dough-maker 
by the aid of a spiral brush, a sack may be sifted In a very 
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doulla (dii'li-a), n. See iliilin. 
. doulocracyt <;ia-lokTwi), n See dulocracy. 
. doum-palm, . Sec dtmm-nalm. 
doughnut (do'nut), . [Also dial, donnot; < d oun dake, doundake bark. See bark*. 
iloiHjh + nut.] A small spongy cake made of doup (,1,,,,,,) . i&. also written doiep, doln; 
dough (usually sweetened and spiced) and fried ap p ar . < f>au. v, g w . "doiii, in corap. Cf. 
iu lard. ~ 
An enormous dish uf hulls of sweetened dough, fried in 
hog's fat, and called douyhnuts, or olykoeks. 
Iruiny, Knickerbocker, p. 170. 
Doughnut day. See the extract. 
IlMHilfiiiit-ilay, Shrove Tuesday (Baldock, Herts). It 
being usual to make a good store of small cakes fried In 
hog's lard, placed over the flre in a brass skillet, called 
dough-nuts, wherwith the youngsters are plentifully re- 
giilr.l. Quoted In iV. and Q., 7th er., V. 30-2. 
dough-raiser (do'ra'zer), . A pan or hot-wa- 
ter bath in which pans of dough are placed to 
rise under the influence of a gentle heat from 
the bath. The pans are placed on perforated 
shelves above the water and covered with 
.cloths. Also called donah-trough . 
doughtt, doutht, K ME. dought, douthe, 
dittlie, dugeth, dogeth, < AS. duguth, dugoth (= 
OFries. duged = MLG. ducht, dogct, dogent, LG. 
dogt =s OHG. tuyundi, tugund, tugatlii, tugad, 
tuged, MHG. tugende, tugent, tuget, G. tugend 
Icel. dygdh = Sw. dygd = Dan. dyd), ex- 
cellence, nobility, manhood, age of manhood, 
power, strength; as a collective noun, men, 
people, attendants or retainers, army, multi- 
tude; < dagan, be strong: see doic 1 , and cf. 
doughty.'] 1. Manhood; the age of manhood; 
manly power or strength ; excellence. 2. Men 
collectively; especially, men as composing an 
army or a court; retainers. 
That day doubhle on the dece wat the douth serued, 
Fro the kyng wat3 cummen with knyjtes in to the halle. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Kniyht (E. E. T. S.), 1. 61. 
dought (Sc. pron. ducht). Obsolete or dialectal 
Scotch preterit of dow 1 . 
doughtert, * An obsolete spelling of daughter. 
doughtily (dou'ti-li), adv. [< ME. doithteli, 
doughtiliche, etc.; < doughty + -fy 2 .] In a 
doughty manner ; with doughtiness. 
Hit is wonder to wete, in his wode anger, 
How doylttely he did that day with his bond. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 9007. 
Doughtily fighting in the chiefe brunt of the enemies. 
Haltluyt's Voyages, II. 35. 
doughtiness (dou'ti-nes), n. [< ME. douhty- 
nessn, diilitif/iiffH; < /Im/i/lity + -ness.] The qual- 
ity of being doughty ; valor ; bravery. 
Virtue is first of all, what the Germans well name It, 
Tugend (Taugend, dow-ing, or Dought-iness), courage and 
the faculty to do. CarlyU. 
dough-trough (do'tr&f), n. Same as dough- 
raiser. 
doughty (dou'ti), a. [< ME. doughty, douhty. 
dolity, duhti, etc., < AS. dohtig, also umlauted 
dyhtig, strong, valiant, good, = MLG. duchtig, 
LG. diigtig = OHG. tiihtic, MHG. G. tuchtig = 
Icel. dygdliugr = Sw. dugttg = Dan. dygtig, able, 
valiant, etc., adj. from a noun repr. by MHG. 
tii/tt, strength, activity, < OHG. tugan = AS. 
dugaii, etc., be strong, etc., E. dowl, do 2 : Bee 
dow 1 , do 2 . ] Strong ; brave ; spirited ; valiant ; 
powerful: as, a doughty hero. 
Patroculus the pronde, a prise mon of werre ; 
With Diomed, a doughti mon & dernlst of bond, 
A strouge man in stoure & stuernist in flght. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3653. 
Full many doughtie knightes he in his dayes 
Had doen to death, subdewde In equall frayes. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. v. 26. 
She smiled to see the doughty hero slain ; 
But, at her smile, the beau revived again. 
Pope, R. of the L, v. 69. 
But there is something solid and doughty in the man 
[Dryden] that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which vic- 
tories are made in due time. 
l.nii'i-n. Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 18. 
doughty-handed (dou'ti-han'ded), a. Strong- 
handed; mighty. 
