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dressage 138 dynamite
dressage & la planchette, (sm. a.) operation and
process of detecting defects of straightness in
rifle barrels by the reflection of a straight-edge;
verificateur de , (sm. a.) optical apparatus for
detecting defects of straightness in gun barrels.
dresse, a., (mil.) well set up, drilled, and instructed
(of the men in ranks); (man.) broken;
h la selle, (man.) broken to the saddle.
dressement, m., (r. r.) grading, finishing, of earth-
works.
dresser, v. a., to dress, straighten, erect; to set up;
to make true; to level; to dress; trim (as, a
surface, a slope); to draw up, prepare (a report);
to arrange; to instruct, train, form; (man.) to
train (a horse); (sm. a.) to straighten, set (a
rifle barrel); (mil) to set up drill, and instruct
(a recruit); (mach.) to line up (an engine);
d'alignement, to build by the plumb-line;
& I'arcon, (sm. a.) v. au cordeau;
une batterie, (fort., art.) to trace or mark out
a battery; to equip it with guns;
un camp, (mil.) to lay out a camp;
un canon de fusil, (sm. a.) to set and
straighten a rifle barrel;
un cheval, (man.) to break a horse;
la chevre, (art.) to raise the gin;
au cordeau, to set by line (as, a gun barrel,
etc.);
des embuches, une embuscade, (mil.) to
lay an ambush, an ambuscade;
une machine, (mach.) to adjust, line up, an
engine;
de niveau, to level;
& 1'ceil, to set by the eye (a gun barrel, etc.);
une recrue, (mil.) to set up, drill, and instruct
a recruit;
une tente, to pitch a tent;
dresseur, m., (man.) horse-trainer; (sm. a.) barrelsetter.
droit, a., straight, right; plumb; upright, erect,
standing up; (man.) straight in line, said of a
horse when he stands squarely on his legs, with
his head and body in the same direction; (hipp.)
spund, free from lameness;
cheval , (hipp.) horse warranted sound and
free from lameness;
surjambe, (hipp.) short-pasterne/I.
droite, f., right line, straight Une; right hand, right
side; (mil.) right of an army, body of troops,
etc.;
d'un leve, (top.) line of direction, bearing laid
down on a survey.
droit-j DintS, (hipp.) straight-pasterned (of a
horse); straight (of a pastern).
droiture, f., justice, uprightness;
en , in a right line.
drome, f., raft, float;
. small
des embarcations, (nav.) in a shipyard, boats,
boats, collection or assemblage of small
boats.
drosse, f., (nav.) steam steering chain.
dualine, f., (expl.) dualin.
ductile, a., (met.) ductile.
ductilite, f., (met.) ductility.
duel, m., duel;
d'artillerie, (art.) artillery duel;
d'artillerie decisif, (art.) decisive duel, artil-
lery duel proper (assailants in duel position)'.
d'artillerie preparatoirc, (art.) preparatory
duel (assailants in reconnoitering position).
Dumanet, (mil. slang) French equivalent of
Tommy Atkins.
dune, f., (top.) dune, sand dune.
dunette, f., (nav.) poop.
duplicate, m., duplicate (of report, document).
dur, a., hard; harsh; stiff; (fond.) chilled;
au depart, (sm. a.) hard on the trigger;
& la detente, (sm. a.) hard on the trigger;
b, la lime, hard to file, resisting the file.
drille, m., (macJi.) drill, boring-bit; borer, piercer;
(mil.) poor soldier;
& archet, bow-drill;
& ar$on, breast-borer, breast-brace;
bon , (mil.) old soldier;
en engrenage, bevel wheel;
& levier, ratchet-brace, ratchet-drill;
& rochet, ratchet-drill, ratchet-brace.
drisse, f., halliard;
du pavilion, flag halliard;
de signaux, signal halliard.
droit, m., right, rights; title, claim; toil, duty, fee;
share; law;
& qui de , (law) to those having legal rights in
the case;
d'asik, right of shelter, (esp., nav.) on a war
vessel;
ayant , (law) person entitled (to payment,
redress, etc.), rightful claimant or owner;
de brevet, patent rights;
de chanceuerie, registration fee;
commercial, commercial law;
de discipline, (mil.) disciplinary power;
cchelonne, (adm.) differential duty;
d'enquete du, pavilion, (nav. int. law) right of
a man-of-war to make a commercial vessel
show colors;
de faire raisonner, (nav. int. law) right of
man-of-war to make a commercial vessel answer
questions;
des gens, (law) international law, law of
nations;
de grace, pardoning power;
de to guerre, (mil.) law of war;
maritime, maritime international, international
maritime law ;
militaire, military law;
des neutres, law of neutrals;
de prise, (nav. int. law) right of capture;
public militaire, (mil.) code of military legislation,
jurisprudence;
de represailles, law, right, of reprisals;
de verification de la, nationalite, (nav. int. law)
right of verifying nationality of a durability f., durability.
durable, a., durable, lasting.
durci, a.j hardened (as, lead for bullets); (fort.)
faced with concrete (of a parapet); (fond.)
chilled;
fonte e, (met.) chilled cast-iron;
& la surface, (met.) case-hardened, surfacehardened.
durcir, v. a., to harden; to stiffen; to make hard,
stiff; to indurate; (fond.) to chill.
durcissement, m., hardening, stiffening; indura-
vessel;
de visite, (nav. int. law) right of search.
tion; (fond.) chilling.
dure, f., bare ground; bare board.
durfee, f., duration; life (of a gun, etc.); (art.) time
of flight; (ball.) time interval;
de combustion, time of combustion (as, of a
fuse, a match, etc.); combustion interval;
d'ecoulement, (mil.) time necessary to march
past a given point;
dujour, (art.) time of combustion of a fuse,
as determined by local 1
atmospheric conditions
of the day, in Contradistinction from the tabular
combustion interval;
de la trajectoire, du trajet, (ball.) time of
flight.
durer, v. n., to last, continue; hold out, endure.
durete,
f., hardness;
d'extraction, (sm. a., r. f. art.) difficulty of
extraction (of the cartridge case);
de manoeuvre, stiffness, difficulty of operation
(of, the parts of a mechanism, etc.).
durilloii, m., callosity; (sm. a.) irregularity of
caliber (due to lack of homogeneity in the metal
of the barrel);
au pied, corn.
dynamagnite, f., (expl.) Hercules powder.
dynamique, f., dynamics.
dynamite, f., (expl.) dynamite;
asbeste, dynamite with asbestos for absorbent;
& base active simultanee, dynamite with explosive
base;
blanche, dynamite with base of natural
siliceous earth;