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▪ I. † dult, a. Obs.
[? related to dull.]
Blunt; fig. dull, stupid.
a1225Ancr. R. 292 Idoluen mit te dulte neiles..Þe neiles weren so dulte þet heo duluen his flesch. a1225Leg. Kath. 1268 Of ded and of dult [v.r. dul] wit! [hebetatis sensibus] Nu is ower stunde! a1240Ureisun in Cott. Hom. 203 Þurh driuen fet and honden wið dulte neiles.
▪ II. dult, n. Sc.|dʌlt|
= dolt; a dunce; the boy at the bottom of a class or form.
1825in Jamieson. 1831Blackw. Mag. XXX. 115 Agamemnon should have been sent to school for a dult. 1837Lockhart Scott iii, The stupidity of some laggard on what is called the dults' bench. |