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Show DU DU With pins'of ddamant And chains, they made all faft ; too faft they made And durable Milton's Paradife Loft The gloties of her majefty's reign ought to b {ccox'dc in word mor durabl tha brafs an fuch as our ‘pofterity may read a thoufand year hence Swift 2. Having fucceflive exiftence paft, and future Milton Du'raBreness. #n. [ [from durable. Power of lafting ; continuance The difierent confiftence and durablenefs of th {trata whereof they confift, are mor A ba or lefs Woodward poet, if he cannot become immortal b the goodnefs of his verfe, ma of the metal that fupports it by the durablencf Addifon on Ancient Medals Du'raBLy. adv lafting manner [from durable. In There indeed he found his fame flourithing, hi monuments engraved in marble, and yet more durably in men's memories Sidney Du'rance [fro durefe la French. i. Imprifonment ; the cuftody or powe of a jailor ; a prifon Thy Dol, and Helen of thy noble thoughts Is in bafe durance and contagious prifon Haul'd thither by mechanick dirty hands Shakefpeare A poor, innocent, forlorn firanger, languithin in durance, upon the falfe accufations of a lying infolent, whorifh woman South There s neither iron bar nor gate Portcullis, chain, nor bolt, nor grate And yet men durance there abide n dungeons fcarce three inches wide Hudib Notwithftanding the warning and example befor me, I commit myfelf to lafting durance Csngreve's 0ld Bachelor 2 Endurance continuance A doubtful word duration Sick nature at that inftant trembled round And mother earth figh'd as fhe felt the wound Of how fhort durance was this new made ftate How far more might hate than heav'n's love, hell' Dryden Duwra'rioxn. n /. [duratio, Latin. 1. A fort of diftance or length, the ide whereof we get, not from the permanen parts of {pace, but from the fleeting an perpetually perifhing parts of fucceflion Locke 2. Power of continuance Duyration is a circumftance fo effential to happi nefs, that if we conceived it poflible for the joys o heaven itfelf to pafs from us in an inftant, w fhould find ourfelves not much concerned for th attainment of them Rogers 3. Length of continuance Ariftotle, by greatnefs of action, does not onl mean it fhould be great in its nature, but alfo i its duration j that it fhould have a due length in it Addifor's Spectator To DURE_. v, . [duro, Latin. to continue; to endure To laft The delights and pleafures of the world are mof pleafing while they dure Raleigh's Hiftory Dv'rREFUL. adj. [from endure and Sull. Lafting; of long continuance; durable Not in ufe The dureful oak whofe fap is not yet dried Is'long ere itconceive the kindling fire But when it once doth burn Not in ufe Yet were that aptitude natural, more inclinabl to follow and embrace the falfe and durelefs plea« fures of this ftage-play world, than to become th Ralcz'gb's. Hiftory fhadow of God DU'RESSE. n. /. [French; hardfhip, fe verity. Time, though in eternity, applie To motion, meafures all things durabl By prefent ad ry Du'skis Without dure. fro Du'rRELESS. adj t o r f t f a t n d f n u conti it doth divid Great heat, 2nd makes his flames to heav'n afpire Spenfer 1 Imprifonment confine conftraint ment, z. [In law.] A plea ufed, by way of ex ception, by him who, being ca{t int prifon at a man's fuit, or otherwife b The fawduft burned fair, till part of con umed: the duft gath'efingpabout tl;;ic?n :‘{ made the fnaft to burn dufifply Bacon's Natuya] H Du'sky. adj. [from duft ; duyfter, Dutflcgy] 1. Tending to darknefs; obfcyre : n; luminous ‘ Herc lies the du/ky torch of Mortimer Chok'd with ambition of the meaner for Sha There fierce winds o'er dufly valleys blow Whofe every puff bears empty fhades a‘jvay. b Through the plains of one continual da Six fhining months purfue their even way And fix fucceeding urge their dufky flight Obfcur'd with vapours and o'erwhelm'd in night threats, beating, &c. hardly ufed, feal any bond to him during his reftraint rior This the law kolds as invalid, and fup- 2. Tending to blacknefs ; dark-coloureg.,. Coavell not clear; not bright pofes to be conftrained They did plo