<B>dusty, </B>adjective, <B>dustier,</B> <B>dustiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>covered with dust; filled with dust. <BR> <I>Ex. He found some dusty old books in the attic.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>like dust; dry and powdery. <BR> <I>Ex. dusty chalk.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>having the color of dust; grayish. <BR> <I>Ex. a dusty brown.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>of or having to do with dust. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death (Shakespeare).</I> </DL>
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<B>dusty answer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a cold, unfeeling, or empty reaction or response. <BR> <I>Ex. He recalled many western attempts to get a genuine settlement but everyone ... had been given a dusty answer (London Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>dusty miller,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of various plants covered with white, woolly hairs, such as the rose campion. <DD><B> 2. </B>a variety of artificial fishing fly, especially a brightly colored streamer fly used for salmon. </DL>
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<B>dusty wing,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small, neuropteran insect whose wings are powdered with whitish scales. It is a natural enemy of citrus mites and scales. </DL>
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<B>Dusun, </B>noun, pl. <B>-sun</B> or <B>-suns.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a member of a tribe of Dyaks which makes up the largest part of the population of Sabah, in Malaysia. </DL>
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<B>Dutch, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of the Netherlands, its people, or their language. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Slang.) German; Teutonic. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>(pl. in use.) the people of the Netherlands. <DD><B> 2. </B>the Germanic language of the Netherlands. <DD><B> 3. </B>(pl. in use.) the people of Germany. The ancestors of the Pennsylvania Dutch came from Germany, not the Netherlands. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Slang.) the German language. <BR><I>expr. <B>beat the Dutch,</B> </I>(Informal.) to be very strange or surprising; outdo anything seen or heard of before. <BR> <I>Ex. "Well, you women do beat the Dutch," said her brother (Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>get one's Dutch up,</B> </I>to make or become angry. <BR> <I>Ex. Walker had warned his lawyer not to get "Frank's Dutch up," but Curtin did so when he patronized Roosevelt about his knowledge of the law (Atlantic). Some people get their Dutch up, others are as meek as Moses (Time).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>go Dutch,</B> </I>(Informal.) to have each person pay for himself. <BR> <I>Ex. Since neither one of us could afford to take the other to the movies we went Dutch. She certainly cannot, for example, ask a boy she likes for a date, nor can she pay the expenses when she goes out with him (although she may sometimes "go Dutch") (Harper's).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>in Dutch,</B> </I>(Slang.) in disgrace; in trouble. <BR> <I>Ex. He not only had missed the take-off but was in Dutch with his superior officers (New Yorker). He wished that he was back at St. Patrick's, instead of being in high school and in Dutch for bumming (James T. Farrell).</I> </DL>
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<B>Dutch auction,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a public sale in which articles are reduced in price until sold. </DL>
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<B>Dutch barn,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a shelter for farm produce that resembles a barn but has open sides. Dutch barns are common in England. </DL>
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<B>Dutch Belted,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a breed of dairy cattle, originally of the Netherlands, black with a broad white belt. </DL>
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<B>Dutch cap,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a woman's cap, pointed at the top, and flaring at the sides in two triangular pieces. </DL>
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<B>Dutch cheese,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small, round, firm cheese made from skim milk. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=cottage cheese.</B> </DL>
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<B>Dutch colonial,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> of or in an American colonial style typified by brick or stone houses with sloping roofs, small windows, and wooden shutters. <BR> <I>Ex. Dutch colonial houses in the middle colonies showed the influence of Dutch, German, Swedish, and English architectural styles (E. D. Stone).</I> </DL>
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<B>Dutch courage,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) courage brought on by drinking alcoholic liquor. </DL>
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<B>Dutch door,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a door divided in two horizontally, so that the top half may be open while the other is closed. </DL>
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<B>Dutch elm disease,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a disease of elm trees in which the leaves turn yellow and fall off and the tree dies, caused by a fungus carried by a beetle; elm blight. </DL>
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<B>Dutcher, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=Dutchman </B>(def. 2). <DD><B> 2. </B>one of the Pennsylvania Dutch. </DL>
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<B>Dutch foil,</B> <B>leaf,</B> <B>gold,</B> or <B>metal,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an alloy of copper and zinc in the form of thin sheets, used as a cheap imitation of gold leaf. </DL>
