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A government by slaves. [Written also dulocracy.] Hare.

See Doom palm.

The carrion crow. [Written also dob.] [Prov. Eng.]

Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold. [Scot.] A dour wife, a sour old carlin. C. Reade.

A kind of millet. See Durra.

See Durukuli.

To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse. Bp. Stillingfleet.

One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

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

An extinguisher for candles. [Obs.]

A word of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle. O my dove, . . . let me hear thy voice. Cant. ii. 14. Dove tick (Zoöl.), a mite (Argas reflexus) which infests doves and other birds. -- Soiled dove, a prostitute. [Slang]

merous globose white fragrant flowers. The column in the center of the flower resembles a dove; -- called also Holy Spirit plant.

A small annual species of Geranium, native in England; -- so called from the shape of the leaf.

Having eyes like a dove; meekeyed; as, dove-eyed Peace.

box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.

A guillemot (Uria grylle), of the arctic regions. Also applied to the little auk or sea dove. See under Dove.

A young or small dove. Booth.

Mild as a dove; gentle; pure and lovable. Longfellow.

land (as formerly in the United States) with sulphate of potash, and in France (as in Dr. Dover's original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of potash and licorice. It is an anodyne diaphoretic.

The possession of dovelike qualities, harmlessness and innocence. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.