doughnut

A kind of small round cake made of flour, eggs, and sugar, moistened with milk, and fried in lard, popular in this country. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia 2. Frequently used in burlesque or ironically. *doughty-handed, a. Strong-handed, mighty, Again is natur in the nycht I waik into weir, I dar do nocht in the day bot droup as a doule ." Houlate , 1. 5. IMG:content-0430.png:[blocks in formation] đôup (2), 8. [A corruption of dollop (q. v.).] *1. The breech or buttocks. "At the salt doup ."- Urquhart : Rabelais , p. 97. 2. The bottom, but-end. "A servant la that dre ed it her sell, wi' the doup o' a candle and a drudging-box."- Scott : Antiquary , ch. v. 3. A cavity. dôur, doure, dure, a . [Fr. dur ; Lat. aurus .] 1. Hard. IMG:content-0431.png:[blocks in formation] "Biting Boreas, fell and doure, Sharp shivers thro' the leafy bower." Burns: A Winter Night. 8. Slow in growth; said of vegetation. 9. Impracticable; said of soil that defeats all the labor of the husbandman. "One of the dourest and most untractable farms in the mearns."- Scott : Pirate, ch. iv. 10. Slow in learning; dull, backward. "As dure a scholar as ever was at St. Leonards."- Ten- nant: Cardinal Beaton , p. 90. dour-seed, s. The name given to a late species of oats, from its tardine in ripening. emphatically called dour - seed (i. e., late seed), in distinc- tion from the others, which are called ear-seed, or early seed."- Agr . Surv . Mid - Loth ., p. 103. dour-a (1), s. [Etym. doubtful; perhaps from Lat. durus hard.] IMG:content-0432.png:[blocks in formation] "The thrid do is eik so dourly drink, Quhill in his wame no rowm be dry." *2. Fig .: To plunge, to immerse. "I have "As Charlys stod by chance at conseil with his fer is, Whiche that wern of france his oghene dozepers ." Sir Ferumbras , 259. 2. One of the twelve peers of France. "Of Rowelond and of Olyver, and of every doseper ." Richard Cœur de Lion , 9. 3. A knight, a distinguished warrior. "Wyth dukes and dusperes of dyvers rewmes." Morte Arthure, 66. IMG:content-0433.jpg:[graphic] altars, baptisteries, and fonts. (3) As symbolical ornaments. The dove is also an emblem of the human soul, and as such is seen i uing from the lips of dying martyrs and devout persons. ( Fair holt .) dove-cot, dove-cote, *dowfe-cote, s . A small house or box, elevated considerably above the ground and divided into compartments, in which tame pigeons breed. "Like an eagle in a dove- cot , I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli." Snakesp.: Coriolanus, v. 5. Dove - cot pigeon : A domesticated pigeon. "Dove-cot pigeons dislike all the highly-improved breeds."-Darwin: Descent of Man (1871), pt. ii., ch. xiv. dove-dock, s. The Coltsfoot, Tu ilago for far a . "The arable land was much infested with various weeds, as the thistle, the mugwort, dove - dock ."-Agr. Surv. Caithn., p. 84. *dove-drawn, a. Seated in a car drawn by doves. IMG:content-0434.png:[blocks in formation] "Shake, quoth the dove -house: 'twas no need, I trow, To bid me trudge." Shakesp.: Romeo and Juliet , i. 3. dove-kie, s . Ornith.: A name given to the Black Guillemot ( Uria grylle ), a native of the Arctic regions.