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To deprive of sharpness of edge or point. "This . . . dulled their swords." Bacon. Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. Shak.

The excrement of an animal. Bacon.

To subject to duress. "The party duressed." Bacon.

One who subjects another to duress Bacon.

ding to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. Bacon. When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky. Dryden. The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur. Hawthorne.

e of being kindly heard; favor; attention. Dionysius . . . would give no ear to his suit. Bacon. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. Shak. About the ears, in close proximity to; near at hand. -- By the ears, in close contest; as, to set by the ears; to fall together by the ears; to be by the ears. -- Butt…

motive or end. His own ends, which must needs be often eccentric to those of his master. Bacon.

Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity. Bacon.

isagreeable tingling sensation in the teeth, as by bringing acids into contact with them. Bacon.

Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes. Bacon. -- n.

To teach or persuade. [Obs.] Bacon.

mpression; to wear away. Efface from his mind the theories and notions vulgarly received. Bacon.

ive men in a regiment. They are not effective of anything, nor leave no work behind them. Bacon. Whosoever is an effective, real cause of doing his heighbor wrong, is criminal. Jer. Taylor.

by his voluptuous life and mean marriage, became effeminate, and less sensible of honor. Bacon. An effeminate and unmanly foppery. Bp. Hurd.

Effeminacy; womanishness. [Obs.] Bacon.

That which flows out; effluvium; emanation. Some light effluxions from spirit to spirit. Bacon.

A kind of sour cherry. Bacon.

ther cares for him. Shak. Scarce a palm of ground could be gotten by either of the three. Bacon. There have been three talkers in Great British, either of whom would illustrate what I say about dogmatists. Holmes.

orce and rapid flight. [Archaic or Technical] "An ejaculation or irradiation of the eye." Bacon.

inating choice; discernment. [Obs.] To use men with much difference and election is good. Bacon.