doveship (duvship)

[ For us, let our dove - ship approve itselfe in meekne e of suffering, not in actions of cruelty. Bp. Hall , The Beautie and Vnitie of the Church. dovetail (duv'tal), n. [ culver tail .] In carp ., a tenon cut in the form of a dove's tail spread, or of a reversed wedge; a manner of fastening boards or timbers together by letting tenons so cut on one into corresponding cavities or mortises in ano ther. This is the strongest of all fastenings dovetails can the or be drawn out ex cept by force ap plied in the di rection of their length. Dovetails are either exposed or concealed; concealed dove IMG:content-3102.jpg:[merged small][ocr errors] tailing is of two 1. Common Dovetailing. 2. Lap Dovetailing. kinds, lapped and dowdy fortune, luck, τυγχάνειν, obtain. Hence dought, doughty. The word dow, becoming confused in sense and form, and dialectally in pronunciation, in certain constructions with the different verb dol, was at length in literary use completely merged with it; but dow remains in dialectal use: see dol and do2. The difference well appears in the AS. line " do a thætte duge" ('do aye that dows, i. e., do always that which is proper). The two verbs also appear ( dol twice, in the sense of 'put') in the first quot. below.] 1. To be good, as for a purpose; be proper or fitting; suit. Duden [did, i. e., put] hire bod i thrin in a stanene thruh [coffin], as hit deh halhe [saints] to donne [do, i. e., put]. St. Julian a , p. 77. Ring ne broche nab be ge,... he no swuch thing that ou [you] ne deih for to habben. Ancren Riwle , p. 420. 2t. To be of use; profit; avail. Ther watz moon [moan] for to make when meschef was That nozt dowed bot the deth in the depe stremes. IMG:content-3103.png:[blocks in formation] mitered. See also cut under joint. - Dental-cut dovetail, a dovetail having each part dented to fit into the spaces between the teeth of the corresponding portions. Dovetail-file, dovetail-hinge. See file, hinge. Dovedow3 (dou), n. tail-joint, in an at., the suture or serrated articulation, as of the bones of the head. - Dovetail-molding, an ornament in the form of a dove's tail, occurring in Roman Dovetail-molding.- Cathedral of Ely, England. [An obsolete or dialectal form of dough .] 1. Dough.-2. A cake. [Prov. Eng.] A dialectal (Scotch) form of dovel. Furth flew the dow at Noyis command. Sir D. Lyndsay. dow2+ (dou), v. t. [ dowen , dower , OF. douer, doer, F. douer (F. also doter : see dote2) = Pr. Sp. Pg. dotar = It. dotare , dote2 , v., dotation. Cf. endow.] 1. To endow. Dobet doth ful wel and dewid he is also, And hath po e ions and plural i tes for pore men is sake Piers Plowman (A), xi. 196. 2. To give up; bestow. O lady myn, that I love and no mo, To whom for-evermo myn herte I do we . esque architecture. - Dovetail-plates, in ship - building, plates of metal let into the heel of the stern-post and dow5, n. See dhow. keel of a ve el to bind them together. Similar plates Chaucer, Troilus, v. 230. used for joining the stern-foot with the fore end of the dowablet (dou'a-bl), a. [ IMG:content-3104.jpg:[merged small][merged small][graphic] dovetail (duv'tal), v. t. [ unite by tenons in the form of a pigeon's tail spread let into corresponding mortises in a board or timber: as, to dovetail the angles of a box.-2. Figuratively, to unite closely, as if by dovetails; fit or adjust exactly and firmly; fir adapt, as one institution to another, so that they work together smoothly and harmoniously. Into the hard conglomerate of the hill the town is built; house walls and precipices morticed into one another, dove - tailed by the art of years gone by, and riveted by age. J. A. Symonds, Italy and Greece, p. 10. He [Lord Chas am] made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so cro ly indented and whimsically dove - tailed, etc. Burke, American Taxation. receive Record Soc. Lancashire and Cheshire , XI. 84.