due

adv. Directly; exactly; as, a due east course. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That which is owed; debt; that which one contracts to pay, or do, to or for another; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done; a fee; a toll. [ 1913 Webster ]

He will give the devil his due. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yearly little dues of wheat, and wine, and oil. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Right; just title or claim. [ 1913 Webster ]

The key of this infernal pit by due . . . I keep. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To endue. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Com.) A brief written acknowledgment of a debt, not made payable to order, like a promissory note. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Fit; becoming. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. To fight in single combat. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. duello, fr. L. duellum, orig., a contest between two, which passed into the common form bellum war, fr. duo two: cf. F. duel. See Bellicose, Two, and cf. Duello. ] A combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons, by agreement. It usually arises from an injury done or an affront given by one to the other. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trial by duel (Old Law), a combat between two persons for proving a cause; trial by battel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who engages in a duel. [ R. ] [ Written also dueller. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]