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Doleful

DOLEFUL, adjective [dole and full.]

1. Sorrowful; expressing grief; as a doleful whine; a doleful cry.

2. Melancholy; sad; afflicted; as a doleful sire.

3. Dismal; impressing sorrow; gloomy; as doleful shades.

Dolefully

DOLEFULLY, adverb In a doleful manner; sorrowfully; dismally; sadly.

Dolefulness

DOLEFULNESS, noun Sorrow; melancholy; querulousness; gloominess; dismalness.

Dolent

DOLENT, adjective [Latin] Sorrowful. [Not in use.]

Dolesome

DOLESOME, adjective Gloomy; dismal; sorrowful; doleful.

The dolesome passage to th infernal sky.

Dolesomeness

DOLESOMENESS, noun Gloom; dismalness.

Doll

DOLL, noun [Gr., an idol; to see.] A puppet or baby for a child; a small image in the human form, for the amusement of little girls.

Dollar

DOLLAR, noun [G.] A silver coin of Spain and of the United States, of the value of one hundred cents, or four shillings and sixpence sterling. The dollar seems to have been originally a German coin, and in different parts of Germany, the name is given to coins of different values.

Dolomite

DOLOMITE, noun A variety of magnesian carbonate of lime, so called from the French geologist Dolomieu. Its structure is granular.

Dolor

DOLOR, noun [Latin] Pain; grief; lamentation.

Doloriferous

DOLORIFEROUS, adjective [Latin , pain; to produce.] Producing pain.

Dolorific

DOLORIFIC, adjective [Latin]

1. That causes pain or grief.

2. Expressing pain or grief.

Dolorous

DOLOROUS, adjective [Latin , grief.]

1. Sorrowful; doleful; dismal; impressing sorrow or grief; as a dolorous object; a dolorous region.

2. Painful; giving pain.

Their dispatch is quick, and less dolorous than the paw of the bear.

3. Expressing pain or grief; as dolorous sighs.

Dolorously

DOLOROUSLY, adverb Sorrowfully; in a manner to express pain.

Dolphin

DOLPHIN, noun [Gr.]

1. A genus of cetaceous fish, with teeth in both jaws, and a pipe in the head, comprehending the dolphin the porpoise, the grampus and the beluga. But the fish to which seamen give this name, is the Coryphaena hippuris of Linne. It has a flat roundish snout and a tapering body, with a fin running along the back from the head to the tail, consisting of a coriaceous membrane with soft spines.

2. In ancient Greece, a machine suspended over the sea, to be dropped on any vessel passing under it.

Dolphinet

DOLPHINET, noun A female dolphin.

Dolt

DOLT, noun [G.] A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; to behave foolishly.

Doltish

DOLTISH, adjective Dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as a doltish clown.

Doltishness

DOLTISHNESS, noun Stupidity.

Dom

DOM, used as a termination, denotes jurisdiction, or property and jurisdiction; primarily, doom, judgment; as in kingdom, earldom. Hence it is used to denote state, condition or quality, as in wisdom, freedom.

Domain

DOMAIN, noun [Latin]

1. Dominion; empire; territory governed, or under the government of a sovereign; as the vast domains of the Russian emperor; the domains of the British king.

2. Possession; estate; as a portion of the kings domains.

3. The land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy. In this sense, the word coincides with demain, demesne.

Domal

DOMAL, adjective [Latin] Pertaining to house in astrology.

Dome

DOME, noun [Gr., a house, a plain roof. Latin ]

1. A building; a house; a fabric; used in poetry.

2. A cathedral.

3. In architecture, a spherical roof, raised over the middle of a building; a cupola.

4. In chemistry, the upper part of a furnace, resembling a hollow hemisphere or small dome This form serves to reflect or reverberate a part of the flame; hence these furnaces are called reverberating furnaces.

Domesday

DOMESDAY. [See Doomsday.]

Domesday-Book

DOOMSDAY-BOOK, DOMESDAY-BOOK noun A book compiled by order of William the Conqueror, containing a survey of all the lands in England. It consists of two volumes; a large folio, and a quarto. The folio contains 382 double pages of vellum, written in a small but plain character. The quarto contains 450 double pages of vellum, written in a large fair character.

Domesman

DOMESMAN, noun [See Doom.] A judge; an umpire.

Domestic

DOMESTIC, adjective [Latin , a house.]

1. Belonging to the house, or home; pertaining to ones place of residence, and to the family; as domestic concerns; domestic life; domestic duties; domestic affairs; domestic contentions; domestic happiness; domestic worship.

2. Remaining much at home; living in retirement; as a domestic man or woman.

3. Living near the habitations of man; tame; not wild; as domestic animals.

4. Pertaining to a nation considered as a family, or to ones own country; intestine; not foreign; as domestic troubles; domestic dissensions.

5. Made in ones own house, nation or country; as domestic manufactures.

DOMESTIC, noun One who lives in the family of another, as a chaplain or secretary. Also, a servant or hired laborer, residing with a family.

Domestically

DOMESTICALLY, adverb In relation to domestic affairs.

