||Dul*ci"no (?), n. (Mus.) See Dolcino.
Dul"cite (?), n. [Cf. F. dulcite, fr. L. dulcis sweet.] (Chem.) A white, sugarlike substance, C6H8.(OH)2, occurring naturally in a manna from Madagascar, and in certain plants, and produced artificially by the reduction of galactose and lactose or milk sugar.
Dul"ci*tude (?), n. [L. dulcitudo, fr. dulcis sweet. Sweetness. [R.] Cockeram.
Dul"co*rate (?), v. t. [L. dulcoratus, p. p. of dulcorare, fr. dulcor sweetness, fr. dulcis sweet.] To sweeten; to make less acrimonious. [R.] Bacon.
Dul`co*ra"tion (?), n. [LL. dulcoratio.] The act of sweetening. [R.] Bacon.
Du"ledge (?), n. (Mil.) One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage. Wilhelm.
||Du*li"a (?), n. [LL., fr. Gr. &?; servitude, fr. &?; slave.] (R. C. Ch.) An inferior kind of veneration or worship, given to the angels and saints as the servants of God.
Dull (?), a. [Compar. Duller (?); superl. Dullest.] [AS. dol foolish; akin to gedwelan to err, D. dol mad, dwalen to wander, err, G. toll mad, Goth. dwals foolish, stupid, cf. Gr. &?; turbid, troubled, Skr. dhvr to cause to fall. Cf. Dolt, Dwale, Dwell, Fraud.] 1. Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish. "Dull at classical learning." Thackeray.
She is not bred so dull but she can learn.
Shak.