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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume DE

David breaks forth into these triumphant praises and doxologies.
South.

Dox"y (?), n.; pl. Doxies (#). [See Duck a pet.] A loose wench; a disreputable sweetheart. Shak.

Doy`en" (?), n. [F. See Dean.] Lit., a dean; the senior member of a body or group; as, the doyen of French physicians. "This doyen of newspapers." A. R. Colquhoun.

Doy"ly (?), n. See Doily.

Doze (dōz), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dozed (dōzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Dozing.] [Prob. akin to daze, dizzy: cf. Icel. dūsa to doze, Dan. döse to make dull, heavy, or drowsy, dös dullness, drowsiness, dösig drowsy, AS. dws dull, stupid, foolish. √71. Cf. Dizzy.] To slumber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy.

If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him.
L'Estrange.

Doze, v. t.

1. To pass or spend in drowsiness; as, to doze away one's time.

2. To make dull; to stupefy. [Obs.]

I was an hour . . . in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work.
Pepys.
They left for a long time dozed and benumbed.
South.

Doze, n. A light sleep; a drowse. Tennyson.

Doz"en (dŭz"'n), n.; pl. Dozen (before another noun), Dozens (?). [OE. doseine, dosein, OF. doseine, F. douzaine, fr. douze twelve, fr. L. duodecim; duo two + decem ten. See Two, Ten, and cf. Duodecimal.]


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