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d8Aurelia \[d8]Au*re"li*a\ (?; 106), n. [NL., fr. L. aurum gold: cf. F. aur[82]lie. Cf. {Chrysalis}.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) The chrysalis, or pupa of an insect, esp. when reflecting a brilliant golden color, as that of some of the butterflies. (b) A genus of jellyfishes. See {Discophora}. | |
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d8Aureola \[d8]Au*re"o*la\, Aureole \Au"re*ole\, n. [F. aur[82]ole, fr. L. aureola, (fem adj.) of gold (sc. corona crown), dim. of aureus. See {Aureate}, {Oriole}.] 1. (R. C. Theol.) A celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil. 2. The circle of rays, or halo of light, with which painters surround the figure and represent the glory of Christ, saints, and others held in special reverence. Note: Limited to the head, it is strictly termed a nimbus; when it envelops the whole body, an aureola. --Fairholt. 3. A halo, actual or figurative. The glorious aureole of light seen around the sun during total eclipses. --Proctor. The aureole of young womanhood. --O. W. Holmes. 4. (Anat.) See {Areola}, 2. | |
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d8Euryale \[d8]Eu*ry"a*le\, n. [NL., fr. Euryale, one of the Gorgons.] 1. (Bot.) A genus of water lilies, growing in India and China. The only species ({E. ferox}) is very prickly on the peduncles and calyx. The rootstocks and seeds are used as food. 2. (Zo[94]l) A genus of ophiurans with much-branched arms. | |
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d8Orlo \[d8]Or"lo\, n. [Sp.] (Mus.) A wind instrument of music in use among the Spaniards. | |
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d8R83le \[d8]R[83]le\, n. [F. r[83]le. Cf. {Rail} the bird.] (Med.) An adventitious sound, usually of morbid origin, accompanying the normal respiratory sounds. See {Rhonchus}. Note: Various kinds are distinguished by pathologists; differing in intensity, as loud and small; in quality, as moist, dry, clicking, and sonorous; and in origin, as tracheal, pulmonary, and pleural. | |
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d8Rouleau \[d8]Rou`leau"\, n.; pl. F. {Rouleaux} (F. [?]; E. [?]), E. {Rouleaus}. [F., a roll, dim. fr. fr. r[93]le, formerly also spelt roulle. See {Roll}.] A little roll; a roll of coins put up in paper, or something resembling such a roll. | |
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d8Torula \[d8]Tor"u*la\, n.; pl. {Torul[91]} [NL., dim. of L. torus a semicircular molding.] (Biol.) (a) A chain of special bacteria. (b) A genus of budding fungi. Same as {Saccharomyces.} Also used adjectively. | |
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d8Trillo \[d8]Tril"lo\, n. [It. See {Trill}.] (Mus.) A trill or shake. See {Trill}. | |
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Dariole \Da`ri*ole"\, n. [F.] 1. A crustade. [Obs.] 2. A shell or cup of pastry filled with custard, whipped cream, crushed macaroons, etc. | |
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{Anniversary day}. See {Anniversary}, n. {Astronomical day}, a period equal to the mean solar day, but beginning at noon instead of at midnight, its twenty-four hours being numbered from 1 to 24; also, the sidereal day, as that most used by astronomers. {Born days}. See under {Born}. {Canicular days}. See {Dog day}. {Civil day}, the mean solar day, used in the ordinary reckoning of time, and among most modern nations beginning at mean midnight; its hours are usually numbered in two series, each from 1 to 12. This is the period recognized by courts as constituting a day. The Babylonians and Hindoos began their day at sunrise, the Athenians and Jews at sunset, the ancient Egyptians and Romans at midnight. {Day blindness}. (Med.) See {Nyctalopia}. {Day by day}, or {Day after day}, daily; every day; continually; without intermission of a day. See under {By}. [bd]Day by day we magnify thee.[b8] --Book of Common Prayer. {Days in bank} (Eng. Law), certain stated days for the return of writs and the appearance of parties; -- so called because originally peculiar to the Court of Common Bench, or Bench (bank) as it was formerly termed. --Burrill. {Day in court}, a day for the appearance of parties in a suit. {Days of devotion} (R. C. Ch.), certain festivals on which devotion leads the faithful to attend mass. --Shipley. {Days of grace}. See {Grace}. {Days of obligation} (R. C. Ch.), festival days when it is obligatory on the faithful to attend Mass. --Shipley. {Day owl}, (Zo[94]l.), an owl that flies by day. See {Hawk owl}. {Day rule} (Eng. Law), an order of court (now abolished) allowing a prisoner, under certain circumstances, to go beyond the prison limits for a single day. {Day school}, one which the pupils attend only in daytime, in distinction from a boarding school. {Day sight}. (Med.) See {Hemeralopia}. {Day's work} (Naut.), the account or reckoning of a ship's course for twenty-four hours, from noon to noon. {From day to day}, as time passes; in the course of time; as, he improves from day to day. {Jewish day}, the time between sunset and sunset. {Mean solar day} (Astron.), the mean or average of all the apparent solar days of the year. {One day}, {One of these days}, at an uncertain time, usually of the future, rarely of the past; sooner or later. [bd]Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.