Due

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Right; just title or claim.

II. Due ·adj Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.

III. Due ·vt To Endue.

IV. Due ·adv Directly; exactly; as, a due east course.

V. Due ·adj Appointed or required to arrive at a given time; as, the steamer was due yesterday.

VI. Due ·adj Justly claimed as a right or property; proper; suitable; becoming; appropriate; fit.

VII. Due ·adj Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.

VIII. Due ·adj Such as (a thing) ought to be; fulfilling obligation; proper; lawful; regular; appointed; sufficient; exact; as, due process of law; due service; in due time.

IX. Due ·noun That which is owed; debt; that which one contracts to pay, or do, to or for another; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done; a fee; a toll.

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