I thank you all ; 
For dtntghty-hamled are you, and have fought 
Not as you serv'd the cause, but as 't had been 
Each man's like mine. Shot., A. and C., Iv. 8. 
doughy (do'i), a. [< dough + -i/ 1 .] 1. Like 
dough; flabby and pallid; yielding to pressure ; 
impressible. 
No, no, no, your son was misled with a snipt-taffeta fel- 
low there, whose villainous saffron would have made all 
the unbaked and doughy youth of a nation in his colour. 
Shak., All's Well, Iv. 5. 
2. Not thoroughly baked, as bread ; consisting 
in part of unbaked dough ; half-baked. 
Douglas heart, ring. See heart, ring. 
douk (dok), t\ and n. A dialectal form of duck*. 
itiicW. 
doukar, . A dialectal form of ducker, 3. 
Dan. dupsko = Sw. imuto (ska = E. shoe), 
ferrule.] 1. Bottom ; buttocks ; butt-end ; end; 
extremity: as, a candle-doup. 
The wight and doughty captains ' 
Upo' their doup* sat down. 
/'<ww.* in Buchan Dialect, p. 1. 
2. A loop at the end. See the extract. 
Six warp threads ... are passed through malls In the 
leashes of the heaclle II, and thence through loops called 
"daupt" fUed to a headle. A. Barlow, Weaving, p. 193. 
doupion, . See dupion. 
dour (dor), a. [Sc. form of dure, a.] Hard; in- 
flexible; obstinate; bold; hardy. [Scotch.] 
He had a wife was dour an' din. 
Burns, Sic a Wife as Willie had. 
The Lord made us all, and you may trust Him to look 
after us all better than these dour-faced pulpit-thump- 
ers imagine. H'. Black, In Far Lochaber, v. 
doura (dO'ril), n. See durra. 
douree (do're), n. In the Levant, a necklace, 
especially one of gold beads. 
dourlach (dor'lach), n. See dorlach. 
dourness (dSr'nes), n. The state or qual- 
ity of being dour; obstinacy; stubbornness. 
[Scotch.] 
If there's power in the law of Scotland, I'll gar thee rue 
sic dourness. '.'"". The Entail, I. 309. 
We are gravely told to look for the display of a dour- 
nets, desperation, and tenacity on the part of Frenchmen. 
The Nation, Jan. 12, 1871, p. 20. 
douroucouli (d8-r6-k8'li), n. The native name 
of one of the small, large-eyed, nocturnal South 
dovo 
As the brig came more upon the wind, she felt It more, 
and we doused the skysails. hut k-'pt the weather stud- 
ding-sails on her. H. H. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 75. 
douse 2 (dous), n. [Also written dowse; Sc. 
iiniifi; doyce, douss, etc.; from the verb.] A 
blow ; a stroke. 
The porter uttered a sort of a yell, which came not 
amiss Into his part, started up with his club, and dealt a 
sound douse or two on each side of him. 
Scott, Kenllworth, xxx. 
douse 3 (dous), v. t. ; pret. and pp. doused, ppr. 
dousing. [Also written doaw ; perhaps a par- 
ticular use of douse 2 . Usually taken as a cor- 
ruption of dott/ 1 , but such a change would be 
very unusual. Certainly not from AS. dtctescan, 
extinguish.] To put out ; extinguish. [Slang.] 
Douse the glim. See gUta. 
douser (dou ser), n. [< douse 1 , v. ., 4- -er 1 .] 
One whose business or occupation it is to search 
for metalliferous deposits or water by the use 
of the dousing- or divining-rod. Also dowser. 
dousing-chock (dou'sing-chok), n. In ship- 
building, one of several pieces fayed across the 
apron and lapped on the knightheads or inside 
stuff above the upper deck. 
dousing-rod (dou sing-rod), n. [< dousing, ppr. 
of dowse 1 , v. i., + rod.] A divining-rod. 
The virtues of the dountui-rod he (Sir George Airy, As- 
tronomer RoyalJ wholly attributes to the excitability of the 
muscles of the wrists. Caroline Fox, Mem. Old Friends. 
doutH (dout), v. t. [Contr. of do out, ME. don ut, 
i. e., put out: see do 1 , and cf. doff, don, <//'-] 
To put out ; quench ; extinguish ; douse. 
First in the intellect it douts the light Sylvester. 
I have a speech of flre, that fain would blaze. 
But that this folly douts It. Shalt., Hamlet, Iv. 7. 
Douroucouli (NyftifitHtcus trrvirfatufl. 
American monkeys of the genus Nyetipithecus 
(which see), as Jf. trivirgatus, or JV. rufipes. 
