DOST — DOWERED NWAD DOST.1

DOST, the second person of do, used int he solemn style; thou dost. NWAD DOST.1

DOT, n. [I know not the origin and affinities of this word. It would be naturally deduced from a verb signifying to set, or to prick, like punctum, point.] A small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck; used in marking a writing or other thing. NWAD DOT.1

DOT, v.t. NWAD DOT.2

1. To mark with dots. NWAD DOT.3

2. To mark or diversify with small detached objects; as a landscape dotted with cottages, or clumps of trees. NWAD DOT.4

DOT, v.i. To make dots or spots. NWAD DOT.5

DOTAGE, n. [from dote.] NWAD DOTAGE.1

1. Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age, childishness of old age; as a venerable man now in his dotage. NWAD DOTAGE.2

2. A doting; excessive fondness. NWAD DOTAGE.3

3. Deliriousness. [See the verb, to dote.] NWAD DOTAGE.4

DOTAL, a. [L., dower.] Pertaining to dower, or a womans marriage portion; constituting dower or comprised in it; as a dotal town. NWAD DOTAL.1

DOTARD, n. [dote and ard, kind.] NWAD DOTARD.1

1. A man whose intellect is impaired by age; one in his second childhood. NWAD DOTARD.2

The sickly dotard wants a wife. NWAD DOTARD.3

2. A doting fellow; one foolishly fond. NWAD DOTARD.4

DOTARDLY, a. Like a dotard; weak. NWAD DOTARDLY.1

DOTATION, n. [L., to endow.] NWAD DOTATION.1

1. The act of endowing, or of bestowing a marriage portion on a woman. NWAD DOTATION.2

2. Endowment; establishment of funds for support; as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation. NWAD DOTATION.3

DOTE, v.i. NWAD DOTE.1

1. To be delirious; to have the intellect impaired by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to be silly. NWAD DOTE.2

Time has made you dote, and vainly tell of arms imagined in your lonely cell. NWAD DOTE.3

2. To be excessively in love; usually with on or upon; to dote on, is to love to excess or extravagance. NWAD DOTE.4

What dust we dote on, when tis man we love. NWAD DOTE.5

Aholah dotes on her lovers, the Assyrians. Ezekiel 23:5. NWAD DOTE.6

3. To decay. NWAD DOTE.7

DOTER, n. NWAD DOTER.1

1. One who dotes; a man whose understanding is enfeebled by age; a dotard. NWAD DOTER.2

2. One who is excessively fond, or weakly in love. NWAD DOTER.3

DOTING, ppr. Regarding with excessive fondness. NWAD DOTING.1

DOTINGLY, adv. By excessive fondness. NWAD DOTINGLY.1

DOTTARD, n. A tree kept low by cutting. NWAD DOTTARD.1

DOTTED, pp. NWAD DOTTED.1

1. Marked with dots or small spots; diversified with small detached objects. NWAD DOTTED.2

2. In botany, sprinkled with hollow dots or points. NWAD DOTTED.3

DOTTEREL, n. The name of different species of fowls, of the genus Charadrius and the grallic order; as the Alexandrine dotterel, the ringed dotterel, and the Morinellus; also, the turnstone or sea dotterel, a species of the genus Tringa. NWAD DOTTEREL.1

DOTTING, ppr. Marking with dots or spots; diversifying with small detached objects. NWAD DOTTING.1

DOUANIER, n. An officer of the customs. NWAD DOUANIER.1

DOUBLE, a. Dubl. [L., Gr. See Two.] NWAD DOUBLE.1

1. Two of a sort together; one corresponding to the other; being in pairs; as double chickens in the same egg; double leaves connected by one petiole. NWAD DOUBLE.2

2. Twice as much; containing the same quantity or length repeated. NWAD DOUBLE.3

Take double money in your hand. Genesis 43:12. NWAD DOUBLE.4

Let a double portion of thy spirit be on me. 2 Kings 2:9. NWAD DOUBLE.5

With to; as, the amount is double to what I expected. NWAD DOUBLE.6

3. Having one added to another; as a double chin. NWAD DOUBLE.7

4. Twofold; also, of two kinds. NWAD DOUBLE.8

Darkness and tempest make a double night. NWAD DOUBLE.9

5. Two in number; as double sight or sound. [See No. 1.] NWAD DOUBLE.10

6. Deceitful; acting two parts, one openly, the other in secret. NWAD DOUBLE.11

And with double heart do they speak. Psalm 12:2. NWAD DOUBLE.12

DOUBLE, adv. Dubl. Twice. NWAD DOUBLE.13

I was double their age. NWAD DOUBLE.14

DOUBLE, in composition, denotes, two ways, or twice the number or quantity. NWAD DOUBLE.15

