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   derriere
         n 1: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he
               deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on
               your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: {buttocks}, {nates},
               {arse}, {butt}, {backside}, {bum}, {buns}, {can},
               {fundament}, {hindquarters}, {hind end}, {keister},
               {posterior}, {prat}, {rear}, {rear end}, {rump}, {stern},
               {seat}, {tail}, {tail end}, {tooshie}, {tush}, {bottom},
               {behind}, {derriere}, {fanny}, {ass}]

English Dictionary: derriere by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
drawer
n
  1. a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out
  2. the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else
  3. an artist skilled at drawing
    Synonym(s): draftsman, drawer
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
drear
adj
  1. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
    Synonym(s): blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dreary
adj
  1. lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise; "her drab personality"; "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"; "a series of dreary dinner parties"
    Synonym(s): drab, dreary
  2. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
    Synonym(s): blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
drier
n
  1. a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture)
    Synonym(s): desiccant, drying agent, drier, siccative
  2. an appliance that removes moisture
    Synonym(s): dryer, drier
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dryer
n
  1. an appliance that removes moisture
    Synonym(s): dryer, drier
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Durer
n
  1. a leading German painter and engraver of the Renaissance (1471-1528)
    Synonym(s): Durer, Albrecht Durer
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Ara87ari \[d8]A`ra*[87]a"ri\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      A South American bird, of the genus {Pleroglossius}, allied
      to the toucans. There are several species.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Arara \[d8]A*ra"ra\, n. [Native name.] (Zo[94]l.)
      The palm (or great black) cockatoo, of Australia
      ({Microglossus aterrimus}).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Darer \Dar"er\, n.
      One who dares or defies.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dear \Dear\, a. [Compar. {Dearer}; superl. {Dearest}.] [OE.
      dere, deore, AS. de[a2]re; akin to OS. diuri, D. duur, OHG.
      tiuri, G. theuer, teuer, Icel. d[?]r, Dan. & Sw. dyr. Cf.
      {Darling}, {Dearth}.]
      1. Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive.
  
                     The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear. --Shak.
  
      2. Marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price;
            as, a dear year.
  
      3. Highly valued; greatly beloved; cherished; precious.
            [bd]Hear me, dear lady.[b8] --Shak.
  
                     Neither count I my life dear unto myself. --Acts xx.
                                                                              24.
  
                     And the last joy was dearer than the rest. --Pope.
  
                     Dear as remember'd kisses after death. --Tennyson.
  
      4. Hence, close to the heart; heartfelt; present in mind;
            engaging the attention.
            (a) Of agreeable things and interests.
  
                           [I'll] leave you to attend him: some dear cause
                           Will in concealment wrap me up awhile. --Shak.
  
                           His dearest wish was to escape from the bustle
                           and glitter of Whitehall.            --Macaulay.
            (b) Of disagreeable things and antipathies.
  
                           In our dear peril.                        --Shak.
  
                           Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever
                           I had seen that day.                     --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dire \Dire\, a. [Compar. {Direr}; superl. {Direst}.] [L. dirus;
      of uncertain origin.]
      1. Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.
  
      2. Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible;
            terrible; lamentable.
  
                     Dire was the tossing, deep the groans. --Milton.
  
                     Gorgons and hydras and chimeras dire. --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Drawer \Draw"er\, n.
      1. One who, or that which, draws; as:
            (a) One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a
                  taproom. --Shak.
            (b) One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a
                  good drawer.
            (c) (Law) One who draws a bill of exchange or order for
                  payment; -- the correlative of drawee.
  
      2. That which is drawn; as:
            (a) A sliding box or receptacle in a case, which is opened
                  by pulling or drawing out, and closed by pushing in.
            (b) pl. An under-garment worn on the lower limbs.
  
      {Chest of drawers}. See under {Chest}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Drear \Drear\, a. [See {Dreary}.]
      Dismal; gloomy with solitude. [bd]A drear and dying
      sound.[b8] --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Drear \Drear\, n.
      Sadness; dismalness. [Obs.] --Spenser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dreary \Drear"y\, a. [Compar. {Drearier}; superl. {Dreariest}.]
      [OE. dreori, dreri, AS. dre[a2]rig, sad; akin to G. traurig,
      and prob. to AS. dre[a2]san to fall, Goth. driusan. Cf.
      {Dross}, {Drear}, {Drizzle}, {Drowse}.]
      1. Sorrowful; distressful. [Obs.] [bd] Dreary shrieks.[b8]
            --Spenser.
  
      2. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations;
            comfortless; dismal; gloomy. [bd] Dreary shades.[b8]
            --Dryden. [bd]The dreary ground.[b8] --Prior.
  
                     Full many a dreary anxious hour.         --Keble.
  
                     Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary
                     part of that dreary interval which separated two
                     ages of prosperity.                           --Macaulay.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Drier \Dri"er\, n.
      1. One who, or that which, dries; that which may expel or
            absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a
            northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.
  
