(n.) A word; a decree.

(n.) A ditty; a song.

(v. t.) To close up.

(v. t.) To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight.

(v. t.) To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call.

(v. t.) To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.

(v. t.) To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab;

(v. t.) To dress with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber smooth.

(v. t.) To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.

(v. t.) To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of cyrrying it.

(v. t.) To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.

(v. i.) To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.

(n.) A blow.

(n.) A pool or puddle.

(a.) Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.

(a.) Justly claimed as a right or property; proper; suitable; becoming; appropriate; fit.

(a.) Such as (a thing) ought to be; fulfilling obligation; proper; lawful; regular; appointed; sufficient; exact; as, due process of law; due service; in due time.

(a.) Appointed or required to arrive at a given time; as, the steamer was due yesterday.

(a.) Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.

(adv.) Directly; exactly; as, a due east course.

(n.) That which is owed; debt; that which one contracts to pay, or do, to or for another; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done; a fee; a toll.

(n.) Right; just title or claim.

(v. t.) To endue.

(n.) A teat, pap, or nipple; -- formerly that of a human mother, now that of a cow or other beast.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dig.

(n.) A composition for two performers; a duet.

(v. t.) To open; as, to dup the door.

(n.) A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw.

(v. i.) To dawn.

(v. t.) To rouse.

(v. t.) To daunt; to terrify.

() A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to Latin dis-apart, away; or sometimes to de. Cf. Dis-. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform, destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare, desolate, etc.

(n.) The scholastic name for the theme or subject of a fugue, the answer being called the comes, or companion.

(v. t.) To stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to, as by the application of dyestuffs.

(n.) Color produced by dyeing.

(n.) Material used for dyeing; a dyestuff.

(n.) Same as Die, a lot.

() A prefix, signifying twofold, double, twice

() denoting two atoms, radicals, groups, or equivalents, as the case may be. See Bi-, 2.

() A prefix denoting through; also, between, apart, asunder, across. Before a vowel dia-becomes di-; as, diactinic; dielectric, etc.

(n.) An abbreviation of Ditto.

(n.) A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (C. familiaris).

(n.) A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch.

(n.) A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog.

(n.) One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius).

(n.) An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron.

(n.) A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them.

(n.) An iron with fangs fastening a log in a saw pit, or on the carriage of a sawmill.

(n.) A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool.

(v. t.) To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity.

(n.) A title anciently given to the pope, and later to other church dignitaries and some monastic orders. See Don, and Dan.

(n.) In Portugal and Brazil, the title given to a member of the higher classes.

(imp. & p. p.) of Dig

(v. t.) To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.

(v. t.) To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.

(v. t.) To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.

(v. t.) To thrust; to poke.

(v. i.) To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.

(v. i.) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.

(v. i.) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.

(n.) A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4.

(v. t.) A plodding and laborious student.

(n.) A dove.