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by the bushel, peck, etc. -- Dry pile (Physics), a form of the Voltaic pile, constructed without the use of a liquid, affording a feeble current, and chiefly useful in the construction of electroscopes of great delicacy; -- called also Zamboni's , from the names of the two earliest constructors of it. -- Dry pipe (St…

Having dry bones, or bones without flesh.

To rub and cleanse without wetting. Dodsley.

Without wetting the feet.

In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly.

To feed, attend, and bring up without the breast. Hudibras.

of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water. Here be, without duck or nod, Other trippings to be trod. Milton. Bombay duck (Zoöl.), a fish. See Bummalo. -- Buffel duck, or Spirit duck. See Buffel duck. -- Duck ant (Zoöl.), a species of white ant in Jamaica which builds large nests…

In some European countries, a sovereign prince, without the title of king. Duke's coronet. See Illust. of Coronet. -- To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner. See under Dine.

In a dull manner; stupidly; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit. Supinely calm and dully innocent. G. Lyttelton.

on, shown in pantomime. "Inexplicable dumb shows and noise." Shak. (b) Signs and gestures without words; as, to tell a story in dumb show. -- To strike dumb, to confound; to astonish; to render silent by astonishment; or, it may be, to deprive of the power of speech.

A locomotive with condensing engines, and, hence, without the noise of escaping steam; also, a dummy car.

hild or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt. I never knew this town without dunces of figure. Swift.

Without dust; as a dustless path.

A kind of indigestion; a state of the stomach in which its functions are disturbed, without the presence of other diseases, or, if others are present, they are of minor importance. Its symptoms are loss of appetite, nausea, heartburn, acrid or fetid eructations, a sense of weight or fullness in the stomach, etc. Dungli…

A Latin prefix meaning out, out of, from; also, without. See Ex-.

osing a number of objects, considered separately from the rest. It is used either with or without a following noun; as, each of you or each one of you. "Each of the combatants." Fielding.

Without ears; hence, deaf or unwilling to hear. Pope.

ard of my life or the sweat of my brow. Burke. Earned run (Baseball), a run which is made without the assistance of errors on the opposing side.

An ornament consisting of a ring passed through the lobe of the ear, with or without a pendant.

The earthworm. [Obs.] The earthmads and all the sorts of worms . . . are without eyes. Holland.