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- English Word Dryad Definition A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.
- English Word Dryades Definition of Dryas
- English Word Dryandra Definition A genus of shrubs growing in Australia, having beautiful, hard, dry, evergreen leaves.
- English Word Dryas Definition A dryad.
- English Word Dryer Definition See Drier.
- English Word Dryfland Definition An ancient yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets.
- English Word Dryfoot Definition The scent of the game, as far as it can be traced.
- English Word Drying Definition of Dry
- English Word Drying Definition Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room.
- English Word Drying Definition Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry.
- English Word Dryly Definition In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly.
- English Word Dryness Definition The state of being dry. See Dry.
- English Word Drynurse Definition To feed, attend, and bring up without the breast.
- English Word Dryobalanops Definition The genus to which belongs the single species D. Camphora, a lofty resinous tree of Borneo and Sumatra, yielding Borneo camphor and camphor oil.
- English Word Drysalter Definition A dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces, etc., and in the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving various kinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs.
- English Word Drysaltery Definition The articles kept by a drysalter; also, the business of a drysalter.
- English Word Dryth Definition Alt. of Drith
- English Word Duad Definition A union of two; duality.
- English Word Dual Definition Expressing, or consisting of, the number two; belonging to two; as, the dual number of nouns, etc. , in Greek.
- English Word Dualin Definition An explosive substance consisting essentially of sawdust or wood pulp, saturated with nitroglycerin and other similar nitro compounds. It is inferior to dynamite, and is more liable to explosion.
- English Word Dualism Definition State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction
- English Word Dualism Definition A view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit.
- English Word Dualism Definition A system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, one good and the other evil.
- English Word Dualism Definition The doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate.
- English Word Dualism Definition The theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts independently of the other.
- English Word Dualist Definition One who believes in dualism; a ditheist.
- English Word Dualist Definition One who administers two offices.
- English Word Dualistic Definition Consisting of two; pertaining to dualism or duality.
- English Word Duality Definition The quality or condition of being two or twofold; dual character or usage.
- English Word Duan Definition A division of a poem corresponding to a canto; a poem or song.