dunter (dunter)

[Sc., perhaps so called from its waddling gait, especially in birds, where it forms the most constant characteristic folding of the intestine. – Duodenal glands. See gland. duodenal2 (dū-ō-dēʻnal), a. and n. [ IMG:content-0097.png:[blocks in formation] of (supposed) stupid birds to stupid persons, cf. booby, goose, gull, and (in Pg.) dodo. Cf. Bret. houperik, a hoopoe, a dupe.) A person who is deceived; one who is led astray by false representations or conceptions; a victim of credulity: as, the dupe of a designing rogue; he is a dupe to his imagination. duodenary (du-o-den'a-ri), a. [=F. duodénaire = Sp. Pg. It. duodena rio, The foot than thiendaires First slave to words, then va al to a name, Then dupe to party; child and man the same. Pope, Dunciad, iv. 502. He that hates truth shall be the dupe of lies. Cowper , Progre of Error. When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its Emerson, E ays, 1st ser., p. 229.