Dun Heörsa
Dun Heörsa is a Shield-Captain of the Hundred Pillars , formerly a Galeoth thane.

Appearance

Heörsa has blue eyes.

The Thousandfold Thought

After the Battle of Caraskand , Heörsa brings Drusas Achamian to Anasûrimbor Kellhus . When the Holy War camps outside Shimeh , Anasûrimbor Kellhus places a glamour on Heörsa, disguising him as Drusas Achamian, and has him sleep in Achamian's room. A skin-spy sent to assassinate Achamian kills Heörsa instead, and is subsequently dispatched.

Dun Heörsa

Title(s): Shield-Captain
Lived: 4078 - 4112
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Galeoth
Gender: Male
Occupation: Thane Shield-Captain
Books: The Thousandfold Thought

Dun Heörsa

Title(s): Shield-Captain
Lived: 4078 - 4112
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Galeoth
Gender: Male
Occupation: Thane Shield-Captain
Books: The Thousandfold Thought

Dunjoksha
Dunjoksha is the Sapatishah-Governor of Holy Amoteu . He has a reputation among the Inrithi as a tyrant.

Dunjoksha

Title(s): Sapatishah-Governor
Lived: 4055 -
Race: Men
Gender: Male
Occupation: Sapatishah-Governor of Amoteu
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Dunjoksha

Title(s): Sapatishah-Governor
Lived: 4055 -
Race: Men
Gender: Male
Occupation: Sapatishah-Governor of Amoteu
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Dunyain
The Dûnyain are a severe monastic sect that has repudiated history and animal appetite in the name of finding enlightenment through the control of all desire and all circumstance. Their name means "Truth" .

Origins

Though the origins of the Dûnyain are obscure (many think them the descendants of the ecstatic sects that arose across the Ancient North in the days preceding the Apocalypse ), their belief system is utterly unique, leading some to conclude their original inspiration had to be philosophical rather than religious in any traditional sense.

Philosophy

Much of Dûnyain belief follows from their interpretation of what they consider their founding principles. The Emperical Priority Principle (sometimes referred to as the Principle of Before and After) asserts that within the circle of the world, what comes before determines what comes after without exception. The Rational Priority Principle asserts that Logos, or Reason, lies outside the circle of the world (though only in a formal and not an ontological sense). The Epistemological Principle asserts that knowing what comes before (via the Logos) yields "control" of what comes after. Given the Priority Principle, it follows that thought, which falls within the circuit of the before and after, is also determined by what comes before. The Dûnyain therefore believe the will to be illusory, an artifact of the soul's inability to perceive what comes before it. The soul, in the Dûnyain world view, is part of the world , and therefore as much driven by prior events as anything else. (This stands in stark contrast to the dominant stream of Three Seas and Ancient North thought, where the soul is taken to be, in Ajencis 's words, "that which precedes everything.") In other words, Men do not possess "self-moving souls". Far from a given, such a soul is an accomplishment for the Dûnyain. All souls, they claim, possess conatus , the natural striving to be self-moving, to escape the circle of before and after. They naturally seek to know the world about them and so climb out of the circle. But a host of factors make outright escape impossible. The soul men are born with is too obtuse and clouded by animal passions to be anything other than a slave of what comes before. The whole point of the Dûnyain ethos is to overcome these limitations and so become a self-moving soul -- to attain what they call the Absolute, or the Unconditioned Soul. But unlike those exotic Nilnameshi sects devoted to various other forms of "enlightenment", the Dûnyain are not so naive as to think this can be attained within the course of a single lifetime. They think of this, rather, as a multi-generational process. Quite early on they recognized that the instrument itself, the soul, was flawed, so they instituted a program of selective breeding for intellect and dispassion. In a sense the entire sect became a kind of experiment, isolated from the world to maintain control, with each prior generation training the next to the limit of their capabilities, the idea being that over the millennia they would produce souls that could climb further and further from the circle of before and after. The hope was that eventually they would produce a soul utterly transparent to Logos, a soul capable of apprehending all the darknesses that come before .

