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|Domesday ||n||See:"Doomsday' - The day when God is expected to judge the world. 2. the final judgement, the day of the Final Judgement. 3. any day of a decisive judgement or final dissolution. 4. Armegeddon; the Apocalyse; Raknarok. |
|Domesday ||n||See:"Doomsday' - The day when God is expected to judge the world. 2. the final judgement, the day of the Final Judgement. 3. any day of a decisive judgement or final dissolution. 4. Armegeddon; the Apocalyse; Raknarok. |
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Do | n | A wild, noisy party, a bash. 2. deed, act, fear. 3. a swindle, scam, rip-off scheme. |
Do | vb | To put, place. 2. to proceed, go. 3. to apply, employ, layout, extend. 4. to settle, invest. 5. bestow, impart, grant, bring upon (a person, etc.) some affecting quality or condition, notion of performance, to cause to befall or come. 6. to render, administer, pay, extend, to fetch, accomplish, effect. 7. to execute, achieve, carry out, bring to past. 8. to commit, perpetrate (sin, crime). 9. celebrate, function, cause to function. 10. to execute, discahrge, deliver, manage. 11. to put forth, exert, use, endeavour in affecting something. 12. to do one's best. 13. to produce, make, bring into existence by one's action. 14. to do work upon, prepare, repair, clean, keep in order, furnish, attend to. 15. to prepare food. 16. to work out of, review, depict. 17. to act, enact, play the part of. 18. to finish up, exhaust, undo, ruin. 18. beat up, finish off, kill. 19. to oax, swindle, scam, catfish. 20. to accomplish a distance, travel at a certain speed. 21. go as a tourist, 'do france'. 22. to translate, render into another language, or form of composition; as ' this work will shortly be done into Latin'; 'not translated but done out of French '. 23. to be brought about, come to pass. 24. to be put forth into activity; exert authority. 25. to perform deeds, exert oneself oneself to work. 26. to continue, manage, live on. |
Do | phr | "Do a Somebody" - behave as a named person would do, as 'do a General MacArthur' |
Do | phr | "Do As I Say, Not As I Do" - obey and follow my instructions and advice, not my actions. |
Do | phr | "Do a Slow Burn" - to experience a gradual increasing feeling of anger and/or frustration. |
Do | phr | "Do As You Would Be Done" - treat others as you would like to be treated by them |
Do | phr | "Do Away With" - dispose of, abolish, kill. |
Do | phr | "Do Better to Do Something" - do better or succeed by sticking closely to plan; or by not doing something done by someone else. |
Do | phr | "Do Business With" - interact or deal with in various senses of the word. |
Do | phr | "Do Down" - cheat, swindle, get the better of, overcome. |
Do | phr | "Do For" - be satisfactory or sufficient. |
Do | phr | "Do Good" - act with sincerity and good intentions towards others; especially in promoting and supporting social reform and benevolence. |
Do | phr | "Do Good By Stealth" - quietly and assumingly work at improving the fortune, circumstance, life of others, either to avoid praise or as the best method to achieve the best outcome. |
Do | phr | "Do Into" - translate, as 'this work shall shortly be done into Latin'. |
Do | phr | "Do It Yourself" - do handyman work around one's house, rather than engaging the services of a tradesman. |
Do | phr | "Do More Harm than Good" - get an outcome more bad than good (or beneficial). |
Do | phr | "Do No Good" - not be effective or useful in bringing about any purpose. |
Do | phr | "Do Nothing For" - detract from the look, appearance of, or quality of. |
Do | phr | "Do Off" - to put out of, deprive, rid of. |
Do | phr | "Do One's Best" - do all or everything one can. 2. have good intentions, be conscientious, hard-working, anxious to please. |
Do | phr | "Do One's Bit" - make a useful or worthwhile contribution to an communal effort. |
Do | phr | "Do Oneself a Bit of No Good" - fail, lose, suffer harm or misfortune by one's own lack of judgement. |
Do | phr | "Do One's Homework" - prepare oneself diligently to ensure one knows all the facts and possibilities, before facing examinations or engaged in an enterprise. |
Do | phr | "Do Out " - clean, refurbish a room or house. |
Do | phr | Do Out of" - translated, as in 'not translated but done out of French'. |
Do | phr | "Do Over" - beat up, assault, thrash. |
Do | phr | Do Someone's Head In" - make someone feel annoyed, confused or frustrated. |
Do | phr | "Do Someone Proud" -treat somebody well. |
Do | phr | "Do Something For" - enhance the look off. 2. help or assist. |
Do | phr | "Do Something (or somebody) Good" - do something beneficial to improve the lot of others. |
Do | phr | "Do The Deed" - do something daring and bold, courageous, dangerous; or risky. |
Do | phr | "Do The Hard Yards" - work hard and make the effort needed for success, but often unobtrusively. |
Do | phr | "Do the Needful" - do some task or take some action, that is expected or required. |
Do | phr | "Do The Right Thing" - do what is ethical or just. |
Do | phr | "Do Time" - serve prison time. |
Do | phr | "Do To Death" - to do something slowly and frequently. |
Do | phr | "Do Unto Others, As You Would Have Them Do To You" - do as you would be done by; treat others as you would like them to treat you. |
Do | phr | "Do Up" - to tie, wrap or lace up |
Do | phr | "Do What One is Told" - obey instructions and do what one is told to do. |
Do | phr | "Do Well, By Doing Good" - to achieve social acceptance and success as a result of behaving in a benevolent or charitable way. |
Do | phr | "Do Well for Oneself" - succeed, prosper, thrive. |
Do | phr | "Do Well Out Of" - get advantage from, profit by. |
Do | phr | "Do Without" - manage without something; get by with what one has. |
