Word Meanings - DONOTHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Doing nothing; inactive; idle; lazy; as, a do-nothing policy.

• Dousing-chock
  One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck.
• Dogmatically
  In a dogmatic manner; positively; magisterially.
• DOGSEAR
  The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog. Gray. -- Dog's"-eared`, a. Cowper.
• Domination
  The act of dominating; exercise of power in ruling; dominion; supremacy; authority; often, arbitrary or insolent sway.
• Dorser
  See Dosser.
• Dock
  A genus of plants (Rumex), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination.
• Dovish
  Like a dove; harmless; innocent.
• Dogskin
  The skin of a dog, or leather made of the skin. Also used adjectively.
• DONAUGHT
  A lazy, good-for-nothing fellow.
• Dominus
  Master; sir; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor.
• Dosed
  of Dose
• Doctorate
  The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
• Dowerless
  Destitute of dower; having no marriage portion.
• Doit
  A small Dutch coin, worth about half a farthing; also, a similar small coin once used in Scotland; hence, any small piece of money.
• DOSDOS
  Back to back; as, to sit dos-à-dos in a dogcart; to dance dos- à-dos, or so that two dancers move forward and pass back to back.
• Donatist
  A follower of Donatus, the leader of a body of North African schismatics and purists, who greatly disturbed the church in the 4th century. They claimed to be the true church.
• Dotary
  A dotard's weakness; dotage.
• Downhaul
  A rope to haul down, or to assist in hauling down, a sail; as, a staysail downhaul; a trysail downhaul.
• Dolerite
  A dark-colored, basic, igneous rock, composed essentially of pyroxene and a triclinic feldspar with magnetic iron. By many authors it is considered equivalent to a coarse-grained basalt.

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