AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
duck: a pet; a darling.-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.-the light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates.-to thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.-to plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy.-to bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion.-to go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip.-to drop the head or person suddenly; to bow.-any bird of the subfamily anatinae, family anatidae.-a sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water.
duck-legged: having short legs, like a waddling duck; short-legged.
ducker: one who, or that which, ducks; a plunger; a diver.-a cringing, servile person; a fawner.
ducking: of duck-n. & a., from duck, v. t. & i.
duckweed: a genus (lemna) of small plants, seen floating in great quantity on the surface of stagnant pools fresh water, and supposed to furnish food for ducks; -- called also duckmeat.
duct: any tube or canal by which a fluid or other substance is conducted or conveyed.-one of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination.-a large, elongated cell, either round or prismatic, usually found associated with woody fiber.-guidance; direction.
ductile: easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.-capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.
ductility: the property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.-tractableness; pliableness.
ductor: one who leads.-a contrivance for removing superfluous ink or coloring matter from a roller. see doctor, 4.
dudder: to confuse or confound with noise.-to shiver or tremble; to dodder.-a peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer.
dude: a kind of dandy; especially, one characterized by an ultrafashionable style of dress and other affectations.
dudgeon: the root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made.-the haft of a dagger.-a dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger.-resentment; ill will; anger; displeasure.-homely; rude; coarse.
due: owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.-justly claimed as a right or property; proper; suitable; becoming; appropriate; fit.-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.-appointed or required to arrive at a given time; as, the steamer was due yesterday.-owing; ascribable, as to a cause.-directly; exactly; as, a due east course.-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.-right; just title or claim.-to endue.
duebill: a brief written acknowledgment of a debt, not made payable to order, like a promissory note.
duel: a combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons, by agreement. it usually arises from an injury done or an affront given by one to the other.-to fight in single combat.
duenna: the chief lady in waiting on the queen of spain.-an elderly lady holding a station between a governess and companion, and appointed to have charge over the younger ladies in a spanish or a portuguese family.-any old woman who is employed to guard a younger one; a governess.
duff: dough or paste.-a stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; -- a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff.
duffel: a kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze.
duffer: a peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat.-a stupid, awkward, inefficient person.
dufrenite: a mineral of a blackish green color, commonly massive or in nodules. it is a hydrous phosphate of iron.
dug: of dig-a teat, pap, or nipple; -- formerly that of a human mother, now that of a cow or other beast.-of dig.
dugong: an aquatic herbivorous mammal (halicore dugong), of the order sirenia, allied to the manatee, but with a bilobed tail. it inhabits the red sea, indian ocean, east indies, and australia.
dugout: a canoe or boat dug out from a large log.-a place dug out.-a house made partly in a hillside or slighter elevation.
dugway: a way or road dug through a hill, or sunk below the surface of the land.
duke: a leader; a chief; a prince.-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.-in some european countries, a sovereign prince, without the title of king.-to play the duke.
dukeship: the quality or condition of being a duke; also, the personality of a duke.
dulcamara: a plant (solanum dulcamara). see bittersweet, n., 3 (a).
dulcamarin: a glucoside extracted from the bittersweet (solanum dulcamara), as a yellow amorphous substance. it probably occasions the compound taste. see bittersweet, 3(a).
dulcet: sweet to the taste; luscious.-sweet to the ear; melodious; harmonious.
dulcify: to sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness, or acrimony.-fig. : to mollify; to sweeten; to please.
dulcimer: an instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer.-an ancient musical instrument in use among the jews. dan. iii. 5. it is supposed to be the same with the psaltery.
dulcite: a white, sugarlike substance, c6h8.(oh)2, occurring naturally in a manna from madagascar, and in certain plants, and produced artificially by the reduction of galactose and lactose or milk sugar.
duledge: one of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage.
dulia: an inferior kind of veneration or worship, given to the angels and saints as the servants of god.
dull: slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.-slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.-insensible; unfeeling.-not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt.-not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror.-heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert.-furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day.-to deprive of sharpness of edge or point.-to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.-to render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.-to deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.-to become dull or stupid.
dullness: the state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness.
dully: in a dull manner; stupidly; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit.
dulse: a seaweed of a reddish brown color, which is sometimes eaten, as in scotland. the true dulse is sarcophyllis edulis; the common is rhodymenia. [written also dillisk.]
duly: in a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it (anything) ought to be; properly; regularly.
dumal: pertaining to, or set with, briers or bushes; brambly.
dumb: destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes.-not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words; as, dumb show.-lacking brightness or clearness, as a color.-to put to silence.
dumb-bell: a weight, consisting of two spheres or spheroids, connected by a short bar for a handle; used (often in pairs) for gymnastic exercise.
dumb-waiter: a framework on which dishes, food, etc., are passed from one room or story of a house to another; a lift for dishes, etc.; also, a piece of furniture with movable or revolving shelves.
dumbness: the quality or state of being dumb; muteness; silence; inability to speak.
