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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
due
adv
  1. directly or exactly; straight; "went due North"
adj
  1. owed and payable immediately or on demand; "payment is due"
    Antonym(s): undue
  2. scheduled to arrive; "the train is due in 15 minutes"
  3. suitable to or expected in the circumstances; "all due respect"; "due cause to honor them"; "a long due promotion"; "in due course"; "due esteem"; "exercising due care"
    Antonym(s): undue
  4. capable of being assigned or credited to; "punctuation errors ascribable to careless proofreading"; "the cancellation of the concert was due to the rain"; "the oversight was not imputable to him"
    Synonym(s): ascribable, due, imputable, referable
n
  1. that which is deserved or owed; "give the devil his due"
  2. a payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership); "the society dropped him for non-payment of dues"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Due \Due\, v. t.
      To endue. [Obs.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Due \Due\, a. [OF. deu, F. d[96], p. p. of devoir to owe, fr. L.
      debere. See {Debt}, {Habit}, and cf. {Duty}.]
      1. Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for
            another; payable; owing and demandable.
  
      2. Justly claimed as a right or property; proper; suitable;
            becoming; appropriate; fit.
  
                     Her obedience, which is due to me.      --Shak.
  
                     With dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the
                     churchway path we saw him borne.         --Gray.
  
      3. Such as (a thing) ought to be; fulfilling obligation;
            proper; lawful; regular; appointed; sufficient; exact; as,
            due process of law; due service; in due time.
  
      4. Appointed or required to arrive at a given time; as, the
            steamer was due yesterday.
  
      5. Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
  
                     This effect is due to the attraction of the sun.
                                                                              --J. D.
                                                                              Forbes.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Due \Due\, adv.
      Directly; exactly; as, a due east course.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Due \Due\, n.
      1. That which is owed; debt; that which one contracts to pay,
            or do, to or for another; that which belongs or may be
            claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality
            requires to be done; a fee; a toll.
  
                     He will give the devil his due.         --Shak.
  
                     Yearly little dues of wheat, and wine, and oil.
                                                                              --Tennyson.
  
      2. Right; just title or claim.
  
                     The key of this infernal pit by due . . . I keep.
                                                                              --Milton.
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