DOUBLE-BANKED, a. In seamanship, having two opposite oars managed by rowers on the same bench, or having two men to the same oar. NWAD DOUBLE-BANKED.1

DOUBLE-BITING, a. Biting or cutting on either side; as a double-biting ax. NWAD DOUBLE-BITING.1

DOUBLE-BUTTONED, a. Having two rows of buttons. NWAD DOUBLE-BUTTONED.1

DOUBLE-CHARGE, v.t. To charge or intrust with a double portion. NWAD DOUBLE-CHARGE.1

DOUBLE-DEALER, n. One who acts two different parts, in the same business, or at the same time; a deceitful, trickish person; one who says one thing and thinks or intends another; one guilty of duplicity. NWAD DOUBLE-DEALER.1

DOUBLE-DEALING, n. Artifice; duplicity; deceitful practice; the profession of one thing and the practice of another. NWAD DOUBLE-DEALING.1

DOUBLE-DYE, v.t. To dye twice over. NWAD DOUBLE-DYE.1

DOUBLE-EDGED, a. Having two edges. NWAD DOUBLE-EDGED.1

DOUBLE-ENTENDRE, n. Double meaning of a word or expression. NWAD DOUBLE-ENTENDRE.1

DOUBLE-EYED, a. Having a deceitful countenance. NWAD DOUBLE-EYED.1

DOUBLE-FACE, n. Duplicity; the acting of different parts in the same concern. NWAD DOUBLE-FACE.1

DOUBLE-FACED, a. Deceitful; hypocritical; showing two faces. NWAD DOUBLE-FACED.1

DOUBLE-FORMED, a. Of a mixed form. NWAD DOUBLE-FORMED.1

DOUBLE-FORTIFIED, a. Twice fortified; doubly strengthened. NWAD DOUBLE-FORTIFIED.1

DOUBLE-FOUNTED, a. Having two sources. NWAD DOUBLE-FOUNTED.1

DOUBLE-GILD, v.t. To gild with double coloring. NWAD DOUBLE-GILD.1

DOUBLE-HANDED, a. Having two hands; deceitful. NWAD DOUBLE-HANDED.1

DOUBLE-HEADED, a. NWAD DOUBLE-HEADED.1

1. Having two heads. NWAD DOUBLE-HEADED.2

2. Having the flowers growing one to another. NWAD DOUBLE-HEADED.3

DOUBLE-HEARTED, a. Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. NWAD DOUBLE-HEARTED.1

DOUBLE-LOCK, v.t. To shoot the bolt twice; to fasten with double security. NWAD DOUBLE-LOCK.1

DOUBLE-MANNED, a. Furnished with twice the complement of men, or with two men instead of one. NWAD DOUBLE-MANNED.1

DOUBLE-MEANING, a. Having two meanings. NWAD DOUBLE-MEANING.1

DOUBLE-MINDED, a. Having different minds at different times; unsettled; wavering; unstable; undetermined. James 1:8. NWAD DOUBLE-MINDED.1

DOUBLE-MOUTHED, a. Having two mouths. NWAD DOUBLE-MOUTHED.1

DOUBLE-NATURED, a. Having a two-fold nature. NWAD DOUBLE-NATURED.1

DOUBLE-OCTAVE, n. In muxic, an interval composed of two octaves or fifteen notes in diatonic progression; a fifteenth. NWAD DOUBLE-OCTAVE.1

DOUBLE-PLEA, n. In law, a plea in which the defendant alledges two different matters in bar of the action. NWAD DOUBLE-PLEA.1

DOUBLE-QUARREL, n. A complaint of a clerk to the archbishop against an inferior ordinary, for delay of justice. NWAD DOUBLE-QUARREL.1

DOUBLE-SHADE, v.t. To double the natural darkness of a place. NWAD DOUBLE-SHADE.1

DOUBLE-SHINING, a. Shining with double luster. NWAD DOUBLE-SHINING.1

DOUBLE-THREADED, a. Consisting of two threads twisted together. NWAD DOUBLE-THREADED.1

DOUBLE-TONGUED, a. Making contrary declarations on the same subject at different times; deceitful. NWAD DOUBLE-TONGUED.1

