920 
D O A 
The lord Aubrey Vere 
Was dune to death. Henry VI. 
The phrafe, what to do with, fignifies how to bedow ; 
what ufe to make of; what cottrfe to take ; how to em¬ 
ploy; which way to get rid of.—Men are many times 
brought to that extremity, that if it were not for God, 
they would not know what to do with themfelves, or how 
to enjoy themfelves for one hour. Tillotfon. 
To DO, v. n. To aid or behave in any manner well or 
ill.—Unto this day they do after the former manners: 
they fear not the Lord, neither do they after the law and 
commandment which the Lord commanded the children 
of Jacob. 2 Kings .—As every prince fhould govern as he 
would defire to be governed, fo every fubjeft ought to 
obey as he would defire to be obeyed, according to the 
maxim of doing as we w r ould be done by. Temple. —To 
make an end ; to conclude. This is only in the com¬ 
pound preterite.—You may ramble a whole day, and 
every moment difcover fomething new; but when you 
have done, you will have but a confufed notion of the 
place. SpeBator. —To ceafc to be concerned with ; to 
ceafe to care about; to defift from notice or practice : 
only in the compound preterite,—I have done with Chau¬ 
cer, when I have anfwered fome objections. Dryden. — 
We have not done with afl’enting to propofitions at fird 
hearing, and underdanding their terms. Locke. —Having 
done with fuch amufements, we give up what we cannot 
difown. Pope. —To fare ; to be with regard to ficknefs 
or health.—Good woman, how doji thou ? Shakefpeare. — 
To fucceed ; to fulfil a purpofe.—Come, ’tis no matter ; 
we (hall do without him. Addifon .—To deal with.—No 
man, who hath to do with the king, will think himfelf 
fafe, unlefs you be his good angel, and guide him. Ba¬ 
con.—To do is ufed for any verb, to Live the repetition of 
the verb : as, IJhallcome, but if /do not, go away ; that is, 
if I come not: 
Thus painters Cupids paint, thus poets do 
A naked god, blind, young, with arrows too. Sidney. 
Do is a word of vehement command ; or earned requed : 
as, kelp me, do ; make hajle, do.—If thou had lod thy land, 
do not alfo lofe thy condancy ; and if thou mud die a lit¬ 
tle fooner, yet do not die impatiently. Taylor. 
—Loofe me.—I will free thee. 
Do, and I’ll be thy (lave. Dryden. 
To do is put before verbs fometimes expletively : as, 1 
do love, or I love ; / did love, or I loved. —The Turks do ac¬ 
knowledge God the Father, creator of heaven and earth, 
being the fird Perfon in the Trinity, though they deny 
the red. Bacon. —Sometimes emphatically; as, / do hate 
him, bat will not wrong him : 
Perdition catch my foul 
But I do love thee ; and when I love thee not, 
Chaos is come again. Shakefpeare. 
Sometimes by way of oppofition : as, I did love him, but 
fcorn him now. 
To DO right, v. a. To pledge in drinking.— Do me 
right, and dub me knight. Shakefpeare. —Have you done 
me right, gentlemen. Ben fonfon. 
“ Do as you would be done by.” This golden rule 
ought to be the guide of every man’s actions ; and per¬ 
petually guard us againd too much felf-love, and lelf- 
intered. The Latins fay : Quod tibi fieri non vis, alteri ne 
facias. The Spanidi : Lo que no quicres parati, no lo quieras 
para mi. To the fame purpofe is the proverb, “Do 
well and have well, or felf do, (elf have.” The French 
fay : Oui bien fera, bien trouvcra ; As a man does fo he will 
find. r 
DOABEH', a river of Ada, which changes its name 
to Kanreh near Cabul. 
DO'AN, a town of Arabia, in the province of Hadra- 
maut, the refidence of a fchiech : twenty-five days jour¬ 
ney ead from Sana. 
DOB 
DOAR'^ON, or Doiar^on, or Oiar^on, a river of 
Spain, which runs into the Bay of Bifcay, near Port 
Pallage. 
