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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Dŏs'ser, n. p. 405A pannier, or basket. “Riding from market one day ’twixt her dossers.” Beau. & Fl.Dŏs'sil, n. p. 405(Surg.) A pledget or portion of lint made into a cylindric form, or the shape of a date.Dōst p. 405The second person of do.Dŏt, n. p. 405A small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck, used in marking a writing or other thing. 2. [Fr. dot, from Lat. dos, dotis, dowry.] (Law.) A marriage portion; dowry.…Dŏt, v. t. p. 406To mark with dots or specks. 2. To mark or diversify with small detached objects; as, a landscape dotted with cottages, or clumps of trees.Dŏt, v. i. p. 406To make dots or specks.Dŏ'tage, n. p. 406Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage. This we childishness and dotage call. Davies.…Dŏ'tal, a. p. 406Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it; as, a dotal town. Garth.Dŏ'tant, n. p. 406A dotard; a driveler. [Obs.] Shak.Dŏ'tard, n. p. 406A man whose intellect is impaired by age; one in his second childhood. The sickly dotard wants a wife. Prior.Dŏ'tard-ly, a. p. 406Like a dotard; weak. [Obs.] More.Dŏ'ta-ry, n. p. 406The state of being a dotard; dotage. [Obs.] Drayton.Dō-tā'tion, n. p. 406The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman. 2. Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation. Blackstone.Dōte, n. p. 406A marriage portion; a dowry. [Obs.] See DOT, n. 2. Wyatt. 2. (pl.) Natural gifts or endowments. [Obs.] B. Jonson.Dōte, v. i. p. 406To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel. Time has made you dote, and vainly tell Of arms imagined in…Dŏte, n. p. 406A foolish or weak-minded person; an imbecile; a dotard. Halliwell.Dŏt'ed, a. p. 406Stupid. [Obs.] “Senseless speech and doted ignorance.” Spenser.Dŏt’er, n. p. 406One who dotes; a man whose understanding is enfeebled by age; a dotard. Burton. 2. One who is excessively fond, or weakly in love.Dŏth p. 406The third person of do.Dŏt'ing-ly, adv. p. 406In a doting manner; foolishly; unduly fondly.Dŏt'ing-ness, n. p. 406Mental weakness like that resulting from old age; imbecility. 2. Excessive fondness.Dŏt'ish, a. p. 406Foolish; weak; imbecile. Scott.Dŏt'tard, n. p. 406A decayed tree. Bacon.Dŏt'ted, p. a. p. 406Marked with dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects. Dotted note (Mus.), a note followed by a dot to indicate an increase of length equal to one half of its simple value; thus…Dŏt'ter-el, a. p. 406Covered or overgrown with dodder; doddered. [Obs.] Ascham.Dŏt'ter-el or Dŏt'trel, n. p. 406(Ornith.) A wading bird (Charadrius Morinellus), a congener of the plovers. It is said to imitate the action of the fowler, and to be easily taken by stratagem. In catching of dotterels we see how…Douane, n. p. 406A custom-house.Douanier, n. p. 406An officer of the French customs. Gray.Douay Bible p. 406An English translation of the Scriptures, sanctioned by the Roman Catholic church. [Written also Douay Bible.]Double (dŭb'l), a. p. 406Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent. Let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. 2 Kings ii. 9. Darkness and tempest make a double night. Dryden. 2. In pairs; presenting two in…Dōŭb'le, adv. p. 406Twice; twofold. I was double their age. Swift. ☞ Double is often used in composition, denoting two ways, or twice the number or quantity.Doŭb'le, v. t. p. 406To increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like; to multiply by two; to make twice as great; to duplicate; as, to double a sum of money; to double a number, a length, and…Dōŭb'le, v. i. p. 406To be increased to twice the sum, number, quantity, length, or value; to increase or grow to twice as much. ’Tis observed in particular nations, that within the space of three hundred years…Dōŭb'le, n. p. 406Twice as much; twice the number, sum, quantity, length, value, and the like. If the thief be found, let him pay double. Ex. xxii. 7. 2. That which is doubled over or together; a doubling; a plait; a…Doub'le-bāse or Doub'le-bass, n. p. 406(Mus.) The largest and lowest-toned instrument in the violin form; the contra-basso or violino.Doŭb'le-bīt'ing, a. p. 406Biting or cutting on either side; as, a double-biting ax. Dryden.Doub'le-brēast'ed, a. p. 406Folding or lapping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and button-holes on each side; as, a double-breasted waistcoat or coat.Doub'le-chārge, v. t. p. 406To charge or intrust with a double portion. Shak.Doub'le-dēal'er, n. p. 406One who acts two different parts; a deceitful, trickish person; one guilty of duplicity. L'Estrange.Doub'le-dēal'ing, n. p. 406Artifice; duplicity; deceitful practice; the profession of one thing and the practice of another. Shak.Dōŭb'le-dŷe, v. t. p. 406To dye twice over. Dryden.Doub'le-ēa'gle, n. p. 406A gold coin of the United States, worth twenty dollars.Double-entendre, n. p. 406A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or indelicate.Doub'le-ēn'/try, n. p. 406A mode of book-keeping in which two entries are made of every transaction, one on the Dr., or left hand, side of one account, and the other on the Cr., or right hand, side of another account, in…Doub'le-e-eyed, a. p. 406Having a deceitful countenance. Spencer.Doub'le-fāce, n. p. 406Duplicity; the acting of different parts, or the expressing of different opinions or feelings.Doub'le-fāced, a. p. 406Showing two faces or facings; deceitful; hypocritical. Milton.Doub'le-first, n. p. 406(Eng. Universities.) One who gains at examinations the highest honor both in the classics and mathematics. Bristol.Doŭb'le-flow'er, n. p. 406(Bot.) A flower having several rows of petals, as the result of cultivation, the petals being multiplied from a single into many rows by a conversion of the stamens, or stamens and carpels, into…Dou'ble-gear, n. p. 406(Mach.) The gearing attached to the headstock of a lathe to vary its speed; — called also back-gear.Doub'le-hānd'ed, a. p. 406Having two hands; deceitful. Glanville.Doub'le-hēad'ed, a. p. 406Having two heads; bicipital.Doub'le-heart'ed, a. p. 406Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. Shak.Dou'ble-lock, v. t. p. 406To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Tatler.Doub'le-milled, a. p. 406Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine; — said of cloth; as, double-milled kerseymere.Doub'le-mind'ed, a. p. 406Having different minds at different times; unsettled; wavering; unstable; undetermined. Jas. i. 8.Doub'le-ness, n. p. 406The state of being double or doubled. 2. Duplicity; insincerity. Chaucer.Doub'le-ōc'tāve, n. p. 406(Mus.) An interval composed of two octaves, or fifteen notes, in diatonic progression; a fifteenth.Doub'le-plēa, n. p. 406(Law.) A plea alleging several distinct matters in answer to the declaration, where either of such matters alone would be a sufficient bar to the action. Stephen.Doub'le-quar'rel, n. p. 406(Eccl. Law.) A complaint of the clerk to the archbishop against an inferior ordinary, for delay of justice. Burrill.