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Due and more than due; delayed beyond the proper time of arrival or payment, etc.; as, an overdue vessel; an overdue note.

Lost to view; in concealment or ambush; close. He should lie perdue who is to walk the round. Fuller.

Treason.

ins after a part is taken, separated, removed, or designated; remnant; remainder. The residue of them will I deliver to the sword. Jer. xv. 9. If church power had then prevailed over its victims, not a residue of English liberty would have been saved. I. Taylor.

er, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish. I will subdue all thine enemies. 1 Chron. xvii. 10.

Conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive; mild.

Subdual. [Obs.] Shak.

One who, or that which, subdues; a conqueror. Spenser.

Not due; not yet owing; as, an undue debt, note, or bond.

The quality of being undue.

A public sale of anything, by outcry, to the highest bidder; an auction. [Obsoles.] Vendue master, one who is authorized to sell any property by vendue; an auctioneer. [Obsoles.]

The European siskin (Carduelis spinus), a small green and yellow finch, related to the goldfinch.

A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and dairy or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amountin…

o such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun. If after due summons any member absents himself, he is to be fined. Addison.

In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil.

ts adoption.] To accept a bill (Law), to agree (on the part of the drawee) to pay it when due. -- To accept service (Law), to agree that a writ or process shall be considered as regularly served, when it has not been. -- To accept the person (Eccl.), to show favoritism. "God accepteth no man's person." Gal. ii. 6.…

n assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance.

To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise. "According his desire." Spenser.

To subdue; to tame; to daunt. [Obs.] Then is your careless courage accoyed. Spenser.

s acetic ether, acetic acid. The latter is the acid to which the sour taste of vinegar is due.