swelling," i.e., in fermentation). The dough the Israelites had prepared for baking was carried away by them out of Egypt in their kneading-troughs (Ex. 12:34, 39). In the process of baking, the dough had to be turned (Hos. 7:8). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Duke derived from the Latin dux, meaning "a leader;" Arabic, "a sheik." This word is used to denote the phylarch or chief of a tribe (Gen. 36:15-43; Ex. 15:15; 1 Chr. 1:51-54). | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Doeg, careful, who acts with uneasiness |