DOAT. [See Dote.]

DOCIBILITY, DOCIBLENESS, noun Teachableness; docility; readiness to learn.

DOCIBLE, adjective [See Docile.] Teachable; docile; tractable; easily taught or managed.

DOCIBILITY, DOCIBLENESS noun Teachableness; docility; readiness to learn.

DOCILE, adjective [Latin , to teach. See Teach.] Teachable; easily instructed; ready to learn; tractable; easily managed. Some children are far more docile than others. Dogs are more docile than many other animals.

DOCILITY, noun Teachableness; readiness to learn; aptness to be taught. The docility of elephants is remarkable.

DOCIMACY, noun [Gr., See the next word.] The art or practice of assaying metals; metallurgy.

DOCIMASTIC, adjective [Gr., to try, essay, examine, proved; to prove.] Properly, essaying, proving by experiments, or relating to the assaying of metals. The docimastic art is otherwise called metallurgy. It is the art of assaying metals, or the art of separating them from foreign matters, and determining the nature and quantity of metallic substance contained in any ore or mineral.

DOCK, noun [Gr., Latin ] A genus of plants, the Rumex, of several species. Its root resembles a carrot.

DOCK, verb transitive

1. To cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse.

2. To cut off a part; to shorten; to deduct from; as, to dock an account.

3. To cut off, destroy or defeat; to bar; as, to dock an entail.

4. To bring, draw or place a ship in a dock

DOCK, noun

1. The tail of a beast cut short or clipped; the stump of a tail; the solid part of the tail.

2. A case of leather to cover a horses dock

DOCK, noun A broad deep trench on the side of a harbor, or bank of a river, in which ships are built or repaired. A dry dock has flood-gates to admit the tide, and to prevent the influx, as occasion may require. Wet docks have no flood-gates, but ships may be repaired in them during the recess of the tide. Wet docks are also constructed with gates to deep the water in at ebb tide, so that vessels may lie constantly afloat in them. In America, the spaces between wharves are called docks.

DOCKET, noun

1. A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing. Also, a subscription at the foot of letters patent, by the clerk of the dockets.

2. A bill, tied to goods, containing some direction, as the name of the owner, or the place to which they are to be sent. [See Ticket.]

3. An alphabetical list of cases in a court, or a catalogue of the names of the parties who have suits depending in a court. In some of the states, this is the principal or only use of the word.

DOCKET, verb transitive

1. To make an abstract of summary of the heads of a writing or writings; to abstract and enter in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed.

2. To enter in a docket; to mark the contents of papers on the back of them.

3. To mark with a docket

DOCKING, participle present tense Clipping; cutting off the end; placing in a dock.

DOCKING, noun The act of drawing, as a ship, into a dock.

DOCTOR, noun [Latin , to teach.]

1. A teacher.

There stood up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law. Acts 5:34.

2. One who has passed all the degrees of a faculty, and is empowered to practice and teach it, as a doctor in divinity, in physic, in law; or according to modern usage, ad person who has received the highest degree in a faculty. The degree of doctor is conferred by universities and colleges, as an honorary mark of literary distinction. It is also conferred on physicians, as a professional degree.

3. A learned man; a man skilled in a profession; a man of erudition.

4. A physician; one whose occupation is to cure diseases.

5. The title, doctor is given to certain fathers of the church whose opinions are received as authorities, and in the Greek church, it is given to a particular officer who interprets the scriptures.

DOCTORs Commons, the college of civilians in London.

DOCTOR, verb transitive To apply medicines for the cure of diseases. [A popular use of this word, but not elegant.]

DOCTOR, verb intransitive To practice physic. [Not elegant.]

DOCTORAL, adjective Relating to the degree of a doctor.

DOCTORALLY, adverb In the manner of a doctor.

DOCTORATE, noun The degree of a doctor.

DOCTORATE, verb transitive To make a doctor by conferring a degree.

DOCTRESS, DOCTORESS noun A females physician.

DOCTORLY, adjective Like a learned man.

DOCTORSHIP, noun The degree or rank of a doctor. [Doctorate is now generally used.]

DOCTRESS, DOCTORESS, noun A females physician.

DOCTRINAL, adjective [See Doctrine.]

1. Pertaining to doctrine; containing a doctrine or something taught; as a doctrinal observation; a doctrinal proposition.

2. Pertaining to the act or means of teaching.

The word of God serveth no otherwise, than in the nature of a doctrinal instrument.

DOCTRINAL, noun Something that is a part of doctrine.

DOCTRINALLY, adv In the form of doctrine or instruction; by way of teaching or positive direction.

