given freely especially to a cause or fund; as, the donated van made their meal-on-wheels venture possible.
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The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.
The tenets of the Donatists.
A follower of Donatus, the leader of a body of North African schismatics and purists, who greatly disturbed the church in the 4th century. They claimed to be the true church.
Pertaining to Donatism.
Vested or vesting by donation; as, a donative advowson.
One who makes a gift; a donor; a giver.
A donee of the crown; one the whom, upon certain condition, escheated property is made over.
A canelike grass of southern Europe (Arundo Donax), used for fishing rods, etc.
A handsome fish of Florida and the West Indies (Platyglossus radiatus). The name is applied also to the ladyfish (Harpe rufa) of the same region.
Given; executed; issued; made public; -- used chiefly in the clause giving the date of a proclamation or public act.
The person to whom a gift or donation is made.
Same as Donat. Piers Plowman.
A government of Upper Egypt.
A clumsy craft, having one mast with a long sail, used for trading purposes on the coasts of Coromandel and Ceylon.
Bearing gifts.
The chief tower, also called the keep; a massive tower in ancient castles, forming the strongest part of the fortifications. See Illust. of Castle.
An ass; or (less frequently) a mule.
a Mexican plant (Sedum morganianum) bearing small rose-colored flowers; called also burro's tail, horse's tail, and lamb's tail.
a very long time; ages.
hard menial routine work.
A lady; madam; mistress; -- the title given a lady in Italy.
See Do-naught.
Lit., given; hence, in a literary work, as a drama or tale, that which is assumed as to characters, situation, etc., as a basis for the plot or story.
of or pertaining to John Donne.
like a university don; marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning, especially its trivial aspects.
Self-importance; loftiness of carriage.
One who gives or bestows; one who confers anything gratuitously; a benefactor. Inverse of recipient.
The quality or rank of a don, gentleman, or knight.
A young squire, or knight's attendant; a page.
A dove.
A trifler; a simple fellow.
The Scotch bagpipe.
a person who is stupid or inept; -- used contemptuously.
Any object, usually a tool or other device, whose name is forgotten, or not known.
Sorrow; dole.
A kind of litter suspended from men's shoulders, for carrying persons or things; a palanquin.
To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
A penalty or fine for neglect.
Full of condemnation or destructive power.
A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death.
A judge; an umpire.
Same as Dempster.
A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.
An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.
direct without intermediate changes of vehicle; -- of e.g. journeys or deliveries; as, the limousine offers direct door-to-door service.
a bell or other sounding device, actuated by a push button at an outer door; the push button activating the bell; alos, the ringing of such a bell; as, I was in the shower and didn't hear the doorbell.
The surrounding frame into which a door shuts.
The jamb or sidepiece of a door.
A Hindoo divinity, the consort of Siva, represented with ten arms.
The frame of a door.
One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.
a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door, which may be swung by hand against the door to make a loud knocking sound.
Without a door.
a lock on an exterior door.
someone who guards the entrance to a building.
a mat placed outside and exterior door for wiping the shoes before entering.
The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, /As dead as a doornail./
A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant.
The jamb or sidepiece of a doorway.
The sill or threshold of a door.
Entrance or place of a door.
The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.
The stone forming a threshold.
The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door; any object used to stop open doors from moving.
same as doorstop.
The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.
A yard in front of a house or around the door of a house.
A dip; a low courtesy.
a foreign substance added to a material to alter its properties; -- a process used. e.g., in making semiconductors from pure silicon in the manufacture of semiconductor chips and integrated circuits.
To treat or affect with dope; as, to dope nitroglycerin; To give stupefying drugs to; to drug. To administer a stimulant to (a horse) to increase his speed. It is a serious offense against the laws of racing.
A chart of previous performances, etc., of race horses; a racing form.
A spiritual or ghostly double or counterpart; esp., an apparitional double of a living person; a cowalker.
An Anabaptist or Baptist.
A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.
stupid; as, a dopy kid.
A warrant. See Docket.
To make a fool of; to deceive.
A southern constellation, within which is the south pole of the ecliptic; -- called also sometimes Xiphias, or the Swordfish.
See 1st Dor.
A European marine fish (Zeus faber), of a yellow color. See Illust. of John Doree.
A doorpost.
The European goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the dor beetle. See Goatsucker.
A native or inhabitant of Doris in Greece.
The Doric dialect.
A Doric phrase or idiom.
A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks having a wreath of branchi/ on the back.
A Doric phrase or idiom.
a person who is stupid, socially inept, or ridiculous; -- always used disparagingly.
stupid, socially inept, unfashionable, or ridiculous; -- always used disparagingly.
a dormitory.
The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.
A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or / sleep./
A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.
Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium. A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific; an opiate.
A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school.
A small European rodent of the genus Myoxus, of several species. They live in trees and feed on nuts, acorns, etc.; -- so called because they are usually torpid in winter.
Up, or ahead, as many holes as remain to be played; -- said of a player or side.
A British ray; the thornback.
A coarse sort of damask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stout figured linen manufactured in Scotland.
A hamlet.
To deceive. [Obs.] See Dor, v. t.
See 1st Dor.
See Dorhawk.
Toward the dorsum or back; on the dorsal side; dorsally.
A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, or of an altar, or in any similar position.
Same as Dorsal, n.
On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.
The Baltic or variable cod (Gadus callarias), by some believed to be the young of the common codfish.
A pannier.
See Dosser.
A division of ch/topod annelids in which the branchi/ are along the back, on each side, or on the parapodia. [See Illusts. under Annelida and Ch/topoda.]
Having branchi/ along the back; belonging to the Dorsibranchiata. One of the Dorsibranchiata.
(Anat.) See Meson.
Same as Dorsiferous.
Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral.
From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis.
The ridge of a hill.
A dormitory.
A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides.
A genus of plant-eating beetles, including the potato beetle. See Potato beetle.
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