Vocabulary : Dumped to Dunbird
Dumped : of Dump
Dumpiness : The state of being dumpy.
Dumping : of Dump
Dumpish : Dull; stupid; sad; moping; melancholy.
Dumple : To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another.
Dumpling : A roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and boiled or baked; as, an apple dumpling.
Dumpy : Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout. ;; Sullen or discontented.
Dumpy level : A level having a short telescope (hence its name) rigidly fixed to a table capable only of rotatory movement in a horizontal plane. The telescope is usually an inverting one. It is sometimes called the Troughton level, from the name of the inventor, and a variety improved by one Gavatt is known as the Gavatt level.
Dun : A mound or small hill. ;; To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance. ;; To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately. ;; One who duns; a dunner. ;; An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun. ;; Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
Dunbird : The pochard; -- called also dunair, and dunker, or dun-curre. ;; An American duck; the ruddy duck.
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