DOCTRINE, noun [Latin , to teach.]

1. In a general sense, whatever is taught. Hence, a principle or position in any science; whatever is laid down as true by an instructor or master. The doctrines of the gospel are the principles or truths taught by Christ and his apostles. The doctrines of Plato are the principles which he taught. Hence a doctrine may be true or false; it may be a mere tenet or opinion.

2. The act of teaching.

He taught them many things by parables, and said to them in his doctrine Mark 4:2.

3. Learning; knowledge.

Whom shall he make to understand doctrine? Isaiah 28:9.

4. The truths of the gospel in general.

That they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things. Titus 2:1.

5. Instruction and confirmation in the truths of the gospel. 2 Timothy 3:10.

DOCUMENT, noun [Latin , to teach.]

1. Precept; instruction; direction.

2. Dogmatical precept; authoritative dogma.

3. More generally, in present usage, written instruction, evidence or proof; any official or authoritative paper containing instructions or proof, for information and the establishment of facts. Thus, the president laid before congress the report of the secretary, accompanied with all the documents.

DOCUMENT, verb transitive

1. To furnish with documents; to furnish with instructions and proofs, or with papers necessary to establish facts. A ship should be documented according to the directions of law.

2. To teach; to instruct; to direct.

DOCUMENTAL, adjective Pertaining to instruction or to documents; consisting in or derived from documents; as documental testimony.

DOCUMENTARY, adjective Pertaining to written evidence; consisting in documents.

DODDER, noun [G.] A plant of the genus Cuscuta, one species of which is called hell-weed. It is almost destitute of leaves, parasitical, creeping and fixing itself to some other plant, as to hops, flax and particularly to the nettle. It decays at the root, and is nourished by the plant that supports it, by means of little vesicles or papillae, which attach themselves to the stalk.

DODDERED, adjective Overgrown with dodder; covered with supercrescent plants.

DODECAGON, noun [Gr., twelve; an angle.] A regular figure or polygon, consisting of twelve equal sides and angles.

DODECAGYN, noun [Gr., twelve; a female.] In botany, a plant having twelve pistils.

DODECAGYNIAN, adjective Having twelve pistils.

DODECAHEDRAL, adjective [infra.] Pertaining to a dodecahedron; consisting of twelve equal sides.

DODECAHEDRON, noun [Gr., twelve; a base.] A regular solid contained under twelve equal and regular pentagons, or having twelve equal bases.

DODECANDER, noun [Gr., twelve; a male.] In botany, a plant having twelve stamens; one of the class dodecandria. But this class includes all plants that have any number of stamens from twelve to nineteen inclusive.

DODECANDRIAN, adjective Pertaining to the plants or class of plants that have twelve stamens, or from twelve to nineteen.

DODECATEMORION, noun [Gr., twelfth; part.] A twelfth part. [Little used.]

DODECATEMORY, noun A denomination sometimes given to each of the twelve signs of the zodiac.

DODGE, verb intransitive doj. [from some root signifying to shoot, dart or start.]

1. To start suddenly aside; to shift place by a sudden start.

2. To play tricks; to be evasive; to use tergiversation; to play fast and loose; to raise expectations and disappoint them; to quibble.

DODGE, verb transitive To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed; to dodge a canon ball. [This is a common word, very expressive and useful, but not admissible in solemn discourse or elegant composition.]

DODGER, noun One who dodges or evades.

DODGING, participle present tense Starting aside; evading.

DODKIN, noun A little doit; a small coin.

DODMAN, noun A fish that casts its shell, like the lobster and crab.

DODO, noun The Didus, a genus of fowls of the gallinaceous order. The hooded dodo is large than a swan, with a strong hooked bill. The general color of the plumage is cinereous; the belly and thighs whitish. The head is large, and seems as if covered with a hood. The solitary dodo is a large fowl, and is said to weigh sometimes forty five pounds. The plumage is gray and brown mixed.

DOE, noun Do. A she deer; the female of the fallow-deer. The male is called a buck.

DOE, noun A feat. [Not used.]

DOER, noun [from do.]

1. One who does; one who performs or executes; an actor; an agent.

2. One who performs what is required; one who observes, keeps or obeys, in practice.

The doers of the law shall be justified. Romans 2:13.

DOES, the third person of the verb do, indicative mode, present tense, contracted from doeth.

DOFF, verb transitive

1. To put off, as dress.

And made us doff our easy robes of peace.

2. To strip or divest; as, he doffs himself.

3. To put or thrust away; to get rid of.

To doff their dire distresses.

4. To put off; to shift off; with a view to delay.

Every day thou doffst me with some device.

