dart : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

   Dard
         n 1: any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and
               eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan [syn: {Dard},
               {Dardic}, {Dardic language}]

English Dictionary: dart	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dart n a small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot a tapered tuck made in dressmaking a sudden quick movement Synonym(s): flit, dart v move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart; "The hummingbird flitted among the branches" Synonym(s): flit, flutter, fleet, dart run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard" Synonym(s): dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot move with sudden speed; "His forefinger darted in all directions as he spoke"
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de-aerate v remove air or gas from Synonym(s): deaerate, de-aerate
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deaerate v remove air or gas from Synonym(s): deaerate, de-aerate
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dearth n an acute insufficiency [syn: dearth, famine, shortage] an insufficient quantity or number Synonym(s): dearth, paucity
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derate v lower the rated electrical capability of electrical apparatus
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deride v treat or speak of with contempt; "He derided his student's attempt to solve the biggest problem in mathematics"
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Derrida n French philosopher and critic (born in Algeria); exponent of deconstructionism (1930-2004) Synonym(s): Derrida, Jacques Derrida
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die hard v continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures" Synonym(s): prevail, persist, die hard, run, endure
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die-hard adj tradition-bound and obstinately opinionated; "an inflexible (or die-hard) conservative"; "rock-ribbed republican" Synonym(s): die-hard(a), rock-ribbed
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diehard n one who adheres to traditional views [syn: traditionalist, diehard]
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diorite n a granular crystalline intrusive rock
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dirt adj (of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel Synonym(s): dirt, ungraded n the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock Synonym(s): soil, dirt the state of being covered with unclean things Synonym(s): dirt, filth, grime, soil, stain, grease, grunge obscene terms for feces Synonym(s): crap, dirt, shit, shite, poop, turd disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people Synonym(s): scandal, dirt, malicious gossip
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dirty adj soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves" Synonym(s): dirty, soiled, unclean Antonym(s): clean (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency; "dirty words"; "a dirty old man"; "dirty books and movies"; "boys telling dirty jokes"; "has a dirty mouth" Antonym(s): clean, unobjectionable vile; despicable; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor" Synonym(s): dirty, filthy, lousy spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout" Synonym(s): dirty, contaminating Antonym(s): clean, uncontaminating contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen Synonym(s): dirty, pestiferous (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair" Synonym(s): dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy (of a manuscript) defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty) copy" Synonym(s): dirty, foul, marked-up obtained illegally or by improper means; "dirty money"; "ill- gotten gains" Synonym(s): dirty, ill-gotten expressing or revealing hostility or dislike; "dirty looks" violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior" Synonym(s): cheating(a), dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign" Synonym(s): dirty, sordid unpleasantly stormy; "there's dirty weather in the offing" v make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!" Synonym(s): dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire Antonym(s): clean, make clean
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do-or-die adj desperately determined; "do-or-die revolutionaries"; "a do-or-die conflict" Synonym(s): desperate, do-or-die(a)
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Dorado n a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Reticulum and Pictor; contains most of the Large Magellanic Cloud
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dowered adj supplied with a dower or dowry
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draw out v cause to speak, "Can you draw her out--she is always so quiet" lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer; "We prolonged our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The meeting was drawn out until midnight" Synonym(s): prolong, protract, extend, draw out make more sociable; "The therapist drew out the shy girl" deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant" Synonym(s): educe, evoke, elicit, extract, draw out remove as if by suction; "aspirate the wound" Synonym(s): aspirate, draw out, suck out remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense; "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram" Synonym(s): extract, pull out, pull, pull up, take out, draw out
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dread adj causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse" Synonym(s): awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible n fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension" Synonym(s): apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread v be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!" Synonym(s): fear, dread
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dried adj not still wet; "the ink has dried"; "a face marked with dried tears" preserved by removing natural moisture; "dried beef"; "dried fruit"; "dehydrated eggs"; "shredded and desiccated coconut meat" Synonym(s): dried, dehydrated, desiccated
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drouth n a prolonged shortage; "when England defeated Pakistan it ended a ten-year drought" Synonym(s): drought, drouth a shortage of rainfall; "farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season" Synonym(s): drought, drouth
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Druid n a pre-Christian priest among the Celts of ancient Gaul and Britain and Ireland
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dry out v become dry or drier; "The laundry dries in the sun" [syn: dry, dry out] become empty of water; "The river runs dry in the summer" Synonym(s): run dry, dry out remove the moisture from and make dry; "dry clothes"; "dry hair" Synonym(s): dry, dry out Antonym(s): wet
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dry-eyed adj free from tears Synonym(s): tearless, dry-eyed [ant: tearful]
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dryad n a deity or nymph of the woods Synonym(s): dryad, wood nymph
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Ar88te \[d8]A`r[88]te"\, n. [F., lit., a sharp fish bone, ridge, sharp edge, fr. L. arista beard of grain.] (Geog.) An acute and rugged crest of a mountain range or a subsidiary ridge between two mountain gorges.
