Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DOUS'ED – DOW'EL-ED
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DOUS'ED, pp.
Plunged into water.
DOUS'ING, ppr.
Plunging into water.
DOUT, v.t. [Qu. do out.]
To put out; to extinguish. – Shak.
DOUT'ER, n.
An extinguisher for candles.
DOU'ZEAVE, n. [doo'zeve; Fr. douze, twelve.]
In music, a scale of twelve degrees. – A. M. Fisher.
DOVE, n. [Sax. duua; Goth. dubo; D. duif; G. taube; Dan. due; Sw. dufva; Ice. dufa; Gypsy, tovadei; Hindoo, tubbeter; Scot. dow; probably from cooing, Heb. דכב, to murmur, or Ar. هَتَفَ hatafa, to coo, as a dove.]
- The popular name of several species of Columba of Linnæus, a genus of fowls of his order Passeres, most of which are called Pigeons. The different species, which are popularly called Doves, are distinguished by some additional term prefixed.
- A word of endearment, or an emblem of innocence. – Cant. ii. 14.
DOVE'-COT, n.
A small building or box in which domestic pigeons breed.
DOVE'-HOUSE, n.
A house or shelter for doves.
DOVE'LIKE, a.
Resembling a dove. – Milton.
DOVER'S-POWDER, n. [Dover's powder.]
A compound of ipecacuanha, opium, and sulphate of potash; an excellent sedative and sudorific.
DOVE'S'-FOOT, a.
A plant, the popular name of a species of Geranium.
DOVE'SHIP, n.
The qualities of a dove. – Hall.
DOVE'-TAIL, n.
In carpentry, the manner of fastening boards and timbers together by letting one piece into another in the form of a dove's tail spread, or wedge reversed, so that it can not be drawn out. This is the strongest of all the fastenings or jointings.
DOVE'-TAIL, v.t.
To unite by a tenon in form of pigeon's tail spread, let into a board or timber.
DOVE'-TAIL-ED, pp.
United by a tenon in the form of dove's tail.
DOVE'-TAIL-ING, ppr.
Uniting by a dove-tail.
DOV'ISH, a.
Like a dove; innocent. [Not in use.]
DOW'A-BLE, a. [See Dower.]
That may be endowed; entitled to dower. – Blackstone.
DOW'A-GER, n. [Fr. douairiere, from douaire, dower.]
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.
DOW'CETS, n.
The testicles of a hart or stag. – B. Jonson.
DOW'DY, a.
Awkward.
DOW'DY, n. [Scot. dawdie, perhaps from daw, a sluggard, or its root. Jamieson.]
An awkward, ill-dressed, inelegant woman. – Shak. Dryden.
DOW'DY-ISH, a.
Like a dowdy.
DOW'EL, v.t.
To fasten two boards together by pins inserted in the edges; as, a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask. [Qu. its alliance to double.]
DOW'EL-ED, pp.
Fastened by pins in the edges.