[This word is, I believe, entirely obsolete in discourse, at least in the United States, but is retained in poetry.]

DOG, noun

1. A species of quadrupeds, belonging to the genus Canis, of many varieties, as the mastiff, the hound, the spaniel, the shepherds dog the terrier, the harrier, the bloodhound, etc.

2. It is used for male, when applied to several other animals; as a dog-fox; a dog-otter; dog-ape. It is prefixed to other words, denoting what is mean, degenerate or worthless; as dog-rose.

3. An andiron, so named from the figure of a dogs head on the top.

4. A term of reproach or contempt given to a man.

5. A constellation called Sirius or Canicula. [See Dog-day.]

6. An iron hook or bar with a sharp fang, used by seamen.

7. An iron used by sawyers to fasten a log of timber in a saw-pit.

8. A gay young man; a buck. [Not in use.]

To give or throw to the dogs, is to throw away, as useless.

To go to the dogs, is to be ruined.

DOG, verb transitive To hunt; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to follow close; to urge; to worry with importunity.

I have been pursued, dogged and and way-laid.

DOGATE, noun [See Doge.] The office or dignity of a doge.

DOGBERRY, noun The berry of the dogwood.

DOGBRIER, noun The brier that bears the hip; the cynosbaton.

DOGCHEAP, adjective Cheap as dogs meat, or offal; very cheap.

DOGDAY, noun One of the days when Sirius or the dogstar rises and sets with the sun. The dogdays commence the latter part of July, and end the beginning of September.

DOGDRAW, noun A manifest deprehension of an offender against the venison in the forest, when he is found drawing after the deer by the scent of a hound led by the hand.

DOGE, noun [Latin , to lead.] The chief magistrate of Venice and Genoa.

DOGFIGHT, noun A battle between two dogs.

DOGFISH, noun A name given to several species of shark, as the spotted shark or greater dogfish the piked dogfish etc.

DOGFLY, noun A voracious, biting fly.

DOGGED, participle passive

1. Pursued closely; urged frequently and importunately.

2. adjective Sullen; sour; morose; surly; severe.

DOGGEDLY, adverb Sullenly; gloomily; sourly; morosely; severely.

DOGGEDNESS, noun Sullenness; moroseness.

DOGGER, noun A Dutch fishing vessel used in the German ocean, particularly in the herring fishery. It is equipped with two masts, a main-mast and a mizen-mast, somewhat resembling a ketch.

DOGGEREL, adjective An epithet given to a kind of loose, irregular measure in burlesque poetry, like that of Hudibras; as doggerel verse or rhyme.

DOGGEREL, noun A loose, irregular kind of poetry; used in burlesque.

DOGGERMAN, noun A sailor belonging to a dogger.

DOGGERS, noun In English alum works, a sort of stone found in the mines with the true alum-rock, containing some alum.

DOGGING, participle present tense [from dog.] Hunting; pursuing incessantly or importunately.

DOGGISH, adjective Like a dog; churlish; growling; snappish; brutal.

DOGHEARTED, adjective Cruel; pitiless; malicious.

DOGHOLE, noun A place fit only for dogs; a vile, mean habitation.

DOGHOUSE, noun A kennel for dogs.

DOGKENNEL, noun A kennel or hut for dogs.

DOGLEACH, noun A dog-doctor.

DOGLOUSE, noun An insect that is found on dogs.

DOGLY, adjective Like a dog. [Not in use.]

DOGMA, noun [Gr., to think; Latin ] A settled opinion; a principle, maxim or tenet; a doctrinal notion, particularly in matters of faith and philosophy; as the dogmas of the church; the dogmas of Plato.

Compliment my dogma and I will compliment yours.

DOGMATIC, DOGMATICAL, a.

DOGMATIC, DOGMATICAL adjective

1. Pertaining to a dogma, or to settled opinion.

2. Positive; magisterial; asserting or disposed to assert with authority or with overbearing and arrogance; applied to persons; as a dogmatic schoolman or philosopher.

3. Positive; asserted with authority; authoritative; as a DOGMATICAL opinion.

4. Arrogant; overbearing in asserting and maintaining opinions.

DOGMATICALLY, adverb Positively; in a magisterial manner; arrogantly.

DOGMATICALNESS, noun The quality of being dogmatical; positiveness.

DOGMATISM, noun Positive assertion; arrogance; positiveness in opinion.

DOGMATIST, noun A positive asserter; a magisterial teacher; a bold or arrogant advancer of principles.

DOGMATIZE, verb intransitive To assert positively; to teach with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.

Men often dogmatize most, when they are least supported by reason.

