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Derring
·adj Daring or warlike. ...

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do
do, dĕdi, dătum, dăre (also in a longer form, dănunt = dant, Pac., Naev., and Caecil. ap. Non. 97, 1...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
do
dō (old subj.duis, duit, duint, etc.), dedī, datus, are 1 DA-, to hand over, deliver, give up, ren...

An Elementary Latin Dictionary
Do
·noun Deed; act; fear. II. Do ·noun A cheat; a swindle. III. Do ·noun Ado; bustle; stir; to do. I...

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Do.
·noun An abbreviation of Ditto. ...

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do
To do any one; to rob and cheat him. I have done him; I have robbed him. Also to overcome in a boxin...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Do-all
·noun General manager; factotum. ...

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Do-little
·noun One who performs little though professing much. ...

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Do-naught
·noun A lazy, good-for-nothing fellow. ...

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

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Do-nothingism
·noun ·Alt. of Do-nothingness. ...

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Do-nothingness
·noun Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness. ...

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To-do
·noun Bustle; stir; commotion; ado. ...

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to do over
Carries the same meaning, but is not so briefly expressed: the former having received the polish of ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
do don't
for do not or don't, is a common expression in Georgia, and not by any means confined to the uneduca...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
do tell!
A vulgar exclamation common tn New England, and synonymous with really! indeed! is it possible! A b...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
do-little
, or do-little sword. The old term for a dirk. ...

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Ne'er-do-well
·add. ·noun A person who never does, or fares, well; a good for nothing. ...

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Do Little Alley
See Do Little Lane. ...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Do Little Lane
,Do Little Alley South out of Carter Lane to Knightrider Street. In Castle Baynard Ward (Boyle, 1799...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Do-Little's Yard
West out of Mugwell Street, in Farringdon Ward Within (det.) (O. and M. 1677). Seems to occupy the ...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
domine do little
An impotent old fellow. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
to take to do
To take to task; to reprove. ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
well-to-do
In a state of ease as to pecuniary circumstances; well off.--Holloway. In speaking of the emigratio...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
die nor do
He'll neither DIE NOR DO ; spoken of a person in a lingering illness. See DAW, in Ray's Words. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
do for, to
A double-barrelled expression, meaning alike to take care of or provide for an individual, or to rui...

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Indo-do-Chinese languages
·add. ·- A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoke...

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do you hear there?
An inquiry following an order, but very often needlessly. ...

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england expects every man will do his duty
This is introduced into a naval vocabulary, not as wanting explanation, but that in recording the mo...

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