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t. [DONNARD.] To stupefy. "'Tis no' the damaged heady gear That donnar, dase, or daver. A. Douglas. Poems , p. 141. don-nard, don'-nert, a. [Etym. doubtful; cf. Icel. dof i torpor; dofinn =dead (of a limb); dofna = to become dead or torpid.) Gro ly stupid; stunned; in dotage. ""Ye donnard auld deevil,' answered his guest."-Scott: Antiquary , ch. ii. IMG:content-0373.png:[blocks in formation] 1507 dõnned (2), a. [Etym. doubtful.] Fond, greatly attached. ( Scotch.) *don'-nish, a . [Eng.don; -ish.] Of or pertaining to a don; learned. "Unle a man can write donnish books."-G. Eliot: Daniel Deronda, ch. xvi. †don-nism, s . [Eng. don; -ism . ] The a umption of airs of great importance; self-importance; conceit. ( University slang .) dō-nor, s. [Lat. don(o)=to give as a present; Eng. suff. -or.] I. Ord. Lang.: One who gives, bestows, or grants anything gratuitously. "Litters thick besiege the donor's gate, And begging lords and teeming ladies wait The promised dole." Dryden: Juvenal , sat. i. II. Technically : 1. Law : One who grants an estate to another. *2. Eccl .: A term of the middle ages, applied to the giver and founder of a work of art for religious purposes-viz., the giver of a church picture, statue, or painted window, .; the founder of a church or an altar. ( Fairholt . ) Dòn-ô-van, s . [Proper name.] Donovan's solution, s . Pharm.: A pale greenish liquid, having no odor and a styptic taste; it is a mixture containing red iodide of mercury and teriodide of arsenic. It is used in skin diseases. đô-noth-Ing-ne , s. [Eng. do; nothing; -ne .] Idlene , indolence, lazine . "A situation of similar affluence and do nothingne ."Mi Austen: Mans field Park , ch. xxxviii. don'-ship, s . [Eng. don; ship.] The quality of a don or gentleman of rank; a title given to gentlemen under the degree of baron. IMG:content-0374.png:[blocks in formation] "She was a donsie wife and clean Without debate." Ramsay: Poems, 1. 228. 2. Used obliquely, to signify pettish, testy. 3. Saucy; malapert. 4. Restive; unmanageable; as applied to a horse. "Tho' ye was tricky, slee, an' funnie, Ye ne'er was donsie ." Burns: To his Auld Mare. 5. Heavy; severe; applied to strokes. 6. Unlucky, ill-fated in regard to accidents or moral conduct. "Their donsie tricks, their black mistakes, Their failings and mischances." Burns: Addre to the Unco Guid. 7. Dull, dreary, stupid. "Has thou with Rose crucians wandert, Or thro' some doncie desart dandert?" Ramsay: Poems, ii. 334. (Jamie son.) B. As subst.: A stupid, lubberly fellow. *don-zel, *don-sel, s . [Ital. donzello ; Sp.doncel; O. F. donzel, from Lat. don cell us , do mini cell us , dim in. of Lat, dominus =a lord, a master.] A young gentleman following arms but not yet knighted; a young squire or attendant; a page. "He is esquire to a knight-errant, donzel to the damsels." Butler: Characters: dôo, 8. [DOVE.] ( Scotch.) dôo-ab, s. [DOAB.] IMG:content-0375.png:[blocks in formation] "I have an auld wife to my mither, Will doudle it on her knee." Herd: Coll., ii. 203. 2. To play the bagpipe. doo-di-a, s . [Named after Mr. S. Doody, a London botanist.] Bot.: A genus of exotic Aspleniese (Polypodioid Ferns). chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; doom do of, dooffe, s. [DUFF.] 1. A blow with a softish body, as with a peat, cloth, book, . "They had gotten some sair doofs . They had been terribly paik it and daddit wi' something."-Brownie of Bodsbeck , i. 135. 2. A hollow-sounding fall, like that of a loaded sack coming to the ground. "Boddin that I wad coup, that I muchtna gie a dooffe, I hurklit litherlye down." -Hogg: Winter Tales , ii. 41.