Dry-rub Dry"-rub` transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Dry-rubbed ; present participle & verbal noun Dry-rubbing .] To rub and cleanse without wetting. Dodsley.

Dry-shod Dry"-shod` adjective Without wetting the feet.

Dry-stone Dry"-stone` adjective Constructed of uncemented stone. " Dry-stone walls." Sir W. Scott.

Dryad Dry"ad noun [ Latin dryas , plural dryades , Greek ..., plural ..., from ... oak, tree. See Tree .] (Class. Myth.) A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.

Dryandra Dry·an"dra noun [ New Latin Named after J. Dryander .] (Botany) A genus of shrubs growing in Australia, having beautiful, hard, dry, evergreen leaves.

Dryas Dry"as noun ; plural Dryades . [ Latin See Dryad .] (Class. Myth.) A dryad.

Dryer Dry"er noun See Drier . Sir W. Temple.

Dryfoot Dry"foot noun The scent of the game, as far as it can be traced. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Drying Dry"ing adjective 1. Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room.

2. Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry.

Drying oil , an oil which, either naturally or after boiling with oxide of lead, absorbs oxygen from the air and dries up rapidly. Drying oils are used as the bases of many paints and varnishes.

Dryly Dry"ly adverb In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly.

Dryness Dry"ness noun The state of being dry. See Dry .

Drynurse Dry"nurse` transitive verb To feed, attend, and bring up without the breast. Hudibras.

Dryobalanops Dry`o·bal"a·nops noun [ New Latin , from Greek dry^s oak + ba`lanos acorn + 'o`psis appearance. The fruit remotely resembles an acorn in its cup.] (Botany) The genus to which belongs the single species D. Camphora , a lofty resinous tree of Borneo and Sumatra, yielding Borneo camphor and camphor oil.

Drysalter Dry"salt`er noun A dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces, etc., and in the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving various kinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs. Brande & C.

Drysaltery Dry"salt`er·y noun The articles kept by a drysalter; also, the business of a drysalter.

Dryth, Drith Dryth, Drith noun Drought. [ Obsolete] Tyndale.

Duad Du"ad noun [ See Dyad .] A union of two; duality. [ R.] Harris.

Dual Du"al adjective [ Latin dualis , from duo two. See Two .] Expressing, or consisting of, the number two; belonging to two; as, the dual number of nouns, etc. , in Greek.

Here you have one half of our dual truth.

Tyndall.

Dualin Du"a·lin noun (Chemistry) 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 Du"al·ism noun [ Confer French dualisme .] State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction ; as: (a) (Philos.) A view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit. (Theol.) (b) A system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, one good and the other evil. (c) 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. (d) (Physiol.) The theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts independently of the other.

An inevitable dualism bisects nature, so that each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole.

Emerson.

Dualist Du"al·ist noun [ Confer French dualiste .] 1. One who believes in dualism; a ditheist.

2. One who administers two offices. Fuller.

Dualistic Du`al·is"tic adjective Consisting of two; pertaining to dualism or duality.

Dualistic system or theory (Chemistry) , the theory, originated by Lavoisier and developed by Berzelius, that all definite compounds are binary in their nature, and consist of two distinct constituents, themselves simple or complex, and possessed of opposite chemical or electrical affinities.

Duality Du"al"i·ty noun [ Latin dualitas : confer French dualité .] The quality or condition of being two or twofold; dual character or usage.

Duan Du"an noun [ Gael. & Ir.] A division of a poem corresponding to a canto; a poem or song. [ R.]

Duarchy Du"ar·chy noun [ Greek ... two + - archy .] Government by two persons.

Dub Dub (dŭb) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Dubbed (dŭbd); present participle & verbal noun Dubbing .] [ Anglo-Saxon dubban to strike, beat (" dubbade his sunu . . . to rīdere." Anglo-Saxon Chron. an. 1086); akin to Icelandic dubba ; confer Old French adouber (prob. from Icelandic ) a chevalier, Icelandic dubba til riddara.] 1. To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight.

» The conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with the sword.

2. To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call.

A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth.

Pope.

3. To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn. [ Obsolete]

His diadem was dropped down
Dubbed with stones.

Morte d'Arthure.

4. To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab; as: (a) To dress with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber smooth.

(b) To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap. Halliwell. (c) To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of cyrrying it. Tomlinson. (d) To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.

