Dur"a*tive (?), a. Continuing; not completed; implying duration.
Its durative tense, which expresses the thought of it as going on.
J. Byrne.
Dur"bar (?), n. [Hind. darbr, fr. Per dar&?;r house, court, hall of audience; dar door, gate + br court, assembly.] An audience hall; the court of a native prince; a state levee; a formal reception of native princes, given by the governor general of India. [India] [Written also darbar.]
Dure (?), a. [L. durus; akin to Ir. & Gael. dur &?;, stubborn, W. dir certain, sure, cf. Gr. &?; force.] Hard; harsh; severe; rough; toilsome. [R.]
The winter is severe, and life is dure and rude.
W. H. Russell.
Dure, v. i. [F. durer, L. durare to harden, be hardened, to endure, last, fr. durus hard. See Dure, a.] To last; to continue; to endure. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.
Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while.
Matt. xiii. 21.
Dure"ful (?), a. Lasting. [Obs.] Spenser.
Dure"less, a. Not lasting. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.
Du"rene (?), n. [L. durus hard; -- so called because solid at ordinary temperatures.] (Chem.) A colorless, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C6H2(CH3)4, off artificial production, with an odor like camphor.
Du"ress (?), n. [OF. duresse, du&?;, hardship, severity, L. duritia, durities, fr. durus hard. See Dure.] 1. Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.
The agreements . . . made with the landlords during the time of slavery, are only the effect of duress and force.
Burke.
2. (Law) The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense.
Du*ress" (?), v. t. To subject to duress. "The party duressed." Bacon.
Du*ress"or (?), n. (Law) One who subjects another to duress Bacon.
||Dur"ga (?), n. (Myth.) Same as Doorga.
Dur"ham (?), n. One or a breed of short-horned cattle, originating in the county of Durham, England. The Durham cattle are noted for their beef-producing quality.
{ Du"ri*an (?), or Du"ri*on (?) }, n. (Bot.) The fruit of the durio. It is oval or globular, and eight or ten inches long. It has a hard prickly rind, containing a soft, cream-colored pulp, of a most delicious flavor and a very offensive odor. The seeds are roasted and eaten like chestnuts.
Dur"ing (?), prep. [Orig., p. pr. of dure.] In the time of; as long as the action or existence of; as, during life; during the space of a year.
||Du"ri*o (?), n. [NL., fr. Malay d&?;ri thorn.] (Bot.) A fruit tree (D. zibethinus, the only species known) of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian.
Du"ri*ty (?), n. [L. duritas, fr. durus hard.] [Obs.] 1. Hardness; firmness. Sir T. Browne.