Biology

After two thousand years of isolation and selective breeding, Dûnyain genetics have changed to the point where they have difficulty interbreeding with normal humans. The offspring of such couplings have a high risk of birth defects . The ones that survive tend to have intellects superior to normal humans but inferior to pure Dûnyain.

Full Dûnyain

- Anasûrimbor Kellhus
- Anasûrimbor Moënghus
- Kessriga Jeükal
- Meigon
- Samarmau Uän
- Anasûrimbor Koringhus
- The Boy
- The Mutilated

Half-breed Dûnyain

- Inrilatas
- Kayûtas
- Kelmomas
- Maithanet
- Samarmas
- Serwa
- Theliopa

duad
-a union of two; duality.

dual
-expressing, or consisting of, the number two; belonging to two; as, the dual number of nouns, etc. , in greek.

dualin
-an explosive substance consisting essentially of sawdust or wood pulp, saturated with nitroglycerin and other similar nitro compounds. it is inferior to dynamite, and is more liable to explosion.

dualism
-state of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction
-a view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit.
-a system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, one good and the other evil.
-the doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decree of god, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate.
-the theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts independently of the other.

dualist
-one who believes in dualism; a ditheist.
-one who administers two offices.

dualistic
-consisting of two; pertaining to dualism or duality.

duality
-the quality or condition of being two or twofold; dual character or usage.

duan
-a division of a poem corresponding to a canto; a poem or song.

duarchy
-government by two persons.

dub
-to confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son henry a knight.
-to invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call.
-to clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
-to strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab;
-to dress with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber smooth.
-to strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
-to rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of cyrrying it.
-to prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
-to make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
-a blow.
-a pool or puddle.

dubb
-the syrian bear. see under bear.

dubbed
-of dub

dubber
-one who, or that which, dubs.
-a globular vessel or bottle of leather, used in india to hold ghee, oil, etc.

dubbing
-of dub
-the act of dubbing, as a knight, etc.
-the act of rubbing, smoothing, or dressing; a dressing off smooth with an adz.
-a dressing of flour and water used by weavers; a mixture of oil and tallow for dressing leather; daubing.
-the body substance of an angler's fly.

dubieties
-of dubiety

dubiety
-doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt.

dubiosities
-of dubiosity

dubiosity
-the state of being doubtful; a doubtful statement or thing.

dubious
-doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined.
-occasioning doubt; not clear, or obvious; equivocal; questionable; doubtful; as, a dubious answer.
-of uncertain event or issue; as, in dubious battle.

dubiously
-in a dubious manner.

dubiousness
-state of being dubious.

dubitable
-liable to be doubted; uncertain.

dubitancy
-doubt; uncertainty.

dubitate
-to doubt.

dubitation
-act of doubting; doubt.

dubitative
-tending to doubt; doubtful.

duboisia
-same as duboisine.

duboisine
-an alkaloid obtained from the leaves of an australian tree (duboisia myoporoides), and regarded as identical with hyoscyamine. it produces dilation of the pupil of the eye.

ducal
-of or pertaining to a duke.

ducally
-in the manner of a duke, or in a manner becoming the rank of a duke.

ducat
-a coin, either of gold or silver, of several countries in europe; originally, one struck in the dominions of a duke.

ducatoon
-a silver coin of several countries of europe, and of different values.

duces tecum
-a judicial process commanding a person to appear in court and bring with him some piece of evidence or other thing to be produced to the court.

duchess
-the wife or widow of a duke; also, a lady who has the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right.

duchesse d'angouleme
-a variety of pear of large size and excellent flavor.

duchies
-of duchy

duchy
-the territory or dominions of a duke; a dukedom.

