duncifyt (dunsifi)

t. [ condition of a dunce. Here you have a fellow ten you sand times more dunci fied than dunce Webster. Like War burton, To Hurd, Letters, cxxx. duncish (dun's ish), a. [ Raia fullonica , a batoid fish. duncur (dung'ker), n. The pochard or dunbird. Also dunker . [Prov. Eng.] 1798 The Spaniards neared and neared the fatal dunes which fringed the shore for many a dreary mile. Kingsley, Westward Ho, xxx i. Then along the sandy margin Of the lake, the Big-Sea-Water, On he sped with frenzied gestures,... Till the sand was blown and sifted Like great snowdrifts o'er the landscape, Heaping all the shore with Sand Dunes . Long fellow, Hiawatha, xi. The long low dune, and lazy-plunging sea. Tennyson, Last Tournament. dune2 (dūn), n. [See dun3.] An ancient fort with a hemispherical or conical roof. [Scotch.] dunfish (dun'fish), n. [ [New Eng.] dunite underground part was often used as a prison. Also called keep, dungeon - keep, or tower. See cut under castle. [In this sense also written donjon, a spelling preferred by some English writers; but there is no historical distinction.] Hence-2. A close cell; a deep, dark place of confinement. A-twene the is tweyn a gret comparison; Kyng Alysaunder, he conquerryd alle; Dyogenes lay in a smalle dongeon , In sondre wedyrs which turnyd as a balle. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 27. They brought him [Joseph) hastily out of the dungeon . Gen. xli. 14. The King of Heaven hath doom'd This place our dungeon , not our safe retreat. Milton , P. L., ii. 317.