Also written durukuli. 
douse 1 (dous), v.; pret. and pp. doused, ppr. 
dousing. [Also written dowse, formerly douze, 
douce, dause, etc.; perhaps of Scand. origin: cf. 
Sw. dunsa, plump down, fall clumsily (duns, the 
noise of a falling body), = Dan. dunse, thump. 
Cf. douse 2 .] I. trans. To thrust or plunge into 
a fluid; immerse; dip; also, to drench or flood 
with a fluid. 
I have . . . douz'd my carnal affections in all the vile- 
ness of the world. Hammond, Works, IV. 515. 
The Captain gave me my bath, by dousing me with 
buckets from the house on deck. 
Lmrell, Fireside Travels, p. 161. 
II. in trans. 1. To fall or be plunged sud- 
denly into a fluid. 
It is no jesting trivial matter 
To swing I' tli air, or douse in water. 
5. Butler, Hudibras. 
2. To search for deposits of ore, for lodes, or 
for water, by the aid of the dousing- or divin- 
ing-rod (which see). 
douse 2 , dowse 2 (dous), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
doused, dowsed, ppr. dousing, dotcsing. [Cf. Sc. 
douss, douce, doyce, throw; dugeh, rush, fall 
with a noise, < ME. duschen, dusshen, rush, fall ; 
cf. Norw. dusa, break, cast down from, OD. 
doesen, beat, strike, G. dial, tusen, dusen, strike, 
run against, East Fries, dossen, strike. See 
also doss 1 and dits* 1 , which appear to be con- 
nected.] 1. To strike. 
Dowse, to give a blow on the face, strike. Bailey. 
2. Xaut., to strike or lower in haste; slacken 
suddenly : as, douse the topsail. 
Very civilly they dausrd their topsailes, and desired the 
man of warre to come aboord them. 
Copt. John Smith, True Travels, I. 52. 
^t, v . and H. An earlier spelling 
doutancet, n- An earlier spelling otdoubtance. 
doutet, r- t. An earlier spelling of doubt 1 . 
doutelest, a. and adv. An earlier spelling of 
doubtless. 
doutht, See dought. 
doutoust, . An earlier spelling of doubtous. 
douzeperet, douceperet, . [An archaism in 
Spenser; ME. doseper, dosyper, sing., developed 
from pi. do:epers, duzeparis, duze pers, dosxe 
pers, etc., < OF. doze (dou;e, duze, etc.) pers 
(pars), mod. F. les douze pairs, the ' twelve 
peers' celebrated in the Charlemagne ro- 
mances: dose, douze, mod. F. dome, < L. duo- 
decim, twelve (see duodecimal, dozen); per, 
mod. F. pair, peer (see peer 1 , pair, par).] One 
of the twelve peers (les douze pairs) of France, 
renowned in fiction. 
Inne Franse weren italic twelfe iferan, 
The Freiusce heo cleopedeu dusze pert (var. dosseperet). 
1.II>I1IK'I1, I. 69. 
Eydd in his kalander a knyghte of his chamhyre, 
And rollede the richeste of alle the rounde table! 
I ume the dussepere and duke he dubbede with his hondes. 
Uorte Arthure (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 2643. 
For to brynge this warre to the more effectual! ende, 
he (Charles Martel] chase xii. perys, which after some 
wryters are callyd doseperys, or kyngs, of ye which vi. 
were bisshopys, and vi. temporal! lords. 
Fabyan, Works, I. civ. 
Big looking like a doughty Doitrepere. 
Spen*er,.<}.,lll.x.Sl. 
dove 1 (duv), n. [= 8c. doo, dou>, < ME. dote, 
doure, dome, duve, < AS. "dufe = OS. dubha = 
D. di/= LG. duve = OHG. tuba, MHG. toube, 
G. taube = Icel. dufa = Sw. dufra = Dan. due 
= Goth, dubo, a dove, lit. a diver, < AS. dufan, 
etc., E. dive, dip. The application of the name 
to the bird is not clear (perhaps "from its 
habit of ducking the head, or from its manner 
of flight"). The AS. form *dufe is not recorded 
(but cf. dufe-doppa, translating L. pelicanus: 
see under divedapper, didapper), the name cul- 
fre, E. culreri, q. v., being used; this is prob. 
ult. < L. fill u in iin, a dove, which also orig. means 
a 'diver': see eolumba 1 .'] 1. Any bird of the 
family Columbidai; a pigeon. The word has no more 
Carolina Dove (ZfHatJitra carolimfitsit). 
specific meaning than this, being exactly synonymous with 
pigeon ; in popular usage it is applied must frequently to 
