Webster's Dictionary 1913

6427

Dukedom

Duke″dom (?), n. 1. The territory of a duke.2. The title or dignity of a duke. Shak.

6428

Dukeling

Duke″ling, n. A little or insignificant duke. Ford.

6429

Dukeship

Duke″ship, n. The quality or condition of being a duke; also, the personality of a duke. Massinger.

6430

Dukhobors

{ Du‐kho‐bors″ (?), Du‐kho‐bor″tsy (?) }, n. pl. [Russ. dukhobortsy spirit wrestlers; dukh spirit + bortsy wrestlers.] A Russian religious sect founded about the middle of the 1...

6431

Dulcamara

Dul′ca‐ma″ra (?), n. [NL., fr. L. dulcis sweet + amarus bitter.] (Bot.) A plant (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet, n., 3 (a).

6432

Dulcamarin

Dul′ca‐ma″rin (?), n.(Chem.) A glucoside extracted from the bittersweet (Solanum Dulcamara), as a yellow amorphous substance. It probably occasions the compound taste. See Bitte...

6433

Dulce

Dulce (?), v. t. To make sweet; to soothe.

6434

Dulceness

Dulce″ness, n. Sweetness. Bacon.

6435

Dulcet

Dul″cet (?), a. [OF. doucet, dim. of dous sweet, F. doux, L. dulcis; akin to Gr. �. Cf. Doucet.] 1. Sweet to the taste; luscious.She tempers dulcet creams. Milton.2. Sweet to th...

6436

Dulciana

‖Dul′ci‐an″a (?), n. [NL., fr. L. dulcis sweet.] (Mus.) A sweet-toned stop of an organ.

6437

Dulcification

Dul′ci‐fi‐ca″tion (?), n. [Cf. F. dulcification.] The act of dulcifying or sweetening. Boyle.

6438

Dulcified

Dul″ci‐fied (?), a. Sweetened; mollified.Dulcified spiritorspirits, a compound of alcohol with mineral acids; as, dulcified spirits of niter.

6439

Dulcifluous

Dul‐cif″lu‐ous (?), a. [L. dulcis sweet + fluere to flow.] Flowing sweetly.

6440

Dulcify

Dul″ci‐fy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Dulcified (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Dulcifying.] [L. dulcis sweet + -fy: cf. F. dulcifier.] 1. (Pharm.) To sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness, o...

6441

Dulciloquy

Dul‐cil″o‐quy (?), n. [L. dulcis sweet + loqui to speak.] A soft manner of speaking.

6442

Dulcimer

Dul″ci‐mer (?), n. [It. dolcemele,r Sp. dulcemele, fr. L. dulcis sweet + melos song, melody, Gr. �; cf. OF. doulcemele. See Dulcet, and Melody.] (Mus.) (a) An instrument, having...

6443

Dulcinea

Dul‐cin″e‐a (?), n. [Sp., from Dulcinea del Toboso the mistress of the affections of Don Quixote.] A mistress; a sweetheart.I must ever have some Dulcinea in my head. Sterne.

6444

Dulciness

Dul″ci‐ness (?), n. See Dulceness.

6445

Dulcino (2)

‖Dul‐ci″no (?), n.(Mus.) See Dolcino.

6446

Dulcite

Dul″cite (?), n. [Cf. F. dulcite, fr. L. dulcis sweet.] (Chem.) A white, sugarlike substance, C6H8.(OH)2, occurring naturally in a manna from Madagascar, and in certain plants, ...

6447

Dulcitude

Dul″ci‐tude (?), n. [L. dulcitudo, fr. dulcis sweet. Sweetness. Cockeram.

6448

Dulcorate

Dul″co‐rate (?), v. t. [L. dulcoratus, p. p. of dulcorare, fr. dulcor sweetness, fr. dulcis sweet.] To sweeten; to make less acrimonious. Bacon.

6449

Dulcoration

Dul′co‐ra″tion (?), n. [LL. dulcoratio.] The act of sweetening. Bacon.

6450

Duledge

Du″ledge (?), n.(Mil.) One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage. Wilhelm.

6451

Dulia

‖Du‐li″a (?), n.(R. C. Ch.) An inferior kind of veneration or worship, given to the angels and saints as the servants of God.

6452

Dull

Dull (?), a. [Compar.Duller (?); superl.Dullest.] [AS. dol foolish; akin to gedwelan to err, D. dol mad, dwalen to wander, err, G. toll mad, Goth. dwals foolish, stupid, cf. Gr....

6453

Dull (2)

Dull, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Duller (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Dulling.] 1. To deprive of sharpness of edge or point. “This... dulled their swords.” Bacon.Borrowing dulls the edge of husba...