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Distracting. [R.] Heywood.

Bad workmanship. [Obs.] Heywood.

To diverge; to be divaricate. Woodward.

One who, or that which, dives. Divers and fishers for pearls. Woodward.

gyman. The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition. J. Woodbridge.

; but we must do on the armor of God. Latimer. Then Jason rose and did on him a fair Blue woolen tunic. W. Morris (Jason). Though the former legal pollution be now done off, yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as much to be shunned. Milton. It ["Pilgrim's Progress"] has been done into verse: it has been done…

Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor. Doctoral habit and square cap. Wood.

To cut off, as wool from sheep's tails; to lop or clip off. Halliwell.

A firm woolen cloth with a smooth, soft surface like a doe's skin; -- made for men's wear.

An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron.

The berry of the dogwood; -- called also dogcherry. Dr. Prior. Dogberry tree (Bot.), the dogwood.

A kind of woolen stuff. [Obs.] "Some doily petticoats." Dryden. A fool and a doily stuff, would now and then find days of grace, and be worn for variety. Congreve.

two volumes, a large folio and a quarto, and gives the proprietors' tenures, arable land, woodland, etc. [Written also Doomsday Book.]

A kind of baize of which the ward is cotton and the weft woolen. Blakely.

A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched h…

The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door.

The back of a book. [Obs.] Books, all richly bound, with gilt dorses. Wood.

Half-rotten; as, doted wood. [Local, U. S.]

A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.

Feathery or wool-like down; filament of a feather. Shak. No feather, or dowle of a feather. De Quincey.