Dictionary: DO'DO – DOG'GED-LY

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DO'DO, n.

The Didus, a genus of fowls of the gallinaceous order. The hooded dodo is larger 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. – Encyc.

DOE, n. [do; Sax. da; Dan. daa.]

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

DOE, n.

A feat. [Not used.] – Hudibras.

DO'ER, n. [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. – Rom. ii.

DOES, v.

The third person of the verb do, indicative mode, present tense, contracted from Doeth.

DOFF, v.t. [Qu. do-off. Rather D. doffen, to push, to thrust. Class Db, No. 17, 18.]

  1. To put off, as dress. And made us doff our easy robes of peace. – Shak.
  2. To strip or divest; as, he doffs himself. – Crashaw.
  3. To put or thrust away; to get rid of. To doff their dire distresses. – Shak.
  4. To put off; to shift off; with a view to delay. Every day thou doff'st me with some device. – Shak. [This word is, I believe, entirely obsolete in discourse, at least in the United Stales, but is retained in poetry.]

DOFF'ED, pp.

Put off; stripped; thrust away.

DOG, n. [Fr. dogue, a bull dog or mastif; se doguer, to butt; Arm. dog or dogues; D. dog; probably, the runner or starter.]

  1. A species of quadrupeds, belonging to the genus Canis, of many varieties, as the mastif, the hound, the spaniel, the shepherd's dog, the terrier, the harrier, the bloodhound, &c.
  2. It is used for male, when applied to several other animals; as, a dog-fox; a dog-otter; dog-ape. – Dryden. It is prefixed to other words, denoting what is mean, degenerate or worthless; as, dog-rose. – Johnson.
  3. An andiron, so named from the figure of a dog's head on the top. [Russ. tagan.]
  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. – Mar. Dict.
  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.] – Johnson. To give or throw to the dogs, is to throw away, as useless. To go to the dogs, is to be ruined.

DOG, v.t.

To hunt; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to follow close; to urge; to worry with importunity. I have been pursued, dogged, and way-laid. – Pope.

DO'GAL, a. [See Doge.]

Belonging to or pertaining to a doge. – Lady Bulwer.

DO'GATE, n. [See Doge.]

The office or dignity of a doge. – Encyc.

DOG'BANE, n.

A plant.

DOG'BER-RY, n.

The berry of the dogwood, a species of Cornus.

DOG'BER-RY-TREE, n.

The dogwood, a species of Cornus.

DOG'BRI-ER, n.

The brier that bears the hip; the Rosa canina.

DOG'-CAB-BAGE, n.

A plant growing in the south of Europe, a species of Theligonum. – Encyc.

DOG'CHEAP, a.

Cheap as dog's meat, or offal; very cheap. – Johnson.

DOG'DAY, n.

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.

DOG'DRAW, n.

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. – Eng. Law. Cowel.

DOGE, n. [It.; L. dux; Eng. duke; from L. duco, to lead; Sax. toga, teoche.]

The chief magistrate of Venice and Genoa.

DOG'FIGHT, n.

A battle between two dogs.

DOG'FISH, n.

A name given to several species of shark, as the spotted shark or greater dogfish, the piked dogfish, &c. – Encyc. Cyc.

DOG'FLY, n.

A voracious biting fly. – Chapman.

DOG'GED, pp.

  1. Pursued closely; urged frequently and importunately.
  2. adj. Sullen; sour; morose; surly; severe. – Shak. Hudibras.

DOG'GED-LY, adv.

Sullenly; gloomily; sourly; morosely; severely.