The deacons must be grave, not double-tongued. 1 Timothy 3:8. NWAD DOUBLE-TONGUED.2

DOUBLE, v.t. dubl. [L., Gr.] NWAD DOUBLE.1

1. To fold; as, to double the leaf of a book; to double down a corner. NWAD DOUBLE.2

2. To increase or extend by adding an equal sum, value, quantity or length; as, to double a sum of money; to double the amount; to double the quantity or size of a thing; to double the length; to double dishonor. NWAD DOUBLE.3

3. To contain twice the sum, quantity or length, or twice as much; as, the enemy doubles our army in numbers. NWAD DOUBLE.4

4. To repeat; to add; as, to double blow on blow. NWAD DOUBLE.5

5. To add one to another in the same order. NWAD DOUBLE.6

Thou shalt double the sixth curtain in the fore-front of the tabernacle. Exodus 26:9. NWAD DOUBLE.7

6. In navigation, to double a cape or point, is to sail round it, so that the cape or point shall be between the ship and her former situation. NWAD DOUBLE.8

7. In military affairs, to unite two ranks or files in one. NWAD DOUBLE.9

To double and twist, is to add one thread to another and twist them together. NWAD DOUBLE.10

To double upon, in tactics, is to inclose between two fires. NWAD DOUBLE.11

DOUBLE, v.i. NWAD DOUBLE.12

1. To increase to twice the sum, number, value, quantity or length; to increase or grow to twice as much. A sum of money doubles by compound interest in a little more than eleven years. The inhabitants of the United States double in about twenty five years. NWAD DOUBLE.13

2. To enlarge a wager to twice the sum laid. NWAD DOUBLE.14

I am resolved to double till I win. NWAD DOUBLE.15

3. To turn back or wind in running. NWAD DOUBLE.16

Doubling and turning like a hunted hare. NWAD DOUBLE.17

4. To play tricks; to use sleights. NWAD DOUBLE.18

DOUBLE, n. NWAD DOUBLE.19

1. Twice as much; twice the number, sum, value, quantity or length. NWAD DOUBLE.20

If the thief be found, let him pay double. Exodus 22:7. NWAD DOUBLE.21

2. A turn in running to escape pursuers. NWAD DOUBLE.22

3. A trick; a shift; an artifice to deceive. NWAD DOUBLE.23

DOUBLED, pp. Folded; increased by adding an equal quantity, sum or value; repeated; turned or passed round. NWAD DOUBLED.1

DOUBLENESS, n. NWAD DOUBLENESS.1

1. The state of being doubled. NWAD DOUBLENESS.2

2. Duplicity. NWAD DOUBLENESS.3

DOUBLER, n. NWAD DOUBLER.1

1. He that doubles. NWAD DOUBLER.2

2. An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electrometer. NWAD DOUBLER.3

DOUBLET, n. NWAD DOUBLET.1

1. The inner garment of a man; a waistcoat or vest. NWAD DOUBLET.2

2. Two; a pair. NWAD DOUBLET.3

3. Among lapidaries, a counterfeit stone composed of two pieces of crystal, with a color between them, so that they have the same appearance as if the whole substance of the crystal were colored. NWAD DOUBLET.4

DOUBLETS, n. NWAD DOUBLETS.1

1. A game on dice within tables. NWAD DOUBLETS.2

2. The same number on both dice. NWAD DOUBLETS.3

3. A double meaning. NWAD DOUBLETS.4

DOUBLING, ppr. Making twice the sum, number or quantity; repeating; passing round; turning to escape. NWAD DOUBLING.1

DOUBLING, n. The act of making double; also, a fold; a plait; also, an artifice; a shift. NWAD DOUBLING.2

DOUBLOON, n. A Spanish and Portuguese coin, being double the value of the pistole. NWAD DOUBLOON.1

DOUBLY, adv. In twice the quantity; to twice the degree; as doubly wise or good; to be doubly sensible of an obligation. NWAD DOUBLY.1

DOUBT, v.i. dout. [L., G.] NWAD DOUBT.1

1. To waver or fluctuate in opinion; to hesitate; to be in suspense; to be in uncertainty; to be in suspense; to be in uncertainty, respecting the truth or fact; to be undetermined. NWAD DOUBT.2

Even in matters divine, concerning some things, we may lawfully doubt and suspend our judgment. NWAD DOUBT.3

So we say, I doubt whether it is proper; I doubt whether I shall go; sometimes with of, as we doubt of a fact. NWAD DOUBT.4

