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Show DU Pun adj. [bun, Saxon. 1. A colour partaking of brown and black We are not to expeét a ftrong and full white fuch as is that of paper ; but fome dufky obfcur one, fuch as'might arife from a mixture of ligh and darknefs, or from white and black, that is, grey, or dus, or ruflet brown Newton's Opticks z. Dark; gloomy Come, thick night And pall thee in the dunnft {moke of hell He then furvey' Shak Hell and the gulph between, and Satan ther Coafting the wall of heaven on this fide Milton's Paradife Lofi In the dun air fublime g% DUN @. a Saxon [bunan to cl mour.] To claim a debt with vehemence and importunity Borrow of thy back, and borrow of thy belly they'll never aflc thee again I fhall be dumnin thee every day Bacon Wheu thou duns'f? their parents, feldom they Withouta fuit before thetribune, pay. Dryd. Fuv I remember what fhe won And hath fhe fent fo foon to dun Savift Dun. n. /. [fromthe verb.] A clamorous importunate, troublefome creditor. Thus, while my joylefs minutes tedious flow With looks demure, and filent pace, a durn Herrible monfter ! hated by gods and men, To my aerial citadel afcends Philips It grieves my heart to be pulled by the fleeve b fome rafcally dun-~&ir, remember my bill Arbuthnot's Fobn Bull Dunce # J [ wor of uncertai etymology ; perhaps from dum, Dutch ftupid. A dullard; a dolt; a thick {cull; a ftupid, indocile animal Ifibi‘ ‘Dunce at the beft, in frreets but {€arce allow' To tickle, on thy ftraw, the ftupid crowd Dryden Was Epiphanius fo great a dunce to imdgine thing, indifferent in itfelf, thould be dire¢tly oppoStilling fleet fite to the law of God I never knew this town without dunces of figuve who had credit enough to give rife to fome ne word. Savift DUNG. 7./. [bineg, Saxon.] The excrement of animals ufed to fatten ground For dung, all excrements are the refufe and-pu trefations of nourithment Bacon's Nat. Hiftory I judge the likelieft way to be the perforat.on o the body of the tree in {everal places; oneabove th other; and ‘the filling of the holes with dung mingled with the medicine; and the watering o thofe Jumps of dung with fquirts of an infufion o the medicine in dunged water, once in three o four days Bacor's Natural Hiftory For when from herbs the pure part muft be won "From grofs by 'ftilling, this is better don By defpis'd dung than by the fire or fun, Donne He foon would learn to think like me And blefs his ravifh'd eyes to fe Such order from confufion fprung Such gaudy tulips rais'd from dung Sawift We knownot thatthe king of heav'n hath desom' This place our dungeon; not our fafe retrea Milton's Paradife Loft Beyond his potent arm New from the nort Of Norumbeque, and the Samoed fhore Burfting their brazen dungeon, arm'd with ice And fnow, and hail, come ftormy guft and flaw Milton By imagination, a man in a dungeonis capable o entertainin himfel fcene wit an landfcapes more beautiful than any that can be found in th Addifon whale compafs of nature [dung and fork. n, Du'ngrork fork to tofs out dung from ftables Dung forks and paddles are common every where Mortimer Du'~NcHIL. n. /i [dung and hill. 1. An heap or accumulation of dung Two cocks fought a duel for the maftery of L'Efirange dunghil Never enter into a league of friendfhip with a ingrateful perfon ; that is, plant not thy friendfhi upon a dunghil ; it is too noble a plant for fo baf a foil South The dunghil having raifed a huge muthroom o thort duration, is now fpread to enrich other men' land Savift 2. Any mean or vile abode Perhaps a thoufand other worlds, that li fro us, and latent in the fky Avre lighten'd by his beams, and kindly nurft Of which our earthly dunghil is the worft Dryd 3. Any fituation of meannefs The poor he raifeth from the duft Ev'n from the dunghil lifts the juft Sandys 4. A term of reproach for a man meanl born Out, dunghil Dvu'ncHrIL dar'ft thou brave a nobleman Shakefpeare adj hil ; -mean Sprung from the dung low bafe; vile; worth lefs His dunghil thoughts, which do themfelves enur To dirty drofs, no higher dare afpire Spenfer on Lov Du'~Gy. adj. [from dung.] Full of dung mean ; vile; bafe; low; edious ; worthlefs We need no grave to bury honefiy There 's not a grain of it, the face to fweete Shak. Winter's Tale Of the whole dungy earth Du'NGYARD. 2. /. [dung and yard.] Th place of the dunghil Any manner of vegetables caft into the dungard Mortimer em On Dvu'~NER. 2./. [from dun. ployed in foliciting petty debts TPhey are ever talking of new filks, and ferv ZoDunG. @. a. [from the noun. T the owners in getting them cuftomers, as thei manure with dung common dugners do in making them pay Speator It was received of old, that dunging of ground when the weft wind bloweth, and in'the decreafe of | DuvopE'cUPLE fl/{].