Domesticate

DOMESTICATE, verb transitive

1. To make domestic; to retire from the public; to accustom to remain much at home; as, to domesticate ones self.

2. To make familiar, as if at home.

3. To accustom to live near the habitations of man; to tame; as, to domesticate wild animals.

Domestication

DOMESTICATION, noun

1. The act of withdrawing from the public notice and living much at home.

2. The act of taming or reclaiming wild animals.

Domicil

DOMICIL, noun [Latin , a mansion.] An abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an individual or family; a residence, animo manendi.

Domiciled

DOMICILED, DOMICILIATED, participle passive Having gained a permanent residence or inhabitancy.

Domiciliate

DOMICIL, DOMICILIATE verb transitive To establish a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy.

Domiciliated

DOMICILED, DOMICILIATED participle passive Having gained a permanent residence or inhabitancy.

Domiciliating

DOMICILING, DOMICILIATING participle present tense Gaining or taking a permanent residence.

Domiciliation

DOMICILIATION, noun Permanent residence; inhabitancy.

Domiciling

DOMICILING, DOMICILIATING, participle present tense Gaining or taking a permanent residence.

Domify

DOMIFY, verb transitive [Latin , a house; to make.]

1. In astrology, to divide the heavens into twelve houses, in order to erect a theme or horoscope, by means of six great circles, called circles of position.

2. To tame. [Not in use and improper.]

Dominant

DOMINANT, adjective [Latin , to rule; lord, master; a house; to overcome, to subdue.]

1. Ruling; prevailing; governing; predominant; as the dominant party, or faction.

2. In music, the dominant or sensible chord is that which is practiced on the dominant of the tone, and which introduces a perfect cadence. Every perfect major chord becomes a dominant chord, as soon as the seventh minor is added to it.

DOMINANT, noun In music, of the three notes essential to the tone, the dominant is that which is a fifth from the tonic.

Dominate

DOMINATE, verb transitive [Latin See Dominant.] To rule; to govern; to prevail; to predominate over.

We every where meet the Slavonian nations either dominant or dominated.

DOMINATE, verb intransitive To predominate. [Little used.]

Dominated

DOMINATED, participle passive Ruled; governed.

Dominating

DOMINATING, participle present tense Ruling; prevailing; predominating.

Domination

DOMINATION, noun [Latin]

1. The exercise of power in ruling; dominion; government.

2. Arbitrary authority; tyranny.

3. One highly exalted in power; or the fourth order of angelic beings.

Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.

Dominative

DOMINATIVE, adjective Governing; also, imperious.

Dominator

DOMINATOR, noun

1. A ruler or ruling power; the presiding or predominant power.

Jupiter and Mars are dominators for this northwest part of the world.

2. An absolute governor.

Domineer

DOMINEER, verb intransitive [Latin See Dominant.]

1. To rule over with insolence or arbitrary sway.

To domineer over subjects or servants is evidence of a low mind.

2. To bluster; to hector; to swell with conscious superiority, or haughtiness.

Go to the feast, revel and domineer

Domineering

DOMINEERING, participle present tense

1. Ruling over with insolence; blustering; manifesting haughty superiority.

2. adjective Overbearing.

Dominical

DOMINICAL, adjective [Low Latin , lord.]

1. That notes the Lords day or Sabbath. The dominical letter is the letter which, in almanacks, denotes the sabbath, or dies domini, the Lords day. The first seven letters of the alphabet are used for this purpose.

2. Noting the prayer of our Lord.

DOMINICAL, noun [infra.] The Lords day.

Dominican

DOMINICAN, adjective or noun The Dominicans, or dominican Friars, are an order of religious or monks, called also Jacobins, or Predicants, preaching friars; an order founded about the year 1215.

Dominion

DOMINION, noun [Latin See Dominant.]

1. Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling.

The dominion of the Most High is an everlasting dominion Daniel 4:3.

2. Power to direct, control, use and dispose of at pleasure; right of possession and use without being accountable; as the private dominion of individuals.

3. Territory under a government; region; country; district governed, or within the limits of the authority of a prince or state; as the British dominions.

4. Government; right of governing. Jamaica is under the dominion of Great Britain.

5. Predominance; ascendant.

6. An order of angels.

Whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers. Colossians 1:16.

7. Persons governed.

Judah was his sanctuary; Israel his dominion Psalms 114:2.

Domino

DOMINO, noun A kind of hood; a long dress; a masquerade dress.

Domite

DOMITE, noun A mineral named from Dome in Auvergne, in France, of a white or grayish white color, having the aspect and gritty feel of a sandy chalk.

Don

DON. A title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes. It is commonly supposed to be contracted from dominus, dom, and the Portuguese dono, the master or owner of any thing, gives some countenance to the opinion. It coincides nearly with Heb.: judge, ruler or lord. It was formerly used in England, and writter by Chaucer Dan. [See Spelman.]

DONa, or duena, the feminine of don is the title of a lady, in Spain and Portugal.

DON, verb transitive [To do on; opposed to doff.] To put on; to invest with.

Donacite

DONACITE, noun A petrified shell of the genus Donax.

Donary

DONARY, noun [Latin , to give.] A thing given to a sacred use. [Little used.]

Donation

DONATION, noun [Latin , to give.]