      2. (Paint.) Drying oil; a substance mingled with the oil used
            in oil painting to make it dry quickly.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Drier \Dri"er\, compar., Driest \Dri"est\, superl.,
      of {Dry}, a.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dry \Dry\, a. [Compar. {Drier}; superl. {Driest}.] [OE. dru[?]e,
      druye, drie, AS. dryge; akin to LG. dr[94]ge, D. droog, OHG.
      trucchan, G. trocken, Icel. draugr a dry log. Cf. {Drought},
      {Drouth}, 3d {Drug}.]
      1. Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid;
            not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal
            supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; -- said
            especially:
            (a) Of the weather: Free from rain or mist.
  
                           The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the
                           season.                                       --Addison.
            (b) Of vegetable matter: Free from juices or sap; not
                  succulent; not green; as, dry wood or hay.
            (c) Of animals: Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry.
            (d) Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink.
  
                           Give the dry fool drink.               -- Shak
            (e) Of the eyes: Not shedding tears.
  
                           Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly. --
                                                                              Prescott.
            (f) (Med.) Of certain morbid conditions, in which there is
                  entire or comparative absence of moisture; as, dry
                  gangrene; dry catarrh.
  
      2. Destitute of that which interests or amuses; barren;
            unembellished; jejune; plain.
  
                     These epistles will become less dry, more
                     susceptible of ornament.                     --Pope.
  
      3. Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or
            hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone
            or manner; dry wit.
  
                     He was rather a dry, shrewd kind of body. --W.
                                                                              Irving.
  
      4. (Fine Arts) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of
            execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and
            of easy transition in coloring.
  
      {Dry area} (Arch.), a small open space reserved outside the
            foundation of a building to guard it from damp.
  
      {Dry blow}.
            (a) (Med.) A blow which inflicts no wound, and causes no
                  effusion of blood.
            (b) A quick, sharp blow.
  
      {Dry bone} (Min.), Smithsonite, or carbonate of zinc; -- a
            miner's term.
  
      {Dry castor} (Zo[94]l.) a kind of beaver; -- called also
            {parchment beaver}.
  
      {Dry cupping}. (Med.) See under {Cupping}.
  
      {Dry dock}. See under {Dock}.
  
      {Dry fat}. See {Dry vat} (below).
  
      {Dry light}, pure unobstructed light; hence, a clear,
            impartial view. --Bacon.
  
                     The scientific man must keep his feelings under
                     stern control, lest they obtrude into his
                     researches, and color the dry light in which alone
                     science desires to see its objects.   -- J. C.
                                                                              Shairp.
  
      {Dry masonry}. See {Masonry}.
  
      {Dry measure}, a system of measures of volume for dry or
            coarse articles, by the bushel, peck, etc.
  
      {Dry pile} (Physics), a form of the Voltaic pile, constructed
            without the use of a liquid, affording a feeble current,
            and chiefly useful in the construction of electroscopes of
            great delicacy; -- called also {Zamboni's , from the names
            of the two earliest constructors of it.
  
      {Dry pipe} (Steam Engine), a pipe which conducts dry steam
            from a boiler.
  
      {Dry plate} (Photog.), a glass plate having a dry coating
            sensitive to light, upon which photographic negatives or
            pictures can be made, without moistening.
  
      {Dry-plate process}, the process of photographing with dry
            plates.
  
      {Dry point}. (Fine Arts)
            (a) An engraving made with the needle instead of the
                  burin, in which the work is done nearly as in etching,
                  but is finished without the use acid.
            (b) A print from such an engraving, usually upon paper.
            (c) Hence: The needle with which such an engraving is
                  made.
  
      {Dry rent} (Eng. Law), a rent reserved by deed, without a
            clause of distress. --Bouvier.
  
      {Dry rot}, a decay of timber, reducing its fibers to the
            condition of a dry powdery dust, often accompanied by the
            presence of a peculiar fungus ({Merulius lacrymans}),
            which is sometimes considered the cause of the decay; but
            it is more probable that the real cause is the
            decomposition of the wood itself. --D. C. Eaton. Called
            also {sap rot}, and, in the United States, {powder post}.
            --Hebert.
  
      {Dry stove}, a hothouse adapted to preserving the plants of
            arid climates. --Brande & C.
  
      {Dry vat}, a vat, basket, or other receptacle for dry
            articles.
  
      {Dry wine}, that in which the saccharine matter and
            fermentation were so exactly balanced, that they have
            wholly neutralized each other, and no sweetness is
            perceptible; -- opposed to {sweet wine}, in which the
            saccharine matter is in excess.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Druery \Dru"er*y\, n. [OF. druerie.]
      Courtship; gallantry; love; an object of love. [Obs.]
      --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Area \A"re*a\ ([amac]"r[esl]*[adot]; 277), n.; pl. {Areas}
      (-[adot]z) . [L. area a broad piece of level ground. Cf.
      {Are}, n.]
      1. Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or
            of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a
            building.
  
