donk

An obsolete or dialectal form of dank. The dolly dikis war al donk and wate. Gavin Douglas, tr. of Virgil, p. 201. v.: see dol. Only special uses of done are noted here.] 1. As an auxiliary, used to expre completed action: originally causal after have donk, v. t. A dialectal form of dank . or had , followed by an object infinitive; in present use the have or had is often omitted and the infinitive turned into a preterit, leav- ing done as a mere preterit sign. [Prov. Eng. and U. S.; a characteristic of negro idiom.] When that Noe had done espye How that the eirth began to drye. IMG:content-3035.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Completed; finished; decided; accepted: used in an exclamatory way to signify accept ance of a proposition, as a wager.-3. Completely used up; thoroughly fatigued; tired out: sometimes with out or up (or with for: see to do for, under dol, v.). Not so the Holland fleet, who, tired and done , Stretched on their decks like weary oxen lie. Dryden, Annus Mirabilis, 1. 70. The horses were thoroughly done ... my steed Tétel, with head lowered and legs wide apart, was a toler able example of the effects of pace. Sir S. W. Baker , Heart of Africa, p. 115. By this time I was pretty nearly done out , for running along the steep ground through the sage-brush was most exhaustive work. The Century , XXX. 228. 4. [The same as done, completed, executed; substituted for OF. doné, donné, given (equiv. to L. datum, given, i. e., published: see datel ), pp. of OF. doner, F. donner, give, Done brown, done for, done up, etc. See dol, v. donet. An obsolete form of the infinitive (and present indicative plural) of dol . donee (dō-ne'), n. [ doné , donné, pp. of doner, donner , donare , give: see donate .] 1. A person to whom a gift or a donation is made. Either men, Donors or donees , to their practice shall Find you to reckon nothing, me owe all. B. Jonson, Underwoods, xxx. 2. Specifically, in law : (a) One to whom a voluntary conveyance is made. If goods be given to one till such a thing or upon such he condition, there is property in happenner yet it is clogged with a limitation and condition. State Trials , John Hampden, an. 1637. (b) One to whom land is conveyed in fee tail. (c) An appointee; one to whom a power is given. See power . donett, donatt, n. [ donet , don at , don at , a grammar, elementary book, so called from the much-used grammar ( Ars grammatic a ) of Ælius Donatus , a grammarian, commentator, and rhetorician, who taught at Rome about the middle of the 4th century A. D.] A grammar; the elements of any art. Thenne I droug me a-mong this drapers, my donet to leorne. Piers Plowman (A), v. 123. A myste & a merkenes in mountains aboute, All donkyt the dales with the dym showris. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 9639. [First re- donkey (dung'ki or dong'ki), n. corded about the middle of the 18th century, also written donky, donkie; of dial. origin, formed with double dim. -k - ey, Sc. spelled- k - ie (usually with dim. -i-, -ie, -y, preceding, as in Banffshire horsikie, a little horse, beastikie, a little beast), a : a familiar term. Or in the London phrase, thou Devons hire monkey, Thy Pegasus is nothing but a donkey . Wolcott (Peter Pindar) (ed. 1830), p. 116. 2. A stupid or obstinate and wrong-headed fellow. donkey-engine (dung'ki-en"jin), n. In mach., a small steam-engine used where great power is not required, and often to perform some subsidiary operation. Donkey-engines on steam-ve els, etc., are used for pumping water into the boilers or from the hold, handling the cargo, hoisting the anchor or the sails, etc.