1. The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.

That right we hold by his donation

2. In law, the act or contract by which a thing or the use of it is transferred to a person, or corporation, as a free gift. To be valid, a donation supposes capacity both in the donor to give and donee to take, and requires consent, acceptance and delivery.

3. That which is given or bestowed; that which is transferred to another gratuitously, or without a valuable consideration; a gift; a grant. donation is usually applied to things of more value than present.

Mr. Boudinot made a donation of ten thousand dollars to the American Bible Society.

Donatism

DONATISM, noun The doctrines of the Donatists.

Donatist

DONATIST, noun One of the sect founded by Donatus. They held that theirs was the only pure church, and that baptism and ordination, unless by their church, were invalid.

Donatistic

DONATISTIC, adjective Pertaining to Donatism.

Donative

DONATIVE, noun [Latin , to give.]

1. A gift; a largess; a gratuity; a present; a dole.

The Romans were entertained with shows and donatives.

2. In the canon law, a benefice given and collated to a person, by the founder or patron, without either presentation, institution or induction by the ordinary.

DONATIVE, adjective Vested or vesting by donation; as a donative advowson.

Done

DONE, participle passive Dun. [See Do.]

1. Performed; executed; finished.

2. A word by which agreement to a proposal is expressed; as in laying a wager, an offer being made, the person accepting or agreeing says, done; that is, it is agreed, I agree, I accept.

Donee

DONEE, noun [Latin , to give.]

1. The person to whom a gift or donation is made.

2. The person to whom lands or tenements are given or granted; as a donee in fee-simple or fee-tail.

Donjon

DONJON or DONGEON. [See Dungeon.]

Donnat

DONNAT, noun [do and naught.] An idle fellow. [Not in use.]

Donor

DONOR, noun [Latin , to give.]

1. One who gives or bestows; one who confers any thing gratuitously; a benefactor.

2. One who grants an estate; as, a conditional fee may revert to the donor if the donee has no heirs of his body.

Donship

DONSHIP, noun [See Don.] The quality or rank of a gentleman or knight.

Donzel

DONZEL, noun A young attendant; a page.

Doodle

DOODLE, noun A trifler; a simple fellow.

Doole

DOOLE, [See Dole.]

Doom

DOOM, verb transitive [Latin , to esteem, and perhaps with the root of condemn. See Deem.]

1. To judge. [Unusual.]

Thou didst not doom so strictly.

2. To condemn to any punishment; to consign by a decree or sentence; as, the criminal is doomed to chains.

3. To pronounce sentence or judgment on.

Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls.

4. To command authoritatively.

Have I a tongue to doom my brothers death.

5. To destine; to fix irrevocably the fate or direction of; as, we are doomed to suffer for our sins and errors.

6. To condemn, or to punish by a penalty.

DOOM, noun

1. Judgment; judicial sentence.

To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied.

Hence, the final doom is the last judgment.

2. Condemnation; sentence; decree; determination affecting the fate or future state of another; usually a determination to inflict evil, sometimes otherwise.

Revoke that doom of mercy.

3. That state to which one is doomed, or destined. To suffer misery is the doom of sinners. To toil for subsistence is the doom of most men.

4. Ruin; destruction.

From the same foes, at last, both felt their doom

5. Discrimination. [Not used.]

Doomage

DOOMAGE, noun A penalty or fine for neglect.

Doomed

DOOMED, participle passive Adjudged; sentenced; condemned; destined; fated.

Doomful

DOOMFUL, adjective Full of destruction.

Dooming

DOOMING, participle present tense Judging; sentencing; condemning; destining.

Doomsday

DOOMSDAY, noun [doom and day.]

1. The day of the final judgment; the great day when all men are to be judged and consigned to endless happiness or misery.

2. The day of sentence or condemnation.

Doomsday-Book

DOOMSDAY-BOOK, DOMESDAY-BOOK, noun A book compiled by order of William the Conqueror, containing a survey of all the lands in England. It consists of two volumes; a large folio, and a quarto. The folio contains 382 double pages of vellum, written in a small but plain character. The quarto contains 450 double pages of vellum, written in a large fair character.

Door

DOOR, noun [G., Gr.]

1. An opening or passage into a house, or other building, or into any room, apartment or closet, by which persons enter. Such a passage is seldom or never called a gate.

2. The frame of boards, or any piece of board or plank that shuts the opening of a house or closes the entrance into an apartment or any inclosure, and usually turning on hinges.

3. In familiar language, a house; often in the plural, doors. My house is the first door from the corner. We have also the phrases, within doors, in the house; without doors, out of the house, abroad.

4. Entrance; as the door of life.

5. Avenue; passage; means of approach or access. An unforgiving temper shuts the door against reconciliation, or the door of reconciliation.

I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved. John 10:1.

A door was opened to me of the Lord. 2 Corinthians 2:12.

To lie at the door in a figurative sense, is to be imputable or chargeable to one. If the thing is wrong, the fault lies at my door

Next door to, near to; bordering on.

A riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult.

Out of door or doors, quite gone; no more to be found. [Not now used.]

In doors, within the house; at home.

Door-Case

DOOR-CASE, noun The frame which incloses a door.

Door-Keeper

DOOR-KEEPER, noun A porter; one who guards the entrance of a house or apartment.

