| dump | 1. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; now used only in the plural. "March slowly on in solemn dump." (Hudibras) "Doleful dumps the mind oppress." (Shak) "I was musing in the midst of my dumps." (Bunyan) The ludicrous associations now attached to this word did not originally belong to it. "Holland's translation of Livy represents the Romans as being in the dumps' after the battle of Cannae." 2. Absence of mind; revery. 3. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. "Tune a deploring dump." "Play me some merry dump." 4. An old kind of dance. Origin: Cf. Dial. Sw. Dumpin melancholy, Dan.dump dull, low, D. Dompig damp, G. Dumpf damp, dull, gloomy, and E. Damp, or rather perh. Dump, v. T. Cf. Damp, or Dump. 1. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc. 2. A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc. 3. That which is dumped. 4. <chemical> A pile of ore or rock. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| dumping syndrome | <syndrome> A group of symptoms that occur when food or liquid enters the small intestine too rapidly. These symptoms include cramps, nausea, diarrhoea, and dizziness. (12 Dec 1998) |
| dumpling | A roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and boiled or baked; as, an apple dumpling. Origin: Dimin. Of dump an illshapen piece; cf. D. Dompelen to plunge, dip, duck, Scot. To dump in to plunge into, and E. Dump, v. T. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dumposome | <cell biology> A protein, possibly even a new organelle, found in the one-celled ciliated protozoan tetrahymena, an organism which contains two nuclei (unlike most other organisms which only contain one) - the macronucleus and the micronucleus. During sexual reproduction, in which two tetrahymena fuse and produce four offspring, this protein destroys the two parental macronuclei (whose genetic material were not used during the sexual reproduction) and removes the genes related to sexual reproduction from all offspring macronuclei. Origin: Gr. Soma = body (09 Oct 1997) |
| dun | To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance. Of a dark colour; of a colour partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown colour; swarthy. "Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up." (Pierpont) "Chill and dun Falls on the moor the brief November day. <zoology> " (Keble) Dun crow, the goosander or merganser. Origin: AS. Dunn. Of Celtic origin; cf. W. Dwn, Ir. & Gael. Donn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dunbird | <zoology> The pochard; called also dunair, and dunker, or dun-curre. An American duck; the ruddy duck. Origin: Named from its colour. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Duncan | Surname of boys afflicted with what is now known as Duncan's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Duncan's disease | An X-linked recessive immunodeficiency and lymphoproliferative disease occurring in boys. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Duncan's folds | The fold's on the peritoneal surface of the uterus immediately after delivery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Duncan's mechanism | Passage of the placenta from the uterus with the rough side foremost. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Duncan's ventricle | A slitlike, fluid-filled space of variable width between the left and right transparent septum, which occurs in less than 10% of human brains and may communicate with the third ventricle. Synonym: cavum septi pellucidi, Duncan's ventricle, fifth ventricle, pseudocele, pseudoventricle, sylvian ventricle, ventricle of Sylvius, ventriculus quintus, Vieussens' ventricle, Wenzel's ventricle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Duncan, James | <person> Scottish gynecologist, 1826-1890. See: Duncan's folds, Duncan's mechanism, Duncan's ventricle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| duncedom | The realm or domain of dunces. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dunfish | Codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dungeon | A close, dark prison, common, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons. "Down with him even into the deep dungeon." (Tyndale) "Year after year he lay patiently in a dungeon." (Macaulay) Origin: OE. Donjoun highest tower of a castle, tower, prison, F. Donjon tower or platform in the midst of a castle, turret, or closet on the top of a house, a keep of a castle, LL. Domnio, the same word as LL. Dominus lord. See Dame, Don, and cf. Dominion, Domain, Demesne, Danger, Donjon. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| DU | sirenian tusked mammal found from eastern Africa to Australia |
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| DU | sirenian tusked mammal found from eastern Africa to Australia |
| DU | a family of mammals of order Sirenia including dugongs and Steller's sea cow |
| DU | a fortification of earth |
| DU | either of two low shelters on either side of a baseball diamond where the players and coaches sit during the game |
| DU | a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log |
| DU | a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log |
| DU | French composer (1865-1935) |
| DU | a British peer of the highest rank |
| DU | a nobleman (in various countries) of high rank |
| DU | United States jazz composer and piano player and bandleader (1899-1974) |
| DU | deciduous erect or spreading shrub with spiny branches and violet-purple flowers followed by orange-red berries |