DOGMATIZER, noun One who dogmatizes; a bold assertor; a magisterial teacher.

DOGMATIZING, participle present tense Asserting with excess of confidence.

DOGROSE, noun The flower of the hip.

DOGSICK, adjective Sick as a dog.

DOGSKIN, adjective Made of the skin of a dog.

DOGSLEEP, noun Pretended sleep.

DOGSTAR, noun Sirius, a star of the first magnitude, whose rising and setting with the sun gives name to the dogdays.

DOGSTONES, noun A plant, the Orchis or fool-stones.

DOGTOOTH, noun plural Dogteeth. A sharp-pointed human tooth growing between the foreteeth and grinders, and resembling a dogs tooth. It is called also an eye tooth.

DOGTRICK, noun A currish trick; brutal treatment.

DOGTROT, noun A gentle trot like that of a dog.

DOGVANE, noun Among seamen, a small vane composed of thread, cork and feathers, fastened to a half pike and placed on the weather gun-wale, to assist in steering a ship on the wind.

DOGWATCH, noun Among seamen, a watch of two hours. The dogwatches are two reliefs between 4 and 8 oclock, P.M.

DOGWEARY, adjective Quite tired; much fatigued.

DOGWOOD, noun A common name of different species of Cornus or cornelian cherry.

DOILY, noun

1. A species of woolen stuff, said to be so called from the first maker.

2. Linen made into a small napkin.

DOING, participle present tense [See Do.] Performing; executing.

DOINGS, noun plural

1. Things done; transactions; feats; actions, good or bad.

2. Behavior; conduct.

3. Stir; bustle.

DOIT, noun [G.]

1. A small piece of money.

2. A trifle. Hence our vulgar phrase, I care not a doit It is used adverbially and commonly pronounced dite.

DOLABRIFORM, adjective [Latin , an ax; form.] Having the form of an ax or hatchet.

DOLE, noun [See Deal.]

1. The act of dealing or distributing; as the power of dole and donative. [Not in use.]

2. That which is dealt or distributed; a part, share or portion.

3. That which is given in charity; gratuity.

4. Blows dealt out.

5. Boundary. [Not in use.]

6. A void space left in tillage. [Local.]

DOLE, noun [Latin , pain, grief.] Grief; sorrow.

DOLE, verb transitive To deal; to distribute. [Not used.]

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

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

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

DOLESOME, adjective Gloomy; dismal; sorrowful; doleful.

The dolesome passage to th infernal sky.

DOLESOMENESS, noun Gloom; dismalness.

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

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

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

DOLORIFIC, adjective [Latin]

1. That causes pain or grief.

2. Expressing pain or grief.

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, adverb Sorrowfully; in a manner to express pain.

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, noun A female dolphin.

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

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

DOLTISHNESS, noun Stupidity.

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

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. [See Doomsday.]

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

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, adverb In relation to domestic affairs.

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

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

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

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

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

DOMICILIATION, noun Permanent residence; inhabitancy.

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

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, 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, 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, participle passive Ruled; governed.

DOMINATING, participle present tense Ruling; prevailing; predominating.

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, adjective Governing; also, imperious.

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, 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, participle present tense

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

2. adjective Overbearing.

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

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. 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, noun A petrified shell of the genus Donax.

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

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, noun The doctrines of the Donatists.

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, adjective Pertaining to Donatism.

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, 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, 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 or DONGEON. [See Dungeon.]

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

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

DONZEL, noun A young attendant; a page.

DOODLE, noun A trifler; a simple fellow.

DOOLE, [See Dole.]

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, noun A penalty or fine for neglect.

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

DOOMFUL, adjective Full of destruction.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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, 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, adjective Pertaining to Doris in Greece. [See 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, DORISM, noun A phrase of the Doric dialect.

DORICISM, DORISM noun A phrase of the Doric dialect.

DORMANCY, noun [infra.] Quiescence.

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, noun A beam; a sleeper.

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

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

DORON, noun [Gr., a gift.]

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

2. A measure of three inches.

DORP, noun [G.] A small village.

DORR. [See Dor.]

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

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

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

DORSE, noun A canopy.

DORSEL, noun [See Dosser.]

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.

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, noun [Latin] The ridge of a hill.

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

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

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

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

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

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, adjective Like a dotard; weak.

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, 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, 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, participle present tense Regarding with excessive fondness.

DOTINGLY, adverb By excessive fondness.

DOTTARD, noun A tree kept low by cutting.

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

DOUANIER, noun An officer of the customs.

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.

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

DOUBLENESS, noun

1. The state of being doubled.

2. Duplicity.

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, 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, noun

1. A game on dice within tables.

2. The same number on both dice.

3. A double meaning.

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

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

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, adjective That may be doubted.

