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924 words match “BEAU”

DISPAIR v.
To separate (a pair). [R.] I have . . . dispaired two doves. Beau. & Fl.
DISPLANT v.
id not think a look, Or a poor word or two, could have displanted Such a fixed constancy. Beau. & Fl.
DISPLEASE v.
To fail to satisfy; to miss of. [Obs.] I shall displease my ends else. Beau. & Fl.
DISPOSE v.
T. Burnet. I have disposed of her to a man of business. Tatler. A rural judge disposed of beauty's prize. Waller.
DISPOSED p.
Inclined to mirth; jolly. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. Well disposed, in good condition; in good health. [Obs.] Chaucer.
DISPOSITION n.
disposition of angels. Acts vii. 53. The disposition of the work, to put all things in a beautiful order and harmony, that the whole may be of a piece. Dryden.
DIZEN v.
To dress; to attire. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
DO v.
the sense may be completed by the infinitive (without to) of the verb represented. "When beauty lived and died as flowers do now." Shak. "I . . . chose my wife as she did her wedding gown." Goldsmith. My brightest hopes giving dark fears a being. As the light does the shadow. Longfellow. In unemphatic affirmative sent…
DOLLY VARDEN n.
A character in Dickens's novel "Barnaby Rudge," a beautiful, lively, and coquettish girl who wore a cherry-colored mantle and cherry-colored ribbons.
DONZEL n.
A young squire, or knight's attendant; a page. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
DOR n.
A trick, joke, or deception. Beau. & Fl. To give one the dor, to make a fool of him. [Archaic] P. Fletcher.
DOSSER n.
A pannier, or basket. To hire a ripper's mare, and buy new dossers. Beau. & Fl.
DOUBT v.
; to affright. [Obs.] The virtues of the valiant Caratach More doubt me than all Britain. Beau. & Fl.
DOUBTFUL a.
efined, classed, or named; as, a doubtful case, hue, claim, title, species, and the like. Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good. Shak. Is it a great cruelty to expel from our abode the enemy of our peace, or even the doubtful friend [i. e., one as to whose sincerity there may be doubts] Bancroft.
DOUBTLESSLY adv.
Unquestionably. Beau. & Fl.
DOWN v. 2 definitions
wn. [Archaic or Colloq.] "To down proud hearts." Sir P. Sidney. I remember how you downed Beauclerk and Hamilton, the wits, once at our house. Madame D'Arblay.
DOWNCAST n.
Downcast or melancholy look. That downcast of thine eye. Beau. & Fl.
DOWST n.
A dowse. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
DRAB v.
To associate with strumpets; to wench. Beau. & Fl.
DRAFFY a.
Dreggy; waste; worthless. The dregs and draffy part. Beau. & Fl.
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