Do | phr | "Do You Know Who I Am" - uttered by a self absorbent person who feels they are being wronged by someone in a particular situation. |
Do | phr | "Do Make Do" - get along or manage with what is at hand. |
Do | phr | "Do Out" - to decorate, tidy, clean. |
Do-all | n. | Factotum |
Dock | n | Name of variety of species of the genus Rumex (N.O. Polygonacea) |
Do-do | n | (sl)The excrement of dogs. |
Doe | n | Female of the fallow deer, applied to the female of other similar species, as the female of the hare or rabbit, sometimes of the rat. |
Doe-buck | n | Male deer |
Doe-eyed | adj | Having large, gentle dark eyes (of a woman). |
Doe-like | adj | Resembling a doe or some aspect of one, submissively tender. |
Doe-ling | n | A female domestic goat of less than one year old. |
Doer | n | One who does, one who performs, some act or deed, e.g. the rat. 2. in combination, a 'hard-doer' an eccentric character; hard-case. |
Does | phr | "Does Anyone Here Speak English" |
Doeth | vb | Archaic form of do. |
Doe-skin | n | Skin of a doe; leather made from the skin of a doe. |
Doff | vb | To put off or take off from the body (clothing, hat, etc.)other by way of salutation, or token of respect. 2. to raise one's hat to a person. 3. to undress oneself, strip. 4. to throw away, lay aside; hence, in a broader sense - to do away with, get rid of. 5. to turn aside, put off with excuse. |
Doffer | n | One who doffs. |
Doffing | n | The action of the verb 'to doff'. 2. the putting or taking off of clothing. |
Dog | n | Old English docga, a late, rare OE word used of a powerful breed of canine. It forced out Old English hund (the general Germanic and Indo-European word canine) by 16c. and subsequently was picked up in many continental languages (French dogue (16c.), Danish dogge), but the origin remains one of the great mysteries of English etymology. |
Dog | n | A name given to various atmospheric appearances, a luminous appearance on the horizon, such as 'fog-dog, sea-dog, sun-dog, (parhelion: luminous appearance near the sun), water-dog (a small, dark, floating cloud indicating rain). |
Dog | vb | Follow closely and persistently; pursue, track, follow. 2. |
Dog | phr | "Be an Old Dog" - inveterate, experienced. |
Dog | phr | "Dog It" - be idle, shirk, approach lazily. |
Dog | phr | "Don't Keep a Dog and Bark Oneself" - do not employ someone to do a job and then do it yourself. |
Dog | phr | "Don't Wake a Sleeping Dog" - let sleeping dogs lie. |
Dog | phr | "Go To the Dogs" - deteriorate, be spoiled, upset, ruined. |
Dog | phr | "In a Dog eat Dog World" - ruthlessly contemptible attitude. |
Dog | phr | "Lead a Dog's Life" - life of misery and subservience. |
Dog | phr | "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie" - to do disturb a situation that is finally calm after being troubled. |
Dog | phr | "Like a Dog's Breakfast" - a great mess. |
Dog | phr | "Like a Dog in the Hunt" - persistent, relentless. |
Dog | phr | "Like a Dog With a Bone" - stubborn, persistent, relentlessly. |
Dog | phr | "Like a Dog with Two Tails' - very ecstatic. |
Dog | phr | "Put On the Dog" - act or assume airs; with airs; pretentious. |
Dog | phr | "Rain Cats and Dog" - rain heavily. |
Dog and bone | n | Rhyming slang for phone. |
Dogbane | n | Any of the genus Apocynun. |
Dogberry | n | The fruit of the dogwood. |
Dog-bite | n | The bite of a dog. |
Dog-bitten | adj | Bitten bu a dog. |
Dogbreath | n | A very bad breath; halitosis. |
Dog-bright | adj | Bright-spotted caused by the refraction of sunlight through ice-crystal, sometimes seen on the parhelic circle. |
Dog days | n | The time around the helical sing of the Dog-star in late July to mid August in the northern hemisphere. 2. an evil time; a time in which malignant influences prevail. |
Dogdom | n | The domain of dogs; the dog collectively; doghood. |
Dog-eared | adj | With the corners worn or battered with use. |
Dog-eat-dog | adj | Ruthlessly competitive. |
Dog end | n | A cigarette end or butt. |
Dog-eyed | adj | An opprobrious epithet meaning shameless; bitch-eyed. 2. sad-eyed. |
Dog fight | n | Colse combat between jet fighters. 2. uproar; a fight like that between dogs. |
Dog fighting | n | A type of blood sport generally defined as opposing two game dogs against one another in a ring or pit for entertainment. |
Dog food | n | Food eaten by or appropriate two dogs in general. 2. food for domesticated dogs. 3. computer software (beta) that is tested on the developer's own computers. 4. slang for death and dead. |
Dogfully | adj | In ways worthy of, or befitting a dog: courage and persistence. |
Dogged | adj | Like a dog, having the character or having some good (or bad) characteristic of a do. 2. having bad qualities of a dog: currish, ill-conditioned, malicious, crabbed, spiteful, cruel. 3. of things - awkward, crabbed or difficult in dealig with, ill-tempered, surly, sullen, morose, obstinate. 4. having the persistency or tenacity of various breeds of dog. |
Doggedly | adv | Like a dog in appearance and manner. 2. currishly, surly, with sullen obstinacy. 3. persistent, full-of-effort, stubbornly tenacious, determined.. |
Doggedness | n | The quality or state of being dogged: tenacious, obstinate, persistent; spiteful, malicious, sullen. |
Dogger | n | One who hunts dingoes for a bounty, bounty-hunter. |
Doggily | adv | In a doggy manner; like a dog. |
Dogginess | n | The quality of being like a dog, doggy; canine. |
Dogging | n | The direction of cranes on a building. 2. the action or act of being persistently tenacious. |
Doggish | adj | Of the nature of, pertaining to or resembling a dog, canine. 2. having or indication a dog-like disposition and character, currish, malicious, spiteful, ill natured, snappish, snarling,. cynical. 3. brutish, bestial, sensual. |
Doggishly | adv | In a doggish manner. |
