doubtfulness 
Every day that passed showed the doubtfulness of the 
convention. Bancroft, Hist. Const., II. 265. 
doubtingly (dou'ting-li), adv. In a doubting 
manner; dubiously. 
In the forty-first experiment I tendered ray thoughts 
concerning respiration, but doubtingly. 
Boyle, Works, I. 176. 
doubtless (dout'les), a. and adv. [The b in- 
serted as in doubt; < ME. douteles, < doute, 
doubt: see doubt 1 
and -less.} I.t a. 1. 
Free from doubt ; indubitable. 
It is no prejudice to the precious charity of knowledge, 
even in undoubted truths, to make truth more doubtless. 
Ford, Honour Triumphant, ii. 
2. Having no fear; free from fear of danger; 
secure. 
Pretty child, sleep doubtless, and secure 
That Hubert, for the wealth of all the world, 
Will not offend thee. Shak., K, John, iv. 1. 
II. adv. Without doubt; without objection 
or uncertainty; unquestionably; often, with 
weakened sense, presumably, probably. [An 
elliptical use of the adjective, standing for the 
phrase "it is doubtless that."] 
Doubtless he would have made a noble knight. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., iv. 7. 
The rock seems to have been dug away all round the 
sphynx for a great way, and the stoue was doubtless em- 
ploy'd in building the pyramids. 
Pococke, Description of the East, I. 46. 
Doubtless, development increases the capacity both for 
enjoyment and for suffering. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXVI. 239. 
doubtlessly (dout'les-li), adv. Unquestionably. 
1746 
Adieu, I you say, my full doueet floure ! 
Adieu, my lady of full gret valoure ! 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3898. 
II. n. 1. A kind of pasty or custard. 
Bakemetes or dowcettes. Babers Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 170. 
Dousette, a lytell flawne, dariolle. Palsgrave. 
2. A musical instrument, a kind of flute. 
Many a thousand tymes twelve . . . 
That craftily begunne to pipe 
Bothe in doueet and in riede. 
Chaucer, House of Fame, L 1221. 
3. A testicle of a deer. Also written dowcet, 
dowset. 
All the sweet morsels, called tongue, ears, and dowcets. 
S. Jonson, Sad Shepherd, i. 2. 
dough-maker 
This botcher looks as if he were dough-baked ; a little 
butter now, and I could eat him like an oaten-cake. 
Fletcher (and another). Love's Cure, ii. 1. 
Since we are so much indebted to Cod for accepting our 
best, it is not safe ventured to present him with a dough- 
baked sacrifice. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 265. 
Nay, what is more than all, he [love] can make those 
dowbak'd, senseless, indocile animals, women, too hard for 
us, their politick lords and rulers, in a moment. 
tt'ycherley, Country Wife, iv. 1. 
dough-balls (do'balz), . pi. A marine alga, 
Polysiphonia Olneyi, belonging to the order 
Florideai. 
In its typical form Polysiphonia Olneyi forms dense 
soft tufts, sometimes called dough-balls by the sea-shore 
population. Farlow, Marine Algee, p. 171. 
douceur (do-ser'), n. [= D. douceur = Dan. dough-bird (do'berd), n. A local name in the 
Why you may, and doubtlessly will, when you have de- 
bated that your commander is but your mistress. 
Beau, and Ft., Scornful Lady, i. 1. 
doubtoust, a. [The ft inserted as in the verb ; 
< ME. doutous, dotous, < OF. doutos, dotus, F. 
dotiteux (= Pr. doptos, duptos = Sp. dudoso = 
Pg. duuidoso = It. dottoso), doubtful, < doute, douche (dosh), n. 
doubt: see doubft, n., and -OKS.] Doubtful; 
dubious; of doubtful sense. 
douceur, dusor = Sw. dusor, reward, < F. dou- 
ceur, sweetness, a present, < OF. douqor, dol- 
qor, dulyor (> ME. dousour) = Pr. dolzor = Sp. 
dulzor = Pg. dufyor, < LL. dulcor, sweetness, < 
L. dulcis, sweet: see dulcet.'} If. Sweetness or 
mildness of manner; kindness; gentleness. 
Now for synglerty o hyr dousour, 
We calle hyr fenyx of Arraby. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), i. 429. 
Blame with indulgence, and correct with douceur. 
Chesterfield. 
2. A conciliatory offering; a present or gift; 
a re ward; a bribe. 
The commander-in-chief of the Bengal army could have 
had no ground for exasperation at being shut out from 
the interview, had he not in like manner reckoned on re- 
ceiving a handsome douceur. 
J. T. Wheeler, Short Hist. India, p. 354. 
United States of the Eskimo curlew, Numenius 
3f. A kind or agreeable remark ; a compliment. 
With a good account of her health, she writes me many 
douceurs, in which you have a great share. 