To DOAT, v. n. See To Dote. 
DO'S A, or Da ba, a town of Arabia, in the country 
of Oman : 144 miles north-north-wed of Mafcat. 
DOBARU'A, or Dobarowa, a town of Africa, in 
the empire of Abyfiinia : 120 miles ead of Sire. 
DOB'BER,’ a town of Arabia : thirty-fix miles north- 
wed of Sana. 
DOBB’s COUNTY, in North America, was in New- 
burn didrift, North Carolina; but it has been divided 
into two counties, viz. Glafgow and Lenoir, fince the 
cenfus of 1790, and now no longer exids. 
DOBB’s FERRY, a paflage acrofs Hudfon river, in 
North America, twenty-fix miles above New-York city. 
DO'BELN, a town of Germany, in the circle of Upper 
Saxony, and circle of Leipfic : twenty-four miles wed, 
north-wed of Drefden, and fourteen wed of Meiden. 
DO'BERSDORP, a town of Germany, in the duchy 
of Holdein : ten miles wed of Lutkenborg. 
DO'BERSPERG, a town of Germany, in the arch¬ 
duchy of Audria: four miles rtorth of Bohmifch Waid- 
thofen. 
BOB'LEN, a town of the duchy of Courland : fix 
miles north-ead of Mittaw. 
DOBORE'VA, a town of Bofnia : twenty-eight miles 
fouth-fouth-ead of Serajo. 
DOBOS'N A, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate 
of Minfk : twelve miles north-wed of Rohaczow. 
DO'BOY, a fmall American ifiand, in the Atlantic, 
near the coad of Georgia. Lat. 31. 28. N. Ion. 81. 31.W. 
Greenwich. 
DO BRA, a town of Tranfilvania : twenty miles wed- 
north-wed of Millenbach. 
DO'BRA, a town of Servia : feventeen miles wed of 
Orfova. 
DOBRADIEN', a town of Silefia, See Gutentag. 
DO'BRAKOTZ, a town of Hungary: nineteen miles 
fouth of Symontornya. 
DOBRA'TA, a town of European Turkey, in the 
province of Moldavia: forty miles w T ed of Jaffy. 
DOBRATIC'ZE, a town of Lithuania, in the pala¬ 
tinate of Brzefc : fix miles fouth of Brzefc. 
DO'BRAVVIZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Bolefiau : four miles fouth of Jung Buntzlau. 
DO'BRE, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Belcz: 
fifty-fix miles wed-fouth-wed of Belcz. 
DO'BRENIZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Konigingratz : eight miles fouth-wed of Konigingratz. 
DOBRIAN'KA, a town of Ruflia, in the government 
of Mogilev : 116 miles fouth of Mogilev. 
DO'BRILOW, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Red Rufiia: thirty-two miles fouth of Halicz. 
DO'BRILUG, a town of Lufatia : twenty-eight miles 
wed of Spremberg, and thirty-four north of Drefden. 
DO'BROFORT, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Belcz : eight miles fouth-ead of Belcz. 
DO'BROMIL, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Lemberg : thirty-two miles fouth-wed of Lemberg. 
DOBRONl'VA, a town and cadle of Hungary: fix 
miles north-ead of Schemnitz. 
DOBRUS'KA, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Konigingratz : three miles north-ead of Konigingratz. 
DO'BRZYN, a town of Poland, and capital of a dif- 
tri< 5 t of the fame name, fituated on the banks of the 
Vidula : twenty miles north-wed of Plotfko. 
DOBSHE'NA, a townof Hungary, twelve miles fouth- 
fouth-wed of Kapfdorf. 
DOB'SON (William), an Englifh painter of merit, 
born in London in 1610. He derived his principal ad¬ 
vantage from copying fome pictures of Titian and Van¬ 
dyke, the manner of whom) efpecially of the latter, he 
caught and always retained. This feems to have been 
all the education he received; but fuch was his alli- 
duity 
