A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion, An electric hair dryer, an appliance that removes moisture, adjective_ US Alternative spelling of drier

metrology Symbol for the decisecond, an SI unit of time equal to 10?1 seconds

a generic name for digital lines that are provided by telephone companies to their local subscribers and that carry data at high speeds

Having a double character or purpose, Characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components, having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities, noun_ The dual number, An inflected form of a noun, adjective, pronoun, or verb used with two items or people, Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair

A durable, closely woven heavy cotton or linen fabric, A sweetheart; a darling_ a word of endearment, fondness, or admiration It is sometimes also applied to things_ as, a duck of a bonnet, intransitive verb_ To evade; dodge, To move swiftly, especially so as to escape being seen, To submerge the head or body briefly in water

Informal An Easterner or city person who vacations on a ranch in the West, A person of either sex, slang, used in the vocative A term of address for a man, transitive verb_ To dress elaborately or flamboyantly, interjection_ Used to express approval, satisfaction, or congratulations

In accord with right, convention, or courtesy; appropriate, Expected or scheduled, especially appointed to arrive, Owed or owing, adverb_ used with compass directions Directly; exactly, Directly; exactly, noun_ A charge or fee for membership, as in a club or organization, Something owed or deserve, That which is owed; debt; that which one contracts to pay, or do, to or for another; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done; a fee; a toll, transitive verb_ obsolete To endue,

obsolete Plural form of duo

a nobleman (in various countries) of high rank, a British peer of the highest rank, Used as the title for such a nobleman, intransitive verb_ To fight, especially with fists, Poetic To play the duke, transitive verb_ slang To beat with the fists, to fight; -- usually implying, to fight with the fists; to settle a dispute by fighting with the fists See duke, n sense 4

Lacking the power of speech Used of animals and inanimate objects, Temporarily speechless, as with shock or fear, Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words, verb_ To silence, transitive verb_ To make silent or dumb, obsolete To put to silence, To reduce the intellectual demands of