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Capable of being endowed; entitled to dower. Blackstone.

enjoys during her life, or to which a woman is entitled after the death of her husband. Blackstone.

A team of oxen or horses. Blackstone.

To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc. Theologians and moralists . . . talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it. Landor.

attentive to dress. A dressy flaunting maidservant. T. Hook. A neat, dressy gentleman in black. W. Irving.

A passerine bird of the family Dicruridæ. They are usually black with a deeply forked tail. They are natives of Asia, Africa, and Australia; -- called also drongo shrikes.

Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent. Ague drop, Black drop. See under Ague, Black. -- Drop by drop, in small successive quantities; in repeated portions. "Made to taste drop by drop more than the bitterness of death." Burke. -- Drop curtain. See Drop, n.,

Scarcity; lack. A drought of Christian writers caused a dearth of all history. Fuller.

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

revailed until the early part of the 18th, and occasionally as late as the 19th century. Blackstone. Chambers.

A mineral of a blackish green color, commonly massive or in nodules. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.

Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt. "Thy scythe is dull." Herbert.

Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color. [R.] Her stern was painted of a dumb white or dun color. De Foe. Deaf and dumb. See Deaf-mute. -- Dumb ague, or Dumb chill, a form of intermittent fever which has no well-defined "chill." [U.S.] -- Dumb animal, any animal except man; -- usually restricted to a domestic quad…

Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy. Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up. Pierpont. Chill and dun Falls on the moor the brief November day. Keble. Dun crow (Zoöl.), the hooded crow; -- so called from its color; -- also called hoody, and hoddy. -- Dun diver (Zoö…

creen set at different angles, and usually printed in two shades of the same color or in black and one tint.

The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient. Blackstone.

Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky. A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. Milton.

Tending 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.

The tincture sable or black when blazoned according to the fantastic system in which plants are substituted for the tinctures.

A disease in wheat, in which the blackened and contracted grain, or ear, is filled with minute worms.