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.]

  1. 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.
  2. 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.