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To cause; to make; -- with an infinitive. [Obs.] My lord Abbot of Westminster did do shewe to me late certain evidences. W. Caxton. I shall . . . your cloister do make. Piers Plowman. A fatal plague which many did to die. Spenser. We do you to wit [i. e., We make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churche…

General manager; factotum. Under him, Dunstan was the do-all at court, being the king's treasurer, councilor, chancellor, confessor, all things. Fuller.

One who performs little though professing much. [Colloq.] Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.

A lazy, good-for-nothing fellow.

Doing nothing; inactive; idle; lazy; as, a do-nothing policy.

Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness. [Jocular] Carlyle. Miss Austen.

A tongue or tract of land included between two rivers; as, the doab between the Ganges and the Jumna. [India] Am. Cyc.

Capable of being done. Carlyle.

Doing. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

See Dote.

See Dabchick.

An old jaded horse. Shak.

aratus resembling a Jacquard for weaving small figures (usually about 12 - 16 threads, seldom more than 36 - 40 threads).

See Dabchick.

An aqueous solution of carbolic acid, borax, sodium bicarbonate, and glycerin, used as a spray in diseases of the nose and throat.

The aquatic larva of a large neuropterous insect (Corydalus cornutus), used as bait in angling. See Hellgamite.

The European dace.

Serving to instruct; teaching. [Obs.]

Ancient heretics who held that Christ's body was merely a phantom or appearance.

Pertaining to, held by, or like, the Docetæ. "Docetic Gnosticism." Plumptre.