Door-Nail

DOOR-NAIL, noun The nail on which the knocker formerly struck.

Door-Post

DOOR-POST, noun The post of a door.

Door-Stead

DOOR-STEAD, noun Entrance or place of a door.

Dooring

DOORING, noun A door-case. [Not used.]

Doquet

DOQUET, noun Doket. A warrant; a paper granting license. [See Docket.]

Dor

DOR, DORR, noun The name of the black-beetle, or the hedgechafer, a species of Scarabaeus. We usually say, the dor-beetle.

Dorado

DORADO, noun

1. A southern constellation, containing six stars, called also xiphias; not visible in our latitude.

2. A large fish resembling the dolphin.

Doree

DOREE, noun A fish of the genus Zeus. It is called also faber, and gallus marinus. The body is oval and greatly compressed on the sides; the head is large and the snout long.

Dorian

DORIAN, adjective Pertaining to Doris in Greece. [See Doric.]

Doric

DORIC, adjective [from Doris in Greece.] in general, pertaining to Doris, or the Dorians, in Greece, who dwelt near Parnassus.

In architecture, noting the second order of columns, between the Tuscan and Ionic. The doric order is distinguished for simplicity and strength. It is used in the gates of cities and citadels, on the outside of churches, etc.

The doric dialect of the Greek language was the dialect of the Dorians, and little different from that of Lacedemon.

The doric mode, in music, was the first of the authentic modes of the ancients. Its character is to be severe, tempered with gravity and joy.

Doricism

DORICISM, DORISM, noun A phrase of the Doric dialect.

Dorism

DORICISM, DORISM noun A phrase of the Doric dialect.

Dormancy

DORMANCY, noun [infra.] Quiescence.

Dormant

DORMANT, adjective [Latin , to sleep.]

1. Sleeping; hence, at rest; not in action; as dormant passions.

2. Being in a sleeping posture; as the lion dormant in heraldry.

3. Neglected; not used; as a dormant title; dormant privileges.

4. Concealed; not divulged; private. [Unusual.]

5. Leaning; inclining; not perpendicular; as a dormant window, supposed to be so called form a beam of that name. This is now written dormer or dormar.

DORMANT, noun A beam; a sleeper.

Dormar

DORMAR, noun A beam; a sleeper.

Dormar-Window

DORMAR, DORMAR-WINDOW noun A window in the roof of a house, or above the entablature, being raised upon the rafters.

Dormitive

DORMITIVE, noun [Latin , to sleep.] A medicine to promote sleep; an opiate.

Dormitory

DORMITORY, noun [Latin , to sleep.]

1. A place, building or room to sleep in.

2. A gallery in convents divided into several cells, where the religious sleep.

3. A burial place.

Dormouse

DORMOUSE, noun plural Dormice. [Latin , to sleep and mouse.] An animal of the mouse kind, which makes a bed of moss or dry leaves, in a hollow tree or under shrubs, lays in a store of nuts or other food, and on the approach of cold weather, rolls itself in a ball and sleeps the greatest part of the winter.

Dorn

DORN, noun [G., thorn.] A fish.

Doron

DORON, noun [Gr., a gift.]

1. A gift; a present. [Not in use.]

2. A measure of three inches.

Dorp

DORP, noun [G.] A small village.

Dorr

DORR. [See Dor.]

DORR, verb transitive To deafen with noise. [Not in use.]

Dorrer

DORRER, noun A drone. [Not in use.]

Dorsal

DORSAL, adjective [Latin , the back.] Pertaining to the back; as the dorsal fin of a fish; dorsal awn, in botany.

Dorse

DORSE, noun A canopy.

Dorsel

DORSEL, noun [See Dosser.]

Dorsiferous

DORSIFEROUS, DORSIPAROUS, adjective [Latin , the back; to bear.] In botany, bearing or producing seeds on the back of their leaves; an epithet given to ferns or plants of the capillary kind without stalks.

Dorsiparous

DORSIFEROUS, DORSIPAROUS adjective [Latin , the back; to bear.] In botany, bearing or producing seeds on the back of their leaves; an epithet given to ferns or plants of the capillary kind without stalks.

Dorsum

DORSUM, noun [Latin] The ridge of a hill.

Dorture

DORTURE, noun [contraction of dormiture.] A dormitory. [Not in use.]

Dose

DOSE, noun [Gr., that which is give; to give.]

1. The quantity of medicine give or prescribed to be taken at one time.

2. Any thing given to be swallowed; any thing nauseous, that one is obliged to take.

3. A quantity; a portion.

4. As much as a man can swallow.

DOSE, verb transitive

1. To proportion a medicine properly to the patient or disease; to form into suitable doses.

2. To give in doses; to give medicine or physic.

3. To give any thing nauseous.

Dosser

DOSSER, noun A pannier, or basket, to be carried on the shoulders of men.

Dossil

DOSSIL, noun In surgery, a pledget or portion of lint made into a cylindric form, or the shape of a date.

Dost

DOST, the second person of do, used int he solemn style; thou dost

Dot

DOT, noun [I know not the origin and affinities of this word. It would be naturally deduced from a verb signifying to set, or to prick, like punctum, point.] A small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck; used in marking a writing or other thing.