dummy: silent; mute; noiseless; as a dummy engine.-fictitious or sham; feigned; as, a dummy watch.-one who is dumb.-a sham package in a shop, or one which does not contain what its exterior indicates.-an imitation or copy of something, to be used as a substitute; a model; a lay figure; as, a figure on which clothing is exhibited in shop windows; a blank paper copy used to show the size of the future book, etc.-one who plays a merely nominal part in any action; a sham character.-a thick-witted person; a dolt.-a locomotive with condensing engines, and, hence, without the noise of escaping steam; also, a dummy car.-the fourth or exposed hand when three persons play at a four-handed game of cards.-a floating barge connected with a pier.
dump: a thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.-a dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.-absence of mind; revery.-a melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.-an old kind of dance.-to knock heavily; to stump.-to put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc.-a car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.-a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.-that which is dumped.-a pile of ore or rock.
dumpage: the act of dumping loads from carts, especially loads of refuse matter; also, a heap of dumped matter.-a fee paid for the privilege of dumping loads.
dumpling: a roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and boiled or baked; as, an apple dumpling.
dumpy: short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout.-sullen or discontented.
dun: a mound or small hill.-to cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.-to ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately.-one who duns; a dunner.-an urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.-of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
dunbird: the pochard; -- called also dunair, and dunker, or dun-curre.-an american duck; the ruddy duck.
dunce: one backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.
dunder: the lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum.
dune: a low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds.
dunfish: codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality.
dung: of ding-the excrement of an animal.-to manure with dung.-to immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.-to void excrement.
dungeon: a close, dark prison, common/, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons.-to shut up in a dungeon.
dunghill: a heap of dung.-any mean situation or condition; a vile abode.
dunker: one of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the baptists, but partly those of the quakers; -- called also tunkers, dunkards, dippers, and, by themselves, brethren, and german baptists.
dunlin: a species of sandpiper (tringa alpina); -- called also churr, dorbie, grass bird, and red-backed sandpiper. it is found both in europe and america.
dunnage: fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion.
duodecimal: proceeding in computation by twelves; expressed in the scale of twelves.-a twelfth part; as, the duodecimals of an inch.-a system of numbers, whose denominations rise in a scale of twelves, as of feet and inches. the system is used chiefly by artificers in computing the superficial and solid contents of their work.
duodecimo: having twelve leaves to a sheet; as, a duodecimo from, book, leaf, size, etc.-a book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into twelve leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of a book; -- usually written 12mo or 12¡.
duodenal: of or pertaining to the duodenum; as, duodenal digestion.
duodenary: containing twelve; twelvefold; increasing by twelves; duodecimal.
duodenum: the part of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum. see illust. of digestive apparatus, under digestive.
dupe: one who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull; as, the dupe of a schemer.-to deceive; to trick; to mislead by imposing on one's credulity; to gull; as, dupe one by flattery.
duplicate: double; twofold.-that which exactly resembles or corresponds to something else; another, correspondent to the first; hence, a copy; a transcript; a counterpart.-an original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original.-to double; to fold; to render double.-to make a duplicate of (something); to make a copy or transcript of.-to divide into two by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, infusoria duplicate themselves.
duplication: the act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold.-the act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells.
duplicative: having the quality of duplicating or doubling.-having the quality of subdividing into two by natural growth.
duplicity: doubleness; a twofold state.-doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith.-the use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient.-in indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses.
dura mater: the tough, fibrous membrane, which lines the cavity of the skull and spinal column, and surrounds the brain and spinal cord; -- frequently abbreviated to dura.
durability: the state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness.
durable: able to endure or continue in a particular condition; lasting; not perishable or changeable; not wearing out or decaying soon; enduring; as, durable cloth; durable happiness.
durance: continuance; duration. see endurance.-imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. shak.-a stout cloth stuff, formerly made in imitation of buff leather and used for garments; a sort of tammy or everlasting.-in modern manufacture, a worsted of one color used for window blinds and similar purposes.
durante: during; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure.
duration: the state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists.
durbar: an audience hall; the court of a native prince; a state levee; a formal reception of native princes, given by the governor general of india.
dure: hard; harsh; severe; rough; toilsome.-to last; to continue; to endure.
durene: a colorless, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, c6h2(ch3)4, off artificial production, with an odor like camphor.
duress: hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.-the state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense.-to subject to duress.
durham: one or a breed of short-horned cattle, originating in the county of durham, england. the durham cattle are noted for their beef-producing quality.
during: in the time of; as long as the action or existence of; as, during life; during the space of a year.
durio: a fruit tree (d. zibethinus, the only species known) of the indian archipelago. it bears the durian.
durion: the fruit of the durio. it is oval or globular, and eight or ten inches long. it has a hard prickly rind, containing a soft, cream-colored pulp, of a most delicious flavor and a very offensive odor. the seeds are roasted and eaten like chestnuts.
durometer: an instrument for measuring the degree of hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the like.
