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3. (Bot.) A large, elongated cell, either round or prismatic, usually found associated with woody fiber.

Ducts are classified, according to the character of the surface of their walls, or their structure, as annular, spiral, scalariform, etc.

4. Guidance; direction. [Obs.] Hammond.

Duc"ti*ble (?), a. Capable of being drawn out [R.] Feltham.

Duc"tile (?), a. [L. ductilis, fr. ducere to lead: cf. F. ductile. See Duct.] 1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. Addison.

Forms their ductile minds To human virtues.

Philips.

2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.

Gold . . . is the softest and most ductile of all metals.

Dryden.

-- Duc"tile*ly (#), adv. -- Duc"tile*ness, n.

Duc`ti*lim"e*ter (?), n. [Ductile + -meter.] An instrument for accurately determining the ductility of metals.

Duc*til"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. ductilité.] 1. The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.

2. Tractableness; pliableness. South.

Duc"tion (?), n. [L. ductio, fr. ducere to lead.] Guidance. [Obs.] Feltham.

Duct"less (?), a. Having to duct or outlet; as, a ductless gland.

Duc"tor (?), n. [L., fr. ducere to lead.] 1. One who leads. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

2. (Mach.) A contrivance for removing superfluous ink or coloring matter from a roller. See Doctor, 4. Knight.

Ductor roller (Printing), the roller which conveys or supplies ink to another roller. Knight.

Duc"ture (?), n. Guidance. [Obs.] South.

Dud"der (?), v. t. [In Suffolk, Eng., to shiver, shake, tremble; also written dodder.] To confuse or confound with noise. Jennings.

Dud"der, v. i. To shiver or tremble; to dodder.

I dudder and shake like an aspen leaf.

Ford.

Dud"der, n. [From Duds.] A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer. [Eng.]

Dud"der*y (?), n. A place where rags are bought and kept for sale. [Eng.]

Dude (?), n. A kind of dandy; especially, one characterized by an ultrafashionable style of dress and other affectations. [Recent]

The social dude who affects English dress and English drawl.