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The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.

• Dover's Powder
  A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States) with sulphate of potash, and in France (as in Dr. Dover's original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of pot
• dog-legged
  Noting a flight of stairs, consisting of two or more straight portions connected by a platform (landing) or platforms, and running in opposite directions without an intervening wellhole.
• DOGFANCIER
  One who has an unusual fancy for, or interest in, dogs; also, one who deals in dogs.
• Dominance
  Alt. of Dominancy
• Dorsad
  Toward the dorsum or back; on the dorsal side; dorsally.
• Docile
  Teachable; easy to teach; docible.
• Doweled
  of Dowel
• Dog-rose
  A common European wild rose, with single pink or white flowers.
• DOLORIFICDOLORIFICAL
  Causing pain or grief. Arbuthnot.
• Dominie
  A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.
• Dorture
  A dormitory.
• Docquet
  See Docket.
• Downcast
  Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.
• Dogwatch
  A half watch; a watch of two hours, of which there are two, the first dogwatch from 4 to 6 o'clock, p. m., and the second dogwatch from 6 to 8 o'clock, p. m.
• DORKINGFOWL
  One of a breed of large-bodied domestic fowls, having five toes, or the hind toe double. There are several strains, as the white, gray, and silver-gray. They are highly esteemed for the table.
• Donatary
  See Donatory.
• Dotting
  of Dot
• Doctrinarianism
  The principles or practices of the Doctrinaires.
• Downstairs
  Down the stairs; to a lower floor.
• Dole
  grief; sorrow; lamentation.

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