                     The Alban lake . . . looks like the area of some
                     vast amphitheater.                              --Addison.
  
      2. The inclosed space on which a building stands.
  
      3. The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording
            light to the basement of a building.
  
      4. An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a
            region; as, vast uncultivated areas.
  
      5. (Geom.) The superficial contents of any figure; the
            surface included within any given lines; superficial
            extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
  
      6. (Biol.) A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative
            area.
  
      7. Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought.
  
                     The largest area of human history and man's common
                     nature.                                             --F. Harrison.
  
      {Dry area}. See under {Dry}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dry \Dry\, a. [Compar. {Drier}; superl. {Driest}.] [OE. dru[?]e,
      druye, drie, AS. dryge; akin to LG. dr[94]ge, D. droog, OHG.
      trucchan, G. trocken, Icel. draugr a dry log. Cf. {Drought},
      {Drouth}, 3d {Drug}.]
      1. Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid;
            not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal
            supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; -- said
            especially:
            (a) Of the weather: Free from rain or mist.
  
                           The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the
                           season.                                       --Addison.
            (b) Of vegetable matter: Free from juices or sap; not
                  succulent; not green; as, dry wood or hay.
            (c) Of animals: Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry.
            (d) Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink.
  
                           Give the dry fool drink.               -- Shak
            (e) Of the eyes: Not shedding tears.
  
                           Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly. --
                                                                              Prescott.
            (f) (Med.) Of certain morbid conditions, in which there is
                  entire or comparative absence of moisture; as, dry
                  gangrene; dry catarrh.
  
      2. Destitute of that which interests or amuses; barren;
            unembellished; jejune; plain.
  
                     These epistles will become less dry, more
                     susceptible of ornament.                     --Pope.
  
      3. Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or
            hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone
            or manner; dry wit.
  
                     He was rather a dry, shrewd kind of body. --W.
                                                                              Irving.
  
      4. (Fine Arts) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of
            execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and
            of easy transition in coloring.
  
      {Dry area} (Arch.), a small open space reserved outside the
            foundation of a building to guard it from damp.
  
      {Dry blow}.
            (a) (Med.) A blow which inflicts no wound, and causes no
                  effusion of blood.
            (b) A quick, sharp blow.
  
      {Dry bone} (Min.), Smithsonite, or carbonate of zinc; -- a
            miner's term.
  
      {Dry castor} (Zo[94]l.) a kind of beaver; -- called also
            {parchment beaver}.
  
      {Dry cupping}. (Med.) See under {Cupping}.
  
      {Dry dock}. See under {Dock}.
  
      {Dry fat}. See {Dry vat} (below).
  
      {Dry light}, pure unobstructed light; hence, a clear,
            impartial view. --Bacon.
  
                     The scientific man must keep his feelings under
                     stern control, lest they obtrude into his
                     researches, and color the dry light in which alone
                     science desires to see its objects.   -- J. C.
                                                                              Shairp.
  
      {Dry masonry}. See {Masonry}.
  
      {Dry measure}, a system of measures of volume for dry or
            coarse articles, by the bushel, peck, etc.
  
      {Dry pile} (Physics), a form of the Voltaic pile, constructed
            without the use of a liquid, affording a feeble current,
            and chiefly useful in the construction of electroscopes of
            great delicacy; -- called also {Zamboni's , from the names
            of the two earliest constructors of it.
  
      {Dry pipe} (Steam Engine), a pipe which conducts dry steam
            from a boiler.
  
      {Dry plate} (Photog.), a glass plate having a dry coating
            sensitive to light, upon which photographic negatives or
            pictures can be made, without moistening.
  
      {Dry-plate process}, the process of photographing with dry
            plates.
  
      {Dry point}. (Fine Arts)
            (a) An engraving made with the needle instead of the
                  burin, in which the work is done nearly as in etching,
                  but is finished without the use acid.
            (b) A print from such an engraving, usually upon paper.
            (c) Hence: The needle with which such an engraving is
                  made.
  
      {Dry rent} (Eng. Law), a rent reserved by deed, without a
            clause of distress. --Bouvier.
  
      {Dry rot}, a decay of timber, reducing its fibers to the
            condition of a dry powdery dust, often accompanied by the
            presence of a peculiar fungus ({Merulius lacrymans}),
            which is sometimes considered the cause of the decay; but
            it is more probable that the real cause is the
            decomposition of the wood itself. --D. C. Eaton. Called
            also {sap rot}, and, in the United States, {powder post}.
            --Hebert.
  
      {Dry stove}, a hothouse adapted to preserving the plants of
            arid climates. --Brande & C.
  
      {Dry vat}, a vat, basket, or other receptacle for dry
            articles.
  
      {Dry wine}, that in which the saccharine matter and
            fermentation were so exactly balanced, that they have
            wholly neutralized each other, and no sweetness is
            perceptible; -- opposed to {sweet wine}, in which the
            saccharine matter is in excess.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dryer \Dry"er\, n.
      See {Drier}. --Sir W. Temple.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
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