Doggishness | n | The state or quality of being doggish. |
Doggy | adj | Having the bad qualities of a dog: malicious, spiteful, vile, contemptible, debased, corrupt. 2. of or pertaining to the characteristics of a dog: canine. 3. having the good qualities of a dog: dashing, stylish, smart, loyal and faithful. 4. a dog, especially a small one. 5. a child's term or affectionate name for a dog. |
Dog-handler | n | A person who is in charge of a dog; esp. a police dog. |
Dogheaded | adj | Of mythical creatures having the head of a dog, but the body of an other animal; as an ape-dog. |
Dog-headedness | n | Of a human having the head resembling that of a dog. |
Dog-hearted | adj | Unkind, vicious, aggressive. 2. loyahy., faithful, trustworthy |
Dog-hole | n | a hole fit only for a dog; a slum, vile or mean dwelling, |
Doghood | n | Condition or nature of a dog. 2. the race of dogs; dogs as a species. 3. dogs collectively; dogdom. |
Doghouse | n | A kennel. |
Doghouse | phr | "In the Doghouse" - in disgrace, out of favour. |
Dogkind | n | The race of dogs, dogs collectively. See: dogdom, doghood. |
Dog-leech | n | A veterinary surgeon who heals dogs. 2. pejoratively: an ignorant, medical practitioner. |
Dogless | adj | Without or devoid of dogs. |
Doglessly | adv | In a manner or state where there is an absence of dogs. |
Dog-lessness | n | The state or quality of not having dogs. |
Doglike | adj | Like, resembling or in the manner of dogs. |
Dogling | n | A pup. |
Doglore | n | Folklore relating to dogs. |
Dog-madness | n | Distemper. |
Dog ('s) meat | n | Food prepared from horse meat or scraps of offal. 2. offal, carrion. |
Dog ('s) meat | phr | "To make Dogs Meat Of Someone' - to kill and throw to the dogs (lit & fig.) |
Do-good | n | One who, or that which, does good or is of use. |
Do-gooder | n | A well meaning, active, but unrealistic philanthropist or reformer who tries to do good, but often fails to achieve any real success. |
Do-goody | adj | Well-meaning, but unrealistic and ineffectual. |
Dog's bane | n | A name given to various plants (Apocynum and Rosaemifolium) said to be harmful and poisonous to dogs |
Dogsbody | n | A junior person, esp. one to whom a variety of menail tasks are given. 2. a drudge, a general utility person; a lackey. |
Dog's breakfast | n | A confused mess. |
Dog's ear | n | Corner of a leaf of a book, etc. turned over like a dog's ear by constant or careless use, or to serve as a book mark. |
Dog ear | vb | To damage or disfigure by turning or folding over the corner of a page. |
Dogship | n | The personality or nature of a dog. |
Dog sick | adj | Very unwell, sick as a dog. |
Dogsit | vb | To take care of a dog (after babysit). |
Dog sitter | n | One who takes care of dogs for a loving. |
Dog sleep | n | Feigned, pretended sleep; a light, easily interrupted, fitful sleep. |
Dog's life | n | A miserable; unhappy existence. 2. a life of indolence where the individual may do as he or she pleases, like a pampered dog. |
Dog slow | adj | Very slow. |
Dog Star | n | A bluish-white star in the constellation Canis Major; Alpha (α) Canis Majoris. A vertex of the Winter Triangle and the brightest star in the night sky. It is actually a binary star with a white dwarf. |
Dog time | n | A long time |
Dog-tired | adj | Exhaustec, tired out after a long chore; dog weary. |
Dog tooth | n | Canine tooth or eye-tooth. |
Dog walker | n | One who takes care of dogs for a living, especially waling them. |
Dog-wash | n | A place where dogs are washed and groomed. |
Dog watch | n | On board a ship, either of the two hour watches that takes place between 4pm and 8pm. 2. a night shift, or an other or earlier period of duty. |
Dog weary | adj | Extremely tired and weary; exhausted. |
Dog-whistle | n | A high-pitched whistle, inaudible to humans, used to train dogs. 2. that which is only understood only by a narrow demographic. 3. an allusion or comment made by a politician with the intent that only a certain demographic note it and recognize its significance. |
Dog wise | adv | In the manner of a dog. |
Dogwood | n | The Wild Cornel or Cornus sanguinea. |
Dog year | n | A period of time (informal) in the life of dogs, defined such that the average life expectancy of a dog in "dog years" is numerically equivalent to the average life expectancy of a human. A 4- and a 5-year-old dog are about as mature as a human of 28 to 30 years and 33 to 35 years, respectively. 2. unit of age relative to the species being considered, defined such that an animal's age in "dog years" is the equivalent age of a dog in calendar years. 3. very long time. |
Doing | n | That which is done, a deed, action, performance, transaction, preceding, a piece of business. 2. beating up, thrashing, scolding. 3. a severe financial or monetary loss. 4. copulation, sexual intercourse. 6. lace trimmings, ornaments. 7. applied to any concomitant, adjunct or etcetera; or anything about or to be wanted. |
Doing | adj | That does, acts, performs. 2. actively engaged or occupied, busy, energetic. |
Doing | phr | "What are you Doing" - used to ask what one who is taking part in the conversation is currently doing. |
Do-It-Yourself | adj | The action or practice of doing work of any kind by oneself, esp. one's own household repairs and maintenance, as opposed to employing someone else to do it. |
Do-It-Yourselfer | n | One who carries out his own household maintenance and repairs. |
Doke | n. | A small hollow, dimple, depression, dalk, dawk |
Dole | n. | State of being divided, part of a division of a whole portion, dealing. 2. money or goods given as charity. 3. distribution, dealing, apportionment. 4. payment by the state to the unemployed. 5. a boundary or a landmark? |
Dole | vb | To distribute or share out in a small amount or meagre portion. |
