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- English Word Dowel Definition 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.
- English Word Dowel Definition A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it.
- English Word Dowel Definition To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as, a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.
- English Word Doweled Definition of Dowel
- English Word Doweling Definition of Dowel
- English Word Dowelled Definition of Dowel
- English Word Dowelling Definition of Dowel
- English Word Dower Definition That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
- English Word Dower Definition The property with which a woman is endowed
- English Word Dower Definition That which a woman brings to a husband in marriage; dowry.
- English Word Dower Definition 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.
- English Word Dowered Definition Furnished with, or as with, dower or a marriage portion.
- English Word Dowerless Definition Destitute of dower; having no marriage portion.
- English Word Dowery Definition See Dower.
- English Word Dowitcher Definition The red-breasted or gray snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus); -- called also brownback, and grayback.
- English Word Dowl Definition Same as Dowle.
- English Word Dowlas Definition A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, now nearly replaced by calico.
- English Word Dowle Definition Feathery or wool-like down; filament of a feather.
- English Word Down Definition Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool
- English Word Down Definition The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without hooklets.
- English Word Down Definition The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, as of the thistle.
- English Word Down Definition The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- English Word Down Definition That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down
- English Word Down Definition To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
- English Word Down Definition A bank or rounded hillock of sand thrown up by the wind along or near the shore; a flattish-topped hill; -- usually in the plural.
- English Word Down Definition A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep; -- usually in the plural.
- English Word Down Definition A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war.
- English Word Down Definition A state of depression; low state; abasement.
- English Word Down Definition In the direction of gravity or toward the center of the earth; toward or in a lower place or position; below; -- the opposite of up.
- English Word Down Definition From a higher to a lower position, literally or figuratively; in a descending direction; from the top of an ascent; from an upright position; to the ground or floor; to or into a lower or an inferior condition; as, into a state of humility, disgrace, misery, and the like; into a state of rest; -- used with verbs indicating motion.