2. To fear; to be apprehensive; to suspect. NWAD DOUBT.5

I doubt theres deep resentment in his mind. NWAD DOUBT.6

DOUBT, v.t. dout. NWAD DOUBT.7

1. To question, or hold questionable; to withhold assent from; to hesitate to believe; as, I have heard the story, but I doubt the truth of it. NWAD DOUBT.8

2. To fear; to suspect. NWAD DOUBT.9

If they turn not back perverse; but that I doubt. NWAD DOUBT.10

3. To distrust; to withhold confidence from; as, to doubt our ability to execute an office. NWAD DOUBT.11

Tadmire superior sense, and doubt their own. NWAD DOUBT.12

4. To fill with fear. NWAD DOUBT.13

DOUBT, n. Dout. NWAD DOUBT.14

1. A fluctuation of mind respecting truth or propriety, arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of mind; suspense; unsettled state of opinion; as, to have doubts respecting the theory of the tides. NWAD DOUBT.15

Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces. Genesis 37:33. NWAD DOUBT.16

2. Uncertainty of condition. NWAD DOUBT.17

Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee. Deuteronomy 28:66. NWAD DOUBT.18

3. Suspicion; fear; apprehension. NWAD DOUBT.19

I stand in doubt of you. Galatians 4:20. NWAD DOUBT.20

4. Difficulty objected. NWAD DOUBT.21

To every doubt your answer is the same. NWAD DOUBT.22

5. Dread; horror and danger. NWAD DOUBT.23

DOUBTABLE, a. That may be doubted. NWAD DOUBTABLE.1

DOUBTED, pp. Scrupled; questioned; not certain or settled. NWAD DOUBTED.1

DOUBTER, n. One who doubts; one whose opinion is unsettled; one who scruples. NWAD DOUBTER.1

DOUBTFUL, a. NWAD DOUBTFUL.1

1. Dubious; not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating; applied to persons; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure. NWAD DOUBTFUL.2

2. Dubious; ambiguous; not clear in its meaning; as a doubtful expression. NWAD DOUBTFUL.3

3. Admitting of doubt; not obvious, clear or certain; questionable; not decided; as a doubtful case; a doubtful proposition; it is doubtful what will be the event of the war. NWAD DOUBTFUL.4

4. Of uncertain issue. NWAD DOUBTFUL.5

We have sustained one day in doubtful fight. NWAD DOUBTFUL.6

5. Not secure; suspicious; as, we cast a doubtful eye. NWAD DOUBTFUL.7

6. Not confident; not without fear; indicating doubt. NWAD DOUBTFUL.8

With doubtful feet, and wavering resolution. NWAD DOUBTFUL.9

7. Not certain or defined; as a doubtful hue. NWAD DOUBTFUL.10

DOUBTFULLY, adv. NWAD DOUBTFULLY.1

1. In a doubtful manner; dubiously. NWAD DOUBTFULLY.2

2. With doubt; irresolutely. NWAD DOUBTFULLY.3

3. Ambiguously; with uncertainty of meaning. NWAD DOUBTFULLY.4

Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. NWAD DOUBTFULLY.5

4. In a state of dread. NWAD DOUBTFULLY.6

DOUBTFULNESS, n. NWAD DOUBTFULNESS.1

1. A state of doubt of uncertainty of mind; dubiousness; suspense; instability of opinion. NWAD DOUBTFULNESS.2

2. Ambiguity; uncertainty of meaning. NWAD DOUBTFULNESS.3

3. Uncertainty of event or issue; uncertainty of condition. NWAD DOUBTFULNESS.4

DOUBTING, ppr. Wavering in mind; calling in question; hesitating. NWAD DOUBTING.1

DOUBTINGLY, adv. In a doubting manner; dubiously; without confidence. NWAD DOUBTINGLY.1

DOUBTLESS, a. Free from fear of danger; secure. NWAD DOUBTLESS.1

Pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure. NWAD DOUBTLESS.2

DOUBTLESS, adv. Without doubt or question; unquestionably. NWAD DOUBTLESS.3

The histories of Christ by the evangelists are doubtless authentic. NWAD DOUBTLESS.4

