Dictionary: DUL'BRAIN-ED – DULL'-HEAD

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DUL'BRAIN-ED, a. [dull and brain.]

Stupid; doltish; of dull intellects. [See Dull-brained.] – Shak.

DUL'CET, a. [L. dulcis, sweet.]

  1. Sweet to the taste; luscious. She tempers dulcet creams. – Milton.
  2. Sweet to the ear; melodious; harmonious; as, dulcet sounds; dulcet symphonies. Milton.

DUL-CI-FI-CA'TION, n. [See Dulcify.]

The act of sweetening; the act of freeing from acidity, saltness, or acrimony. – Boyle.

DUL'CI-FI-ED, pp.

Sweetened; purified from salts. Dulcified spirit, a term formerly applied to the different ethers; as, dulcified spirit of niter and vitriol, hyponitrous and sulphuric ethers.

DUL-CIF'LU-OUS, a. [L. dulcis and fluo.]

Flowing sweetly.

DUL'CI-FY, v.t. [Fr. dulcifier, from L. dulcis, sweet, and facio, to make.]

To sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness, or acrimony. – Wiseman.

DUL'CI-FY-ING, ppr.

Sweetening; purifying from acidity.

DUL'CI-MER, n. [It. dolcimello, from dolce, sweet. Skinner.]

An instrument of music played by striking brass wires with little sticks. – Daniel iii. 5. Johnson.

DUL'CI-NESS, n. [L. dulcis.]

Softness; easiness of temper. [Not used.] – Bacon.

DUL'CI-TUDE, n. [L. dulcitudo.]

Sweetness.

DUL'CO-RATE, v.t. [L. dulcis, sweet; Low L. dulco, to sweeten.]

  1. To sweeten. – Bacon.
  2. To make less acrimonious. – Johnson. Wiseman.

DUL-CO-RA'TION, n.

The act of sweetening. – Bacon.

DU'LI-A, n. [Gr. δουλεια, service.]

An inferior kind of worship or adoration. [Not an English word.] – Stillingfleet.

DULL, a. [W. dol, dwl; Sax. dol, a wandering; also dull, foolish, stupid; D. dol, mad; G. toll, and tölpel, a dolt; Sax. dwolian, to wander, to rave. Qu. Dan. dvæler, to loiter; Sw. dvälias, id., or dvala, a trance.]

  1. Stupid; doltish; blockish; slow of understanding; as, a lad of dull genius.
  2. Heavy; sluggish; without life or spirit; as, a surfeit leaves a man very dull.
  3. Slow of motion; sluggish; as, a dull stream.
  4. Slow of hearing or seeing; as, dull of hearing; dull of seeing.
  5. Slow to learn or comprehend; unready; awkward; as, a dull scholar.
  6. Sleepy; drowsy.
  7. Sad; melancholy.
  8. Gross; cloggy; insensible; as, the dull earth.
  9. Not pleasing or delightful; not exhilarating; cheerless; as, to make dictionaries is dull work. – Johnson.
  10. Not bright or clear; clouded; tarnished; as, the mirror is dull.
  11. Not bright; not briskly burning; as, a dull fire.
  12. Dim; obscure; not vivid; as, a dull light.
  13. Blunt; obtuse; having a thick edge; as, a dull knife or ax.
  14. Cloudy; overcast; not clear; not enlivening; as, dull weather.
  15. With seamen, being without wind; as, a ship has a dull time.
  16. Not lively or animated; as, a dull eye.

DULL, v.i.

To become dull or blunt; to become stupid.

DULL, v.t.

  1. To make dull; to stupefy; as, to dull the senses. – Shak.
  2. To blunt; as, to dull a sword or an ax.
  3. To make sad or melancholy.
  4. To hebetate; to make insensible or slow to perceive; as, to dull the ears; to dull the wits. – Spenser. Ascham.
  5. To damp; to render lifeless; as, to dull the attention. – Hooker.
  6. To make heavy or slow of motion; as, to dull industry. – Bacon.
  7. To sully; to tarnish or cloud; as, the breath dulls a mirror.

DULL'ARD, a.

Doltish; stupid. – Hall.

DULL'ARD, n.

A stupid person; a dolt; a blockhead; a dunce. – Shak.

DULL'-BRAIN-ED, a.

Stupid; of dull intellect.

DULL'-BROW-ED, a.

Having a gloomy look. – Quarles.

DULL'-DIS-POS-ED, a.

Inclined to dullness or sadness. – B. Jonson.

DULL'ED, pp.

Made dull; blunted.

DULL'ER, n.

That which makes dull.

DULL'-EY-ED, a.

Having a downcast look. – Shak.

DULL'-HEAD, n.

A person of dull understanding; a dolt; a blockhead.