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ft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough.

Imperfectly baked; hence, not brought to perfection; unfinished; also, of weak or dull understanding. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

Easily molded; pliable.

Like dough; soft. He demeans himself . . . like a dough-kneaded thing. Milton.

The Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis). See Curlew.

A contemptuous nickname for a timid, yielding politician, or one who is easily molded. [Political cant, U. S.]

The character of a doughface; truckling pliability.

The quality or state of being doughy.

A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard.

In a doughty manner.

The quality of being doughty; valor; bravery.

Daughters. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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.

Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion.

enate (the blood) by respiration; to arterialize. Aërated bread, bread raised by charging dough with carbonic acid gas, instead of generating the gas in the dough by fermentation.

particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war. Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought, An' did the buckskins claw, man. Burns.

A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.

A kind of divination by means of the dough of the cakes offered in the ancient sacrifices, and the meal strewed over the victims.

The dough, or mass of doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; -- also called dumpling. Th' impenetrable crust thy teeth defies. Dryden. He that keeps nor crust nor crumb. Shak. They . . . made the crust for the venison pasty. Macualay.

ce, companions of Charlemagne in war. [Written also douzepere.] [Obs.] Big-looking like a doughty doucepere. Spenser.