DOUBTLESSLY, adv. Unquestionably. NWAD DOUBTLESSLY.1

DOUCED, n. A musical instrument. [Not in use.] NWAD DOUCED.1

DOUCET, n. A custard. [Not in use.] NWAD DOUCET.1

DOUCEUR, n. [L.] A present or gift; a bribe. NWAD DOUCEUR.1

DOUCINE, n. A molding concave above the convex below, serving as a cymatium to a delicate cornice; a gula. NWAD DOUCINE.1

DOUCKER, n. [See Duck.] A fowl that dips or dives in water. NWAD DOUCKER.1

DOUGH, n. Do. [G.] Paste of bread; a mass composed of flour or meal moistened and kneaded, but not baked. NWAD DOUGH.1

My cake is dough, that is, by undertaking has not come to maturity. NWAD DOUGH.2

DOUGH-BAKED, a. Unfinished; not hardened to perfection; soft. NWAD DOUGH-BAKED.1

DOUGH-KNEADED, a. Soft; like dough. NWAD DOUGH-KNEADED.1

DOUGH-NUT, n. [dough and nut.] A small roundish cake, made of flour, eggs and sugar, moistened with milk and boiled in lard. NWAD DOUGH-NUT.1

DOUGHTINESS, n. Doutiness. [See Doughty.] Valor; bravery. NWAD DOUGHTINESS.1

DOUGHTY, a. Douty. [G., L. See Decent.] Brave; valiant; eminent; noble; illustrious; as a doughty hero. It is now seldom used except in irony or burlesque. NWAD DOUGHTY.1

DOUGHY, a. Doy. Like dough; soft; yielding to pressure; pale. NWAD DOUGHY.1

DOUSE, v.t. [Gr.] NWAD DOUSE.1

1. To thrust or plunge into water. NWAD DOUSE.2

2. In seamens language, to strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly. Douse the top-sail. NWAD DOUSE.3

DOUSE, v.i. To fall suddenly into water. NWAD DOUSE.4

DOUT, v.t. To put out; to extinguish. NWAD DOUT.1

DOUTER, n. An extinguisher for candles. NWAD DOUTER.1

DOUZEAVE, n. Doozeve. In music, a scale of twelve degrees. NWAD DOUZEAVE.1

DOVE, n. [G.] NWAD DOVE.1

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 sides of the neck, with a copper color. In a wild state, it builds its nest in holes of rocks or in hollow trees, but it is easily domesticated, and forms one of the luxuries of the table. NWAD DOVE.2

2. A word of endearment, or an emblem of innocence. Song of Solomon 2:14. NWAD DOVE.3

DOVE-COT, n. A small building or box in which domestic pigeons breed. NWAD DOVE-COT.1

DOVE’S-FOOT, n. A plant, a species of Geranium. NWAD DOVES-FOOT.1

DOVE-HOUSE, n. A house or shelter for doves. NWAD DOVE-HOUSE.1

DOVELIKE, a. Resembling a dove. NWAD DOVELIKE.1

DOVESHIP, n. The qualities of a dove. NWAD DOVESHIP.1

DOVE-TAIL, n. 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 that it cannot be drawn out. This is the strongest of all the fastenings or jointings. NWAD DOVE-TAIL.1

DOVE-TAIL, v.t. To unite by a tenon in form of a pigeons tail spread, let into a board or timber. NWAD DOVE-TAIL.2

DOVE-TAILED, pp. United by a tenon in form of a doves tail. NWAD DOVE-TAILED.1

DOVE-TAILING, ppr. Uniting by a dove-tail. NWAD DOVE-TAILING.1

DOVISH, a. Like a dove; innocent. [Not in use.] NWAD DOVISH.1

DOWABLE, a. [See Dower.] That may be endowed; entitled to dower. NWAD DOWABLE.1

DOWAGER, n. 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. NWAD DOWAGER.1

DOWCETS, n. The testicles of a hart or stag. NWAD DOWCETS.1

DOWDY, n. An awkward, ill-dressed, inelegant woman. NWAD DOWDY.1

DOWDY, a. Awkward. NWAD DOWDY.2

DOWER, n. [Gr., a gift; to give. L.] NWAD DOWER.1

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 usual present signification of the word.] NWAD DOWER.2

2. The property which a woman brings to her husband in marriage. NWAD DOWER.3

3. The gift of a husband for a wife. NWAD DOWER.4

Ask me never so much dowry and gift. Genesis 34:12. NWAD DOWER.5

4. Endowment; gift. NWAD DOWER.6

How great, how plentiful, how rich a dower. NWAD DOWER.7

DOWERED, a. Furnished with dower, or a portion. NWAD DOWERED.1