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4. Clothe, array, attire, apparel, accoutre, robe, rig, trick out.

5. Adorn, deck, decorate, embellish, trim, set out, set off.

Dress, v. n. Be clothed, make one's toilet.

Dress, n. 1. Clothes, clothing, raiment, garments, garb, habit, apparel, attire, habiliment, vesture, suit, costume.

2. Array, fine clothes, rich garments, elegant attire.

3. Lady's gown.

Dress-coat, n. Body-coat.

Dressing, n. 1. Preparing, putting in order.

2. Manure, fertilizer, compost.

3. Force-meat, stuffing.

Dressy, a. Showy, flashy, gaudy, fond of dress.

Drib, v. a. 1. Crop, lop, cut off, lop off.

2. Entice, allure, decoy, coax, tweedle.

Dribble, v. n. Drip, trickle, fall in drops.

Driblet, n. Fragment, small portion.

Drier, n. Desiccative.

Drift, n. 1. Course, bearing, direction.

2. Aim, purpose, intention, intent, proposal, design, scope, tendency, object, mark.

3. (Geol.) Diluvium, diluvial formations.

4. (Mining.) Passage (under ground, between shafts).

Drift, v. a. Drive into heaps.

Drift, v. n. 1. Float, be wafted.

2. Accumulate in heaps, be driven into heaps.

Driftless, a. Aimless, purposeless, without an object.

Drill, v. a. 1. Pierce, perforate, bore.

2. Instruct, exercise, teach, train.

Drink, v. n. 1. Guzzle.

2. Take a drink (of spirituous liquor), TAKE A HORN, LIQUOR UP, SPLICE THE MAIN BRACE, WET ONE'S WHISTLE.

3. Tipple, tope, be a drunkard, be a toper, be intemperate (in the use of spirituous liquors), be of intemperate habits, take a drop too much.

4. Carouse, revel, indulge in a drinking-bout.

Drink, v. a. 1. Swallow, QUAFF, SIP, SUP, GUZZLE, SWILL, SWIG.

2. Imbibe, absorb, suck in.

Drink, n. Beverage, potion.

Drinkable, a. Potable, that may be drunk.

Drinking, n. Tippling, toping, intemperate habits.

Drinking-bout, n. Carouse, carousal, revel, revelry, SPREE, jollification, bacchanals, saturnalia, debauch, compotation, wassail, orgies.

Drink to, Pledge, toast, drink in honor of, drink the health of.

Drip, v. n. 1. Dribble, trickle, fall in drops.

2. Have drops falling from.

Drip, v. a. Let fall in drops.

Drive, v. a. 1. Impel.

2. Hurl, send, propel.

3. Force, oblige, coerce, compel.

4. Press, urge.

5. Prosecute, carry on.

6. Guide (by reins).

7. Take in a carriage, carry on a drive.

Drive away, Expel, disperse, scatter, dispel, drive off.

Drive back, Repel, repulse.

Drive off, Expel, drive away.

Drive out, Expel, reject, eject, cast out, turn out.

Drive, v. n. 1. Be forced along, be impelled, be urged forward.

2. Rush, go furiously.

3. Ride in a carriage.

4. (Naut.) Scud, drift.

Drive at, Intend, purpose, aim at, tend to, be after, aspire at, aspire after, endeavor after.

Drive, n. Airing, ride.

Drivel, v. n. 1. Slaver, slobber, drool.

2. Dote, be imbecile, be foolish.

Drivel, n. 1. Slaver, drivelling.

2. Nonsense, balderdash, stuff, foolish talk.

Driveller, n. [Written also Driveler.] Slaverer, fool, simpleton, idiot, dotard.

Drivelling, n. [Written also Driveling.] 1. Slaver.

2. Foolishness, folly, idiocy.

Drizzle, v. n. Rain (in small drops), mizzle.

Droll, n. 1. Jester (by profession), buffoon, harlequin, mountebank, punch, punchinello, clown, zany, scaramouch, fool, jack-pudding, merry Andrew, pickle-herring.

2. Farce, comic show.

Droll, a. 1. Comic, comical, funny, ludicrous, farcical, laughable, ridiculous.

