donnot 
donnot, . A dialectal form of donaught. 
donor (do'nor), n. [< OF. donor, donour, do- 
neor, F. domietir, < L. donator, a giver, < donare, 
give : see donate, donator."] 1. One who gives 
or bestows ; one who confers anything gratui- 
tously ; a benefactor. 2. Specifically, in law : 
(a) A giver, (b) One who creates an estate 
tail, (c) One who gives to another a power. 
See power. 
donothing (do'nuth"ing), . and a. [< do 1 , v., 
+ obj. nothing. Cf. donaught.'] I. n. One who 
does nothing ; an idler. 
II. a. Doing no work ; idle ; indolent ; inac- 
tive. [In this use commonly with a hyphen.] 
Why haven't you a right to aspire to a college educa- 
tion as any do-nothing canon there at the abbey, lad? 
Kingsley, Alton Locke, iv. 
In short, neither the extreme do-nothing policy nor the 
extreme violence policy will solve the great problem. 
Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XLIII. 145. 
donothingness (do'nuth"ing-nes), n. Idle- 
ness ; indolence ; inactivity. 
A situation of similar affluence and do-nothingness, 
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, xxxviii. 
1732 
in fact due to the comp. doodlesack, q. v.] To 
drone, as a bagpipe. Scott, Old Mortality. 
doodlesack (do'dl-sak), . [< G. dudelsaclc, 
a bagpipe, < dudeln, play on a bagpipe (< Pol. 
dudlio, play on a bagpipe, < dudy = Bohem. 
duda, dudy = Slov. dude, a bagpipe, = Buss. 
duda, a pipe, reed), + sack = E. sacfc 1 .] A 
dooS-wailah (dod'wol-a), . [< Beng. dudh- 
wala, < dudli, a camel, + Hind. Beng., etc., 
-wdld, a keeper.] In India, an attendant who 
has charge of camels ; a camel-driver. 
The moment the dood-wallah pulls the string, which is 
attached to a piece of wood passed through the cartilage 
of the animal's nostril, the camel opens its huge mouth. 
W. H. Russell, Diary in India, I. 224. 
dook 1 (dok), . A dialectal form 
dook 2 (dok), n. A dialectal form of duclfl. 
dock 3 (dok), n. [Sc.; origin unknown.] Apiece 
of wood inserted into a wall for attaching fin- 
ishings to. 
dool 1 (dol), . An obsolete or dialectal form 
of doZe 2 . 
O' a' the num'rous human dools, 
111 har'sts, daft bargains, cutty stools, . . . 
trip), . L<. aon* "i- -wwp.J The Burns - To the Toothache - 
"state or "rank of a don: used, after your, his, dool 2 (dol), . An obsolete or dialectal form 
etc., in an honorary form of address or refer- of dole*. 
ence to one entitled to be called don. [Bare.] doolful (dol'ful), a. An obsolete or dialectal 
form of doleful. Spenser. 
The brethren o' the Commerce-Chaumer 
May mourn their loss wi' doolfu' clamour. 
Burns, Epistle to William Creech. 
[So., also written dule- 
1 draw the lady 
Unto my kinsman's here, only to torture 
Your donships for a day or two. 
Fletcher, The Chances, v. 1. 
donsie (don'si), a. [Sc., also written doncie; dool-tree (dol'tre), n. 
" 
perhaps, in the first two senses, ult. < Gael. 
donas, bad luck, mischief, harm, the devil, < 
do- priv., not, + sonas, lucky, fortunate, < son, 
good, profit, advantage.] 1. Unlucky. 
Their do/i*ie tricks, their black mistakes, 
Their failings an' mischances. 
Burns, Address to the Unco Quid. 
2. Bestive; unmanageable. 
Tho' ye was trickle, slee and funny, 
Ye ne'er was donsie. 
Burns, The Auld Fanner's Salutation to his Auld Mare. 
3. Affectedly neat and trim : implying the idea 
of self-importance. 
free; < dool 1 = dole 2 +' tree."] In Scotland, a 
mourning-tree (see the extract). It resembled, as 
marking a place of mourning, the dun deuriJiv.il (the 
knoll of the tearful eye) of the Highlands, where the clan 
usually assembled to bewail any misfortune that befell 
the community. 
The Earl of Cassilis fell at Flodden with many of his 
followers; and there is still to be seen, in front of the 
castle, a very large plane-tree, underneath whose melan- 
choly boughs his sorrowing people are said to have spent 
several weeks in lamentations of their own and their 
country's calamity ; for which reason it bears the appel- 
lation of the dule-tree. Land of Burns. 
A whole chapter of sights and customs striking to the 
mind, from the pyramids of Egypt to the gibbets and dule 
trees of medieval Europe. R. L. Stevenson, Ms Triplex. 
