Word Meanings - WONDERWORKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Doing wonders or surprising things.

• Dovish
  Like a dove; harmless; innocent.
• 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.
• DONNEE
  Lit., given; hence, in a literary work, as a drama or tale, that which is assumed as to characters, situation, etc., as a basis for the plot or story. W. E. Henley. That favorite romance donnée of the heir kept out of his own. Saintsbury.
• Donnat
  See Do-naught.
• Douanier
  An officer of the French customs.
• Dodecasyllabic
  Having twelve syllables.
• Dowerless
  Destitute of dower; having no marriage portion.
• Dollies
  of Dolly
• DOSIMETRY
  Measurement of doses; specif., a system of therapeutics which uses but few remedies, mostly alkaloids, and gives them in doses fixed by certain rules. --Do`si*met"ric (#), a. --Do*sim"e*trist (#),
• Doomed
  of Doom
• Double-decker
  A man-of-war having two gun decks.
• Doegling
  The beaked whale (Balaenoptera rostrata), from which doegling oil is obtained.
• Downhaul
  A rope to haul down, or to assist in hauling down, a sail; as, a staysail downhaul; a trysail downhaul.
• Dolt
  A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.
• DOUBLEDYE
  To dye again or twice over. To double-dye their robes in scarlet. J. Webster.
• Doorplane
  A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant.
• Double-quick
  Of, or performed in, the fastest time or step in marching, next to the run; as, a double-quick step or march.
• Dogbolt
  The bolt of the cap-square over the trunnion of a cannon.
• Downtrodden
  Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power.

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