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d8Arietta \[d8]A`riet"ta\, Ariette \Ar`iette"\, n. [It. arietta, dim. of aria; F. ariette.] (Mus.) A short aria, or air. [bd]A military ariette.[b8] --Sir W. Scott.
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d8Arr88t \[d8]Ar*r[88]t\, n. [F. See {Arrest}, n.] (F. Law) (a) A judgment, decision, or decree of a court or high tribunal; also, a decree of a sovereign. (b) An arrest; a legal seizure.
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d8Errata \[d8]Er*ra"ta\, n. pl. [L.] See {Erratum}.
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d8Hirudo \[d8]Hi*ru"do\, n. [L., a leech.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of leeches, including the common medicinal leech. See {Leech}.
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d8Radeau \[d8]Ra`deau"\, n. [F.] A float; a raft. Three vessels under sail, and one at anchor, above Split Rock, and behind it the radeau Thunderer. --W. Irving.
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d8Reata \[d8]Re*a"ta\, n. [Sp.] A lariat.
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d8Redia \[d8]Re"dia\ (r?"d??), n.; pl. L. {Redi[91]} (-[emac]), E. {Redias} (-[?]z). [NL.; of uncertain origin.] (Zo[94]l.) A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of redi[91], or else cercari[91] within its own body. Called also {proscolex}, and {nurse}. See Illustration in Appendix.
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d8Rete \[d8]Re"te\, n. [L., a net.] (Anat.) A net or network; a plexus; particularly, a network of blood vessels or nerves, or a part resembling a network.
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d8Rodeo \[d8]Ro*de"o\, n. [SP., a going round.] A round-up. See {Round-up}. [Western U.S.]
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d8Rota \[d8]Ro"ta\, n. [L. rota wheel. The name is said to allude to the design of the floor of the room in which the court used to sit, which was that of a wheel. See {Rotary}.] 1. An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also {Rota Romana}, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members. 2. (Eng. Hist.) A short-lived political club established in 1659 by J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of Parliament.
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d8Rouet \[d8]Rou`et"\, n. [F.] A small wheel formerly fixed to the pan of firelocks for discharging them. --Crabb.
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d8Tardo \[d8]Tar"do\, n. [Sp., slow, L. tardus.] (Zo[94]l.) A sloth.
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d8Tardo \[d8]Tar"do\, a. [It.] (Mus.) Slow; -- a direction to perform a passage slowly.
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d8Truit82 \[d8]Trui`t[82]"\, a. [F., fr. truite trout.] Having a delicately crackled surface; -- applied to porcelian, etc.
