Doubtfulness (n.) Uncertainty of event or issue.
Doubting (a.) That is uncertain; that distrusts or hesitates; having doubts.
Doubtless (a.) Free from fear or suspicion.
Doubtless (adv.) Undoubtedly; without doubt.
Doubtlessly (adv.) Unquestionably.
Doubtous (a.) Doubtful.
Douc (n.) A monkey (Semnopithecus nemaeus), remarkable for its varied and brilliant colors. It is a native of Cochin China.
Douce (a.) Sweet; pleasant.
Douce (a.) Sober; prudent; sedate; modest.
Doucepere (n.) One of the twelve peers of France, companions of Charlemagne in war.
Doucet (n.) Alt. of Dowset
Dowset (n.) A custard.
Dowset (n.) A dowcet, or deep's testicle.
Douceur (n.) Gentleness and sweetness of manner; agreeableness.
Douceur (n.) A gift for service done or to be done; an honorarium; a present; sometimes, a bribe.
Douche (n.) A jet or current of water or vapor directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; a douche bath.
Douche (n.) A syringe.
Doucine (n.) Same as Cyma/recta, under Cyma.
Doucker (v. t.) A grebe or diver; -- applied also to the golden-eye, pochard, scoter, and other ducks.
Dough (n.) Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough.
Dough (n.) Anything of the consistency of such paste.
Dough-baked (a.) Imperfectly baked; hence, not brought to perfection; unfinished; also, of weak or dull understanding.
Doughbird (n.) The Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis). See Curlew.
Doughface (n.) A contemptuous nickname for a timid, yielding politician, or one who is easily molded.
Dough-faced (a.) Easily molded; pliable.
Doughfaceism (n.) The character of a doughface; truckling pliability.
Doughiness (n.) The quality or state of being doughy.
Dough-kneaded (a.) Like dough; soft.
Doughnut (n.) A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard.
Doughtily (adv.) In a doughty manner.
Doughtiness (n.) The quality of being doughty; valor; bravery.
Doughtren (n. pl.) Daughters.
Doughty (superl.) Able; strong; valiant; redoubtable; as, a doughty hero.
Doughy (a.) Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion.
Doulocracy (n.) A government by slaves.
Doum palm () See Doom palm.
Doupe (n.) The carrion crow.
Dour (a.) Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.
Doura (n.) A kind of millet. See Durra.
Douroucouli (n.) See Durukuli.
Doused (imp. & p. p.) of Douse
Dousing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Douse
Douse (v. t.) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse.
Douse (v. t.) To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly; as, douse the topsail.
Douse (v. i.) To fall suddenly into water.
Douse (v. t.) To put out; to extinguish.
Dousing-chock (n.) One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck.
Dout (v. t.) To put out.
Douter (n.) An extinguisher for candles.
Dove (n.) A pigeon of the genus Columba and various related genera. The species are numerous.
Dove (n.) A word of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
Dovecot (n.) Alt. of Dovecote
Dovecote (n.) A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.
Dove-eyed (a.) Having eyes like a dove; meekeyed; as, dove-eyed Peace.
Dovekie (n.) A guillemot (Uria grylle), of the arctic regions. Also applied to the little auk or sea dove. See under Dove.
Dovelet (n.) A young or small dove.
Dovelike (a.) Mild as a dove; gentle; pure and lovable.
Dove plant () A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with numerous globose white fragrant flowers. The column in the center of the flower resembles a dove; -- called also Holy Spirit plant.
Dover's Powder () A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States) with sulphate of potash, and in France (as in Dr. Dover's original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of potash and licorice. It is an anodyne diaphoretic.
Dove's-foot (n.) A small annual species of Geranium, native in England; -- so called from the shape of the leaf.
Dove's-foot (n.) The columbine.
Doveship (n.) The possession of dovelike qualities, harmlessness and innocence.
Dovetail (n.) A flaring tenon, or tongue (shaped like a bird's tail spread), and a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one.
Dovetailed (imp. & p. p.) of Dovetail
Dovetailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dovetail
Dovetail (v. t.) To cut to a dovetail.
Dovetail (v. t.) To join by means of dovetails.
Dovetail (v. t.) To fit in or connect strongly, skillfully, or nicely; to fit ingeniously or complexly.
Dovish (a.) Like a dove; harmless; innocent.
Dow (n.) A kind of vessel. See Dhow.
Dow (v. t.) To furnish with a dower; to endow.
Dowable (v. t.) Capable of being endowed; entitled to dower.
Dowager (n.) A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease.
Dowager (n.) A title given in England to a widow, to distinguish her from the wife of her husband's heir bearing the same name; -- chiefly applied to widows of personages of rank.
Dowagerism (n.) The rank or condition of a dowager; formality, as that of a dowager. Also used figuratively.
Dowcet (n.) One of the testicles of a hart or stag.
Dowdy (superl.) Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking.
Dowdies (pl. ) of Dowdy
Dowdy (n.) An awkward, vulgarly dressed, inelegant woman.
Dowdyish (a.) Like a dowdy.
Dowel (n.) A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.
Dowel (n.) A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it.
Doweled (imp. & p. p.) of Dowel
Dowelled () of Dowel
Doweling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dowel
Dowelling () of Dowel
Dowel (v. t.) To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as, a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.
Dower (n.) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
Dower (n.) The property with which a woman is endowed
Dower (n.) That which a woman brings to a husband in marriage; dowry.
Dower (n.) That portion of the real estate of a man which his widow enjoys during her life, or to which a woman is entitled after the death of her husband.
Dowered (p. a.) Furnished with, or as with, dower or a marriage portion.
Dowerless (a.) Destitute of dower; having no marriage portion.
Dowery (n.) See Dower.
Dowitcher (n.) The red-breasted or gray snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus); -- called also brownback, and grayback.
Dowl (n.) Same as Dowle.
Dowlas (n.) A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, now nearly replaced by calico.
Dowle (n.) Feathery or wool-like down; filament of a feather.
Down (n.) Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool
Down (n.) The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without hooklets.