- [duo and decuj:]zu the moon,-doth greatly help, ~ Bacon's Nat. Hiff ves twe o n ift Con n. Lat ~ There, as his dream foretold, a cart he found Grifepfius, a learned Polander, endeavours t That carried compoft forth to dang the ground eftablith the duodecuple proportion among the Jews Dryden by comparing fome pafiages of feripture together Pu'Ncron . f [from donjon, the towe in which prifoners were kept, whenc all prifons eminently firong were i time called dungeons.] A clofe prifon generally {poke of a prifon dark or {ubterraneous Then up he took the flumbered fenfelefs corfe And, ere he could out of his fwoon awake Him to his caftle brought with hafty force And in a dungeon deep him threw without remorfe Spenfer Arbutbnot on Coins DUPE. n. /. [dupe, French ; from duppe; foolith bird, eafily caught.] A credulou man; a man eafily tricked. A moder - word hardly eftablifhed An ufurping populace is its own dupe, a mer underworker, and a purchafer in truft for fom fingle tyrant Firft flave to words 7» Duee w. a. [from the noun.] T trick ; to cheat The throne a bigot keep, a genius quit Faithlefs through piety, and dup'd through wit Pape Du'erzs. adj. [duplus, Latin.] Double one repeated 7o DUPLICATE. @. a. [duplico, Latin. 1. To double ; to enlarge by the repetition of the firft number or quantity And fome alterations in the brain daplicate tha which is but a fingle obje€t to our undiftempere Glanville fentiments 2. To fold together DuPLICATE. adj. [from the verb. Duplicate proportion is the proportion of fquares I, his brother, gain nothing under him bu growth; for the which his animals on his dungbils are as much bound to him as I Shakefpeare's As you like it Remot D DU Savift then vaffal to a name Then dupe to party j child and man the fame Dunciad Thus, in a rank of geometrical proportions, th firft term to the third is faid to be in a duplicat ratio-of the firft to the fecond, or as its fquare i to the fquare of the fecond foin 2, 4, 8, 16, th ratio of 2 to 8 is a duplicate of that of2 to 4, o as the fquare of 2 to the fquare of 4 Phillips. Harris. Bailey It has been found that the attrattion is almof reciprocally in a duplicate proportion of the diftanc of the middle of the drop from the concourfe of th glaffes, viz. reciprocally in a fimple proportion, b reafon of the fpreading of the dropy and its touching each glafs in a larger furface; and again reciprocally in a fimple proportion, by reafon of th attractions growing ftronger within the fame quanNeavton's Opticks tity of attra@ing furface Dvu'rricaTE. 7. J. Another correfpon- dent to the firft; a fecond thing of th fame kind, as'a tranfcript ofa paper Nothing is more ncedful for perfeting the hatural hiftory of bodies, than the {ubjecting them t the fire ; to which end I have referved duglicates o Woodwward the moft confiderable Durprica'rion. z /. [from duplicare. 1. The a& of doubling What great pains hath been taken concernin the quadrature of a circle, and the duplication of cube and fome other mathematical problems Hale's Origin of Mankind 2. The a& of folding together 3. A fold ; a doubling The peritonzum is a ftrong membrane, ever where double ; in the duplications of which all th Wifeman's Surg vifcera of the abdomen are hid Du'PLICATURE # / [from duplicare. A fold ; any thing doubled .The lympheduéts, either dilacerated or obftruét ed exonerate themfelves into the foldings or be tween the duplicatures of the membranes. Ray on the Creation Durrr'ciTy. 2. /. [duplicis, Latin: 1. Doublenefs ; the number of two This duplicity was ill contrived to place one hea at both extremes, and had been more tolerable t have fet three or four at one. Brown's Pulg. Err. Do not afte€t duplicities nor triplicities, nor an certain number of parts, in your divifion of things Watts's Logick 2. Deceit ; doublenef o o hear o tongue Durasr'LiTY. n. J- [durabilis, Latin. The power of lafting; continuance endurance Stones, though in dignity of nature inferior un to plants, yet-exceed them in firmnefs of frength Hooker or durability of being Our tires upon the earth have neither certaint Raleigh's Hiffory not durability DU'RABLE adj. [durabilis, Latin. 1. Lafting; havin continuance th qualit of lon The bones of his bady we may compare to-th hard rocks and fopes, an durable therefore ftrong an Raleigh's Hiflory Wit |