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Sullen; morose. [Obs. or R.] The sulky spite of a temper naturally dogged. Sir W. Scott.

ting opinion. The self-importance of his demeanor, and the dogmatism of his conversation. Sir W. Scott.

Sirius, a star of the constellation Canis Major, or the Greater Dog, and the brightest star in the heavens; -- called also Canicula, and, in astronomical charts, a Canis Majoris. See Dog days.

Domestic. [Obs.] Our private and domestical matter. Sir. P. Sidney.

Forming part of the same family. [Obs.] Sir E. Dering.

Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.

This was Abel Sampson, commonly called, from occupation as a pedagogue, Dominie Sampson. Sir W. Scott.

Master; sir; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor. Cowell.

That can be tamed. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Sir; Mr; Signior; -- a title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes. Don is used in Italy, though not so much as in Spain France talks of Dom Calmet, England of Dom Calmet, England of Dan Lydgate. Oliphant.

; to be weakly affectionate; -- with on or upon; as, the mother dotes on her child. Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote. Shak. What dust we dote on, when 't is man we love. Pope.

Foolish; weak; imbecile. Sir W. Scott.

n assertion, etc.; hesitation. Doubt is the beginning and the end of our efforts to know. Sir W. Hamilton. Doubt, in order to be operative in requiring an acquittal, is not the want of perfect certainty (which can never exist in any question of fact) but a defect of proof preventing a reasonable assurance of quilt. Wha…

Sober; prudent; sedate; modest. [Scot.] And this is a douce, honest man. Sir W. Scott.

Able; strong; valiant; redoubtable; as, a doughty hero. Sir Thopas wex [grew] a doughty swain. Chaucer. Doughty families, hugging old musty quarrels to their hearts, buffet each other from generation to generation. Motley.

To put out; to extinguish. [Slang] " To douse the glim." Sir W. Scott.

ch one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift. How great, how plentiful, how rich a dower! Sir J. Davies. Man in his primeval dower arrayed. Wordsworth.

wrestling; hence, to subdue; to bring down. [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.

blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way. A man of plain, downright character. Sir W. Scott.