Dolk | n. | Wound, scar, gash, dint |
Dolt | n. | Dullard, Stupid fellow, blockhead |
Dolven | ppl | Past particle of 'delve.' |
Dom | sfx | From Middle English -dom, from Old English -dōm (“-dom: state, condition, power, dominion, authority, property, right, office, quality”, suffix). Forming nouns denoting the condition or state of the suffixed word, as boredom, freedom, martyrdom, stardom
2. forming nouns denoting the domain or jurisdiction of the suffixed word, as folkdom, kingdom, Saxondom. 3. forming nouns — usually nonce words — denoting the set of all examples of the suffixed word, as catdom, dogdom |
Dom | n | Abbotdom, alderdom, antdom, apedom, arseholedom ** bakerdom, beardom, beedom, beingdom, bestsellerdom, bird-dom, birthdom, bissondom, blithedom ** crabdom, brethenrdom, burgherdom, catdom, chickendom **dealerdom, deerdom, devildom, drunkendom, dry-as-dustdom, dwarfdom, ** earldom, elfdom ** falsedom, feardom, featherdom, feydom, fickledom, folkdom, freedom, ** gangdom, ghostdom, goosedom, gossipdom, greekdom ** halidom, heathendom, husbanddom. ** kingdom, kitchendom, ** ladydom, land-ladydom, lonedom, lord-dom, loserdom ** makedom, mandom, martyrdom, masterdom, mickledom, mongreldom, monkdom ** next-door-neighbordom, old-maidendom, outsiderdom, owldom ** pigdom, popedom, priestdom, readingdom, ** selfdom, shackledom, shrewdom, spiderdom, spinsterdom, stardom, swikedom ***teacherdom, thanedom, theedom, thegndom, theowdom, thiefdom, thirldom, thralldom, thrildom, turfdom ** uunshackledom, unwisdom ** wheeldom, whoredom, wickdom, wifedom, wisdom, wit and wisdom, witchdom, withoutdom, wolfdom, womandom, wrakedom. |
Domesday | n | See:"Doomsday' - The day when God is expected to judge the world. 2. the final judgement, the day of the Final Judgement. 3. any day of a decisive judgement or final dissolution. 4. Armegeddon; the Apocalyse; Raknarok. |
Domesday | adj | See: "Doomsday" - concerned with or predicting future universal destruction. 2. given to, or marked by forebodings or predictions of impending calamity. 3. capable of causing widespread of total destruction. |
Done | phr | "A Done Thing" - the acceptable, correct or fashionable action or mode of behaviour. |
Done | phr | "Be Done For" - doomed, without hope of recovery. |
Done | phr | "Done and Done" - a binding agreement, mutually accented. 2. done thoroughly and satisfactorily. |
Done | phr | "Done and Dusted" - completed thorough and thoroughly. |
Done | phr | "Done Out" - exhausted, totally spent. |
Done | phr | "Done to the Wide World" - to be absolutely beaten or done for,, defeated absolutely. |
Done deal | n | An agreement that has finally been resolved or decided. |
Doneness | n | Extent to which something is done. |
Done thing | n | Something done habitually or according to social norms, expectations, etc. |
Done-up | adj | Worn out; exhausted. |
Do-nothing | adj | One who does nothing; idler. 2. that does nothing or characterized by doinf nothing. 3. idle, indolent, lazy. |
Do-nothing-ness | n | The habit or practice of doing nothing. 2. the condition of doing nothing; idleness, indolence. |
Do-nought | n | A do-nothing; one who does nothing or is good at nothing. 2. an idler, sluggard, layabout. |
Don't | n | Something that must not be done; as in, 'dos and don'ts'. |
Don't | cntr | A contraction of 'do not'. |
Don't | intj | Don't do that; stop. |
Don't | phr | "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" - a policy of the US military from the 1990s to 2010, which barred openly gay men and women from serving in the military. |
Don't | phr | "Don't Call, We'll Call You" - a stereo-typical reply from a hiring organization to a potential applicant suggesting that the applicant will not be hired. |
Don't | phr | "Don't Drop the Soap" - reference to prison rape; and used as a mockery to someone who is about to be confined in prison. |
Don't | phr | "Don't Get Me Started" - of exclamation of despair regarding a topic that just be brought up and about which the speaker feels very strongly and usually negatively about. |
Don't | phr | "Don't Go There" - don't even talk about it. |
Don't | phr | "Don't Hold Your Breath" - "Don't wait." Said cynically to suggest that what has just been said to is unlikely to happen soon or at all. |
Don't | phr | "Don't Knock Yourself Out" - don't over exert yourself, in doing something that doesn't require much effort. |
Don't | phr | "Don't Let the Door Hit you on the Way Out" - (with sarcasm) : indicates that one is glad or happy to see someone leaving. 2. good riddance. |
Don't | phr | "Don't Look at Me" - a response indicating one is not willing or able to perform a task or that is not guilty of something for which blame was implied. |
Don't | phr | "Don't Make Me Laugh" - Used to express that one cannot take a suggestion seriously. |
Don't | phr | "Don't Mind If I Do" - used to express acceptance of something offered to the speaker. |
Do off | vb | Doff or take of clothing. |
Doom | n. | Statute, law, enactment; generally an ordinance, decree. 2. a judge or decision-maker, esp. one who formally pronounces a sentence. 3. a sentence mostly in an adverse sense, condemnation or sentence of punishment. 4. faculty of judging, judgement , discrimation, discernment. 5. fate, lot, irrevocably destiny (usually adverse fate). 6. final fate, destruction, death. 7. action or process of judging (as in a case of law), judgement,trial. 8. the Last Judgement of the world; day of doom, judgement day. 9. last day of one's life, the fatal day. 10. (scriptural allusion): justice, equity, righteousness. 11. power and authority of a judge; general power and authority. |
Doom | vb | To pronounce judgement or sentence on. 2. to pronounce, deem, adjudge. 3. to destine or consign to some adverse fate or lot; also sometimes in neutral sense, to any fate, good or ill. 4. to decree, to pronounce or fix as a sentence or fate. |
