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- English Word Doegling Definition The beaked whale (Balaenoptera rostrata), from which doegling oil is obtained.
- English Word Doer Definition One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.
- English Word Doer Definition An agent or attorney; a factor.
- English Word Does Definition The 3d pers. sing. pres. of Do.
- English Word Doeskin Definition The skin of the doe.
- English Word Doeskin Definition A firm woolen cloth with a smooth, soft surface like a doe's skin; -- made for men's wear.
- English Word Doff Definition To put off, as dress; to divest one's self of; hence, figuratively, to put or thrust away; to rid one's self of.
- English Word Doff Definition To strip; to divest; to undress.
- English Word Doff Definition To put off dress; to take off the hat.
- English Word Doffed Definition of Doff
- English Word Doffer Definition A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards.
- English Word Doffing Definition of Doff
- English Word Dog Definition A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (C. familiaris).
- English Word Dog Definition A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch.
- English Word Dog Definition A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog.
- English Word Dog Definition One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius).
- English Word Dog Definition An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron.
- English Word Dog Definition A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them.
- English Word Dog Definition An iron with fangs fastening a log in a saw pit, or on the carriage of a sawmill.
- English Word Dog Definition A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool.
- English Word Dog Definition To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity.
- English Word Dog bee Definition A male or drone bee.
- English Word Dog day Definition Alt. of Dogday
- English Word Dog days Definition A period of from four to six weeks, in the summer, variously placed by almanac makers between the early part of July and the early part of September; canicular days; -- so called in reference to the rising in ancient times of the Dog Star (Sirius) with the sun. Popularly, the sultry, close part of the summer.
- English Word Dog fancier Definition One who has an unusual fancy for, or interest in, dogs; also, one who deals in dogs.
- English Word Dog Star Definition Sirius, a star of the constellation Canis Major, or the Greater Dog, and the brightest star in the heavens; -- called also Canicula, and, in astronomical charts, / Canis Majoris. See Dog days.
- English Word Dog's-bane Definition See Dogbane.
- English Word Dog's-ear Definition The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog.
- English Word Dog's-tail grass Definition A hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is well suited for making straw plait; -- called also goldseed.
- English Word Dog's-tongue Definition Hound's-tongue.