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l, used for trading purposes on the coasts of Coromandel and Ceylon. [Written also dhony, doney, and done.]

Bearing gifts. [R.]

The chief tower, also called the keep; a massive tower in ancient castles, forming the strongest part of the fortifications. See Illust. of Castle.

A stupid or obstinate fellow; an ass. Donkey engine, a small auxiliary engine not used for propelling, but for pumping water into the boilers, raising heavy weights, and like purposes. -- Donkey pump, a steam pump for feeding boilers, extinguishing fire, etc.; -- usually an auxiliary. -- Donkey's eye (Bot.), the larg…

A lady; madam; mistress; -- the title given a lady in Italy.

See Do-naught. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

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.

Self-importance; loftiness of carriage. [Cant, Eng. Universities]

One who grants an estate; in later use, one who confers a power; -- the opposite of donee. Kent. Touching, the parties unto deeds and charters, we are to consider as well the donors and granters as the donees or grantees. Spelman.

The quality or rank of a don, gentleman, or knight. Hudibras.

A young squire, or knight's attendant; a page. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Hell; the bottomless pit. [Poetic] In all her gates, Abaddon rues Thy bold attempt. Milton.

To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Obs.] That he might . . . abandon them from him. Udall. Being all this time abandoned from your bed. Shak.

Forsaken, deserted. "Your abandoned streams." Thomson.

Unrestrainedly.

One to whom anything is legally abandoned.

One who abandons. Beau. & Fl.

The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. The abandonment of the independence of Europe. Burke.

The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.

A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants.