Doe
[dəʊ] or [do]
Definition
(noun.) mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
Editor: Susanna--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female of other animals, as the rabbit. See the Note under Buck.
(n.) A feat. [Obs.] See Do, n.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. She-deer, female deer (particularly of the fallow deer).
Inputed by Barnard
Definition
n. John Doe and Richard Roe names of an imaginary plaintiff and opponent in the old legal action for ejectment and proverbial term for a legal action.
n. the female of the fallow-deer or buck.—n. Doe′skin the skin of a doe: a smooth close-woven woollen cloth.
Editor: Shelton
Examples
- And there we'll dine--it will be but doe-venison, if we can get it at all--and then I'll take my nap while you go out and see old friends. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But this does not mean that men will have become homeless and all adrift. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For what does reason discover, when it pronounces any action vicious? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It shows a magnanimous spirit and does not magnif y the importance of trifles. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- There is scarcely any man alive who does not think himself meritorious for giving his neighbour five pounds. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Does he think to reduce me by long absence? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- They are worse than a goring, for the injury is internal and it does not heal. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But in 1562, the year at which he ends with it, it contained no more than the same nominal sum does at present. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And I'm bound to say Lily DOES distract it: I believe he'd marry her tomorrow if he found out there was anything wrong with Bertha. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- There is _one_ person in company who does not like to have Miss Price spoken of. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I approve of her looking at me; it does me good. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Your favourable opinion then, my Precious, does less than justice to Mr Boffin, and more than justice to me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Yet this consideration does not, or rather did not in after time, diminish the reproaches of my conscience. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Keeps the organ moist, does it, Wegg? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And now uncle is abroad, you and Mr. Garth can have it all your own way; and I am sure James does everything you tell him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There he did very well, but something went wrong (as it always does to a nomad), so he went to the Transvaal, and ran a panorama called 'Paradise Lost' in the Kaffir kraals. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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