She was a donsie wife and clean. doolv (do'li), n. ; pi. doolies (-liz). [< Hind, dull, 
Sammy, Poems, I. 221 Mar ^ t v hi doH ( cer ebral d), a litter.] A kind of 
litter used in India and the neighboring coun- 
tries, inferior to the palkee or palanquin, but 
also lighter, and used on long journey s. Forbes. 
Coolies, however, awaited me with a doobi, one of those 
low litters slung on a bamboo, in which you may travel 
swiftly and without effort 
4. Sickly : ailing : as, he's sair kep'n doon wi' 
a donsie wife and donsie bairns. [Colloq.] 
donsky (don'ski), n. [Buss. Donsl-oi, of the 
river Don, < Donii, Don.] A variety of Bussian 
wool of coarse quality, first introduced into 
English woolen manufacture about 1830. 
don r t(dont). A contraction of do not, common ^ 
in colloquial language, and, more improperly, doom (dom), n. [< ME. doome, dome dom, < AS. 
as a contraction of does not (doesn't). 
'lorn, a judgment, sentence, doom, decree law 
. 
donzelt (don'zel), re. [(In ME. only in the form (= OS. dom = 0* nes. 06m = OHG. tuom = Icel. 
damsel, etc.) < OF. darnel, etc., = Pr. donzel, 
dansel = Sp. doncel = Pg. donzel = It. donzello, < 
ML. domicellus, domnicellus, domimcellus, dim. 
of L. dominus, master : see damsel*, domimts.'} 
domr = Sw. Dan. dom = Goth, doms), judgment, 
with formative -, < do-n, etc., E. do\ to til* 
orig. sense of 'put, place, set'; cf. Gr. 04/uf, 
established law, of the same ult. origin. Hence 
A young attendant; a page; a youth of good -dom and deew, q. \.] 1. Judgment or deci- 
quality not yet knighted. 
Esquire to a knight-errant, donzel to the 
S. ~ - 
, An obsolete spelling of do 1 . 
doo 2 (do), . A Scotch form of dove\ 
dooab, n. See doab%. 
doob (dob), n. [Also written doub, and more 
accurately dub, repr. Hind, dub, < Skt. durvd, 
doob.] An East Indian name for the plant 
Cynodon Dactylon, used as a fodder-grass. 
dood (d8d), n. [< Beng. dudh, a camel.] A 
camel in military use ; a riding-dromedary. 
Poor dood, down with you on your knees ! At the word 
of command, the sowar forces his beast to kneel. 
W. H. Russell, Diary in India, I. 237. 
Doodia (do'di-a), n. [NL.] A small genus of 
ferns, natives of the southern hemisphere, and 
common in cultivation. The fronds are from 6 to 18 
inches long, pinnate or pinnatifld. The oblong or slightly 
curved sori are arranged in one or more rows between the 
midrib and margins of the pinna;, and the veins form one 
or two rows of arches. 
doodle 1 (do'dl), v. t. ; pret. and pp. doodled, ppr. 
doodling. [= Sc. doudle ; perhaps a var. of 
daddle, dawdle, q. v.] To dandle. 
An' he was tane to Craignethan's hall, 
An' doudlit on his knee. 
Edinburgh Rev., July 1, 1819, p. 526. 
doodle 1 (do'dl), . A trifler; a simple fellow. 
[Provincial.] 
doodle 2 (do'dl), u. i. ; pret. and pp. doodled, ppr. 
doodling. [Prob. supposed to be imitative, but 
sion ; specifically, a decision determining fate 
or fortune ; fateful decision or decree : origi- 
nally in a neutral sense, but now generally im- 
plying an adverse decision : as, the court pro- 
nounced doom upon the culprits; to fall by 
doom of battle. 
This argument is fals, so is thi doome ; 
Bi what right woldist thou me Wynne? 
Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 50. 
Then was that golden belt by doome of all 
Graunted to her, as to the fayrest Dame. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. v. 16. 
Therefore to Me their doom he hath assign'd, 
That they may have their wish, to try with Me 
In battel which the stronger proves. 
Milton, P. L., vi. 817. 
Alfred's main work, like that of his successor, was to 
enforce submission to the justice of hundred-moot and 
shire-moot alike on noble and ceorl, "who were constantly 
at obstinate variance with one another in the folk-moots 
before ealdorman and reeve, so that hardly any one of 
them would grant that to be true doom that had been 
judged for doom, by the ealdorman and reeves." 
J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 134. 
His own false doom, 
That shadow of mistrust should never cross 
Betwixt them, came upon him. 
Tennyson, Geraint. 
2. Fate decreed or determined; fixed fortune; 
irrevocable destiny. 
Seek not to know to Morrow's Doom ; 
That is not ours, which is to come. 
Congreoe, Imit. of Horace, I. ix. 3. 
O'er him whose doom thy virtues grieve 
Aerial forms shall sit at eve. 
Collins, Death of Col. Ross. 
doom-palm 
In an early stage of society slavery is the doom of the 
prisoner of war ; it is often the legal douni. of the criminal. 
E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 180. 
3f. Judgment or opinion ; discernment. 
Cassandra to councell then call thai belyue, 
To haue a dom of that dede. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 11810. 
In him no point of courtesy there lackt, 
He was of manners mild, of doom exact. 
Mir. for Mays., p. 175. 
That Islands space ; 
The which did seeme, unto my simple doome, 
The onely pleasant and delightfull place 
That ever troden was of footings trace. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. -a. 21. 
This one consent in all your dooms of him, . . . 
Argues a truth of merit in you all. 
B. Jonson, Poetaster, v. 1. 
4f. The last judgment. See doomsday. 
Thy Ane maria and thi credo, 
That shalle the saue at dome of drede. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 303. 
The Doom schalle ben on Estre Day, suche tyme as oure 
Lord aroos. Mandemlle, Travels, p. 114. 
Day of doom. See dni/i. Doom bark. Seebark?. 
The crack of doom, the signal for the final dissolution 
of all things ; the last trump. 
What ! will the line stretch out to the crack of doom ) 
. Shak., Macbeth, iv. 1. 
Let him not quit his helief that a pop-gun is a pop-gun, 
though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it 
to be the crack of doom. Emerson, Misc., p. 87. 
To false a doom*, in Scots law, to protest against a sen- 
tence. =8yn. 2. Fate, Doom, etc. See destiny. 
doom (dom), v. t. [< doom, n. The older form 
is deem, q. v.] If. To judge ; form a judgment 
upon. 
Him, through their malice fallen, 
Father of mercy and grace, thou didst not doom. 
So strictly ; but much more to pity incline. 
Milton, P. L., iii. 401. 
2. To condemn to punishment ; consign by a 
decree or sentence; pronounce sentence or 
judgment on; destine: as, a criminal doomed 
to death ; we are doomed to suffer for our er- 
rors. 
He was sentenced to be bound in chains, and doomed to 
perpetual torments. Bacon, Physical Fables, U. 
Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls. 
Dryden, Knrid. 
Souls doomed of old 
To a mild purgatory. 
Lowell, Fountain of Youth. 
3. To ordain as a penalty; decree. 
Have I a tongue to doom my brother's death ? 
Shak., Rich. III., 1L 1. 
Lost ' I am lost ! my fates have doom'd my death. 
Ford, 'Tis Pity, i. 3. 
4f. To tax by estimate or at discretion, as on 
the failure of a taxpayer to make a statement 
of his taxable property. [Massachusetts, U. S.] 
doomaget (do maj), . [< doom + -age.'} A 
penalty or fine for neglect. [New Hampshire, 
U. S.] 
doomdayt, . [< ME. domeday, < AS. domdceg 
(= Dan. dommedag Sw. dotnedag), < dom, 
doom, + da-g, day.] Same as doomsday. 
He asoyled hym surely, & sette hym so clene, 
As dome-day schulde haf ben dist on the morn. 
Sir Gauxiyne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1883. 
doomer (do'mer), n. [< ME. "dornere, < AS. 
domere, an occasional form of demere (= D. 
docmer = Dan. dommer = Sw. domare), a 
judge: see doom, v., and -er 1 , and cf. deem."] 
One who dooms, as a judge or a juryman. 
[Bare.] 
That fatal look of a common intelligence, of a common 
assent, was exchanged among the doomers of the prison- 
er's life and death as the judge concluded. 
Bulwer, Eugene Aram, vi. 5. 
doomful (dom'ful), a. [< doom + -/.] Full 
of doom or destruction ; fraught with doom. 
For Life and Death is in thy doomefull writing ! 
Spenser, To O. Harvey. 
And by th' infectious slime that doomful deluge left 
Nature herself hath since of purity been reft. 
Drat/ton, Polyolbion, ix. 
doom-palm (dom'pam), . A variety of palm, 
Hyphaine Thebaica, remarkable, like other spe- 
cies of the genus, for having a repeatedly 
branched stem, each branch terminating in a 
tuft of large fan-shaped leaves. The fruit is about 
the size of an apple ; it has a fibrous, mealy rind, which 
tastes like gingerbread (whence the name gingerbread- 
tree, sometimes applied to this palm), and is eaten by 
the poorer inhabitants of the places where it grows. An 
infusion of the rind is also used as a beverage, being 
cooling, slightly aperient, and beneficial in fevers. The 
seeds are horny, and are made into small ornaments. 
Ropes are made of the fibers of the leaf-stalks. The doom- 
palm is a native of Upper Egypt and the central parts of 
Africa, and in some districts forms whole forests. Also 
spelled doum-palm. 
