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[ IMG:content-0067.png:[ocr errors] 'Tis woundy cold, sure. I dudder and shake like an aspen leaf, every joint of me. Ford and Dekker , Witch of Edmonton, ii. 1. II. trans. To shock with noise; deafen; con- fuse; confound; amaze. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] dudder1 (dud'er), n. [ dudder1 , v .] Confu- sion; amazement: as, all in a dudder (that is, quite confounded). Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] dudder2 (dud'er), n. [ dud +-er.] Same as duffer1 , 2. duddery (dud'er-i), n.; pl. dudderies (-iz). [ dud + -ery.] A place where duds or rags are kept for sale. Gent. Mag.; Grose. [Colloq. or low.] duddlest, n. pl. Duds. Pilkington, Sermons Parker (Parker Soc.). [North. North. Eng.] Eng.] a. [Sc., also duddie ; dud + Nae tawted tyke, though e'er sae duddie , But he wad stan't, as glad to see him. Their goods were contained in certain duddy pokes. Carlyle, in Froude, I. 271. By my troth, though I am plain and dudgeon , I would not be an a . Beau. and Fl . , Captain, ii. 1. dudgeon-daggert (duj'on-dag ér), n. A dagger having an ornamental hilt of wood; hence, a dagger of any sort, but especially one carried by a civilian, and not a weapon of war. An his justice be as short as his memory, A dudgeon dagger will serve him to mow down sin with all. Beau, and Fl . , Coxcomb, v. 1. dud.] A little rag. Mackay . dude (dūd), n. [A slang term said to have or i dudgeon-haftt (duj'on-haft), n. [Early mod. ndon, England. It first became E. also dudgin hafte ; dudgeon1 + haft .] The ginated gin a in London, England. known in general colloquial and newspaper use at the time of the so-called "esthetic" move- ment in dre and manners, in 1882-3. The A dudgeon haft of a dagger, [F.] dague a roelles. term has no antecedent record, and is prob. merely one of the spontaneous products of pop dudgeon-tree, n. [Sc. dugeon - tree ; dudgeon1 ular slang. There is no known way, even in + tree.] Wood for staves. Jamie son. [Scotch.] slang etymology, of "deriving" the term, in dudish (du'dish), a . Like a dude. the sense used, from duds (formerly sometimes spelled dudes : see dud ), clothes, in the sense of 'fine clothes'; and the connection, though ap- parently natural, is highly improbable.] A fop or exquisite, characterized by affected refine- ments of dre , speech, manners, and gait, and a serious mien; hence, by an easy extension, and with le of contempt, a man given to ex- ce ive refinement of fashion in dre . IMG:content-0068.png:[blocks in formation] dudeen (du-den'), n. [Of Ir. origin.] A short tobacco-pipe; a clay pipe with a stem only two or three inches long. It is not the descendants of the "Mayflower," in short, who are the representative Americans of the present day; it is the Micks and the Pats, the Hanses and the Wilhelms, redolent still of the dudeen and the sauerkraut barrel. The Century , XXXV. 807. dudgeon1 (duj'on), n. and a. [Early mod. E. also dudgen , dudgin, Sc. dugeon ; dojoun , dojon , dog on (as a noun: see def. 3 and quot.); perhaps, through an unrecorded OF. * dojon , * dog on , dim. of OF. (and F.) douve = Pr. Cat. dog a = It. dog a , dial. dova (ML. dog a ), a stave (of a hogshead or other cask), duyghe , D. duig = MHG. duge , G. daube , a stave; fur- ther origin unknown.] I. n. 1t. A stave of a barrel or cask. [Recorded only in the com- pound dudgeon - tree : see def. 2 and dudgeon- tree.]-2. Wood for staves: same as dudgeon- tree. Jamie son. [Scotch.] -3t. Some kind of wood having a mottled grain; or the wooden hilt of a dagger, ornamented with graven lines. Ronnyn [i. e., run, as lines interwoven] as dojoun or masere [maple: see mazer ] or other lyke. IMG:content-0069.png:[blocks in formation] some. dudgeon2 (duj'on), n. [By apheresis from the orig. form endugine , appar. * endygen , dygen , malice, resent- ment. Cf. dychan , a jeer, dygas , hatred, Corn. duchan, duwhan , grief, sorrow.] A feeling of offense; resentment; sullen anger; ill will; dis- cord. IMG:content-0070.png:[blocks in formation] dudman (dud'man), n.; pl. dudmen (-men). [ dud + man.] Ä rag man, or a man made of rags-that is, a scarecrow made of old gar- ments. Mackay . [Prov. Eng.] duel (du), a. and n. [Early mod. E. also dew ; due , dewe , duwe , deu , deut , m., deue, f., mod. F. dú , m., due , f. (pp. of devoir : see dever , devoir ), = It. debuto , debut us for L. debit us , owed (neut. debitum , fem. debit a , a thing due or owed, a debt), pp. of debere (> It. devere = F. devoir , etc.), owe: see debt .] I. a . 1. Owed; payable as an obligation; that may be demanded as a debt: as, the interest falls due next month. Which here appear eth due upon the bond. Shak ., M. of V., iv. 1. Then there was Computation made, what was due to the King of Great Britain, and the Lady Elizabeth. Howell , Letters, I. vi. 5. 2. Owing by right of circumstances or cond i- tion; that ought to be given or rendered; prop- er to be conferred or devoted: as, to receive one with due honor or courtesy. Do thou to euery man that is due , As thou woldist he dide to thee. We receive the due reward of our deeds. Luke xxiii. 41. Haple the lad whose mind such dreams invade, And win to verse the talents due to trade. Crabbe. With dirges due in sad array, Slow through the churchyard path we saw him borne. Gray, Elegy. 3. According to requirement or need; suitable to the case; determinate; settled; exact: as, he arrived in due time or course. Mony dayes he endurit, all in due pes, And had rest in his rew me right to his dethe. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), L. 13386. They cannot nor are not able to make any due proofe of our letters of coquet. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 211. Last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. 1 Cor. xv. 8. To ask your patience, If too much zeal hath carried him aside From the due path. B. Jonson, Alchemist, iii. 2. 4. That is to be expected or looked for; un- der engagement as to time; promised: as, the train is due at noon; he is due in New York to- morrow.-5. Owing; attributable, as to a cause or origin; a ignable: followed by to : as, the delay was due to an accident. IMG:content-0071.png:[blocks in formation] In the mind of the savage every effect is believed to be due to a special worker, because special workers have been observed to precede effects in a multitude of instances. H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 330. That which is most characteristic of us [Americans) is unmistakably a political education due to English origin and English growth. Stille, Stud. Med. Hist., p. 191. 6. In law: (a) Owing, irrespective of whether the time of payment has arrived as money is said to be due to creditors although not yet payable. (b) Presently payable; already matured: as, a note is said to be due on the third day of grace. - Due and payable, said of a subsisting debt the time for payment of which has arrived.Due notice, due diligence, such as the law requires under the circumstances. - Due proce of law, in Amer, const, law, the due course of legal proceedings according to those rules and forms which have been estab lished for the protection of private rights. Constitutional provisions securing to citizens due proce of law imply judicial proceeding with opportunity to be heard, as distinguished from a legislative act. They refer generally to those proce es which the American law inherited from the English common law, as part of the law of the land secured by Magna Charta; but they may include any new form of legal proceeding devised and sanctioned by legislative act, provided it be consonant with the recognized general principles of liberty and justice. II. n. 1. That which is owed; that which is required by an obligation of any kind, as by contract, by law, or by official, social, or religious relations, etc.; a debt; an obligation. 1792