2. Odd, queer, facetious, waggish, amusing, diverting.

Drollery, n. Pleasantry, fun, facetiousness, waggishness, waggery, buffoonery, comicality.

Drone, n. 1. Male honey-bee.

2. Idler, sluggard, lounger, idle fellow, lazy fellow.

3. Humming, humming noise.

Drone, v. n. 1. Lounge, dawdle, waste time in trifles, live in idleness.

2. Make a dull, humming sound.

Drone, v. a. Read monotonously.

Dronish, a. Idle, lazy, indolent, sluggish, slow, inactive.

Dronte, n. Dodo.

Drool, v. n. Slaver, drivel, drop saliva.

Droop, v. n. 1. Wilt, wither, fade.

2. Languish, faint, sink, fail, decline, grow weak, be dispirited.

Drop, n. 1. Globule.

2. Ear-ring.

Drop, v. a. 1. Lower, sink, depress, let down, let fall, let go.

2. Leave, quit, forsake, desert, relinquish, abandon, forswear, give up, give over.

3. Discontinue, intermit, remit, cease, desist from, break off, leave off, lay aside.

4. Bedrop, spot, speckle, variegate.

Drop, v. n. 1. Distil, fall in drops.

2. Fall suddenly.

3. Cease, come to an end, come to nothing.

Drop astern, (Naut.) Move back.

Drop down, (Naut.) Move toward the sea.

Drop in, Call, happen in.

Drop serene, Amaurosis, GUTTA SERENA.

Dross, n. 1. Scum, recrement, scoria.

2. Refuse, waste matter.

Drought, n. Dryness (of weather), aridity, drouth, want of rain.

Drouth, n. Drought.

Drove, n. 1. Herd, flock.

2. Crowd, collection.

Drown, v. a. 1. Kill by immersing.

2. Overflow, inundate, deluge, overwhelm, flood.

3. Overcome, overpower.

Drown, v. n. Be drowned.

Drowse, v. n. Slumber, doze, nap, be half asleep.

Drowsy, a. 1. Sleepy, dozy.

2. Lethargic, comatose, stupid.

3. Soporific, lulling.

Drub, v. a. Beat, thrash, cudgel, cane.

Drubbing, n. Beating, flogging, thrashing, cudgelling, caning, pounding, flagellation.

Drudge, v. n. Slave, toil, plod, work hard.

Drudge, n. Slave, menial, scullion, hack, fag, hard-worker.

Drudgery, n. Hard or toilsome work, ignoble toil, mean labor.

Drug, n. 1. Medicine, physic, remedy.

2. Unsalable article.

Drum, n. (Anat.) Tympanum.

Drunk, a. Intoxicated, tipsy, inebriated, fuddled, disguised, maudlin, drunken, mellow, SLEWED, GROGGY, in liquor, in one's cups, half seas over.

Drunkard, n. Toper, tippler, sot, carouser, reveller, bacchanal, bacchanalian.

Drunken, a. 1. Intoxicated, drunk.

2. Sottish, given to intoxication.

Drunkenness, n. 1. Intoxication, inebriety, ebriety.

2. Sottishness.

Drupe, n. Stone-fruit.

Dry, a. 1. Arid, not wet, not moist.

2. Thirsty, craving drink.

3. Uninteresting, barren, dull, jejune, meagre, tame, vapid, unembellished, plain.

4. Sarcastic, severe, sly, keen, sharp.

Dry, v. a. Desiccate, exsiccate, free from moisture, make dry.

Dry, v. n. Become dry, lose moisture.

Dryad, n. Wood-nymph.

Dry goods, Textile fabrics (as distinguished from groceries).

Dry-rot, n. Sap-rot, POWDER-POST.

Dualism, n. Manicheism, doctrine of two supreme principles (good and evil).

Dub, v. a. Name, style, term, denominate, designate, call, entitle, christen.

Dubiety, n. [Rare.] Doubtfulness, dubiousness, uncertainty.

Dubious, a. Uncertain, doubtful, equivocal, ambiguous, not plain, not clear.

Duck, v. a. Immerse, plunge, souse, dip.