Doom | phr | "As To My Doom" - a personal, private opinion ('in my opinnion). |
Doomed | adj | Certain to suffer death, failure, or a similar negative outcome. |
Doomsbook | n | A book or code of Old Teutonic law; spec. that attributed to King Alfred and refeerred to in the lawsof latter West Saxon kings. 2. a book of doom or judgement. |
Doomsday | n | Judgement day. |
Doomer | n | One who believes that the depletion of the world's petroleum resources will lead to severe financial failure and social catastrophe. |
Doomful | adj | Fraught with or involving doom; fateful. |
Doom-giving | n | Judgement. |
Doom-house | n | Courthouse; a place of death, doom or little hope . |
Dooming | n | A time of doom. |
Doom-laden | adj | Heavily or laden with doom, as a death-sentence or diagnosis of a terminal illness. |
Doomlike | adj | Suggesting doom. |
Doom-monger . | n | One who preaches disaster and misfortune. |
Doom-ring | n | A ring of stones forming the boundary of the Old Norse courts of judgement. |
Doomsay | n | A person who predicts impending misfortune or disaster. |
Doomsayer | n | A prophet of doom; esp. one of political or economic disaster. |
Doomsaying | n | The act of predicting disaster and dire straits. |
Doomsday | n | A day of judgement ; Judgement day |
Doomdsay | phr | "Until or Till Doomsday" - until the end of the world; also, a day of final dissolution, as of the 'end' of the world. 3. as long as the world lasts; loosely, forever. |
Doomsday weapon | .n | A hypothesized weapon that has the capacity to destroy the Earth. 2. a bomb that is capable of causing widespread destruction. |
Doomsman | n | A judge, deemster, demend, doomer. 2. one who reads out the sentence of death upon a convicted criminal. |
Doomstead | n | A place of judgement. |
Doomster | n | A person habitually given to prediction of impending disaster and doom. 2. a judge. |
Doomstool | n | Judgement seat. |
Doom-tree | n | A hanging-tree, tre on which condemned person was hanged, execution place. |
Doomwatch | vb | To watch pessimistically about the future and particularly about the exploitation of the world's natural resources. 2. observation intended to avert danger or destruction , esp. of the environment by polltion, global warning or nuclear war. |
Doomwatcher | n | One who is pessimistic about the future and particularly about the explotation of the world's natural resources. 2. one who observes or monitors evidence from the environment; one who prophesizes disaster, economic, financial, political or otherwise. |
Doom-word | n | Word of 'condemnation' - judgemet of death. |
Doomy | adj | Of a person: depressed, sad, pessimistic, melancholy. 2. of a thing: depressing, weird, guarded. |
Do on | vb | Put on, or don, clothes. |
Door | n | An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way. 2. the frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened. 3. passage; means of approach or access. 4. an entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or
apartment to which it leads. |
Door | vb | To supply or furnish with a door. |
Door | phr | Out of doors, or Without doors, and, [colloquially], out doors, out of the house; in open air; abroad; away; lost. |
Door | phr | "Darken the Door Of" - to appear at one's door, uninvited and unwanted. |
Door | phr | "Drink and Eat Outdoors" - to drink oneself to destitution by excessive eating and drinking. |
Door | phr | "Fetch at the Door" - to obtain from. |
Door | phr | "Knocking on heaven's Door" - dying, moribund, marsecance |
Door | phr | "Lay / Lie or Be at the Door" - to imput, be imputable, charge to. 2. to lay (a fault, misfortune, etc.) at one's door, to charge one with a fault; to blame for. |
Door | phr | "Leap Over the Door" - to escape, run out. |
Door-bell | n | A button on an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed. |
Door-cheek | n | Area of the side pots of a door; a door post. |
Doored | adj | Having doors. |
Door-keeper | n | One who is responsible for entry and departure to a building, sports arena etc. 2. a janitor (obsolete sense); doorman. |
Door-knocker | n | A knocker mounted on a door. |
Door-less | adj | Having no doors or entry. |
Doorman | n | A man who holds open the door at the entrance to a building, summons or calls taxicabs, and an element of security in apartment buildings. |
Door nail | n | The nail which studded the door-stead. |
Door nail | phr | "As Deaf as a Door Nail" - very door extremely deaf. |
Door sill | n | The sill or thresh old or a door; cf window sill. |
Door-stead | n | A place for a door or doorway. |
Door-step | n | The sill of a door. 2. a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway , and offers support when passing through a door way. |
Doorward | adv | Towards or in direction of the door. |
Doorway | n | The entrance through which one can enter or leave a room or building. 2. a space that a door can close. |
Dooryard | n | A yard outside the front or rear door of a house. |
Dop | vb. | Immerse, baptize, immerse in baptism, dip, sink/descend or dive suddenly into water. 2. to curtsy; drop/duck the body or head suddenly and quickly. (see dope.) |
Dopper | n | Any of the various diving birds. |
Dorr | n. | Insects that fly (colopterous) in a loud humming noise; that is bees, flies, hornet drone. 2. a large black dung beetle that makes a droning sound in flight and excavates burrows in which its young develops. |
Dor(r)head | n | A person who is lazy, idle, blundering or stupid. |
Dos-and-Don't | n | Rules of behavior. |
Dot | n | OE dott, dit. the head of a nail. 2. a small lump, clot. 3. a minute, spot, speck or mark of different colour or material from the surface on which it is. 4. a minute, roundish ink mark made by a pen, etc. 5. notes on sheet music. 6. a punctuation point as a full stop. 7. to write down compendiously. 8. to strike someone. |