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d8Uredo \[d8]U*re"do\, n. [L., a blast, blight, a burning itch, fr. urere to burn, to scorch.] 1. (Bot.) One of the stages in the life history of certain rusts ({Uredinales}), regarded at one time as a distinct genus. It is a summer stage preceding the teleutospore, or winter stage. See {Uredinales}, in the Supplement. 2. (Med.) Nettle rash. See {Urticaria}.
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d8Yaourt \[d8]Yaourt\, n. [Turk. yoghurt.] A fermented drink, or milk beer, made by the Turks.
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Dare \Dare\, v. i. [imp. {Durst}or {Dared}; p. p. {Dared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Daring}.] [OE. I dar, dear, I dare, imp. dorste, durste, AS. ic dear I dare, imp. dorste. inf. durran; akin to OS. gidar, gidorsta, gidurran, OHG. tar, torsta, turran, Goth. gadar, gada[a3]rsta, Gr. tharsei^n, tharrei^n, to be bold, tharsy`s bold, Skr. Dhrsh to be bold. [root]70.] To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture. I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. --Shak. Why then did not the ministers use their new law? Bacause they durst not, because they could not. --Macaulay. Who dared to sully her sweet love with suspicion. --Thackeray. The tie of party was stronger than the tie of blood, because a partisan was more ready to dare without asking why. --Jowett (Thu[?]yd.). Note: The present tense, I dare, is really an old past tense, so that the third person is he dare, but the form he dares is now often used, and will probably displace the obsolescent he dare, through grammatically as incorrect as he shalls or he cans. --Skeat. The pore dar plede (the poor man dare plead). --P. Plowman. You know one dare not discover you. --Dryden. The fellow dares not deceive me. --Shak. Here boldly spread thy hands, no venom'd weed Dares blister them, no slimy snail dare creep. --Beau. & Fl. Note: Formerly durst was also used as the present. Sometimes the old form dare is found for durst or dared.
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Dare \Dare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Daring}.] 1. To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake. What high concentration of steady feeling makes men dare every thing and do anything? --Bagehot. To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes. --The Century. 2. To challenge; to provoke; to defy. Time, I dare thee to discover Such a youth and such a lover. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dart \Dart\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Darted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Darting}.] 1. To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch. 2. To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams. Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart? --Pope.
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Dart \Dart\, v. i. 1. To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart. 2. To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket.
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Dart \Dart\, n. [OF. dart, of German origin; cf. OHG. tart javelin, dart, AS. dara[?], daro[?], Sw. dart dagger, Icel. darra[?]r dart.] 1. A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow. And he [Joab] took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom. --2 Sa. xviii. 14. 2. Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds like a dart. The artful inquiry, whose venomed dart Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart. --Hannan More. 3. A spear set as a prize in running. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 4. (Zo[94]l.) A fish; the dace. See {Dace}. {Dart sac} (Zo[94]l.), a sac connected with the reproductive organs of land snails, which contains a dart, or arrowlike structure.
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Dearth \Dearth\, n. [OE. derthe, fr. dere. See {Dear}.] Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine. There came a dearth over all the land of Egypt. --Acts vii. 11. He with her press'd, she faint with dearth. --Shak. Dearth of plot, and narrowness of imagination. --Dryden.
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Deaurate \De*au"rate\, a. [L. deauratus, p. p. of deaurare to gild; de- + aurum gold.] Gilded. [Obs.]
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Deaurate \De*au"rate\, v. t. To gild. [Obs.] --Bailey.
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Dehort \De*hort"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dehorted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dehorting}.] [L. dehortari; de- + hortari to urge, exhort.] To urge to abstain or refrain; to dissuade. [Obs.] The apostles vehemently dehort us from unbelief. --Bp. Ward. [bd]Exhort[b8] remains, but dehort, a word whose place neither [bd]dissuade[b8] nor any other exactly supplies, has escaped us. --Trench.