DOT, verb transitive

1. To mark with dots.

2. To mark or diversify with small detached objects; as a landscape dotted with cottages, or clumps of trees.

DOT, verb intransitive To make dots or spots.

Dotage

DOTAGE, noun [from dote.]

1. Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age, childishness of old age; as a venerable man now in his dotage

2. A doting; excessive fondness.

3. Deliriousness. [See the verb, to dote.]

Dotal

DOTAL, adjective [Latin , dower.] Pertaining to dower, or a womans marriage portion; constituting dower or comprised in it; as a dotal town.

Dotard

DOTARD, noun [dote and ard, kind.]

1. A man whose intellect is impaired by age; one in his second childhood.

The sickly dotard wants a wife.

2. A doting fellow; one foolishly fond.

Dotardly

DOTARDLY, adjective Like a dotard; weak.

Dotation

DOTATION, noun [Latin , to endow.]

1. The act of endowing, or of bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.

2. Endowment; establishment of funds for support; as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation.

Dote

DOTE, verb intransitive

1. To be delirious; to have the intellect impaired by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to be silly.

Time has made you dote and vainly tell of arms imagined in your lonely cell.

2. To be excessively in love; usually with on or upon; to dote on, is to love to excess or extravagance.

What dust we dote on, when tis man we love.

Aholah dotes on her lovers, the Assyrians. Ezekiel 23:5.

3. To decay.

Doter

DOTER, noun

1. One who dotes; a man whose understanding is enfeebled by age; a dotard.

2. One who is excessively fond, or weakly in love.

Doting

DOTING, participle present tense Regarding with excessive fondness.

Dotingly

DOTINGLY, adverb By excessive fondness.

Dottard

DOTTARD, noun A tree kept low by cutting.

Dotted

DOTTED, participle passive

1. Marked with dots or small spots; diversified with small detached objects.

2. In botany, sprinkled with hollow dots or points.

Dotterel

DOTTEREL, noun The name of different species of fowls, of the genus Charadrius and the grallic order; as the Alexandrine dotterel the ringed dotterel and the Morinellus; also, the turnstone or sea dotterel a species of the genus Tringa.

Dotting

DOTTING, participle present tense Marking with dots or spots; diversifying with small detached objects.

Douanier

DOUANIER, noun An officer of the customs.

Double

DOUBLE, adjective Dubl. [Latin , Gr. See Two.]

1. Two of a sort together; one corresponding to the other; being in pairs; as double chickens in the same egg; double leaves connected by one petiole.

2. Twice as much; containing the same quantity or length repeated.

Take double money in your hand. Genesis 43:12.

Let a double portion of thy spirit be on me. 2 Kings 2:9.

With to; as, the amount is double to what I expected.

3. Having one added to another; as a double chin.

4. Twofold; also, of two kinds.

Darkness and tempest make a double night.

5. Two in number; as double sight or sound. [See No. 1.]

6. Deceitful; acting two parts, one openly, the other in secret.

And with double heart do they speak. Psalms 12:2.

DOUBLE, adverb Dubl. Twice.

I was double their age.

DOUBLE, in composition, denotes, two ways, or twice the number or quantity.

Double-Banked

DOUBLE-BANKED, adjective In seamanship, having two opposite oars managed by rowers on the same bench, or having two men to the same oar.

Double-Biting

DOUBLE-BITING, adjective Biting or cutting on either side; as a double-biting ax.

Double-Buttoned

DOUBLE-BUTTONED, adjective Having two rows of buttons.

Double-Charge

DOUBLE-CHARGE, verb transitive To charge or intrust with a double portion.

Double-Dealer

DOUBLE-DEALER, noun One who acts two different parts, in the same business, or at the same time; a deceitful, trickish person; one who says one thing and thinks or intends another; one guilty of duplicity.

Double-Dealing

DOUBLE-DEALING, noun Artifice; duplicity; deceitful practice; the profession of one thing and the practice of another.

Double-Dye

DOUBLE-DYE, verb transitive To dye twice over.

Double-Edged

DOUBLE-EDGED, adjective Having two edges.

Double-Entendre

DOUBLE-ENTENDRE, noun Double meaning of a word or expression.

Double-Eyed

DOUBLE-EYED, adjective Having a deceitful countenance.

Double-Face

DOUBLE-FACE, noun Duplicity; the acting of different parts in the same concern.

Double-Faced

DOUBLE-FACED, adjective Deceitful; hypocritical; showing two faces.

Double-Formed

DOUBLE-FORMED, adjective Of a mixed form.

Double-Fortified

DOUBLE-FORTIFIED, adjective Twice fortified; doubly strengthened.

Double-Founted

DOUBLE-FOUNTED, adjective Having two sources.

Double-Gild

DOUBLE-GILD, verb transitive To gild with double coloring.

Double-Handed

DOUBLE-HANDED, adjective Having two hands; deceitful.

Double-Headed

DOUBLE-HEADED, adjective

1. Having two heads.

2. Having the flowers growing one to another.

Double-Hearted

DOUBLE-HEARTED, adjective Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous.

Double-Lock

DOUBLE-LOCK, verb transitive To shoot the bolt twice; to fasten with double security.

