ducking1 (duking), ing)

[Verbal n. of duck1, v.] 1. The act of plunging or the being plunged into water: as, to get a ducking. At length, on the 18th of September, we cro ed the line in the longitude of 8° west; after which the ceremony of ducking, ., generally practised on this occasion, was not omitted. Cook, Voyages, III. ii. 1. 2. The act of bowing stiffly or awkwardly. For my kneeling down at my entrance, to begin with prayer, and after to proceed with reverence, I did but my duty in that; let him scoffingly call it cringing or duck ing , or what he pleases. State Trials , Abp. Laud, an. 1640. ducking2 (duk'ing), n. [ duck2 + -ing1.] The sport of shooting wild ducks. IMG:content-0064.jpg:[blocks in formation] the seat was fitted or from which it was suspended by a chain. The ducking-stool is mentioned in the Doomsday survey; it was extensively in use throughout Great Britain from the fifteenth till the beginning of the eighteenth century, and in one rare case at least-at Leo minster was used as recently as 1809. See cucking - stool. Also called castigatory. If he be not fain before he dies to eat acorns, let me live with nothing but pollerd, and my mouth be made a ducking-stool for every scold. G. Wilkins, Miseries of Inforst Marriage, iii. duckins (duk'inz), n. [Origin obscure.] A name in Berwick, England, of the sea-stickleback, Spinach i a vulgar is . duckish (duk'ish), n. [A dial. transposition of dusk.] Dusk. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] duck-legged (duk'leg"ed), a. Having short legs, like a duck. • Duck- legg'd , short-waisted, such a dwarf she is, That she must rise on tiptoes for a ki . Dryden, tr. of Juvenal's Satires, vi. duckling (duk'ling), n. [ dokelyng , dooke lynge ; duck2 + dim. -ling1 .] A young duck. I must have my capons And turkeys brought me in, with my green geese And ducklings i' th' season. Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, i. 1. So have I seen, within a pen, Young ducklings foster'd by a hen. Swift , Progre of Marriage. duck-meat, duck's-meat (duk'-, duks'mēt), n. 1790 conduit, douche), Glanville, Pre-existence of Souls, p. 146. 2. Any tube or canal by which a fluid is conducted or conveyed. Specifically-(a) In an at., one of the ve els of an animal body by which the blood, chyle, lymph, secretions, etc., are conveyed. See duct us. The little ducts began To feed thy bones with lime, and ran Their course, till thou wert also man. Tennyson, Two Voices. (b) In bot.: (1) A long continuous ve el or canal, form ed by a row of cells which have lost their intervening partitions. The walls are variously marked by pits and by spiral, annular, or reticulated thickenings, and the cavity may be filled with air or water, or they may be lactiferous. (2) In bryology, the narrow continuous cells which surround the utricles in the leaves of Sphagnum. Aberrant duct of the testis. See aberrant. - Acoustic duct. See acoustic and auditory. - Annular duct. See annular. Arch i nephric duct, the duct of the arch i nephron, or primitive kidney. - Arterial duct, auditory duct, branchial duct. See the adjectives. Biliary duct, one of the ramified systems of ducts which collect the bile from the liver and by their union form the hepatic duct.- Cystic duct, the duct of the gall-bladder conveying bile into the intestine, either directly or, as in man, by uniting with the hepatic duct in a duct us communis choledochus. - Duct or canal of Bartholin, one of the ducts of the sublingual gland, running alongside of Wharton's duct, and opening into it or close to its orifice into the mouth. - Duct of Gärtner. Same as Gaertnerian canal (which see, under canal1 ). - Duct or canal of Müller ( duct us Muelleri ), the primitive oviduct, or pa age in the from the ovary to the exterior, which subsequently becomes converted, as in mammals, into the Fallopian tube, uterus, etc. One Müllerian duct may be obliterated, or both may persist, in different animals; or the two may be united in one in most of their extent, giving rise to a single uterus and vagina with a pair of Fallopian tubes. -Duct or canal of Wharton. See Wharton's duct, below.-Duct or canal of Wirsung. See pancreatic duct. - Ducts or canals of Rivinus ( duct us Ririniani ), those ducts of the sublingual gland which open apart from one another and from Wharton's duct.-Ducts or canals of duct or lymphatic duct, conveying the great ma of lymph and chyle directly into the venous circulation: so called from its course through the cavity of the thorax. In man this duct is from 15 to 18 inches long; it begins opposite the second lumbar vertebra, by a dilated sac or cyst (the receptaculum chyli or cistern of Pecquet), and runs up to the root of the neck, alongside the vertebral column, pa ing through the aortic orifice of the diaphragm. It ends in the venous system at or near the junction of the left internal jugular and subclavian veins. It is composed of 3 and is provided with valves. Its caliber varies Beats, an at of a crow quill and of a goose-quill. Whar ton's or Whartonian duct ( duct us Whartoni; named for Thomas Wharton, an English physician, author of "Adenographia," 1656), the duct of the submaxillary gland, conveying saliva into the mouth, about 2 inches long, opening on a papilla at the side of the frenum linguæ, or bridle of the tongue. - Wolffian duct. See duct us Wolfii, under duct us.