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A knife; a dagger.

was able; knew or known; understood. [Obs.] Above all other one Daniel He loveth, for he couth well Divine, that none other couth; To him were all thing couth, As he had it of God's grace. Gower.

See Sourkrout.

Bread cut in various forms, and fried lightly in butter or oil, to garnish hashes, etc.

Having a loud and sonorous voice. "Deep-mouthed dogs." Dryden.

ies; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religious. A devout man, and one that feared God. Acts x. 2. We must be constant and devout in the worship of God. Rogers.

Sacred. [R.] To take her from austerer check of parents, To make her his by most devoutful rights. Marston.

Destitute of devotion. -- De*vout"less*ly, adv. -- De*vout"less*ness, n.

In a devout and reverent manner; with devout emotions; piously. Cast her fair eyes to heaven and prayed devoutly. Shak.

Quality or state of being devout.

One who often takes his dinner away from home, or in company. A brilliant diner-out, though but a curate. Byron.

To divest of a clout. [R.]

A dishcloth. [Obsolescent]

To put to rout. Taylor (1630).

To put out. [Obs.] "It douts the light." Sylvester.

An extinguisher for candles. [Obs.]

Same as Drought. Sandys. Another ill accident is drouth at the spindling of corn. Bacon. One whose drouth [thirst], Yet scarce allayed, still eyes the current stream. Milton. In the dust and drouth of London life. Tennyson.

Droughty.

A canoe or boat dug out from a large log. [U.S.] A man stepped from his slender dugout. G. W. Cable.

One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy's miners.