Double-Manned

DOUBLE-MANNED, adjective Furnished with twice the complement of men, or with two men instead of one.

Double-Meaning

DOUBLE-MEANING, adjective Having two meanings.

Double-Minded

DOUBLE-MINDED, adjective Having different minds at different times; unsettled; wavering; unstable; undetermined. James 1:1.

Double-Mouthed

DOUBLE-MOUTHED, adjective Having two mouths.

Double-Natured

DOUBLE-NATURED, adjective Having a two-fold nature.

Double-Octave

DOUBLE-OCTAVE, noun In muxic, an interval composed of two octaves or fifteen notes in diatonic progression; a fifteenth.

Double-Plea

DOUBLE-PLEA, noun In law, a plea in which the defendant alledges two different matters in bar of the action.

Double-Quarrel

DOUBLE-QUARREL, noun A complaint of a clerk to the archbishop against an inferior ordinary, for delay of justice.

Double-Shade

DOUBLE-SHADE, verb transitive To double the natural darkness of a place.

Double-Shining

DOUBLE-SHINING, adjective Shining with double luster.

Double-Threaded

DOUBLE-THREADED, adjective Consisting of two threads twisted together.

Double-Tongued

DOUBLE-TONGUED, adjective Making contrary declarations on the same subject at different times; deceitful.

The deacons must be grave, not double-tongued 1 Timothy 3:1.

DOUBLE, verb transitive dubl. [Latin , Gr.]

1. To fold; as, to double the leaf of a book; to double down a corner.

2. To increase or extend by adding an equal sum, value, quantity or length; as, to double a sum of money; to double the amount; to double the quantity or size of a thing; to double the length; to double dishonor.

3. To contain twice the sum, quantity or length, or twice as much; as, the enemy doubles our army in numbers.

4. To repeat; to add; as, to double blow on blow.

5. To add one to another in the same order.

Thou shalt double the sixth curtain in the fore-front of the tabernacle. Exodus 26:1.

6. In navigation, to double a cape or point, is to sail round it, so that the cape or point shall be between the ship and her former situation.

7. In military affairs, to unite two ranks or files in one.

To double and twist, is to add one thread to another and twist them together.

To double upon, in tactics, is to inclose between two fires.

DOUBLE, verb intransitive

1. To increase to twice the sum, number, value, quantity or length; to increase or grow to twice as much. A sum of money doubles by compound interest in a little more than eleven years. The inhabitants of the United States double in about twenty five years.

2. To enlarge a wager to twice the sum laid.

I am resolved to double till I win.

4. To play tricks; to use sleights.

DOUBLE, noun

1. Twice as much; twice the number, sum, value, quantity or length.

If the thief be found, let him pay double. Exodus 22:9.

2. A turn in running to escape pursuers.

3. A trick; a shift; an artifice to deceive.

Doubled

DOUBLED, participle passive Folded; increased by adding an equal quantity, sum or value; repeated; turned or passed round.

Doubleness

DOUBLENESS, noun

1. The state of being doubled.

2. Duplicity.

Doubler

DOUBLER, noun

1. He that doubles.

2. An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electrometer.

Doublet

DOUBLET, noun

1. The inner garment of a man; a waistcoat or vest.

2. Two; a pair.

3. Among lapidaries, a counterfeit stone composed of two pieces of crystal, with a color between them, so that they have the same appearance as if the whole substance of the crystal were colored.

Doublets

DOUBLETS, noun

1. A game on dice within tables.

2. The same number on both dice.

3. A double meaning.

Doubling

DOUBLING, participle present tense Making twice the sum, number or quantity; repeating; passing round; turning to escape.

DOUBLING, noun The act of making double; also, a fold; a plait; also, an artifice; a shift.

Doubloon

DOUBLOON, noun A Spanish and Portuguese coin, being double the value of the pistole.

Doubly

DOUBLY, adverb In twice the quantity; to twice the degree; as doubly wise or good; to be doubly sensible of an obligation.

Doubt

DOUBT, verb intransitive dout. [Latin , G.]

1. To waver or fluctuate in opinion; to hesitate; to be in suspense; to be in uncertainty; to be in suspense; to be in uncertainty, respecting the truth or fact; to be undetermined.

Even in matters divine, concerning some things, we may lawfully doubt and suspend our judgment.

So we say, I doubt whether it is proper; I doubt whether I shall go; sometimes with of, as we doubt of a fact.

2. To fear; to be apprehensive; to suspect.

I doubt theres deep resentment in his mind.

DOUBT, verb transitive dout.

1. To question, or hold questionable; to withhold assent from; to hesitate to believe; as, I have heard the story, but I doubt the truth of it.

2. To fear; to suspect.

If they turn not back perverse; but that I doubt

3. To distrust; to withhold confidence from; as, to doubt our ability to execute an office.

Tadmire superior sense, and doubt their own.

4. To fill with fear.

DOUBT, noun Dout.

1. A fluctuation of mind respecting truth or propriety, arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of mind; suspense; unsettled state of opinion; as, to have doubts respecting the theory of the tides.

Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces. Genesis 37:33.

2. Uncertainty of condition.

Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee. Deuteronomy 28:66.