Duck, v. n. 1. Dive, plunge, dip, immerse one's self.

2. Bow, cringe.

Duck-bill, n. Ornithorhynchus, platypus, mullangong, tambreet, water-mole.

Duck-hawk, n. Harpy, marsh-harrier, moor-buzzard (Circus œruginosus).

Ducking, n. 1. Plunge, dive, dip.

2. [Colloquial.] Wetting, drenching, soaking.

Ducking-stool, n. Trebuchet, tumbrel, castigatory, cucking-stool.

Duct, n. Conduit, channel, canal.

Ductile, a. 1. Tractable, complying, docile, yielding, facile.

2. Extensible, capable of being drawn out.

Ductility, n. 1. Tractableness, docility.

2. Extensibility.

Dudgeon, n. Anger, resentment, indignation, ire, malice, ill-will.

Duds, n. pl. 1. Old clothing, tattered garments.

2. [Colloquial.] Effects, things.

Due, a. 1. Owed, to be paid.

2. Proper, fit, suitable, appropriate, becoming, befitting.

3. Owing, to be ascribed.

Due, n. 1. Debt, what is due.

2. Right, just title, lawful claim.

Due, ad. Directly, exactly.

Due to, Owing to, occasioned by, to be ascribed to.

Duel, n. Affair of honor.

Dug, n. Teat (of a beast), nipple, pap, udder.

Dulcamara, n. Woody night-shade, bitter-sweet (Solanum dulcamara).

Dulcet, a. 1. Sweet, luscious, honeyed.

2. Pleasing, agreeable, pleasant, delightful, charming.

Dull, a. 1. Stupid, stolid, doltish, blockish, brutish, unintelligent, unintellectual, shallow, blunt-witted.

2. Apathetic, insensible, unimpassioned, passionless, dead, callous.

3. Inert, inactive, lifeless, inanimate, heavy, sluggish, slow, torpid.

4. Blunt, obtuse, not sharp.

5. Gloomy, sad, dismal, cheerless.

6. Dim, obscure, not bright, not vivid.

7. Tedious, wearisome, tiresome, uninteresting.

Dull, v. a. 1. Blunt, make blunt.

2. Stupefy, benumb, deaden, paralyze, obtund, hebetate, make or render insensible, render callous, make obtuse.

3. Depress, dishearten, discourage, dispirit, deject, make melancholy, make sad or dejected.

4. Quiet, allay, moderate, assuage, mitigate, alleviate, soften.

5. Sully, tarnish.

Dullard, n. Simpleton, DUNCE.

Duly, ad. 1. Properly, fitly, in a suitable manner.

2. Regularly, in course, at the proper time.

Dumb, a. 1. Unable to speak, incapable of speech.

2. Mute, speechless, silent, taciturn, mum.

Dumb-show, n. Pantomime.

Dumb-waiter, n. Dummy.

Dumfound, v. a. Confuse, confound, pose, nonplus, strike dumb.

Dumfounder, v. a. Confuse, confound, pose, nonplus, strike dumb.

Dummador, n. Cockchafer, dor, dor-bug, May-bug, tree-beetle, May-beetle, (Melontha vulgaris).

Dummy, n. 1. Mute, dumb person.

2. [Colloquial.] Dumb-waiter.

3. Fourth hand (when only three persons play at whist).

Dumpish, a. Sad, dejected, dispirited, MELANCHOLY, despondent, moping.

Dumps, n. pl. Dejection, depression, sadness, MELANCHOLY, despondency, BLUES, blue devils.

Dumpy, a. Short and thick (in person).

Dun, a. Dull brown.

Dun, v. a. Press (for a debt), importune, urge.

Dun, n. 1. Importunate creditor.

2. Dunning letter.

Dunce, n. Simpleton, fool, dolt, ignoramus, wiseacre, blockhead, block, numskull, dullard, thickhead, thick-skull, dunderhead, dunderpate, clod-poll, beetle-head, bull-head, dull-head, addle-head, logger-head, CHUCKLE-HEAD, jolt-head, lack-brain, shallow-brain, moon-calf, halfwit, oaf, changeling, booby, noodle, spooney, tony, NINCOMPOOP, ninny, JOBBERNOWL, flat, sawney, driveller, noddy, natural, SAP-HEAD, ass, jackass, goose, coot, loon, calf, non-compos, stupid fellow, silly fellow.