Du'ring. prep. [This word is rather participle from dure ; as, during life, durant wita life continuing m durin pleafure, my pleafure continuing th fame.] For the time of the continuanc of; while any thing lafts If during his childhood he be conftantly and rigoroufly kept from drinking cold liquor whilft h Locke is hot, forbearance grows into a habit durus Dvu'riTy. n. f. [dureté, French Latin.] Hardnefs; firmnefs Ancients did burn fragments of matble whic Irradiancy or fparkling, found in many gems is not difcoverable in this; for it cometh fhort o their compaénefs and duriry Brown's Vulgar Errours The preterite of dare 1. Tendency to darknefs ; incipient obfcurity I will wait on you in the dufk of the evening Spectator 2. Darknefs of colour; tendency to blacknefs ~T make dutkifh Dia ZoDusk. w.z To grow dark ; to begi to lofe light or brightnefs ; to have luftr Dig 1. Inclining to darknefs ; tending to obfcurity From his infernal furnace forth he thre Enroll'd in dujkifb fmoke Woedward By mixing fuch powders, we are not to expett an full white fuch as is that of paper but {ome dujky obfcure one, fuch as might arif from a mixture of light and darknefs, or fro white and black; that is, a grey; or dun, or ruffe brown Newton's Opticks 3. Gloomy ; fad ; intelletually clonded While He continues in life, this dufty fcene o horrour, this melancholy profpeét of final perdi tion, will frequently occur to his fancy Bentley's Sermans #. / [oujve, Saxon; duuf, Erfe The duf Should have afcended to the roof of heav'n Rais'd by your populous troops Shakefpeare's Antony and Clegpatra Duft helpeth the fruitfulnefs of trees, infomuc as they caft duff upon ‘them: that powdering whe a fthower cometh, maketh a foiling ta th tree, being carth and water finely laid on Bacor's Natural Hifforye 2. The grave ; the flate of diffolution The: fceptre, learning, phyfick, muf Some fprinkled freckles on his face were feen Whofe dufk fet off the whitenefs of the fkin Dryden Huge flames, that dimme Dryden 1. Earth or other matter reduced te {mal particles Dusk. ». /. [from the adjeétive. Du'skiLy. adv. [from dufty.] Wit . tendency to darknefs or blacknefs Du'skisH. adj. [from duj. The furface is of a dufky yellow colour DUST The hills, to their fupply Vapour and exhalation, dz/& and moift Sent up amain Milton's Paradife Lof diminifhed As ever fullied the fair face of light, Down to the central earth, his proper fcene Repairs to fearch the gloomy cave of fpleen. Pope DUSK. adj. [duy/fter, Dutch. See Duskvy 1. Tending to darknefs 2. Tending to blacknefs ; dark-coloured 7o Dusk. @. a. [from the noun. And thefaint crefcent fhoots by fits beforetheireyes Umbriel, a dufky, melancholy fprite The Chriftians durft have no images of the Deity, becaufe they would rather die than defile themStilling fleet felves with fuch an impiety with my fhow upon my back When Jove in dujky clouds involves the {k}::? ftron in time became marble again, at leaft of indiffoluble durity, as appeareth in the ftanding theatres Wotton's Architeftare DursT The means that dufty Dis my daughter got Shakefpe It is not green, but of a dufty brown colo{j;‘m all the heaven's light and brimftone blue Spenfer All follow thisy and come to duff Shakefpeare's Cymbelint Tho Out of the ground watt taken, know thy birth; For duft thou art, and fhalt to duf return. Milt 3. A mean and dejeéted flate God raifeth up the poor out of the dufl, to fe 1 Sam, iis 8 them among princes 7% Dust. @. a. [from the noun. 1. To free from duft 2. To {prinkle with duft Du'stMaN. n [ [dufp and man.] On whofe employment is to carry away th duft The duftman's cart offends thy clothes and eyes When through the ftreet a cloud of afhes flies Gay Du'sTY. adj. [from duft.] - z. Tending to blacknefs ; dark-coloured. ' 1. Filled with duft; ‘cloudedfthh duft Sight is not contented with fudden department from one extreme to another; therefore rather a dufkifb tin€ture than an abfolute black Hotow's Architecture All our yefterdays have lighted fool The way to dufly death Sfiakej}mr! Arms and the dufty fieldsT lefs admire de Dr re def ne fo i el an fi te fo An z. Covere |