[b8] --Shak. {Only from day to day}, without certainty of continuance; temporarily. --Bacon. {Sidereal day}, the interval between two successive transits of the first point of Aries over the same meridian. The Sidereal day is 23 h. 56 m. 4.09 s. of mean solar time. {To win the day}, to gain the victory, to be successful. --S. Butler. {Week day}, any day of the week except Sunday; a working day. {Working day}. (a) A day when work may be legally done, in distinction from Sundays and legal holidays. (b) The number of hours, determined by law or custom, during which a workman, hired at a stated price per day, must work to be entitled to a day's pay. | |
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Dearly \Dear"ly\, adv. 1. In a dear manner; with affection; heartily; earnestly; as, to love one dearly. 2. At a high rate or price; grievously. He buys his mistress dearly with his throne. --Dryden. 3. Exquisitely. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Derail \De*rail"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Derailed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Derailing}.] To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive. --Lardner. | |
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Diarial \Di*a"ri*al\, Diarian \Di*a"ri*an\, a. [See {Diary}.] Pertaining to a diary; daily. | |
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Diarrheal \Di`ar*rhe"al\, Diarrhd2al \Di`ar*rh[d2]"al\ a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to diarrhea; like diarrhea. | |
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Direly \Dire"ly\, adv. In a dire manner. --Drayton. | |
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Dirl \Dirl\, v. i. & t. [Cf. {Drill}, {Thrill}.] To thrill; to vibrate; to penetrate. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. | |
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Dowral \Dow"ral\, a. Of or relating to a dower. [R.] | |
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Drail \Drail\, v. t. & i. [[?][?][?].] To trail; to draggle. [Obs.] --South. | |
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Drawl \Drawl\, v. i. To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc. Theologians and moralists . . . talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it. --Landor. | |
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Drawl \Drawl\, n. A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance. | |
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Drawl \Drawl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Drawled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drawling}.] [Prob. fr. draw: cf. D. dralen to linger, tarry, Icel. dralla to loiter. See {Draw}, and cf. {Draggle}.] To utter in a slow, lengthened tone. | |
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Dreul \Dreul\, v. i. To drool. [Obs.] | |
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Drill \Drill\, v. i. To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self. | |
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Drill \Drill\, n. 1. An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press. 2. (Mil.) The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill. 3. Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar. 4. (Zo[94]l.) A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is {Urosalpinx cinerea}. {Bow drill}, {Breast drill}. See under {Bow}, {Breast}. {Cotter drill}, [or] {Traverse drill}, a machine tool for drilling slots. {Diamond drill}. See under {Diamond}. {Drill jig}. See under {Jig}. {Drill pin}, the pin in a lock which enters the hollow stem of the key. {Drill sergeant} (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer whose office it is to instruct soldiers as to their duties, and to train them to military exercises and evolutions. {Vertical drill}, a drill press. | |
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Drill \Drill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Drilled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drilling}.] [D. drillen to bore, drill (soldiers); probably akin to AS. pyrlian, pyrelian, to pierce. See {Thrill}.] 1. To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal. 2. To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline. He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers. -- Macaulay. | |
