duguð (_state of being fit, capable_), st. f.: 1) _capability, strength_: dat. pl. for dugeðum, _in ability_(?), 2502; duguðum dêmdon, _praised with all their might_(?), 3176.--2) _men capable of bearing arms, band of warriors_, esp., _noble warriors_: nom. sg. duguð unlytel, 498; duguð, 1791, 2255; dat. sg. for duguðe, _before the heroes_, 2021; nalles frätwe geaf ealdor duguðe, _gave the band of heroes no treasure_ (more), 2921; leóda duguðe on lâst, _upon the track of the heroes of the people_, i.e. after them, 2946; gen. sg. cûðe he duguðe þeáw, _the custom of the noble warriors_, 359; deórre duguðe, 488; similarly, 2239, 2659; acc. pl. duguða, 2036.--3) contrasted with geogoð, duguð designates the noted warriors of noble birth (as in the Middle Ages, knights in contrast with squires): so gen. sg. duguðe and geogoðe, 160; gehwylc ... duguðe and iogoðe, 1675; duguðe and geogoðe dæl æghwylcne, 622. durran, v. pret. and pres. _to dare_; prs. sg. II. þu dearst bîdan, _darest to await_, 527; III. he gesêcean dear, 685; pres. subj. sêc gyf þu dyrre, _seek_ (Grendel's mother), _if thou dare_, 1380; pret. dorste, 1463, 1469, etc.; pl. dorston, 2849. duru, st. f., _door, gate, wicket_: nom. sg., 722; acc. sg. [duru], 389. ge-dûfan, st. v., _to dip in, to sink into_: pret. þät sweord gedeáf (_the sword sank into the drake_, of a blow), 2701. þurh-dûfan, _to dive through; to swim through, diving_: pret. wäter up þurh-deáf, _swam through the water upwards_ (because he was before at the bottom), 1620. dwellan, w. v., _to mislead, to hinder_: prs. III. nô hine wiht dweleð, âdl ne yldo, _him nothing misleads, neither sickness nor age_, 1736. dyhtig, adj., _useful, good for_: nom. sg. n. sweord ... ecgum dyhtig, 1288. dynnan, w. v., _to sound, to groan, to roar_: pret. dryhtsele (healwudu, hruse) dynede, 768, 1318, 2559. dyrne, adj.: 1) _concealed, secret, retired_: nom. sg. dyrne, 271; acc. sg. dryhtsele dyrnne (of the drake's cave-hall), 2321.--2) _secret, malicious, hidden by sorcery_: dat. instr. sg. dyrnan cräfte, _with secret magic art_, 2291; dyrnum cräfte, 2169; gen. pl. dyrnra gâsta, _of malicious spirits_ (of Grendel's kin), 1358.--Comp. un-dyrne. dyrne, adv., _in secret, secretly_: him ...äfter deórum men dyrne langað, _longs in secret for the dear man_, 1880. dyrstig, adj., _bold, daring_: þeáh þe he dæda gehwäs dyrstig wære, _although he had been courageous for every deed_, 2839.