Dunder, n. Lees (of cane juice).

Dunderhead, n. Simpleton, DUNCE.

Dunder-pate, n. Dunce.

Dundiver, n. Goosander, dish-washer, wagtail (Mergus-merganser or Mergus castor).

Dung, n. Excrement, ordure, fæces.

Dung, v. a. Manure (with dung).

Dungeon, n. Prison (especially one underground and dark).

Dungmeers, n. pl. Compost pits.

Dupe, n. Cat's-paw, gull, cully, credulous person.

Dupe, v. a. Cheat, deceive, delude, trick, circumvent, overreach, beguile, cully, chouse, cozen, gull, impose upon.

Duplicate, a. Double, twofold.

Duplicate, n. Copy, transcript, counterpart.

Duplicity, n. Dissimulation, chicanery, guile, deceit, deception, hypocrisy, circumvention, artifice, Machiavelism, double dealing.

Durability, n. Permanence, durableness.

Durable, a. Permanent, lasting, abiding, continuing, constant, stable.

Durableness, n. Permanence, durability.

Durance, n. Duress.

Duration, n. Continuance (in time), continuation, lastingness, ENDURANCE.

Duress, n. Constraint, restraint, captivity, confinement, imprisonment, durance.

During, prep. For the time of, for the period of.

Dusk, n. Twilight.

Dusky, a. Obscure, murky, dim, shadowy, cloudy, shady, overcast, somewhat dark.

Dutch gold, Pinchbeck.

Dutch oven, [U. S.] Bake-kettle.

Duteous, a. Obedient, DUTIFUL.

Dutiful, a. 1. Obedient, submissive, duteous.

2. Reverential, respectful, deferential.

Duty, n. 1. What one ought to do, what one is bound or under obligation to do.

2. Service, business, function, office.

3. Tax, impost, toll, custom, excise.

Dwale, n. 1. Stupefying potion, soporific draught.

2. Belladonna, banewort, deadly-night-shade (Atropa belladonna).

Dwarf, n. Pygmy, hop o' my thumb.

Dwarf, v. a. Stunt, hinder from growth.

Dwarfish, a. Stunted, dwarfed, under-sized, diminutive, small, little, tiny, Lilliputian, Pygmean.

Dwell, v. n. Inhabit, reside, live, stay, sojourn, tarry, abide, plant one's self, be settled, have a habitation.

Dweller, n. Inhabitant, inhabiter, resident, citizen.

Dwelling, n. Habitation, abode, residence, lodging, quarters, domicile, home, place of residence, place of abode, dwelling-place, house.

Dwelling-place, n. Dwelling.

Dwell on, 1. Hang upon fondly, be absorbed with, be deeply interested in.

2. Continue long upon, occupy a long time with.

Dwell upon, 1. Hang upon fondly, be absorbed with, be deeply interested in.

2. Continue long upon, occupy a long time with.

Dwindle, v. n. 1. Diminish, decrease, lessen, shrink, grow less, grow little.

2. Sink, degenerate, decline, decay, fall away, fall off.

Dwindle, v. a. Diminish, decrease, lessen, make less.

Dye, n. 1. Coloring liquor.

2. Color, hue, tint, tinge, stain, cast, shade.

Dye, v. a. Color, tinge, stain.

Dyer's-weed, n. Green-broom, green-weed (Genista tinctoria).

Dying, a. 1. Expiring.

2. Mortal, perishable.

Dying, n. Death, decease, demise, dissolution, departure, exit, end of life.

Dynamics, n. Science of forces.

Dynasty, n. 1. Government, sovereignty, dominion, empire.

2. Race of rulers, family of sovereigns.

Dysentery, n. Bloody-flux.

Dyspepsia, n. (Med.) Indigestion, difficulty of digestion.

Dyspepsy, n. (Med.) Indigestion, difficulty of digestion.

Dyspnœa, n. [L.] (Med.) Difficulty of breathing.