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Drill \Drill\, v. i. 1. To trickle. [Obs. or R.] --Sandys. 2. To sow in drills. | |
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Drill \Drill\, n. 1. A small trickling stream; a rill. [Obs.] Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills. --Sandys. 2. (Agr.) (a) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made. (b) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing. (c) A row of seed sown in a furrow. | |
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Drill \Drill\, v. t. [Cf. {Trill} to trickle, {Trickle}, {Dribble}, and W. rhillio to put in a row, drill.] 1. To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum. [R.] --Thomson. 2. To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water. 3. To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on. [Obs.] See drilled him on to five-fifty. -- Addison. 4. To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. [Obs.] This accident hath drilled away the whole summer. -- Swift. | |
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Drill \Drill\, n. [Cf. {Mandrill}.] (Zo[94]l.) A large African baboon ({Cynocephalus leucoph[91]us}). | |
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Drill \Drill\, n. [Usually in pl.] (Manuf.) Same as {Drilling}. {Imperial drill}, a linen fabric having two threads in the warp and three in the filling. | |
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Drily \Dri"ly\, adv. See {Dryly}. --Thackeray. | |
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Droil \Droil\, v. i. [D. druilen to mope.] To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod. [Obs.] | |
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Droil \Droil\, n. [D. druil sluggard. Cf. {Droll}.] 1. A drudge. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. 2. Mean labor; toil.[Obs.] | |
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Droll \Droll\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drolled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drolling}.] To jest; to play the buffoon. [R.] | |
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Droll \Droll\, v. t. 1. To lead or influence by jest or trick; to banter or jest; to cajole. Men that will not be reasoned into their senses, may yet be laughed or drolled into them. --L'Estrange. 2. To make a jest of; to set in a comical light. [R.] This drolling everything is rather fatiguing. -- W. D. Howells. | |
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Droll \Droll\, a. [Compar. {Droller}; superl. {Drollest}.] [F. dr[93]le; cf. G. & D. drollig, LG. drullig, D. drol a thick and short person, a droll, Sw. troll a magical appearance, demon, trolla to use magic arts, enchant, Dan. trold elf, imp, Icel. tr[94]ll giant, magician, evil spirit, monster. If this is the origin, cf. {Trull}.] Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange. Syn: Comic; comical; farcical; diverting; humorous; ridiculous; queer; odd; waggish; facetious; merry; laughable; ludicrous. -- {Droll}, {Laughable}, {Comical}. Laughable is the generic term, denoting anything exciting laughter or worthy of laughter; comical denotes something of the kind exhibited in comedies, something humorous of the kind exhibited in comedies, something, as it were, dramatically humorous; droll stands lower on the scale, having reference to persons or things which excite laughter by their buffoonery or oddity. A laughable incident; a comical adventure; a droll story. | |
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Droll \Droll\, n. 1. One whose practice it is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon; a merry-andrew. --Prior. 2. Something exhibited to raise mirth or sport, as a puppet, a farce, and the like. | |
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Drool \Drool\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drooled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drooling}.] [Contr. fr. drivel.] To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools. His mouth drooling with texts. -- T. Parker. | |
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Droyle \Droyle\, v. i. See {Droil}. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Dryly \Dry"ly\, adv. In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly. | |
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Dural \Du"ral\, a. (Anat.) Pertaining to the dura, or dura mater. | |
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Doral, FL (CDP, FIPS 17935) Location: 25.81923 N, 80.35562 W Population (1990): 3126 (1699 housing units) Area: 6.0 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) | |
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DROOL for writing adventure games. An updated implementation of AdvSys. {multiple inheritance}, garbage collection. ["Dave's Recycled OO Language", David Betz, Dr. Dobbs J, Oct 1993, pp.74-78]. |