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Deride \De*ride"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Derided}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Deriding}.] [L. deridere, derisum; de- + rid[?]re to laugh. See {Ridicule}.] To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at. And the Pharisees, also, . . . derided him. --Luke xvi. 14. Sport that wrinkled Care derides. And Laughter holding both his sides. --Milton. Syn: To mock; laugh at; ridicule; insult; taunt; jeer; banter; rally. Usage: To {Deride}, {Ridicule}, {Mock}, {Taunt}. A man may ridicule without any unkindness of feeling; his object may be to correct; as, to ridicule the follies of the age. He who derides is actuated by a severe a contemptuous spirit; as, to deride one for his religious principles. To mock is stronger, and denotes open and scornful derision; as, to mock at sin. To taunt is to reproach with the keenest insult; as, to taunt one for his misfortunes. Ridicule consists more in words than in actions; derision and mockery evince themselves in actions as well as words; taunts are always expressed in words of extreme bitterness.
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Derth \Derth\, n. Dearth; scarcity. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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Dewret \Dew"ret`\, v. t. [Dew + ret, v. t.] To ret or rot by the process called dewretting.
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Dewrot \Dew"rot`\, v. t. To rot, as flax or hemp, by exposure to rain, dew, and sun. See {Dewretting}.
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Diarrhea \Di`arrhe"a\, Diarrhd2a \Di`arrh[d2]"a\, n. [L. diarrhoea, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to flow through; [?] + [?] to flow; akin to E. stream. See {Stream}.] (Med.) A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.
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Diorite \Di"o*rite\, n. [Cf. F. diorite. See {Diorism}.] (Min.) An igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. It includes part of what was called greenstone.
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Dirt \Dirt\, n. [OE. drit; kin to Icel. drit excrement, dr[c6]ta to dung, OD. drijten to dung, AS. gedr[c6]tan.] 1. Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt. Whose waters cast up mire and dirt. --Is. lvii. 20. 2. Meanness; sordidness. Honors . . . thrown away upon dirt and infamy. --Melmoth. 3. In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing. {Dirt bed} (Geom.), a layer of clayey earth forming a stratum in a geological formation. Dirt beds are common among the coal measures. {Dirt eating}. (a) The use of certain kinds of clay for food, existing among some tribes of Indians; geophagism. --Humboldt. (b) (Med.) Same as {Chthonophagia}. {Dirt pie}, clay or mud molded by children in imitation of pastry. --Otway (1684). {To eat dirt}, to submit in a meanly humble manner to insults; to eat humble pie.
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Dirt \Dirt\, v. t. To make foul of filthy; to dirty. --Swift.
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Dirty \Dirt"y\, a. [Compar. {Dirtier}; superl. {Dirtiest}.] 1. Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white. --Spenser. 2. Sullied; clouded; -- applied to color. --Locke. 3. Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow. The creature's at his dirty work again. --Pope. 4. Sleety; gusty; stormy; as, dirty weather. Storms of wind, clouds of dust, an angry, dirty sea. --M. Arnold. Syn: Nasty; filthy; foul. See {Nasty}.
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Dirty \Dirt"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dirtied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dirtying}.] 1. To foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands. 2. To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; -- said of reputation, character, etc.
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Diureide \Diu"reide\, n. [Di- + ureide.] (Chem.) One of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as containing two molecules of urea or their radicals, as uric acid or allantoin. Cf. {Ureide}.
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Dorado \Do*ra"do\, n. [Sp. dorado gilt, fr. dorar to gild, fr. L. deaurare. See 1st {Dory}, and cf. {Fl Dorado}.] 1. (Astron.) A southern constellation, within which is the south pole of the ecliptic; -- called also sometimes Xiphias, or the Swordfish. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A large, oceanic fish of the genus {Coryph[91]na}.
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Dowered \Dow"ered\, p. a. Furnished with, or as with, dower or a marriage portion. --Shak.
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Drad \Drad\, p. p. & a. Dreaded. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Dradde \Drad"de\, imp. of {Dread}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Drawhead \Draw"head`\, n. (Railroad) The flanged outer end of a drawbar; also, a name applied to the drawgear.