durra: a kind of millet, cultivated throughout asia, and introduced into the south of europe; a variety of sorghum vulgare; -- called also indian millet, and guinea corn.
durukuli: a small, nocturnal, south american monkey (nyctipthecus trivirgatus).
durylic: pertaining to, allied to, or derived from, durene; as, durylic acid.
dusk: tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.-imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.-a darkish color.-to make dusk.-to grow dusk.
dusky: partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley.-tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown.-gloomy; sad; melancholy.-intellectually clouded.
dust: fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too minute portions; fine powder; as, clouds of dust; bone dust.-a single particle of earth or other matter.-the earth, as the resting place of the dead.-the earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.-figuratively, a worthless thing.-figuratively, a low or mean condition.-gold dust-coined money; cash.-to free from dust; to brush, wipe, or sweep away dust from; as, to dust a table or a floor.-to sprinkle with dust.-to reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.
dustbrush: a brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture.
duster: one who, or that which, dusts; a utensil that frees from dust.-a revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.-a blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.-a light over-garment, worn in traveling to protect the clothing from dust.
dustpan: a shovel-like utensil for conveying away dust brushed from the floor.
dusty: filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust.-like dust; of the color of dust; as a dusty white.
dutch: pertaining to holland, or to its inhabitants.-the people of holland; dutchmen.-the language spoken in holland.
duteous: fulfilling duty; dutiful; having the sentiments due to a superior, or to one to whom respect or service is owed; obedient; as, a duteous son or daughter.-subservient; obsequious.
dutiful: performing, or ready to perform, the duties required by one who has the right to claim submission, obedience, or deference; submissive to natural or legal superiors; obedient, as to parents or superiors; as, a dutiful son or daughter; a dutiful ward or servant; a dutiful subject.-controlled by, proceeding from, a sense of duty; respectful; deferential; as, dutiful affection.
duty: that which is due; payment.-that which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory.-hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty.-specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors.-respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.-the efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., england, or 100 lbs., united states).-tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods.
duumviral: of or belonging to the duumviri or the duumvirate.
duumvirate: the union of two men in the same office; or the office, dignity, or government of two men thus associated, as in ancient rome.
dux: the scholastic name for the theme or subject of a fugue, the answer being called the comes, or companion.
duykerbok: a small south african antelope (cephalous mergens); -- called also impoon, and deloo.
dvergr: a dwarf supposed to dwell in rocks and hills and to be skillful in working metals.
dwale: the deadly nightshade (atropa belladonna), having stupefying qualities.-the tincture sable or black when blazoned according to the fantastic system in which plants are substituted for the tinctures.-a sleeping potion; an opiate.
dwang: a piece of wood set between two studs, posts, etc., to stiffen and support them.-a kind of crowbar.-a large wrench.
dwarf: an animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being.-to hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.-to become small; to diminish in size.
dwarfish: like a dwarf; below the common stature or size; very small; petty; as, a dwarfish animal, shrub.
dwell: to delay; to linger.-to abide; to remain; to continue.-to abide as a permanent resident, or for a time; to live in a place; to reside.-to inhabit.
dwelling: of dwell-habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile.
dwindle: to diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away.-to make less; to bring low.-to break; to disperse.-the process of dwindling; dwindlement; decline; degeneracy.
dyad: two units treated as one; a couple; a pair.-an element, atom, or radical having a valence or combining power of two.-having a valence or combining power of two; capable of being substituted for, combined with, or replaced by, two atoms of hydrogen; as, oxygen and calcium are dyad elements. see valence.
dyaks: the aboriginal and most numerous inhabitants of borneo. they are partially civilized, but retain many barbarous practices.
dyas: a name applied in germany to the permian formation, there consisting of two principal groups.
dye: to stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to, as by the application of dyestuffs.-color produced by dyeing.-material used for dyeing; a dyestuff.-same as die, a lot.
dyeing: of dye-the process or art of fixing coloring matters permanently and uniformly in the fibers of wool, cotton, etc.
dying: of die-in the act of dying; destined to death; mortal; perishable; as, dying bodies.-of or pertaining to dying or death; as, dying bed; dying day; dying words; also, simulating a dying state.-the act of expiring; passage from life to death; loss of life.
dyingness: the state of dying or the stimulation of such a state; extreme languor; languishment.
dynactinometer: an instrument for measuring the intensity of the photogenic (light-producing) rays, and computing the power of object glasses.
dynam: a unit of measure for dynamical effect or work; a foot pound. see foot pound.
dynameter: a dynamometer.-an instrument for determining the magnifying power of telescopes, consisting usually of a doubleimage micrometer applied to the eye end of a telescope for measuring accurately the diameter of the image of the object glass there formed; which measurement, compared with the actual diameter of the glass, gives the magnifying power.
dynamical: of or pertaining to dynamics; belonging to energy or power; characterized by energy or production of force.-relating to physical forces, effects, or laws; as, dynamical geology.