Dutch

a. [N. D. duitsch, German, originally popular, national, O. D. dietsə, N. H. Ger. deutsch, M. H. Ger. diäutsch, diutsch, O. H. Ger. diutisc, Goth. thiudisks, O. Sax. thiudisc, A-S. theōdisc, from O. H. Ger. diot, thiot, diota, thiota, Goth. thiuda, O. Sax. thiod, thioda, A-S. theōd, the people. The English have applied the name especially to the Germanic people living nearest them, the Hollanders.] (Geog.) Pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabitants.

Dutch cheese, a small, round, hard cheese, made from skim milk.—Dutch clinker, a kind of brick made in Holland. It is of a brimstone color, very hard, and thoroughly burned, and long and narrow in shape.—Dutch foil, Dutch leaf, or Dutch gold, an alloy of eleven parts of copper and two of zinc, rolled or beaten into thin sheets, used in Holland to ornament toys and the like:—called also Dutch mineral and Dutch metal.—Dutch oven, a tin screen for baking before an open fire or kitchen range; also, in the United States, a shallow iron kettle for baking, with a cover to hold burning coals; a bake-kettle.—Dutch pink, chalk or whiting dyed yellow, and used in distemper, and for paper-staining, &c. Weale.—Dutch rush (Bot.), a species of rush (Equisetum hyemale), having a rough, silicious surface, and used for scouring and polishing:—called also horse-tail grass, scouring-rush, and shave-grass. Loudon.—Dutch tile, a glazed and painted ornamental tile, formerly much used in the jambs of chimneys. Simmonds.

☞ Dutch was formerly used by good writers for German, and is even now sometimes so used, in certain portions of the United States, either ignorantly or in contempt.

Germany is slandered to have sent none to this war [the Crusades] at this first voyage; and that other pilgrims, passing through that country, were mocked by the Dutch, and called fools for their pains. Fuller.