Lord Lyttelton (1771), in Correspondence of David 
[Garrick, I. 440. 
Dough-bird (Ni 
borealis, the smallest American species of the 
genus Numenius. It has a slender bill only about two 
inches long. It is abundant during its migrations, and is 
much sought as a game-bird. Also doe-bird. 
Accompanying and mingling freely with the golden 
plover are the Esquimaux curlew, or dour/h-birds, in great 
numbers. Shore Birds, p. 12. 
Naut., a boiled dum- 
For in these pointes wherein we vary, . . . either the 
Scripture is plaine & easy to perceiue, or doubtouse and 
hard to vnderstande. Sir T. More, Works, p. 457. 
doubtouslyt, adv. [The 6 inserted as in doubt; 
< ME. doutously, doutusli; < doubtous + -ly 2 .] 
Doubtfully; dubiously. 
And drow him toward the des, but doutusli after 
He stared on his stepmoder stifli a while. 
William o/Paierne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4338. 
doubtsomet, a. [The 6 inserted as in doubt; 
[F., a douche, a shower-bath, 
= Sp. ducha = It. doccia, a water-pipe, spout, dough-boyt (do'boi), . 
conduit, < docciare = F. doucher, pour, < ML. pling of raised dough. 
*ductiare, < L. ducere, pp. ductus, lead, con- Bread and Flower being scarce with us, we could not 
duct. Cf. COtiduit 1 , of the same ult. origin.] make Dough-boys. Dampier, Voyages, II. ii. 38. 
1. A jet or current of water or vapor applied dough-brake (do'brak), n. A power-machine 
to some part or a particular organ of the body, use d in bakeries for kneading dough ; a dough- 
as in a bath or for medicinal purposes. 2. An kneader. It consists of corrugated rollers, be- 
instrument for administering such a 3 et. Douches tween which the dough passes in a sheet, 
are differently formed and named, according to the parts j-,,,,1,,,,., //IA'A-N , nvnr ,7. ,. /,?...,.]. j.. 
for which they are designed: as,a nasal dowAe.-Douche dOUghert (do er), . [ME. dcwe/, < dough,dow, 
flliforme. Same as aguapuncture. dough, + -erl.] A baker. 
doucine (do-sen'), n. [F.] In arch., a mold- 
lOUDtsomet, a. |ine inserted as in doubt ; j ng con cave above and convex below, serving of the same, grynd att the Cite-is myllis, and 
early mod. E. doutsum; < doubfl, n., + -some.] especially as a cyma to a delicate cornice; a els, as long as they mey have sufBciaunt grist. 
Cul - cyma recta. 
Ang., Double or two edged ; doubt- doucker (do'ker), n. Same as ducker. 
Auceps [L.]. 
some. " ' Calepini, Diet., 1590 (ed. 1605). 
With doutsum victorie they dealt. 
Battle of Harlaw (Child's liallads, VII. 186). 
douc (dok), n. [< F. douc, of uncertain origin.] 
A name of the old-world catarrhine monkeys of 
the genus Semnopithecus. There are many species 
of these handsome apes, generally of large size and varied 
coloration, with long limbs and tails. 
(do), n. [Also dial, dow (formerly in lit- 
erary use), and (with pron. as in tough) duff, 
also dial, doff (see duff) ; < ME. dow, dowe, dou, 
dogh, dog, earlier dagh, dag, < AS. dah, dat. 
ddge = D. and LG. deeg = OHG. MHG. teic, G. 
teig = Icel. deig = Sw. deg = Dan. deig = Goth. 
daigs, dough ; < / "dig, Goth, deigan, knead, 
coloration, with long limbs and tails. TJ' t -f Z"' "" "v-"v ""> teen northern duunh faces " 
douce (Sc. pron dos), a. [Sc., also douse; < m ld ' form .' = . L : ^f ere Ofc'). mold > f T r 
l-T^ -. -, ,-* .. "- k ' "*"" ivvtvui/, N (nrht,,,f,r. nl + T? fait, -fimix-n Jl~t;l~ ~ \ If GT allV OHlCe. 81 
And moreouer, that all Doirers of the Cite, and suburbis 
grynd att the Cite-is myllis, and noo where 
' ive snfficiaunt grist. 
\glith Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 335. 
doughface (do'fas), n. A person who is pliable 
and, as it were, made of dough; a flabby char- 
acter; specifically, in U. S. hist., in the period 
of sectional controversy regarding slavery, a 
Northern politician disposed to show undue 
compliance with the wishes of the South. 
Randolph with his inimitable slang termed it [the Mis- 
souri Compromise] a "dirty bargain, helped on by eigh- 
" Schouler, Hist. U. S., III. 166. 
ME. douce, < OF. F. doux, fern, rfowce, sweet, 
soft, gentle, mild, < L. dulcis, sweet, etc. : see 
dulce.'] If. Sweet; pleasant; luxurious. 
And Diues in deyntees lyued and in douce vye [life]. 
Piers Plounnan (B), xiv. 122. 
2. Sober ; sedate ; gentle ; not light or frivo- 
lous; prudent; modest. [Scotch.] 
Sir George was gentle, meek, and douse. 
Raid of the Reidswire (Child's Ballads, VI. 133). 
There were some pretty Gallas, dowce-looking Abys- 
simans, and Africans of various degrees of hideousness 
R. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 473. 
doucedt (do'sed), n. An erroneous form of dou- 
eet, 2. 
doucely (dos'li), adv. [< douce + -Zy2.] Se- 
dately; soberly; prudently. [Scotch.] 
Doucely manage our affairs 
In parliament. 
Burns, Prayer to the Scotch Representatives. 
douceness (dos'nes), . 1. Soberness; sedate- 
ness; modesty. [Scotch.] 2f. Sweetness. Da- 
vies. 
Some luscious delight, yes, a kind of ravishing douce- 
ness there is in studying good books. 
S. Ward, Sermons, p. 166. 
douceperet, See douzepere. 
doucett, a. and n. [I. a. ME., < OF. doueet. 
sweet, gentle, F. doueet, mild, demure, dim. of 
sweet: see douce and dulcet. II. n. I. 
(whence ult. E. feign, figure, fictile, etc., q. v.), 
= Gr. 'Oi% in Tel X oc, wall, = Skt. ^ dih, stroke, 
smear.] 1. A mass composed of flour or meal 
prepared for baking into bread or cake by va- 
rious processes, as moistening, mixing with 
yeast, salt, etc., raising (after which it is called 
sponge), and kneading, or for simpler kinds by 
moistening and mixing only; paste of bread. 
When they [camels] travel, they cram them with barly 
dough. Sandys, Travailes, p. 108. 
Fer any office, small or gret, 
I couldn't ax with no face, 
Without I'd ben, thru dry and wet, 
Th' uurizzest kind o' doughface. 
Lowell, Biglow Papers, 1st ser., vi. 
In 1838 the Democratic Congressmen from the North- 
ern States decided in caucus in favor of a resolution re- 
quiring all petitions relating to slavery to be laid on the 
table without debate. This identified the party as it then 
existed with the slave-holding interest, and its northern 
representatives were stigmatized as Dough-faces. 
Quoted in Mag. of Awer. llist., XIII. 497. 
, , doucete, < . 
also called doucine, etc., a musical 
perhaps a kind of flute ; from the 
Sweet; dulcet. 
2. Something having the appearance or consis- doughfaced (do'fast), a. Pliable; easily mold- 
tency of dough, as potters' clay, etc. ed; truckling; pusillanimous. [U. S. political 
They renew this Image with new dow many times. J5>L {, ,A->C-,, \ 
Purchas Pilgrimage p 797 uOUgniaceiSm (do ta"sizm), n. [< dougnface + 
3f. A little cake. [North. Eng.] :'' s "" ] i R e character of a doughface ; liability 
n . ,, to be led by one of stronger mind or will ; plia- 
Cakerfhou^h^pl-operl^sJgn^sVMa^otVlo'ur tenf ^^5 specifically, subservience to proslavery 
pered with Water, Salt, Yeast, and kneaded fit for baking influences. [U. S. political slang.] 
Bourne's Pop. Antig. (1777), p. 163, note. doUghinCSS (do'i-nes), n. [< doughy + -ness.] 
One^ cake Is dough. SeecaW. The state or quality of being doughy. 
To make into doughing-machine (do'ing-ma-shen*), n. A 
machine for cutting dough, in this apparatus a 
piece of dough of the required weight is placed in a cir- 
cular metal box, in which by a movement of a handle a 
number of knives are caused to rise through slits in the 
bottom, and these, passing through the dou^h, divide it 
into thirty distinct pieces, each of the same weight. The 
Engineer (London). LVII., No. 1483. 
dough-kneaded (do 'needed), a. Soft; like 
dough. Milton. 
dough-kneader (do'ne Mer), n. A machine for 
mixing or kneading dough 
I /MI rrVi_wT^* f An* - // !-.',, A * A VnPflflinfy 
_ (do), v'.'i. [< dough, .] 
dough. [Bare.] 
The technical word used [in making Paraguayan tea] 
is sevar mate (cebar, lit., to bait, to grease, applied in the 
sense of doughing together the paste formed by the yerba 
and water and accommodating the bombilla). 
N. and Q., 7th ser., III. 16. 
To dough In. See the extract. 
The mixing of the malt required for one grist with 
jse, and is deliv- 
ered into one of Pfleiderer's siftiug-macliiues, in which, 