Dot | phr | "The Year Dot" - a date so long ago that it cannot be particularized; a very long time ago. |
Dot | phr | "To Dot and Go One" - a term describing a person with a limp in one leg, or has a wooden leg by which he makes dots on the ground. |
Dot | phr | "To Dot the 'i' s" (fig.) - to fill in the particulars; to particularize minutely; to cover something with minute spots. |
Dotted | adj | Marked, spotted or flecked with dots. 2. spread or scattered like dots. 3. diversified; delineated. |
Dotter | n | One who makes braille sheets for the blind. |
Dotting | n | The marking, spotting or flecking with dots. 2. the spreading or scattering lke dots. |
Dottily | adv | Madly or eccentric of ways, absurdly, crazily. |
Dottiness | n | Unsteady, stiffness of gait. 2. state of feeble-mindedness; craziness. |
Dotty | adj | Consisting or characteristic of dots; dot-like. 2. of unsteady, uneven or feeble gait, as for stiffness or lameness. 3. feeble in the mind; brittle-minded. |
Dough | n | Any soft, past mass. 2. money (sl). |
Doughhead | n | A silly person, stult, dullard, fool. |
Doughily | adv | In a doughty way: soft pasty mass; softly-brained; silly. |
Doughiness | n | The quality or state of being doughy. 2. made or consisting of dough. |
Doughish | adj | Somewhat doughy. 2. soft-headed, brittle-minded. |
Doughless | adj | Lacking or not consisting of dough. 2. poor (sl). |
Doughlike | adj | Of the nature of dough. |
Doughmaking | n | The process or action of making dough. |
Doughnut | n | A soft, rounded, fried pastry ring with a circular hole in the middle. |
Dought | n. | Might, power, sturdiness, stoutness. |
Doughty | adj | Able, capable, worthy, virtuous. 2. valiant, brave, formidable, stout. |
Doughty-handed | adj | Adroit and nimble of hand; dextrous. |
Doughty-hood | n | Doughtiness. |
Doughy | adj | Of the nature of dough. 2. like dough in look , consistency or character. |
Douse | vb. | To punch, strike, beat, inflict, knock, put-off, throw down, shut up, cease, doff |
Douth | n. | Virtue, worth, good-deed, excellence, nobility, power, richness, benefit. 2. good-deed, benefit, manhood, 3. men collectively, company, army, folk-army, force, retinue. |
Douthlike | adj | Virtuous, worthy |
Douthwight | n. | Kin, man |
Douthy-like | adj | Virtuous, worthwhile, worthy. |
Dove | n | Any bird of the family Columbidae, with short legs, small head and a large breast. |
Dove | n. | Gentle, innocent, loving woman or child; appellation of tender affection. 2. one seeking peace; a peacemaker, a messenger of peace, deliverance from anxiety, as the dove of Noah. 3. a person who advocates negotiations as a means of ending or preventing military conflict, as opposed to one (a hawk) who is a hardliner or warlike in policy. 4. a gentle, innocent, or loving woman or child; also an innocent, simpleton, one gullible or mentally unalert. 5. an appellation of tender affection. 6. an image of a dove as a symbol of innocence, peace and affection. |
Dovecote | n | A house, dove-house,enclosure or coop where doves or pigeons are caged. |
Dove-eyed | adj | Having eyes like a dove: soft, tender, meek, gentle. |
Dove-like | adj | resembling or characteristic of a dove. |
Doveling | n | A young dove. 3. term of affection for a little child. |
Dovely | adj. | Gentle, innocent, affectionate |
Dove-monger | n | A seller of doves. |
Doveship | n | The personality or nature of a dove. |
Dove-soft | adj | Very kind and tender. |
Dovish | adj | Of or pertaining to a dove; dove-like. |
Dovetail | n | A joint formed with a mortise with a tenon shaped like like a dove's spread tail or a reversed wedge. |
Dovetail | vb | To join together by means of a dovetail. 2. to fit readily together; combine neatly or compactly. |
Dovetailing | n | The joining together by means of a dovetail. 2. the fitting readily together; combining neatly or compactly. |
Dovish | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a dove. |
Dovishness | n | State or quality of being dovish. |
Dow | vb | To avail, be strong, good, fitting, proper, worthy, valiant, virtuous, manly. 2.to be valuable or valid, of worthly or good for anything. 3. to be of a use, useful or profit for anyone. 4. to be good, fitting or proper for anyone. to be strengthful, vigorous, able to do somehing. 5. to do well, thrive, prosper. |
Do-well | n. | A personification of success. |
Down | n. | Hill, upland, elevated land, treeless chalky upland, sandhill, open expanse. 2. "The Downs" - the part of the sea within the Goodwin Sands off the east coast of Kent. |
Down | vb | Improve or perfect by pruning or polishing one's style, etc. 2. down bring down or defeat (an opponent). 3. eat immoderately, gorge, scoff. 4. drink down entirely. 5. cause to come or go down, knock down, strike by blows, flatten. 6. shoot at and force to come down 9an the enemy aircraft.) |
Down | adj | Filled with melancholy and despondency, gloomy, depressed, downcast, discouraged and downhearted. 2. not functioning (temporarily or permanently) 3. shut or dawn down. 4.lower than previously, as "prices are down." 5. understood perfectly, on pat. 6. extending or moving from a higher to a lower place; as a downward course." 7. becoming progressively lower; a downward trend. 8. being or moving lower in position or less in (some) value. |
Down | adv | Away from a more central or a more northerly place. 2. paid in cash at time of purchase; as "put ten dollars down." 3. in an inactive or inoperative state; as a business or a computer," 3. to a lower intensity. |
Down | prp | From the higher end to the lower. 2. from one end to the other of. |
Down | phr | "Do Somebody Down" - abuse, slander someone. |
