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To deprive of the claim of a pauper to public support; to deprive of the privilege of suing in forma pauperis.

To free a state of pauperism, or from paupers. J. S. Mill.

Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

der, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; disruption of a state.

Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery. Nichol.

Disruption. [R.] Jefferson.

The carrion crow. [Written also dob.] [Prov. Eng.]

Producing, or pertaining to, drupes; having the form of drupes; as, drupaceous trees or fruits.

Drupaceous.

A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut.

A small drupe, as one of the pulpy grains of the blackberry.

Consisting of twelves. Arbuthnot.

To open; as, to dup the door. [Obs.] Shak.

Capable of being duped.

One who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull; as, the dupe of a schemer.

One who dupes another.

The act or practice of duping. [R.]

A double cocoon, made by two silkworms.

Double. Duple ratio (Math.), that in which the antecedent term is double the consequent, as of 2 to 1, 8 to 4, etc.

Double; twofold. Duplex escapement, a peculiar kind of watch escapement, in which the scape-wheel has two sets of teeth. See Escapement. -- Duplex lathe, one for turning off, screwing, and surfacing, by means of two cutting tools, on opposite sides of the piece operated upon. -- Duplex pumping engine, a steam pump in…