Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DULL'ING – DUN
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DULL'ING, ppr.
Making dull.
DULL'NESS, n.
- Stupidity; slowness of comprehension; weakness of intellect; indocility; as, the dullness of a student. – South.
- Want of quick perception or eager desire.
- Heaviness; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.
- Heaviness; disinclination to motion.
- Sluggishness; slowness.
- Dimness; want of clearness or luster.
- Bluntness; want of edge.
- Want of brightness or vividness; as, dullness of color.
DULL'-SIGHT-ED, a.
Having imperfect sight; purblind.
DULL'-WIT-TED, a.
Having a dull intellect; heavy.
DUL'LY, adv.
Stupidly; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit.
DU-LOC'RA-CY, n. [Gr. δουλος and κρατεω.]
Predominance of slaves.
DU'LY, adv. [from due.]
- Properly; fitly; in a suitable or becoming manner; as, let the subject be duly considered.
- Regularly; at the proper time; as, a man duly attended church with his family.
DUMB, a. [dum; Sax. dumb; Goth. dumbs, dumba; G. dumm; D. dom; Sw. dumm, or dumbe; Dan. dum; Heb. Ch. דום, to be silent; Ar. دَامَ dauma, to continue or be permanent, to appease, to quiet. Class Dm, No. 3. In this word, b improperly added.]
- Mute; silent; not speaking. I was dumb with silence; I held my peace. – Ps. xxxix.
- Destitute of the power of speech; unable to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes. The asylum, at Hartford, in Connecticut, was the first institution in America for teaching the deaf and dumb to read and write.
- Mute; not using or accompanied with speech; as, a dumb show; dumb signs. To strike dumb, is to confound; to astonish; to render silent by astonishment; or it may be, to deprive of the power of speech.
DUMB, v.t.
To silence. – Shak.
DUMB'-BELLS, n.
Weights swung in the hands for exercise.
DUMB'LY, adv. [dum'ly.]
Mutely; silently; without words or speech.
DUMB'NESS, n. [dum'ness.]
- Muteness; silence or holding the peace; omission of speech. This is voluntary dumbness.
- Incapacity to speak; inability to articulate sounds. This is involuntary dumbness.
DUM'FOUND, v.t.
To strike dumb; to confuse. [A low word.] – Spectator.
DUM'MER-ER, n.
One who feigns dumbness. [Not in use.]
DU'MOUS, a. [L. dumosus, from dumus, a bush.]
Abounding with bushes and briers.
DUMP, n. [from the root of dumb; D. dom; G. dumm.]
- A dull gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; sorrow; heaviness of heart. In doleful dumps. – Gay.
- Absence of mind; revery. – Locke.
- A melancholy tune or air. – Shak. [This is not an elegant word, and in America, I believe, is always used in the plural; as, the woman is in the dumps.]
DUMP, v.t.
To throw or drop, as a load from a cart. – New York. Dutch.
DUMP'ISH, a.
Dull; stupid; sad; melancholy; depressed in spirits; as, he lives a dumpish life.
DUMP'ISH-LY, adv.
In a moping manner.
DUMP'ISH-NESS, n.
A state of being dull, heavy and moping.
DUMP'LING, n. [from dump.]
A kind of pudding or mass of paste in cookery; usually, a cover of paste inclosing an apple and boiled, called apple-dumpling.
DUMPS, n. [plur.]
Melancholy; gloom.
DUMP'Y, a.
Short and thick.
DUN, a. [Sax. dunn; W. dwn; Ir. donn; qu. tan, tawny. See Class Dn No. 3, 24, 28, 35.]
- Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
- Dark; gloomy. In the dun air sublime. – Milton.
DUN, n.
- An importunate creditor who urges for payment. – Philips. Arbuthnot.
- An urgent request or demand of payment in writing; as, he sent his debtor a dun.
- An eminence or mound. [See Down and Town.]