Dull (v. t.) To deprive of sharpness of edge or point.
Dull (v. t.) To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.
Dull (v. t.) To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
Dull (v. t.) To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.
Dull (v. i.) To become dull or stupid.
Dullard (n.) A stupid person; a dunce.
Dullard (a.) Stupid.
Dull-brained (a.) Stupid; doltish.
Dull-browed (a.) Having a gloomy look.
Duller (n.) One who, or that which, dulls.
Dull-eyed (a.) Having eyes wanting brightness, liveliness, or vivacity.
Dullhead (n.) A blockhead; a dolt.
Dullish (a.) Somewhat dull; uninteresting; tiresome.
Dullness (n.) The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness.
Dull-sighted (a.) Having poor eyesight.
Dullsome (a.) Dull.
Dull-witted (a.) Stupid.
Dully (adv.) In a dull manner; stupidly; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit.
Dulocracy (n.) See Doulocracy.
Dulse (n.) 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 (n.) The ring plover.
Duly (adv.) In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it (anything) ought to be; properly; regularly.
Dumal (a.) Pertaining to, or set with, briers or bushes; brambly.
Dumb (a.) Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes.
Dumb (a.) Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words; as, dumb show.
Dumb (a.) Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color.
Dumb (v. t.) To put to silence.
Dumb-bell (n.) A weight, consisting of two spheres or spheroids, connected by a short bar for a handle; used (often in pairs) for gymnastic exercise.
Dumbledor (n.) A bumblebee; also, a cockchafer.
Dumbly (adv.) In silence; mutely.
Dumbness (n.) The quality or state of being dumb; muteness; silence; inability to speak.
Dumb-waiter (n.) 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.
Dumetose (a.) Dumose.
Dumfounded (imp. & p. p.) of Dumfound
Dumfounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dumfound
Dumfound (v. t.) To strike dumb; to confuse with astonishment.
Dumfounder (v. t.) To dumfound; to confound.
Dummador (n.) A dumbledor.
Dummerer (n.) One who feigns dumbness.
Dummy (a.) Silent; mute; noiseless; as a dummy engine.
Dummy (a.) Fictitious or sham; feigned; as, a dummy watch.
Dummies (pl. ) of Dummy
Dummy (n.) One who is dumb.
Dummy (n.) A sham package in a shop, or one which does not contain what its exterior indicates.
Dummy (n.) 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.
Dummy (n.) One who plays a merely nominal part in any action; a sham character.
Dummy (n.) A thick-witted person; a dolt.
Dummy (n.) A locomotive with condensing engines, and, hence, without the noise of escaping steam; also, a dummy car.
Dummy (n.) The fourth or exposed hand when three persons play at a four-handed game of cards.
Dummy (n.) A floating barge connected with a pier.
Dumose (a.) Alt. of Dumous
Dumous (a.) Abounding with bushes and briers.
Dumous (a.) Having a compact, bushy form.
Dump (n.) A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.
Dump (v. t.) A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.
Dump (v. t.) Absence of mind; revery.
Dump (v. t.) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
Dump (v. t.) An old kind of dance.
Dumped (imp. & p. p.) of Dump
Dumping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dump
Dump (v. t.) To knock heavily; to stump.
Dump (v. t.) 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.
Dump (n.) A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
Dump (n.) A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
Dump (n.) That which is dumped.
Dump (n.) A pile of ore or rock.
Dumpage (n.) The act of dumping loads from carts, especially loads of refuse matter; also, a heap of dumped matter.
Dumpage (n.) A fee paid for the privilege of dumping loads.
Dumpiness (n.) The state of being dumpy.
Dumpish (a.) Dull; stupid; sad; moping; melancholy.
Dumple (v. t.) To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another.
Dumpling (n.) 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 (superl.) Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout.
Dumpy (superl.) Sullen or discontented.
Dun (n.) A mound or small hill.
Dun (v. t.) 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.
Dunned (imp. & p. p.) of Dun
Dunning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dun
Dun (v. t. & i.) To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately.
Dun (n.) One who duns; a dunner.
Dun (n.) An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.
Dun (a.) Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
Dunbird (n.) The pochard; -- called also dunair, and dunker, or dun-curre.
Dunbird (n.) An American duck; the ruddy duck.
Dunce (n.) One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.
Duncedom (n.) The realm or domain of dunces.
Duncery (n.) Dullness; stupidity.
Duncical (a.) Like a dunce; duncish.
Duncify (v. t.) To make stupid in intellect.
Duncish (a.) Somewhat like a dunce.
Dunder (n.) The lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum.
Dunderhead (n.) A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead.
Dunder-headed (a.) Thick-headed; stupid.
Dunderpate (n.) See Dunderhead.
Dune (n.) A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds.
Dunfish (n.) Codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality.
Dung (n.) The excrement of an animal.
Dunged (imp. & p. p.) of Dung
Dunging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dung
Dung (v. t.) To manure with dung.