To dub a fly , to dress a fishing fly. [ Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. -- To dub out (Plastering) , to fill out, as an uneven surface, to a plane, or to carry out a series of small projections.

Dub Dub intransitive verb To make a noise by brisk drumbeats. "Now the drum dubs ." Beau. & Fl.

Dub Dub noun A blow. [ R.] Hudibras.

Dub Dub noun [ Confer Ir. dób mire, stream, W. dwvr water.] A pool or puddle. [ Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Dubb Dubb noun [ Arabic ] (Zoology) The Syrian bear. See under Bear . [ Written also dhubb , and dub .]

Dubber Dub"ber noun One who, or that which, dubs.

Dubber Dub"ber noun [ Hind. dabbah .] A globular vessel or bottle of leather, used in India to hold ghee, oil, etc. [ Also written dupper .] M'Culloch.

Dubbing Dub"bing noun 1. The act of dubbing, as a knight, etc.

2. The act of rubbing, smoothing, or dressing; a dressing off smooth with an adz.

3. A dressing of flour and water used by weavers; a mixture of oil and tallow for dressing leather; daubing.

4. The body substance of an angler's fly. Davy.

Dubiety Du·bi"e·ty noun ; plural Dubieties . [ Latin dubietas , from dubius . See Dubious .] Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt. [ R.] Lamb. "The dubiety of his fate." Sir W. Scott.

Dubiosity Du`bi·os"i·ty noun ; plural Dubiosities . [ Latin dubiosus .] The state of being doubtful; a doubtful statement or thing. [ R.]

Men often swallow falsities for truths, dubiosities for certainties, possibilities for feasibilities.

Sir T. Browne.

Dubious Du"bi·ous adjective [ Latin dubius , dubiosus , from duo two. See Two , and confer Doubt .] 1. Doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined. " Dubious policy." Sir T. Scott.

A dubious , agitated state of mind.

Thackeray.

2. Occasioning doubt; not clear, or obvious; equivocal; questionable; doubtful; as, a dubious answer.

Wiping the dingy shirt with a still more dubious pocket handkerchief.

Thackeray.

3. Of uncertain event or issue; as, in dubious battle.

Syn. -- Doubtful; doubting; unsettled; undetermined; equivocal; uncertain. Confer Doubtful .

Dubiously Du"bi·ous·ly adverb In a dubious manner.

Dubiousness Du"bi·ous·ness noun State of being dubious.

Dubitable Du"bi·ta·ble adjective [ Latin dubitabilis . Confer Doubtable .] Liable to be doubted; uncertain. [ R.] Dr. H. More. -- Du"bi*ta*bly , adverb [ R.]

Dubitancy Du"bi·tan·cy noun [ Late Latin dubitantia .] Doubt; uncertainty. [ R.] Hammond.

Dubitate Du"bi·tate intransitive verb [ Latin dubitatus , past participle of dubitare . See Doubt .] To doubt. [ R.]

If he . . . were to loiter dubitating , and not come.

Carlyle.

Dubitation Du`bi·ta"tion noun [ Latin dubitatio .] Act of doubting; doubt. [ R.] Sir T. Scott.

Dubitative Du"bi·ta·tive adjective [ Latin dubitativus : confer French dubitatif .] Tending to doubt; doubtful. [ R.] -- Du"bi*ta*tive*ly , adverb [ R.] . Eliot.

Duboisia Du·bois"i·a noun [ New Latin ] (Medicine) Same as Duboisine .

Duboisine Du·bois"ine noun (Medicine) 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 Du"cal adjective [ French ducal . See Duke .] Of or pertaining to a duke.

His ducal cap was to be exchanged for a kingly crown.

Motley.

Ducally Du"cal·ly adverb In the manner of a duke, or in a manner becoming the rank of a duke.

Ducat Duc"at noun [ French ducat , Italian ducato , Late Latin ducatus , from dux leader or commander. See Duke .] A coin, either of gold or silver, of several countries in Europe; originally, one struck in the dominions of a duke.

» The gold ducat is generally of the value of nine shillings and four pence sterling, or somewhat more that two dollars. The silver ducat is of about half this value.

Ducatoon Duc`a·toon" noun [ French or Spanish ducaton , from ducat .] A silver coin of several countries of Europe, and of different values.

Duces tecum Du"ces te"cum [ Latin , bring with thee.] 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.

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