duroust (durus)

[L. durus, hard: see dure, a.] Hard. They all of them vary much from their primitive tenderne and bigne , and so become more duro us . J. Smith, Solomon's Portraiture of Old Age, p. 186. duroyt (du-roi'), n. [See corduroy.] Same as corduroy. Western Goods had their share here also, and several booths were filled with Serges, Duroys, Druggets, Shalloons, Cantal oons, Devons hire Kersies, etc. Defoe , Tour through Great Britain, I. 94. durra (dur'ä), n. [Also written dura , doura , dourah , dor a , dhura , dhourra , dhurra , etc., repr. Ar. dorr a , durra , dor a , Turk. dor i , millet; ef. Ar. dorr a dorr a, Turk. Pers. Hind. durr , a pearl.] The Indian millet or Guinea corn, Sorghum vul vul gare. See sorghum. IMG:content-0104.png:[blocks in formation] short, broad, curved sword.] A rough cutlas IMG:content-0105.png:[blocks in formation] The divers colours and the tinctures fair, Which in this various vesture changes write Of light, of duskishne e. rain, Sw. dial. dusk, a slight shower, Sw. dusk, chilline , raw weather (> Norw. dusk a = Sw. dusk a = Dan. duske, drizzle; Sw. duskig, misty, etc.), appar. orig. applied to dark, threatening weather. LG. dusken, slumber, is not redusky (dus'ki), a. [ lated.] I. a. Dark; tending to darkne ; dusky; shaded, either as to light or color; shadowy; swarthy. [Rare and poetical.] A pathle desert, dusk with horrid shades. Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreathed. Milton , P. R., i. 296. Milton, P. R., iv. 76. As rich as moths from dusk cocoons. Tennyson , Prince , ii. II. n. 1. Partial darkne ; an obscuring of light, especially of the light of day; a state between light and darkne ; twilight: as, the dusk of the evening; the dusk of a dense forest. He quits His door in darkne , nor till dusk returns. Words worth, Excursion, v. Prone to the lowest vale th' aerial tribes Descend: the tempest-loving raven scarce Dares wing the dubious dusk. Thomson, Summer. Fortunately the dusk had thrown a veil over us, and in the exquisite delicacy of the fading light we drifted slowly up the mysterious river, C. W. Stoddard , Mashallah, p. 161. 2. Tendency to darkne of color; swarthine . Some sprinkled freckles on his face were seen, Whose dusk set off the whitene of the skin. Dryden, Pal. and Arc., iii. 77.