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A small European rodent of the genus Myoxus, of several species. They live in trees and feed on nuts, acorns, etc.; -- so called because they are usually torpid in winter.

An old, decayed tree. [R.] Bacon.

Decayed. "Some old dotterel trees." [Obs.] Ascham.

A village composed of Arab tents arranged in streets.

A public conveyance, as a street car, with seats on the roof. [Colloq.]

like skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard.

ts by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie. Sinking waters, the firm land to drain, Filled the capacious deep and formed th…

to attract; hence, to entice; to allure; to induce. The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. Shak. All eyes you draw, and with the eyes the heart. Dryden.

A genus of magnoliaceous trees. Drimys aromatica furnishes Winter's bark.

To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill. "The trees drop balsam." Creech. The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. Sterne.

The larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk, as the cankerworm.

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

A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.

The genus to which belongs the single species D. Camphora, a lofty resinous tree of Borneo and Sumatra, yielding Borneo camphor and camphor oil.

An alkaloid obtained from the leaves of an Australian tree (Duboisia myoporoides), and regarded as identical with hyoscyamine. It produces dilation of the pupil of the eye.

duck. -- Duck ant (Zoöl.), a species of white ant in Jamaica which builds large nests in trees. -- Duck barnacle. (Zoöl.) See Goose barnacle. -- Duck hawk. (Zoöl.) (a) In the United States: The peregrine falcon. (b) In England: The marsh harrier or moor buzzard. -- Duck mole (Zoöl.), a small aquatic mammal of Austr…

The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made. Gerarde (1597).

The heartwood of an exogenous tree.

A fruit tree (D. zibethinus, the only species known) of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian.

l deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men. Milton. Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. Tennyson. Dwelling house, a house intended to be occupied as a residence, in distinction from a store, office, or other building. -- Dwelling place, place of residence.