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's
-bill
-having the form of a duck's bill.

duck's
-foot
-the may apple (podophyllum peltatum).

duck's
-meat
-duckweed.

duck
-billed
-having a bill like that of a duck.

duck
-legged
-having short legs, like a waddling duck; short
-legged.

duckbill
-see duck mole, under duck, n.

ducked
-of duck

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.

duckling
-a young or little duck.

duckmeat
-alt. of duck's
-meat

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.

ductible
-capable of being drawn out

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.

ductilimeter
-an instrument for accurately determining the ductility of metals.

ductility
-the property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.
-tractableness; pliableness.

duction
-guidance.

ductless
-having to duct or outlet; as, a ductless gland.

ductor
-one who leads.
-a contrivance for removing superfluous ink or coloring matter from a roller. see doctor, 4.

ducture
-guidance.

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.

duddery
-a place where rags are bought and kept for sale.

dude
-a kind of dandy; especially, one characterized by an ultrafashionable style of dress and other affectations.

dudeen
-a short tobacco pipe.

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.

dudish
-like, or characterized of, a dude.

duds
-old or inferior clothes; tattered garments.
-effects, in general.

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.

dueful
-fit; becoming.

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.

dueler
-one who engages in a duel.

dueling
-the act or practice of fighting in single combat. also adj.

duelist
-one who fights in single combat.

duelo
-a duel; also, the rules of dueling.

dueness
-quality of being due; debt; what is due or becoming.

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.

duennas
-of duenna

duet
-a composition for two performers, whether vocal or instrumental.

duettino
-a duet of short extent and concise form.

duetto
-see duet.

due–a
-see do–a.

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.

duffle
-see duffel.

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.

dukedom
-the territory of a duke.
-the title or dignity of a duke.

dukeling
-a little or insignificant 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).

dulce
-to make sweet; to soothe.

dulceness
-sweetness.

dulcet
-sweet to the taste; luscious.
-sweet to the ear; melodious; harmonious.

dulciana
-a sweet
-toned stop of an organ.

dulcification
-the act of dulcifying or sweetening.

dulcified
-sweetened; mollified.
-of dulcify

dulcifluous
-flowing sweetly.

dulcify
-to sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness, or acrimony.
-fig. : to mollify; to sweeten; to please.

dulcifying
-of dulcify

dulciloquy
-a soft manner of speaking.

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.

dulcinea
-a mistress; a sweetheart.

dulciness
-see dulceness.

dulcino
-a small bassoon, formerly much used.
-see dolcino.

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.

dulcitude
-sweetness.

dulcorate
-to sweeten; to make less acrimonious.

dulcoration
-the act of sweetening.

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.

dull
-brained
-stupid; doltish.

dull
-browed
-having a gloomy look.

dull
-eyed
-having eyes wanting brightness, liveliness, or vivacity.

dull
-sighted
-having poor eyesight.

dull
-witted
-stupid.

dullard
-a stupid person; a dunce.
-stupid.

duller
-of dull
-one who, or that which, dulls.

dullhead
-a blockhead; a dolt.

dulling
-of dull

dullish
-somewhat dull; uninteresting; tiresome.

dullness
-the state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness.

dullsome
-dull.

dully
-in a dull manner; stupidly; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit.

dulocracy
-see doulocracy.

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.]

dulwilly
-the ring plover.

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.

dumbledor
-a bumblebee; also, a cockchafer.

dumbly
-in silence; mutely.

dumbness
-the quality or state of being dumb; muteness; silence; inability to speak.

dumetose
-dumose.

dumfound
-to strike dumb; to confuse with astonishment.

dumfounded
-of dumfound

dumfounder
-to dumfound; to confound.

dumfounding
-of dumfound

dummador
-a dumbledor.

dummerer
-one who feigns dumbness.

dummies
-of dummy

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.

dumose
-alt. of dumous

dumous
-abounding with bushes and briers.
-having a compact, bushy form.

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.

dumped
-of dump

dumpiness
-the state of being dumpy.

dumping
-of dump

dumpish
-dull; stupid; sad; moping; melancholy.

dumple
-to make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another.