Down | phr | "Down and Out" - in poor financial, social or physical condition, particularly with respect to the condition one was previously. |
Down | phr | "Down the Line" - at a further, later, or unspecified point. |
Down | phr | "Down a Shot" - to drink quickly the contents of a shot glass. |
Down | phr | "Down At (the)Heel (s)" - worn down. 2. (of a person) - impoverished , shabby, slovenly. |
Down | phr | "Down At the Mouth" - glum, dispirited; miserable, unhappy. |
Down | phr | "Down On" - to attack, implying the idea of a threatening power. |
Down | phr | "Down the Hatch" - an encouragement to others to drink a toast or a bad tasting or strong drink. |
Down | phr | "Down the Line" - at a further, later or unspecified point. |
Down | phr | "Down to the Start" - the starting position in a race; back to the beginning. |
Down | phr | "Down To the Wire" - a situation whose outcome is still in doubt or not decided until the very last minutes. |
Down | phr | "Down with" - away with. |
Down | phr | "Down With His Apple-cart" - knock or throw down him (someone)down. |
Down | phr | "Go Down the Drain" - be totally wasted. |
Down | phr | "It Comes Down to This" - an issue decided upon what one considers to be most imporant. |
Down along | adj | "The people of the Down-along country are slow at putting thoughts together." - rural areas, boondocks, back-blocks, hills. |
Down and Dale | n | From an alliterative association with dale - low-lying land and upland. |
Down-and-out | adj | Penniless, destitute, (of a person). |
Down-and-outer | n | One who is impoverished. |
Down-and-outness | n | The state of being impoverished. |
Down-beaming | adj | Shining down or directed down. |
Downbear | vb. | Press down, cause to sink; oppress |
Down-bearing | adj | Weighed down; weighing upon. |
Downbeat | n | In music: an accented beat, usually the first of the bar. |
Downbeat | adj | Pessimistic, gloomy, sombre, unemphatic. |
Downbent | adj | Bent towards. |
Downbow | n | A downward stroke of a violin from the heel to the top of the bow. |
Downburst | n | A localized area of strong damaging winds, esp. during a severe thunderstorm |
Downcome | n | An act of coming (lit. and fig.), descent, downfall, humiliation. |
Downcomer | n | A pipe for the downward transport of water and gas. |
Downcoming | n. | Descent |
Downcoming | adj | Coming down or descending. |
Downdraw | n | A downdraft. |
Downdraw | vb | To draw downwards or down. |
Downed | adj | Brought down (lit. & Fig.) as an aircraft. |
Downer | n | A drug which has a depressing or tranquilizing effect. 2. a person who is depressed, gloomy or sad. 3. a downward trend or experience of downturn in one's business or in the economy generally. 4. a trap operating as by a descent of a weight; a dead fall. |
Downfall | n | A fall from prosperity or power. 2. the cause of a fall from prosperity or power. 3. a fall; a disgrace. 4. a sudden heavy fall of rain. |
Downfallen | adj | Fallen to the ground; humiliated; ruined. |
Downfalling | adj | Declining, decaying, regressing. |
Downfield | n | In sport, into or towards the point of a field towards where a team is heading or going. |
Downflow | n | Something that flows downwards, a downward flowing current. |
Downflowing | adv | Flowing or falling downwards, as a waterfall. |
Downfold | vb | A syncline. |
Downfolded | adj | Folded down. |
Downfolding | n | A downwards folding. |
Down-go | n | A descent. |
Downgoing | adj | Descending or going downwards. |
Down-hanging | adj | Hanging downwards. |
Downhearted | adj | Discouraged, put-off, low-spirited, depressed, gloomy, sad. |
Downheartedly | adv | In a downhearted manner. |
Down-heartedness | n | Doldrums, dumps, dolefulness, gloominess, despondency, glumness, melancholy, of dispirited state, unhappiness. |
Downheld | adj. | Oppressed, kept back, held down |
Downhill | adj | Slopey or descending, declining, declining, downwards. |
Downhill | adv | Down the slope of a hill; in a descending direction; or on a decline, downwards. (lit.&fig.) |
Downhill | phr | "Go Downhill" - decline, as in success. |
Downhiller | n | A skier who takes part in a downhill events and races. |
Downhole | n | (In the petroleum ) - used, taking place or performed in a well or borehole. |
Down-home | adj | Relating to simple, folksy qualities associated with one's family, esp. one from a rural area. |
Downiness | n | The condition or quality of being down. |
Downing | n | An incident in which sometimes is downed or brought down, as an aircraft by enemy fire. |
Downish | adj | Somewhat dejected or depression. 2. somewhat directed downwards. |
Downland | n | OE. dunland; land forming downs; hilly pasture-land. 2. land lying low or sloping downwards. |
Down-lead | n | A lead-in. |
Down-lie | vb | To lie down; go to bed. 2. taking up permanent quarters. 3. the confinement of a woman. |
Downlight | n | |
Downlighting | n | Lighting concentrated in a downward direction. |
Downline | adv | At a further, later, or unspecified point. |
Down-line | n | |
Down link | n | In the telecommunications the transmission of a signal from a satellite to aa receiving station on earth. 2. the means of this transmission. 3. transmission of data for a network, usu. wireless to the user. |
Downlink | vb | To transmit a signal fora satellite to an on-earth receiving station. |
Download | n | A file transfer to a local computer. 2. a file that has been, or will be transferred in this way. |
Download | vb | To transfer a file to a local computer. |
Downloaded | adj | (Of a file) transferred to a local computer. |
Downloader | n | One who transfers or loads a file for the internet. 2. a computer programmer who ais the downloading of files. |
Downloading | n | The transferring of a file to a local computer. |
