Dictionary: DUN'NED – DU'PLI-CATE

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DUN'NED, pp. [from dun.]

Importuned to pay a debt; urged.

DUN'NER, n. [from dun.]

One employed in soliciting the payment of debts. – Spectator.

DUN'NING, ppr. [from dun.]

Urging for payment of a debt, or for the grant of some favor, or for the obtaining any request; importuning.

DUN'NING, ppr. [or n. from dun, a color.]

The operation of curing codfish, in such a manner as to give it a particular color and quality. Fish for dunning are caught early in spring and often in February. At the Isles of Shoals, off Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, the cod are taken in deep water, split and slack-salted; then laid in a pile for two or three months, in a dark store, covered, for the greatest part of the time, with salt hay or eel-grass, and pressed with some weight. In April or May, they are opened and piled again as close as possible in the same dark store, till July or August, when they are fit for use. – J. Haven.

DUN'NISH, a.

Inclined to a dun color; somewhat dun. – Ray.

DUN'NY, a.

Deaf; dull of apprehension. [Local.] – Grose.

DU'O, n. [L. two.]

A song in two parts.

DU-O-DEC-A-HE'DRAL, or DU-O-DEC-A-HE'DRON, a. [or n. See DODECAHEDRAL, DODECAHEDRON.]

DU-O-DEC'IM-FID, a. [L. duodecim, twelve, and findo, to cleave.]

Divided into twelve parts.

DU-O-DEC'I-MO, a. [L. duodecim, twelve.]

Having or consisting of twelve leaves to a sheet; as, a book of duodecimo form or size.

DU-O-DEC'I-MO, n.

A book in which a sheet is folded into twelve leaves.

DU-O-DEC'U-PLE, a. [L. duo, two, and decuplus tenfold.]

Consisting of twelves. – Arbuthnot.

DU-O-DE'NUM, n. [L.]

The first of the small intestines; the twelve inch intestine.

DU-O-LIT'E-RAL, a. [L. duo, two, and litera, a letter.]

Consisting of two letters only; biliteral. – Stuart.

DUP, v.t.

To open. [Not in use.]

DUPE, n. [Fr. dupe. See the Verb.]

A person who is deceived; or one easily led astray by his credulity; as, the dupe of a party.

DUPE, v.t. [Fr. duper; Sw. tubba. Qu. Sp. and Port. estafar.]

To deceive; to trick; to mislead by imposing on one's credulity; as, to be duped by flattery.

DUPE'A-BLE, a.

That can be duped.

DUP'ED, pp.

Deceived; tricked.

DUPE'RY, n.

The act or practice of duping.

DUP'ING, ppr.

Tricking; cheating.

DU'PI-ON, n.

A double cocoon, formed by two or more silk-worms. – Encyc.

DU'PLE, a. [L. duplus.]

Double. Duple ratio is that of 2 to 1, 8 to 4, &c. Sub-duple ratio is the reverse, or as 1 to 2, 4 to 8, &c.

DU'PLI-CATE, a. [L. duplicatus, from duplico, to double, from duplex, double, twofold; duo, two, and plico, to fold. See Double.]

Double; twofold. Duplicate proportion or ratio, is the proportion or ratio of squares. Thus in geometrical proportion, the first term to the third is said to be in a duplicate ratio of the first to the second, or as its square is to the square of the second. Thus in 2, 4, 8, 16, the ratio of 2 to 8 is a duplicate of that of 2 to 4, or as the square of 2 is to the square of 4.

DU'PLI-CATE, n.

  1. Another corresponding to the first; or a second thing of the same kind.
  2. A copy; a transcript. Thus a second letter or bill of exchange exactly like the first is called a duplicate.