<A NAME="dutchhoe">
<B>Dutch hoe,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a hoe which is pushed instead of pulled. </DL>
<A NAME="dutchman">
<B>Dutchman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person born or living in the Netherlands; Hollander; Netherlander. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Slang.) a German; Teuton. <DD><B> 3. </B>a Dutch ship. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Carpentry.) a piece driven into an opening to close it, especially in a badly made joint. </DL>
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<B>Dutchman's-breeches, </B>noun sing. and pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a creamy-white, fragrant spring wild flower with two slender projections shaped somewhat like breeches. <DD><B> 2. </B>the plant that bears it, belonging to the same family as the bleeding heart, the fumitory family. </DL>
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<B>Dutchman's-pipe, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a climbing vine of the birthwort family with large leaves, and curved flowers resembling the bowl of a tobacco pipe. </DL>
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<B>Dutch oven,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a heavy iron kettle with a close-fitting cover. Some Dutch ovens are covered with hot coals and used for baking. <DD><B> 2. </B>a metal box that opens in front, used especially for roasting meat before an open fire or on top of a stove. <DD><B> 3. </B>a brick oven in which the walls are first heated, and food is put in to cook after the fire goes out or is removed. </DL>
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<B>Dutch pink,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a yellow lake pigment prepared from the bark of the black oak. </DL>
<A NAME="dutchtreat">
<B>Dutch treat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a meal or entertainment at which each person pays for himself. </DL>
<A NAME="dutchuncle">
<B>Dutch uncle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a person who sternly criticizes or scolds another. <BR> <I>Ex. Koussevitzky spent three hours one evening telling him, Dutch-uncle fashion, what a shocking waste of talent it had been for him to fritter away six months on a Broadway musical (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>Dutch wife,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an open frame of rattan or cane to support the limbs while in bed. </DL>
<B>dutiable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> on which a duty or tax must be paid. <BR> <I>Ex. Perfumes imported into the United States are dutiable goods.</I> </DL>
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<B>dutiful, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>doing one's duty; obedient. <BR> <I>Ex. She is a dutiful daughter to her parents, always helping around the house.</I> (SYN) submissive. <DD><B> 2. </B>required by duty; proceeding from or expressing a sense of duty. <BR> <I>Ex. dutiful words. The Princess gave her mother her dutiful regards (Lytton Strachey).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) relating to duty or obligation. adv. <B>dutifully.</B> noun <B>dutifulness.</B> </DL>
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<B>duty, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a thing that is right to do; what a person ought to do; obligation. <BR> <I>Ex. It is your duty to obey the laws. You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it (Emerson).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the compelling or binding force of what is right. <BR> <I>Ex. A sense of duty makes a person do what he thinks is right even when he does not want to do it. He gives only the worthless gold Who gives from a sense of duty (James Russell Lowell).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the thing that a person has to do in doing his work; function; business; office. <BR> <I>Ex. the duties of a bookkeeper. A policeman's duties include enforcing the laws and arresting people who break them. The mailman's duties were to sort and deliver the mail.</I> (SYN) responsibility. <DD><B> 4a. </B>the proper behavior owed to an older or superior person; obedience and respect. <BR> <I>Ex. Such duty as the subject owes the prince (Shakespeare).</I> (SYN) deference, homage, reverence, submission. <DD><B> b. </B>an act of respect, or an expression of respectful consideration. <BR> <I>Ex. our duty to your Honour (Shakespeare).</I> (SYN) deference, homage, reverence, submission. <DD><B> 5. </B>a payment due and enforced by law or custom, especially: <DD><B> a. </B>a tax on taking articles out of, or bringing them into, a country, or on the sale of certain articles or commodities; customs charge; excise. <DD><B> b. </B>a tax on the performance of certain transactions or the execution of various deeds and documents. <DD><B> 6. </B>a measure of the effectiveness of an engine; the amount of work done by an engine per unit amount of fuel consumed; utility. <DD><B> 7. </B>the amount of irrigation water required for a particular crop in a given area. <BR><I>expr. <B>do duty for,</B> </I>to serve in place of; act as substitute for. <BR> <I>Ex. The children marched with broomsticks doing duty for guns.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>off duty,</B> </I>not at one's work or occupation. <BR> <I>Ex. When off duty ... Captain Dick often came to console his friends (Thackeray).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>on duty,</B> </I>at one's work or occupation. <BR> <I>Ex. The night watchman is on duty from 8 P.M. to 6 A.M.</I> </DL>
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<B>duty-bound, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> bound or obliged by one's sense of duty. <BR> <I>Ex. He was duty-bound to confess his part in the prank.</I> </DL>
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<B>duty-free, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> free from payment of duty; exempt from duty. <BR> <I>Ex. These imports are mainly raw materials that are duty-free (Time).</I> </DL>