3. Suspicion; fear; apprehension.

I stand in doubt of you. Galatians 4:20.

4. Difficulty objected.

To every doubt your answer is the same.

5. Dread; horror and danger.

Doubtable

DOUBTABLE, adjective That may be doubted.

Doubted

DOUBTED, participle passive Scrupled; questioned; not certain or settled.

Doubter

DOUBTER, noun One who doubts; one whose opinion is unsettled; one who scruples.

Doubtful

DOUBTFUL, adjective

1. Dubious; not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating; applied to persons; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure.

2. Dubious; ambiguous; not clear in its meaning; as a doubtful expression.

3. Admitting of doubt; not obvious, clear or certain; questionable; not decided; as a doubtful case; a doubtful proposition; it is doubtful what will be the event of the war.

4. Of uncertain issue.

We have sustained one day in doubtful fight.

5. Not secure; suspicious; as, we cast a doubtful eye.

6. Not confident; not without fear; indicating doubt.

With doubtful feet, and wavering resolution.

7. Not certain or defined; as a doubtful hue.

Doubtfully

DOUBTFULLY, adverb

1. In a doubtful manner; dubiously.

2. With doubt; irresolutely.

3. Ambiguously; with uncertainty of meaning.

Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare.

4. In a state of dread.

Doubtfulness

DOUBTFULNESS, noun

1. A state of doubt of uncertainty of mind; dubiousness; suspense; instability of opinion.

2. Ambiguity; uncertainty of meaning.

3. Uncertainty of event or issue; uncertainty of condition.

Doubting

DOUBTING, participle present tense Wavering in mind; calling in question; hesitating.

Doubtingly

DOUBTINGLY, adverb In a doubting manner; dubiously; without confidence.

Doubtless

DOUBTLESS, adjective Free from fear of danger; secure.

Pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure.

DOUBTLESS, adverb Without doubt or question; unquestionably.

The histories of Christ by the evangelists are doubtless authentic.

Doubtlessly

DOUBTLESSLY, adverb Unquestionably.

Douced

DOUCED, noun A musical instrument. [Not in use.]

Doucet

DOUCET, noun A custard. [Not in use.]

Douceur

DOUCEUR, noun [Latin] A present or gift; a bribe.

Doucine

DOUCINE, noun A molding concave above the convex below, serving as a cymatium to a delicate cornice; a gula.

Doucker

DOUCKER, noun [See Duck.] A fowl that dips or dives in water.

Dough

DOUGH, noun Do. [G.] Paste of bread; a mass composed of flour or meal moistened and kneaded, but not baked.

My cake is dough that is, by undertaking has not come to maturity.

Dough-Baked

DOUGH-BAKED, adjective Unfinished; not hardened to perfection; soft.

Dough-Kneaded

DOUGH-KNEADED, adjective Soft; like dough.

Dough-Nut

DOUGH-NUT, noun [dough and nut.] A small roundish cake, made of flour, eggs and sugar, moistened with milk and boiled in lard.

Doughtiness

DOUGHTINESS, noun Doutiness. [See Doughty.] Valor; bravery.

Doughty

DOUGHTY, adjective Douty. [G., Latin See Decent.] Brave; valiant; eminent; noble; illustrious; as a doughty hero. It is now seldom used except in irony or burlesque.

Doughy

DOUGHY, adjective Doy. Like dough; soft; yielding to pressure; pale.

Douse

DOUSE, verb transitive [Gr.]

1. To thrust or plunge into water.

2. In seamens language, to strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly. douse the top-sail.

DOUSE, verb intransitive To fall suddenly into water.

Dout

DOUT, verb transitive To put out; to extinguish.

Douter

DOUTER, noun An extinguisher for candles.

Douzeave

DOUZEAVE, noun Doozeve. In music, a scale of twelve degrees.

Dove

DOVE, noun [G.]

1. The oenas, or domestic pigeon, a species of Columba. Its color is a deep bluish ash color; the breast is dashed with a fine changeable green and purple; the sides of the neck, with a copper color. In a wild state, it builds its nest in holes of rocks or in hollow trees, but it is easily domesticated, and forms one of the luxuries of the table.

2. A word of endearment, or an emblem of innocence. Song of Solomon 2:14.

Dove-Cot

DOVE-COT, noun A small building or box in which domestic pigeons breed.

Dove-House

DOVE-HOUSE, noun A house or shelter for doves.

Dove-Tail

DOVE-TAIL, noun In carpentry, the manner of fastening boards and timbers together by letting one piece into another in the form of a doves tail spread, or wedge reversed, so that it cannot be drawn out. This is the strongest of all the fastenings or jointings.

DOVE-TAIL, verb transitive To unite by a tenon in form of a pigeons tail spread, let into a board or timber.

Dove-Tailed

DOVE-TAILED, participle passive United by a tenon in form of a doves tail.

Dove-Tailing

DOVE-TAILING, participle present tense Uniting by a dove-tail.

Dovelike

DOVELIKE, adjective Resembling a dove.

Doves-Foot

DOVES-FOOT, noun A plant, a species of Geranium.

Doveship

DOVESHIP, noun The qualities of a dove.

Dovish

DOVISH, adjective Like a dove; innocent. [Not in use.]

