dowager (douajer)

[OF. douagiere (ML. doageria ), a dowager (def. 1), fem. of douagier, douaigier, dowaigier, adj., douage (as if E. * dowage ), dower, This dowager , on whom my tale I found, Since last she laid her husband in the ground, A simple sober life in patience led. Dryden, Cock and Fox. Yea, and beside this he offereth to take to wife Elianor, Quene Dowager of Portyngall, without any dower. Hall , Hen. VIII., an. 19. When any particular arrangement has been for a course of ages adopted, everything also has been adapted to it, and, as it were, fitted and dovetailed into it. Brougham . dovetailed (duv'tāld), a. In her ., broken into dovetails, as the edge or bounding line of an dowager ism (dou'ā-jėr-izm), n. [ dowager + ordinary or any division of the field. See -ism.] The rank or condition of a dowager. ante2. dowairet, n. A Middle English form of dower2 . dove-wood (duv'wud), n. The wood of Alchor- dowar, n. See douar . nea latifolia , a euphorbiaceous tree of Jamaica. dowcett, n. See doucet , 3. dovisht (duv'ish), a . [ dovel + -ish1.] Like dowd1 (doud), a. [E. dial., Contempte of thys worlde, doveyshe simplicitie, serpentlike wysdome. Confut . of N. Shaxton (1546), sig. G 4, b. dow1 (dou), v . i.; pret. dowed , dought . [ duzen , dugen , pres. ind. deh , deih , degh, later do we , dog he , pret. dought , doughte , douhte , doht , dug an (pres. ind. deáh , pl. dug on , pret. dohte ) = OS. dug an = OFries. dug a = D. deugen = MLG. dogen , LG. dögen = OHG. tug an, MHG. tugen , tougen , G. taugen = Icel. dug a = OSw. dugha , dogha , Sw. dug a = Dan. due = Goth. dug an (only in pres. daug ) , be good, fitting, able: a preterit-present verb, the pres., AS. deáh , Goth. daug , being orig. a pret. from a root * dug , be good, perhaps akin to Gr. τύχη , AS. deád, E. dead: see dead.] Dead; flat; spiritle . [North. Eng.]