Word Meanings - WONDER-WORKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Doing wonders or surprising things.

• 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.
• 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 (#),
• 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.
• DOUBLEDYE
  To dye again or twice over. To double-dye their robes in scarlet. J. Webster.
• Donnat
  See Do-naught.
• Douanier
  An officer of the French customs.
• Dodecasyllabic
  Having twelve syllables.
• Downtrodden
  Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power.
• Dollies
  of Dolly
• DOUBLETONGUED
  Making contrary declarations on the same subject; deceitful. Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued. 1 Tim. iii.
• 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.
• Doxologizing
  of Doxologize
• Dolt
  A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.

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