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

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

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

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

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, adverb Unquestionably.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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, verb transitive To put out; to extinguish.

DOUTER, noun An extinguisher for candles.

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

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.

DOVELIKE, adjective Resembling a dove.

DOVESHIP, noun The qualities of a dove.

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

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

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, noun The testicles of a hart or stag.

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

DOWDY, adjective Awkward.

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, adjective Furnished with dower, or a portion.

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

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

DOWLAS, noun A kind of coarse linen cloth.

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

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.

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, adjective Covered or stuffed with down.

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, adjective Fallen; ruined.

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

DOWNHEARTED, adjective Dejected in spirits.

DOWNHILL, noun Declivity; descent; slope.

And though tis downhill all.

DOWNHILL, adjective Declivous; descending; sloping.

A downhill greensward.

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

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

DOWNLYING, adjective About to be in travel of childbirth.

DOWNRIGHT, adverb

1. Right down; straight down; perpendicularly.

A giant cleft downright

2. In plain terms; without ceremony or circumlocution.

We shall chide downright

3. Completely; without stopping short; as, she fell downright into a fit.

DOWNRIGHT, adjective

1. Directly to the point; plain; open; artless; undisguised; as downright madness; downright nonsense; downright wisdom; downright falsehood; downright atheism.

2. Plain; artless; unceremonious; blunt; as, he spoke in his downright way.

DOWNRIGHTLY, adverb Plainly; in plain terms; bluntly.

DOWNTROD, DOWNTRODDEN, adjective Trodden down; trampled down.

DOWNTROD, DOWNTRODDEN adjective Trodden down; trampled down.

DOWNWARD, DOWNWARDS, adverb [See Ward.]

DOWNWARD, DOWNWARDS adverb [See Ward.]

1. From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course, whether directly toward the center of the earth, or not; as, to tend downward; to move or roll downwards; to look downward; to take root DOWNWARDS

2. In a course or direction from a head, spring, origin or source. Water flows downward toward the sea; we sailed downward on the stream.

3. In a course of lineal descent from an ancestor, considered as a head; as, to trace successive generations downward from Adam or Abraham.

4. In the course of falling or descending from elevation or distinction.

DOWNWARD, adjective

1. Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place, as on a slope or declivity, or in the open air; tending towards the earth or its center; as a downward course; he took his way with downward force.

2. Declivous; bending; as the downward heaven.

3. Descending from a head, origin or source.

4. Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as downward thoughts.

DOWNWEED, noun Cottonweed, a downy plant.

DOWNY, adjective [See Down.]

1. Covered with down or nap; as a downy feather; downy wings.

2. Covered with pubescence or soft hairs, as a plant.

3. Made of down or soft feathers; as a downy pillow.

4. Soft, calm, soothing; as downy sleep.

5. Resembling down.

DOWRY, noun [See Dower. This word differs not from dower. It is the same word differently written, and the distinction made between them is arbitrary.]

1. The money, goods or estate which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; the portion given with a wife.

2. The reward paid for a wife.

3. A gift; a fortune, given.

DOWSE, verb transitive To strike on the face. [Not in use.]

DOWST, noun A stroke. [Not in use.]

DOXOLOGICAL, adjective Pertaining to doxology; giving praise to God.

DOXOLOGY, noun [Gr., praise, glory; to speak.] In Christian worship, a hymn in praise of the Almighty; a particular form of giving glory to God.

DOXY, noun A prostitute.

DOZE, verb intransitive [See Dote.]

1. To slumber; to sleep lightly.

If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him.

2. To live in a state of drowsiness; to be dull or half asleep; as, to doze away the time; to doze over a work.

DOZE, verb transitive To make dull; to stupify. Dryden uses the participle dozed, Dozed with his fumes; but the transitive verb is seldom or never used.

DOZEN, adjective Duzn. [G.] Twelve in number, applied to things of the same kind, but rarely or never to that number in the abstract. We say, a dozen men; a dozen pair of gloves. It is a word much used in common discourse and in light compositions; rarely in the grave or elevated style.

DOZEN, noun The number twelve of things of a like kind; as a dozen of eggs; twelve dozen of gloves; a dozen of wine.

DOZER, noun One that dozes or slumbers.

DOZINESS, noun [from dozy.] Drowsiness; heaviness; inclination to sleep.

DOZING, participle present tense Slumbering.

DOZING, noun A slumbering; sluggishness.

DOZY, adjective [See Doze.] Drowsy; heavy; inclined to sleep; sleepy; sluggish; as a dozy head.