Word Meanings - BENEFICENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

• Doctrinarianism
  The principles or practices of the Doctrinaires.
• Downcast
  Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.
• Dole
  grief; sorrow; lamentation.
• 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.
• Doni
  A clumsy craft, having one mast with a long sail, used for trading purposes on the coasts of Coromandel and Ceylon.
• Dottard
  An old, decayed tree.
• Dodecahedron
  A solid having twelve faces.
• Downstairs
  Down the stairs; to a lower floor.
• Do-little
  One who performs little though professing much.
• DOUBLEBANKED
  Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart.
• Doodle
  A trifler; a simple fellow.
• Double-barreled
  Alt. of -barrelled
• Dodkin
  A doit; a small coin.
• Dowse
  To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse.
• Dolorific
  Alt. of Dolorifical
• DOUBLEMILLED
  Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine; -- said of cloth; as, double-milled kerseymere.
• Doorcheek
  The jamb or sidepiece of a door.
• Doublehearted
  Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous.
• Doubtful
  Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure.
• Dogging
  of Dog

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