DPage 353
- English Word Dural Definition Pertaining to the dura, or dura mater.
- English Word Duramen Definition The heartwood of an exogenous tree.
- English Word Durance Definition Continuance; duration. See Endurance.
- English Word Durance Definition Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak.
- English Word Durance Definition A stout cloth stuff, formerly made in imitation of buff leather and used for garments; a sort of tammy or everlasting.
- English Word Durance Definition In modern manufacture, a worsted of one color used for window blinds and similar purposes.
- English Word Durancy Definition Duration.
- English Word Durant Definition See Durance, 3.
- English Word Durante Definition During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure.
- English Word Duration Definition The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists.
- English Word Durative Definition Continuing; not completed; implying duration.
- English Word Durbar Definition An audience hall; the court of a native prince; a state levee; a formal reception of native princes, given by the governor general of India.
- English Word Dure Definition Hard; harsh; severe; rough; toilsome.
- English Word Dure Definition To last; to continue; to endure.
- English Word Dureful Definition Lasting.
- English Word Dureless Definition Not lasting.
- English Word Durene Definition A colorless, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C6H2(CH3)4, off artificial production, with an odor like camphor.
- English Word Duress Definition Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.
- English Word Duress Definition The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense.
- English Word Duress Definition To subject to duress.
- English Word Duressor Definition One who subjects another to duress
- English Word Durga Definition Same as Doorga.
- English Word Durham Definition One or a breed of short-horned cattle, originating in the county of Durham, England. The Durham cattle are noted for their beef-producing quality.
- English Word Durian Definition Alt. of Durion
- English Word During Definition In the time of; as long as the action or existence of; as, during life; during the space of a year.
- English Word Durio Definition A fruit tree (D. zibethinus, the only species known) of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian.
- English Word Durion Definition The fruit of the durio. It is oval or globular, and eight or ten inches long. It has a hard prickly rind, containing a soft, cream-colored pulp, of a most delicious flavor and a very offensive odor. The seeds are roasted and eaten like chestnuts.
- English Word Durity Definition Hardness; firmness.
- English Word Durity Definition Harshness; cruelty.
- English Word Durometer Definition An instrument for measuring the degree of hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the like.