| dulcet | (adj) extremely pleasant in a gentle way, Example: the most dulcet swimming on the most beautiful and remote beaches |
| dulcet | (adj) pleasing to the ear, Syn. sweet, mellifluous, honeyed, mellisonant, Example: the dulcet tones of the cello |
| dulciana | (n) the organ stop having a tone of soft sweet string quality |
| dulcimer | (n) a stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings |
| dulcimer | (n) a trapezoidal zither whose metal strings are struck with light hammers |
| dull | (v) make dull in appearance, Example: Age had dulled the surface |
| dull | (v) become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness, Example: the varnished table top dulled with time |
| dull | (v) make dull or blunt, Syn. blunt, Ant. sharpen, Example: Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge |
| dull | (v) make less lively or vigorous, Example: Middle age dulled her appetite for travel |
| dull | (adj) lacking in liveliness or animation, Ant. lively, Example: he was so dull at parties; a dull political campaign; a large dull impassive man; dull days with nothing to do; how dull and dreary the world is; fell back into one of her dull moods |
| Dulcamara | n. [ NL., fr. L. dulcis sweet + amarus bitter. ] (Bot.) A plant (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet, n., 3 |
| Dulcamarin | n. (Chem.) A glucoside extracted from the bittersweet (Solanum Dulcamara), as a yellow amorphous substance. It probably occasions the compound taste. See Bittersweet, 3 |
| Dulce | v. t. To make sweet; to soothe. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Dulceness | n. Sweetness. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Dulcet | a. [ OF. doucet, dim. of dous sweet, F. doux, L. dulcis; akin to Gr. &unr_; . Cf. Doucet. ] She tempers dulcet creams. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] Their dainty lays and dulcet melody. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Dulciana | ‖n. [ NL., fr. L. dulcis sweet. ] (Mus.) A sweet-toned stop of an organ. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Dulcification | n. [ Cf. F. dulcification. ] The act of dulcifying or sweetening. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Dulcified | a. Sweetened; mollified. [ 1913 Webster ]
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| Dulcifluous | a. [ L. dulcis sweet + fluere to flow. ] Flowing sweetly. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Dulcify | v. t. As she . . . was further dulcified by her pipe of tobacco. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Duldsamkeit { f }; Nachsicht { f } | forbearance [Add to Longdo] |
| Duldung { f } | toleration; tolerance [Add to Longdo] |
| Duldung { f } | sufferance [Add to Longdo] |
| Duldungsvollmacht { f } | agency by estoppel [Add to Longdo] |
| dulden | duldend | duldet | duldete | to connive | conniving | connives | connived [Add to Longdo] |
| dulden; zulassen; tolerieren | duldend; zulassend; tolerierend | geduldet; zugelassen; toleriert | duldet | duldete | to tolerate | tolerating | tolerated | tolerates | tolerated [Add to Longdo] |
| dulden; erdulden; leiden; erleiden | to suffer [Add to Longdo] |
| duldsam | tolerative [Add to Longdo] |
| duldsam; nachsichtig { adj } | indulgent [Add to Longdo] |