- Doctor, doctor! I"ve had a sore stomach ever since I ate three crabs last week.
- Did they smell bad when you took them out of their shells?
- What do you mean "took them out of their shells"?
n. Hist. Spanish gold coin. [french or spanish: related to *double]
DOUBTFUL
adj. - feeling doubt.
- causing doubt.
- unreliable. doubtfully adv. Doubtfulness n.
DOUGHNUT
n. (us donut) small fried cake of sweetened dough.
DOVECOTE
n. (also dovecot) shelter with nesting-holes for domesticated pigeons.
DOVETAIL
—n. Mortise and tenon joint shaped like a dove's spread tail. —v. - join with dovetails.
- fit together; combine neatly.
DOWJONES
index n. (also dow-jones average) a figure indicating the relative price of shares on the new york stock exchange. [dow and jones, names of american economists]
DOWNBEAT
—n. Mus. Accented beat, usu. The first of the bar. —adj. - pessimistic, gloomy.
