Dulcoration

[L. Lat. dulcoratio.] Act of sweetening. Duledge, ( dulig,) n. (Ordnance.) A wooden bolt connecting the fellies of the wheel of a gun-carriage. Du'lia, n. [L. Lat.] Adoration of saints. See LATRIA. Dulich'ium, n. [Gr. duo, two, and leichen, scale; alluding to the glumes in two rows.] ( Bot. ) A genus of plants, ord. Cyperaceæ. They are perennial plants, with leafy stems. Spikes axillary, racemose. Dull, a . [A. S. dol ; L. Ger. dull ; Ger. toll ; root in Dan. dölge, Middle High Ger. delhem , to hide.] Slow of understanding; obtuse; stupid; slow and heavy of mental perception; doltish; as, a dull intellect. - Heavy; sluggish; without life or spirit; slow of motion; slow of hearing or seeing; inapt or unready to learn or comprehend; awkward; as, "He was dull at cla ical learning." ( Thackeray .)- Blunt; obtuse; wanting keenne of point or edge; without sharpne ; as, a dull razor.Sleepy; drowsy; heavy in manner; insensible; gro ; cloggy; not pleasing or inspiriting; as, dull company. Wanting expre ion or animation; uninteresting; heavy in quality; melancholy; cheerle ; cloudy; as, a dull book, a dull day, a dull occupation, . "To make dictionaries is dull work." - Dr. Johnson. -Obscure; dim; not vivid; not bright or clear to the sight; wanting in variety or liveline of color; gloomy; as, dull light, a dull sky, a dull mirror, a dull color. -v. a. To make dull; to stupefy; to make insensible, or slow to perceive, as the intellect; as, to dull pain. To blunt; to deprive of edge or sharpne ; to obtund; as, to dull a knife. "Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry." - Shaks. IMG:content-0688.jpg:[graphic] an honorary distinction by Edward III. on his son - To sully; to tarnish; to cloud; to render dim or gloomy. The breath dulls the mirror." Bacon . Edward, the Black Prince, whom he created D. of Cornwall in 1335; since which time the title has always belonged to the Prince of Wales for the time being, by -To make sad, listle , or melancholy; to damp; to ren prescriptive right. There are at present 29 dukes in Great Britain, - the D. of Cambridge, a D. of the blood royal, being excepted, of whom 20 are English, 7 Scotch, and 2 Irish. The D. of Norfolk is the premier or senior D. of England, by priority of creation; the D. of Hamilton, the premier D. of Scotland; and the D. of Leinster, of Ireland. To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner. This phrase is said to have originated from the habit of persons needing a dinner lounging about the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in old St. Paul's Cathedral, London, in hope of an invitation from a pa er-by. Duke'dom, n. The territory, po e ions, or jurisdiction of a duke; a duchy. der inactive, as the attention; to make heavy or slow of life or motion; to depre ; as, to dull one's interest in anything. "Union in bodies dulleth any violent impre ion." - Bacon . -v. n. To become dull, or blunt; to become obtuse or stupid. Dull'ard, a . [From dull .] Blockish; stupid. -n. A stupid person; one slow to learn, comprehend, or perceive; a dunce; a blockhead; a dolt; a numskull. Dull'ardism, n. Stupidity; dulne of sense or inDull-brained, a. Having a dull intellect; stupid; Dull'-browed, a. Bearing a gloomy or overcast countenance. "Prospero found his dukedom in a poor isle." Shaks . tellect. thick-headed. Dull'-Disposed ( dis - pozed ) a. Having a tendency to dullne or melancholy.