Dowable

DOWABLE, adjective [See Dower.] That may be endowed; entitled to dower.

Dowager

DOWAGER, noun A widow with a jointure; a title particularly given to the widows of princes and persons of rank. The widow of a king is called queen dowager

Dowcets

DOWCETS, noun The testicles of a hart or stag.

Dowdy

DOWDY, noun An awkward, ill-dressed, inelegant woman.

DOWDY, adjective Awkward.

Dower

DOWER, noun [Gr., a gift; to give. Latin ]

1. That portion of the lands or tenements of a man which his widow enjoys during her life, after the death of her husband. [This is the usual present signification of the word.]

2. The property which a woman brings to her husband in marriage.

3. The gift of a husband for a wife.

Ask me never so much dowry and gift. Genesis 34:1.

4. Endowment; gift.

How great, how plentiful, how rich a dower

Dowered

DOWERED, adjective Furnished with dower, or a portion.

Dowerless

DOWERLESS, adjective Destitute of dower; having no portion or fortune.

Dowery

DOWERY, DOWRY, A different spelling of dower, but little used, and they may well be neglected.

Dowlas

DOWLAS, noun A kind of coarse linen cloth.

Dowle

DOWLE, noun A feather. [Not in use.]

Down

DOWN, noun

1. The fine soft feathers of fowls, particularly of the duck kind. The eider duck yields the best kind. Also, fine hair; as the down of the chin.

2. The pubescence of plants, a fine hairy substance.

3. The pappus or little crown of certain seeds of plants; a fine feathery or hairy substance by which seeds are conveyed to distance by the wind; as in dandelion and thistle.

4. Any thing that soothes or mollifies.

Thou bosom softness; down of all my cares.

DOWN, noun [G.]

1. A bank or elevation of sand, thrown up by the sea.

2. A large open plain, primarily on elevated land. Sheep feeding on the downs.

DOWN, preposition

1. Along a descent; from a higher to a lower place; as, to run down a hill; to fall down a precipice; to go down the stairs.

2. Toward the mouth of a river, or toward the place where water is discharged into the ocean or a lake. We sail or swim down a stream; we sail down the sound from New York to New London. Hence figuratively, we pass down the current of life or of time.

DOWN the sound, in the direction of the ebb-tide towards of the sea.

DOWN the country, towards the sea, or towards the part where rivers discharge their waters into the ocean.

DOWN, adverb

1. In a descending direction; tending from a higher to a lower place; as, he is going down

2. On the ground, or at the bottom; as, he is down; hold him down

3. Below the horizon; as, the sun is down

4. In the direction from a higher to a lower condition; as, his reputation is going down

5. Into disrepute or disgrace. A man may sometimes preach down error; he may write down himself or his character, or run down his rival; but he can neither preach nor write down folly, vice or fashion.

6. Into subjection; into a due consistence; as, to boil down in decoctions and culinary processes.

7. At length; extended or prostrate, on the ground or on any flat surface; as, to lie down; he is lying down

Up and down here and there; in a rambling course.

It is sometimes used without a verb, as down down; in which cases, the sense is known by the construction.

DOWN with a building, is a command to pull it down to demolish it.

DOWN with him, signifies, throw him.

DOWN, down may signify, come down or go down or take down lower.

It is often used by seamen, down with the fore sail, etc.

Locke uses it for go down or be received; as, any kind of food will down; but the use is not elegant, nor legitimate.

Sidney uses it as a verb, To down proud hearts, to subdue or conquer them; but the use is not legitimate.

Down-Bed

DOWN-BED, noun A bed of down.

Down-Haul

DOWN-HAUL, noun In seamens language, a rope passing along a stay, through the cringles of the stay-sail or jib, and made fast to the upper corner of the sail, to haul it down.

Down-Sitting

DOWN-SITTING, noun The act of sitting down; repose; a resting.

Thou knowest my down-sitting and my uprising. Psalms 139:1.

Downcast

DOWNCAST, adjective Cast downward; directed to the ground; as a downcast eye or look, indicating bashfulness, modesty or dejection of mind.

DOWNCAST, noun Sadness; melancholy look.

Downed

DOWNED, adjective Covered or stuffed with down.

Downfall

DOWNFALL, noun

1. A falling, or body of things falling; as the downfall of a flood.

2. Ruin; destruction; a sudden fall; or ruin by violence, in distinction from slow decay or declension; as the downfall of the Roman empire, occasioned by the conquests of the Northern nations; the downfall of a city.

3. The sudden fall, depression or ruin of reputation or estate. We speak of the downfall of pride or glory, and of distinguished characters.

Downfallen

DOWNFALLEN, adjective Fallen; ruined.

Downgyved

DOWNGYVED, adjective Hanging down like the loose cincture of fetters.

Downhearted

DOWNHEARTED, adjective Dejected in spirits.

Downhill

DOWNHILL, noun Declivity; descent; slope.

And though tis downhill all.

DOWNHILL, adjective Declivous; descending; sloping.

A downhill greensward.

Downlooked

DOWNLOOKED, adjective Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen; as jealousy downlooked

Downlying

DOWNLYING, noun The time of retiring to rest; time of repose.

DOWNLYING, adjective About to be in travel of childbirth.