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.

duncedom
-the realm or domain of dunces.

duncery
-dullness; stupidity.

duncical
-like a dunce; duncish.

duncify
-to make stupid in intellect.

duncish
-somewhat like a dunce.

dunder
-the lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum.

dunder
-headed
-thick
-headed; stupid.

dunderhead
-a dunce; a numskull; a blockhead.

dunderpate
-see dunderhead.

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.

dungaree
-a coarse kind of unbleached cotton stuff.

dunged
-of dung

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.

dungfork
-a fork for tossing dung.

dunghill
-a heap of dung.
-any mean situation or condition; a vile abode.

dunging
-of dung

dungmeer
-a pit where dung and weeds rot for manure.

dungy
-full of dung; filthy; vile; low.

dungyard
-a yard where dung is collected.

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.

dunned
-of dun

dunner
-one employed in soliciting the payment of debts.

dunning
-of dun

dunnish
-inclined to a dun color.

dunnock
-the hedge sparrow or hedge accentor.

dunny
-deaf; stupid.

dunt
-a blow.

dunted
-beaten; hence, blunted.

dunter
-a porpoise.

duo
-a composition for two performers; a duet.

duodecahedral
-alt. of duodecahedron

duodecahedron
-see dodecahedral, and dodecahedron.

duodecennial
-consisting of twelve years.

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.

duodecimfid
-divided into twelve parts.

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¡.

duodecimos
-of duodecimo

duodecuple
-consisting of twelves.

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.

duoliteral
-consisting of two letters only; biliteral.

duomo
-a cathedral. see dome, 2.

dup
-to open; as, to dup the door.

dupable
-capable of being duped.

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.

duped
-of dupe

duper
-one who dupes another.

dupery
-the act or practice of duping.

duping
-of dupe

dupion
-a double cocoon, made by two silkworms.

duple
-double.

duplex
-double; twofold.

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.

duplicated
-of duplicate

duplicating
-of duplicate

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.

duplicature
-a doubling; a fold, as of a membrane.

duplicities
-of duplicity

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.

dupper
-see 2d dubber.

dur
-major; in the major mode; as, c dur, that is, c major.

dura
-short form for dura mater.

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.

durableness
-power of lasting, enduring, or resisting; durability.

durably
-in a lasting manner; with long continuance.

dural
-pertaining to the dura, or dura mater.

duramen
-the heartwood of an exogenous tree.

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.

durancy
-duration.

durant
-see durance, 3.

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.

durative
-continuing; not completed; implying duration.

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.

dureful
-lasting.

dureless
-not lasting.

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.

duressor
-one who subjects another to duress

durga
-same as doorga.

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.

durian
-alt. of durion

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.

durity
-hardness; firmness.
-harshness; cruelty.

durometer
-an instrument for measuring the degree of hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the like.

durous
-hard.

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.

durst
-of dare
-of dare. see dare, v. i.

durukuli
-a small, nocturnal, south american monkey (nyctipthecus trivirgatus).

durylic
-pertaining to, allied to, or derived from, durene; as, durylic acid.

duse
-a demon or spirit. see deuce.

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.

dusken
-to make dusk or obscure.

duskily
-in a dusky manner.

duskiness
-the state of being dusky.

duskish
-somewhat dusky.

duskness
-duskiness.

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.

dust
-point
-an old rural game.

dustbrush
-a brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture.

dusted
-of dust

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.

dustiness
-the state of being dusty.

dusting
-of dust

dustless
-without dust; as a dustless path.

dustman
-one whose employment is to remove dirt and defuse.

dustmen
-of dustman

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.

dutchman
-a native, or one of the people, of holland.

dutchmen
-of dutchman

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.

dutiable
-subject to the payment of a duty; as dutiable goods.

dutied
-subjected to a duty.

duties
-of duty

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.

duumvir
-one of two roman officers or magistrates united in the same public functions.

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.

duumviri
-of duumvir

duumvirs
-of duumvir

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.

duyoung
-see dugong.