2. Harshness; cruelty. Cockeram.
Durometer
(Du*rom"e*ter) n. [L. durus hard + -meter.] An instrument for measuring the degree of
hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the like.
Durous
(Du"rous) a. [L. durus.] Hard. [Obs. & R.]
Durra
(Dur"ra) n. [Ar. dhorra.] (Bot.) A kind of millet, cultivated throughout Asia, and introduced into
the south of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; — called also Indian millet, and Guinea corn. [Written
also dhoorra, dhurra, doura, etc.]
Durst
(Durst) imp. of Dare. See Dare, v. i.
Durukuli
(||Du`ru*ku"li) n. (Zoöl.) A small, nocturnal, South American monkey [Written also douroucouli.]
Durylic
(Du*ryl"ic) a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, allied to, or derived from, durene; as, durylic acid.
Duse
(Duse) n. A demon or spirit. See Deuce.
Dusk
(Dusk) a. [OE. dusc, dosc, deosc; cf. dial. Sw. duska to drizzle, dusk a slight shower. .] Tending
to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.
Milton. Dusk
(Dusk), n.
1. Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.
2. A darkish color.
Whose duck set off the whiteness of the skin.
Dryden. Dusk
(Dusk), v. t. To make dusk. [Archaic]
After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth.
Holland. Dusk
(Dusk), v. i. To grow dusk. [R.] Chaucer.
Dusken
(Dusk"en) v. t. To make dusk or obscure. [R.]
Not utterly defaced, but only duskened.
Nicolls. Duskily
(Dusk"i*ly) adv. In a dusky manner. Byron.
Duskiness
(Dusk"i*ness), n. The state of being dusky.
Duskish
(Dusk"ish), a. Somewhat dusky. " Duskish smoke." Spenser. — Dusk"ish*ly, adv. — Dusk"ish*ness,
n.
Duskness
(Dusk"ness), n. Duskiness. [R.] Sir T. Elyot.
Dusky
(Dusk"y) a.
1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley.
Through dusky lane and wrangling mart.
Keble.