Down-long | adj | Headlong; rushing headlong down, down along. |
Downlook | n. | Having a downcast or downward look, a guilty look, sheepish, demure |
Downlooked | adj | Downcast, gloomy, glum. |
Down-looking | adj | That looks down; demure, downcast in looks; pessimistic, gloomy. 2. guilty looking, sheepish, demure. |
Down-lying | adj | The time of retiring to rest. 2. travail in childbirth. |
Downmost | adj | Lowest. |
Downness | n | The state or quality of being down (in its various senses). 2. down-lowness. |
Down-play | n | Presentation or portrayal of something as less important or consequential |
Down play | vb | To de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential. |
Down player | n | One who or that which downplays, presents or portrays something as less important or consequential. |
Downright | adj | Straight to the point; unequivocal; plain; outspoken. 2. directed downwards. 3. thorough, utter, absolute. |
Downright | adv | Directly downward. 2. without qualification. 3. in the extreme; utterly. |
Downrightly | adv | In a downright manner; irectly, thoroughly. |
Down-rightness | n | The quality of being downright. 2. directness, straight-forwrdness of speech and behaviour. |
Down run | n | A slope used by recreational and competition skiers at snowfields. |
Downrush | adv | rush down; rapidly descending. |
Downset | n. | The setting of, or going down of the Sun, dusk, twilight. |
Downshake | vb | To shake down. |
Down-share | n | A breast plow used in paring off turf on downs. |
Downshift | n | An instance of downshifting. |
Downshift | vb | To become less active, slow down. 2. to live simpler lives to escape the rat race or obsessive material and to reduce stress. |
Downshifter | n | One who downshifts in order to live simpler lives to escape the rat race or obsessive material and to reduce stress. |
Downshifting | n | A social behavior or trend in which individuals live simpler lives to escape the rat race or obsessive material and to reduce stress. |
Downside | n. | Disadvantage. 2. the underside. |
Downside up | adv | Upside down. |
Downside-up | adj | Chaotic, disorderly, disheveled. 2. unhinged, confused, disorganized. 3. inside out, inverted, overturned; upended. 4. untidy, messy, cluttered, jumbled, pell-mell. 5. disarranged, disorderly, disorganized. |
Down-sitting | n | Action of sitting down. |
Downsome | adj | Inclined to be down or dispirited. |
Down South | adv | In the US. south of the Mason-Dixon line. |
Down-spring | vb | To jump down. |
Downstairs | n | A lower floor. |
Downstairs | adv | Down a flight of stairs. 2. to or on a lower floor. |
Downstairs | adj | Situated on a lower floor. |
Downstart | n | One who pretends to be of a lower-class origin than he or she is. |
Down-steepy | adj | Steeply descending, precipitous. |
Down-step | n | A phenomenon in language where two syllables have the same tone with the second syllable is lower in pitch than the first. |
Down-stream | adv | In the direction of the current. 2. down the stream |
Down-street | adj | Down the street; in, or towards the lower part of the town. |
Downstroke | n | A stroke made downwards. |
Down-swept | adj | Swept or curving downwards. |
Down-swing | n | Period of low or declining activity. 2. in activity, in trade, in business. |
Down-the-Line | adj | At a further time, later or at unspecified point. |
Down-throng | vb | To press down, crush, oppress. |
Downthrow | n | A throwing, casting or warping down(wards). 2. being thrown down. |
Down-timber | n | Timber in a heap brought down by wind or storm or other natural thing. |
Down time | n | A period of time that a system fails to provide or performs its prime function. |
Down-to-earth | adj | Practical, realistic. |
Downtown | n | Of, or pertaining to, or in the lower, or more central part of a town. 2. te central part and business part of a town or city. |
Downtowner | n | One who lives or frequents the central part of a town. |
Downtrend | n | The price movement of a financial asset when the overall direction is downwards. |
Downtrodden | adj | Beaten down, trampled down by treading; trodden under foot. 2. crushed down by tyranny, oppression. |
Down-troddenness | n | The state or condition of being beaten down, trampled down by treading; trodden under foot; or crushed down by tyranny, or oppressed. |
Down-tumbling | n | A sudden or clumsy fall. |
Down-tumbling | adj | Fall suddenly, clumsily or headlong. |
Down Under | n | Australia and New Zealand. |
Downward | adj | Descending or tending from a higher to a lower level (lit. & fig). 2. decending from that which is remote. |
Downward | adv | From a higher or lower position. 2. from that which is more remote , as in place or time. 3. towards the extremities. |
Downwardly | adv | In a downwardly direction. |
Downwards | adv | Towards a lower place; towards what is below. 2. to have a lower figure or amount. 3. towards something which is lower in order; smaller, inferior, etc. |
Downwarp | n. | Local sinking of the earth's surface |
Downwash | n | A downward air turbulence caused by he propeller or jet; bu esp. by helicopter blades. 3. the downward motion of air as a result of eddies behind a wing or chimney, etc. |
Downweigh | vb | To weigh down; to depress with weight.. 2. to exceed in weigh/ power and influence. 3. to outweigh. |
Downwind | adv | The direction in which the wind is blowing. |
Downwind | adj | The direction in which the wind is blowing. |
Downwinder | n | A person (or community) that lives downwards from a potential hazard, such as a nuclear power station. |
Downwith | adv | Downwards , or on a downwards course. |
Downy | adj | Of the nature of a down, charcterized by downs. 2. of rolling, downy land or country; land of a downy kind, often without a tree and with dry stretches. |
Dowy | adj | Valiant, virtuous, thriving. |