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Dread \Dread\, v. i. To be in dread, or great fear. Dread not, neither be afraid of them. --Deut. i. 29.
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Dread \Dread\, n. 1. Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror. The secret dread of divine displeasure. --Tillotson. The dread of something after death. --Shak. 2. Reverential or respectful fear; awe. The fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth. --Gen. ix. 2. His scepter shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings. --Shak. 3. An object of terrified apprehension. 4. A person highly revered. [Obs.] [bd]Una, his dear dread.[b8] --Spenser. 5. Fury; dreadfulness. [Obs.] --Spenser. 6. Doubt; as, out of dread. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Syn: Awe; fear; affright; terror; horror; dismay; apprehension. See {Reverence}.
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Dread \Dread\, a. 1. Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful. A dread eternity! how surely mine. --Young. 2. Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.
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Dread \Dread\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dreaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dreading}.] [AS. dr[?]dan, in comp.; akin to OS. dr[be]dan, OHG. tr[be]tan, both only in comp.] To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension. When at length the moment dreaded through so many years came close, the dark cloud passed away from Johnson's mind. --Macaulay.
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Dried \Dried\, imp. & p. p. of {Day}. Also adj.; as, dried apples.
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Dry \Dry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dried}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drying}.] [AS. drygan; cf. drugian to grow dry. See {Dry}, a.] To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay. {To dry up}. (a) To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of water; to consume. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. -- Is. v. 13. The water of the sea, which formerly covered it, was in time exhaled and dried up by the sun. --Woodward. (b) To make to cease, as a stream of talk. Their sources of revenue were dried up. -- Jowett (Thucyd. ) {To dry, [or] dry up}, {a cow}, to cause a cow to cease secreting milk. --Tylor.
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Dryth \Dryth\, [or] Drith \Drith\, n. Drought. [Obs.] --Tyndale.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Droit \Droit\, n. [F. See {Direct}.] A right; law in its aspect of the foundation of rights; also, in old law, the writ of right. -- Abbott. {[d8]Droit d'aubaine}. See under {Aubaine}. {Droits of the Admiralty} (Eng. Law), rights or perquisites of the Admiralty, arising from seizure of an enemy's ships in port on the breaking out of war, or those coming into port in ignorance of hostilities existing, or from such ships as are taken by noncommissioned captors; also, the proceeds of wrecks, and derelict property at sea. The droits of admiralty are now paid into the Exchequer for the public benefit.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drouth \Drouth\, n. Same as {Drought}. --Sandys. Another ill accident is drouth at the spindling of corn. --Bacon. One whose drouth [thirst], Yet scarce allayed, still eyes the current stream. --Milton. In the dust and drouth of London life. --Tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drouthy \Drouth"y\, a. Droughty.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drowth \Drowth\, n. See {Drought}. --Bacon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Druid \Dru"id\, n. [L. Druides; of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. & Gael. draoi, druidh, magician, Druid, W. derwydd Druid.] 1. One of an order of priests which in ancient times existed among certain branches of the Celtic race, especially among the Gauls and Britons. Note: The Druids superintended the affairs of religion and morality, and exercised judicial functions. They practiced divination and magic, and sacrificed human victims as a part of their worship. They consisted of three classes; the bards, the vates or prophets, and the Druids proper, or priests. Their most sacred rites were performed in the depths of oak forests or of caves. 2. A member of a social and benevolent order, founded in London in 1781, and professedly based on the traditions of the ancient Druids. Lodges or groves of the society are established in other countries. {Druid stones}, a name given, in the south of England, to weatherworn, rough pillars of gray sandstone scattered over the chalk downs, but in other countries generally in the form of circles, or in detached pillars.