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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Due

Dūe, a.

adjective

a. [Fr. dû, p. p. of devoir, to owe, Pr. & Pg. dever, Sp. deber, It. devere, dovere, Lat. debere.]

  1. Owed; requiring payment; proper to be paid or done to another.
  2. Required by the circumstances; proper; suitable; hence, enforced by conscience; required by natural or constitutional relations; becoming; appropriate; fit.

It is well if we can make a due use of them. South. With dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-yard path we saw him borne. Gray.

  1. Appointed; exact; proper; as, the musicians keep due time.
  2. Rightly expected to arrive; liable to come at any moment; as, the mail is now due.
  3. Owing; occasioned.

This effect is due to the attraction of the sun and moon. J. D. Forbes.

Dūe, adv.

adverb

Directly; exactly; as, a due east course.

Dūe, n.

noun

Sense 1. That which is owed; that which one contracts to pay, do, or perform to another; that which is enforced by moral obligation or propriety of any kind; that which custom, station, or law requires to be paid; a fee; an emolument. “Effects of courtesy, dues of gratitude.” Shak.

Yearly little dues of wheat, and wine, and oil. Tennyson.

Sense 2. Right; just title or claim.

The key of this infernal pit by due . . . I keep. Milton.

Dūe, v. t.

verbtransitive
  1. To pay as due. [Obs.] Shak.
  2. To endue. [Obs.] See ENDUE. Shak.