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To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately. Hath she sent so soon to dun Swift.

Having twelve leaves to a sheet; as, a duodecimo from, book, leaf, size, etc.

il, Dutch leaf, or Dutch gold, a kind of brass rich in copper, rolled or beaten into thin sheets, used in Holland to ornament toys and paper; -- called also Dutch mineral, Dutch metal, brass foil, and bronze leaf. -- Dutch liquid (Chem.), a thin, colorless, volatile liquid, C2H4Cl2, of a sweetish taste and a pleasant…

as, dynamical geology. As natural science has become more dynamic, so has history. Prof. Shedd. Dynamical electricity. See under Electricity.

A female or hen eagle. [R.] Sherwood.

A mark on the ear of sheep, oxen, dogs, etc., as by cropping or slitting.

A flattened marine univalve shell of the genus Haliotis; -- called also sea-ear. See Abalone.

Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike; as, earthy matter. How pale she looks, And of an earthy cold! Shak. All over earthy, like a piece of earth. Tennyson.

Readily; without reluctance; willingly. Not soon provoked, she easily forgives. Prior.

the ebb. Thou shoreless flood which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of morality! Shelley.

Of or pertaining to ivory. "[She] read from tablet eburnine." Sir W. Scott.

Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws; deviating from an appointed sphere or way; departing from the usual course; irregular; anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct. "This brave and eccentric young man." Macaulay. He shines eccentric, like a comet's blaze. Savage. Eccentric anomaly.…

The act of shedding, or casting off, an outer cuticular layer, as in the case of serpents, lobsters, etc.; a coming out; as, the ecdysis of the pupa from its shell; exuviation.

often identified with Roman Doric capital. The name probably alludes to the shape of the shell of the sea urchin.

. Sir W. Raleigh. As in the soft and sweet eclipse, When soul meets soul on lovers' lips. Shelley. Annular eclipse. (Astron.) See under Annular. -- Cycle of eclipses. See under Cycle.

A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established.

Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories. She whose elfin prancer springs By night to eery warblings. Tennyson.

Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading; -- said of certain shells.

c. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane.

The shell or exterior covering of an egg. Also used figuratively for anything resembling an eggshell.