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dryad \Dry"ad\, n. [L. dryas, pl. dryades, Gr. [?], pl. [?], fr. [?] oak, tree. See {Tree}.] (Class. Myth.) A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dry-eyed \Dry"-eyed`\, a. Not having tears in the eyes.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dryth \Dryth\, [or] Drith \Drith\, n. Drought. [Obs.] --Tyndale.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Durity \Du"ri*ty\, n. [L. duritas, fr. durus hard.] [Obs.] 1. Hardness; firmness. --Sir T. Browne. 2. Harshness; cruelty. --Cockeram.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Deerwood, MN (city, FIPS 15346) Location: 46.47324 N, 93.89903 W Population (1990): 524 (284 housing units) Area: 3.5 sq km (land), 1.7 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56444
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Derwood, MD Zip code(s): 20855
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Dorothy, NJ Zip code(s): 08317 Dorothy, WV Zip code(s): 25060
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Duarte, CA (city, FIPS 19990) Location: 34.15783 N, 117.95312 W Population (1990): 20688 (6758 housing units) Area: 18.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
droid n. [from `android', SF terminology for a humanoid robot of essentially biological (as opposed to mechanical/electronic) construction] A person (esp. a low-level bureaucrat or service-business employee) exhibiting most of the following characteristics: (a) naive trust in the wisdom of the parent organization or `the system'; (b) a blind-faith propensity to believe obvious nonsense emitted by authority figures (or computers!); (c) a rule-governed mentality, one unwilling or unable to look beyond the `letter of the law' in exceptional situations; (d) a paralyzing fear of official reprimand or worse if Procedures are not followed No Matter What; and (e) no interest in doing anything above or beyond the call of a very narrowly-interpreted duty, or in particular in fixing that which is broken; an "It's not my job, man" attitude. Typical droid positions include supermarket checkout assistant and bank clerk; the syndrome is also endemic in low-level government employees. The implication is that the rules and official procedures constitute software that the droid is executing; problems arise when the software has not been properly debugged. The term `droid mentality' is also used to describe the mindset behind this behavior. Compare {suit}, {marketroid}; see {-oid}. In England there is equivalent mainstream slang; a `jobsworth' is an obstructive, rule-following bureaucrat, often of the uniformed or suited variety. Named for the habit of denying a reasonable request by sucking his teeth and saying "Oh no, guv, sorry I can't help you: that's more than my job's worth".
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Dirt {Design In Real Time}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
droid (From "android") The robots of the Star Wars universe. While androids look somewhat human-like, Star Wars' droids are typically fashioned in the likeness of their creators or in a utilitarian design that stresses function over appearance. Droids are equipped with artificial intelligence, though some are naturally created smarter than others depending on the function they are designed to serve. "Droid" is a Lucasfilm Ltd. trademark. {starwars.com (http://www.starwars.com/databank/droid/)}. ["A Guide to the Star Wars Universe", Bill Slavicsek, 1994, Lucasfilm Ltd.] [Was George Lucas really the first to use the abbreviation?] (2003-05-11)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Darda pearl of wisdom, one of the four who were noted for their wisdom, but whom Solomon excelled (1 Kings 4:31).
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Dart an instrument of war; a light spear. "Fiery darts" (Eph. 6:16) are so called in allusion to the habit of discharging darts from the bow while they are on fire or armed with some combustible material. Arrows are compared to lightning (Deut. 32:23, 42; Ps. 7:13; 120:4).
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Dearth a scarcity of provisions (1 Kings 17). There were frequent dearths in Palestine. In the days of Abram there was a "famine in the land" (Gen. 12:10), so also in the days of Jacob (47:4, 13). We read also of dearths in the time of the judges (Ruth 1:1), and of the kings (2 Sam. 21:1; 1 Kings 18:2; 2 Kings 4:38; 8:1). In New Testament times there was an extensive famine in Palestine (Acts 11:28) in the fourth year of the reign of the emperor Claudius (A.D. 44 and 45).
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Darda, home of knowledge