DOUGHTINESS
DOUGHTINESS, noun Doutiness. [See Doughty.] Valor; bravery.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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DOUGHTY
DOUGHTY, adjective Douty. [G., Latin See Decent.] Brave; valiant; eminent; noble; illustrious; as a doughty hero. It is now seldom used except in irony or burlesque.
DOUGHY
DOUGHY, adjective Doy. Like dough; soft; yielding to pressure; pale.
DOUSE
DOUSE, verb transitive [Gr.]1. To thrust or plunge into water.2. In seamens language, to strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly. douse the top-sail.DOUSE, verb intransiti...
DOUT
DOUT, verb transitive To put out; to extinguish.
DOUTER
DOUTER, noun An extinguisher for candles.
DOUZEAVE
DOUZEAVE, noun Doozeve. In music, a scale of twelve degrees.
DOVE
DOVE, noun [G.]1. The oenas, or domestic pigeon, a species of Columba. Its color is a deep bluish ash color; the breast is dashed with a fine changeable green and purple; the si...
DOVE-COT
DOVE-COT, noun A small building or box in which domestic pigeons breed.
DOVE-HOUSE
DOVE-HOUSE, noun A house or shelter for doves.
DOVE-TAIL
DOVE-TAIL, noun In carpentry, the manner of fastening boards and timbers together by letting one piece into another in the form of a doves tail spread, or wedge reversed, so tha...
DOVE-TAILED
DOVE-TAILED, participle passive United by a tenon in form of a doves tail.
DOVE-TAILING
DOVE-TAILING, participle present tense Uniting by a dove-tail.
DOVELIKE
DOVELIKE, adjective Resembling a dove.
DOVES-FOOT
DOVES-FOOT, noun A plant, a species of Geranium.
DOVESHIP
DOVESHIP, noun The qualities of a dove.
DOVISH
DOVISH, adjective Like a dove; innocent. [Not in use.]
DOWABLE
DOWABLE, adjective [See Dower.] That may be endowed; entitled to dower.
DOWAGER
DOWAGER, noun 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
DOWCETS
DOWCETS, noun The testicles of a hart or stag.
DOWDY
DOWDY, noun An awkward, ill-dressed, inelegant woman.DOWDY, adjective Awkward.
DOWER
DOWER, noun [Gr., a gift; to give. Latin]1. That portion of the lands or tenements of a man which his widow enjoys during her life, after the death of her husband. [This is the ...
DOWERED
DOWERED, adjective Furnished with dower, or a portion.
DOWERLESS
DOWERLESS, adjective Destitute of dower; having no portion or fortune.
DOWERY
DOWERY, DOWRY, A different spelling of dower, but little used, and they may well be neglected.
DOWLAS
DOWLAS, noun A kind of coarse linen cloth.
DOWLE
DOWLE, noun A feather. [Not in use.]