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e 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.

Lady; mistress; madam; -- a title of respect used in Spain, prefixed to the Christian name of a lady.

Capable of being donated or given. [R.]

A thing given to a sacred use. [R.] Burton.

A grammar. [Obs.] [Written also donet.]

See Donatory.

To give; to bestow; to present; as, to donate fifty thousand dollars to a college.

The act of giving or bestowing; a grant. After donation there an absolute change and alienation of the property of the thing given. South.

The tenets of the Donatists.

A follower of Donatus, the leader of a body of North African schismatics and purists, who greatly disturbed the church in the 4th century. They claimed to be the true church.

Pertaining to Donatism.

A gift; a largess; a gratuity; a present. "The Romans were entertained with shows and donatives." Dryden.

One who makes a gift; a donor; a giver.

A donee of the crown; one the whom, upon certain condition, escheated property is made over.

A canelike grass of southern Europe (Arundo Donax), used for fishing rods, etc.

A handsome fish of Florida and the West Indies (Platyglossus radiatus). The name is applied also to the ladyfish (Harpe rufa) of the same region.

It is done or agreed; let it be a match or bargain; -- used elliptically. Done brown, a phrase in cookery; applied figuratively to one who has been thoroughly deceived, cheated, or fooled. [Colloq.] -- Done for, tired out; used up; collapsed; destroyed; dead; killed. [Colloq.] -- Done up. (a) Wrapped up. (b) Worn out;…

The person to whom a gift or donation is made.

Same as Donat. Piers Plowman.

Dongola kid.