dulwilly (dulwili)

[E. dial.) The ring plover, Ægialites hiaticula. Montagu. duly1 (dū'li), adv. [ dueliche; Vnto my dygnyte dere sall diewly be dyghte A place full of plente to my plesyng at ply. York Plays , p. 1. That they may have their wages duly paid them, And something over to remember me by. IMG:content-0084.jpg:[blocks in formation] Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound, expre ing (Although they want the use of tongue) a kind Of excellent dumb discourse. Shak ., Tempest, iii. 3. You shan't come near him; none of your dumb signs. Steele , Lying Lover, iii. 1. Hence-4. Lacking some usual power, manifestation, characteristic, or accompaniment; destitute of reality in some respect; irregular; simulative: as, dumb ague; dumb craft. See phrases below.-5. Dull; stupid; doltish. [Local, U. S. In Pennsylvania this use is partly due to the G. dumm.] -6. Deficient in clearne or brightne , as a color. [Rare.] Her stern was painted of a dumb white or dun colour. Defoe. Deaf and dumb. See deaf -mute. - Dumb ague, a popular name of an irregular intermittent fever, lacking the usual chill or cold stage; masked fever. - Dumb bors holder, an old staff of office, serving also as an implement to break open doors and the like in the service of the law, of which an example is preserved at Twyford in the county of Kent, England. It was made of wood, about 3 feet long, with an iron spike at one end and several iron rings attached, through which cords could be pa ed. J. A. A., IX. 505. - Dumb compa . See compa . - Dumb craft, lighters and boats not having sails. - Dumb crambo, furnace, etc. See the nouns. - Dumb piano. Same as digitorium. - Dumb spinet. Same as man i chord. To strike dumb, to render silent from astonishment; confound; astonish. Alas! this parting strikes poor lovers dumb. Shak., T. G. of V., ii. 2. =Syn. 1 and 2. Mute, etc. See silent. dumb (dum), v. [ I doumbed and meked and was ful stille. IMG:content-0085.jpg:[graphic] Ps. xxxviii. 3 (ME. version). II. trans. To make dumb; silence; overpower the sound of. An arm-gaunt steed, Who neigh'd so high, that what I would have spoke Was beastly dumb'd by him. Shak ., A. and C., i. 5. dumb-bell dumb- (dum'bel), n. One of a pair of weights, each consisting of two balls joined by a bar, intended to be swung in the hands for the sake of muscular exercise, made of iron, or for very light exercise of hard wood. Brandishing of two sticks, grasped in each hand and loaden with plugs of lead at either end; sometimes practised in the present day, and called "ringing of the dumb bells ." Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 142.