English Dictionary: Tuatha De Danann | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
6. To make ready for an object, purpose, or use, as food by cooking; to cook completely or sufficiently; as, the meat is done on one side only. 7. To put or bring into a form, state, or condition, especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death; to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form of; to translate or transform into, as a text. Done to death by slanderous tongues. -- Shak. The ground of the difficulty is done away. -- Paley. Suspicions regarding his loyalty were entirely done away. --Thackeray. To do on our own harness, that we may not; but we must do on the armor of God. -- Latimer. Then Jason rose and did on him a fair Blue woolen tunic. -- W. Morris (Jason). Though the former legal pollution be now done off, yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as much to be shunned. --Milton. It [[bd]Pilgrim's Progress[b8]] has been done into verse: it has been done into modern English. -- Macaulay. 8. To cheat; to gull; to overreach. [Colloq.] He was not be done, at his time of life, by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent. -- De Quincey. 9. To see or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of interest. [Colloq.] 10. (Stock Exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note. Note: (a) Do and did are much employed as auxiliaries, the verb to which they are joined being an infinitive. As an auxiliary the verb do has no participle. [bd]I do set my bow in the cloud.[b8] --Gen. ix. 13. [Now archaic or rare except for emphatic assertion.] Rarely . . . did the wrongs of individuals to the knowledge of the public. -- Macaulay. (b) They are often used in emphatic construction. [bd]You don't say so, Mr. Jobson. -- but I do say so.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. [bd]I did love him, but scorn him now.[b8] --Latham. (c) In negative and interrogative constructions, do and did are in common use. I do not wish to see them; what do you think? Did C[91]sar cross the Tiber? He did not. [bd]Do you love me?[b8] --Shak. (d) Do, as an auxiliary, is supposed to have been first used before imperatives. It expresses entreaty or earnest request; as, do help me. In the imperative mood, but not in the indicative, it may be used with the verb to be; as, do be quiet. Do, did, and done often stand as a general substitute or representative verb, and thus save the repetition of the principal verb. [bd]To live and die is all we have to do.[b8] --Denham. In the case of do and did as auxiliaries, the sense may be completed by the infinitive (without to) of the verb represented. [bd]When beauty lived and died as flowers do now.[b8] --Shak. [bd]I . . . chose my wife as she did her wedding gown.[b8] --Goldsmith. My brightest hopes giving dark fears a being. As the light does the shadow. -- Longfellow. In unemphatic affirmative sentences do is, for the most part, archaic or poetical; as, [bd]This just reproach their virtue does excite.[b8] --Dryden. {To do one's best}, {To do one's diligence} (and the like), to exert one's self; to put forth one's best or most or most diligent efforts. [bd]We will . . . do our best to gain their assent.[b8] --Jowett (Thucyd.). {To do one's business}, to ruin one. [Colloq.] --Wycherley. {To do one shame}, to cause one shame. [Obs.] {To do over}. (a) To make over; to perform a second time. (b) To cover; to spread; to smear. [bd]Boats . . . sewed together and done over with a kind of slimy stuff like rosin.[b8] --De Foe. {To do to death}, to put to death. (See 7.) [Obs.] {To do up}. (a) To put up; to raise. [Obs.] --Chaucer. (b) To pack together and envelop; to pack up. (c) To accomplish thoroughly. [Colloq.] (d) To starch and iron. [bd]A rich gown of velvet, and a ruff done up with the famous yellow starch.[b8] --Hawthorne. {To do way}, to put away; to lay aside. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {To do with}, to dispose of; to make use of; to employ; -- usually preceded by what. [bd]Men are many times brought to that extremity, that were it not for God they would not know what to do with themselves.[b8] --Tillotson. {To have to do with}, to have concern, business or intercourse with; to deal with. When preceded by what, the notion is usually implied that the affair does not concern the person denoted by the subject of have. [bd]Philology has to do with language in its fullest sense.[b8] --Earle. [bd]What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? --2 Sam. xvi. 10. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Without \With*out"\, prep. [OE. withoute, withouten, AS. wi[eb][?]tan; wi[eb] with, against, toward + [?]tan outside, fr. [?]t out. See {With}, prep., {Out}.] 1. On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors. Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein. --Dryden. 2. Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond. Eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach. --T. Burnet. 3. Not with; otherwise than with; in absence of, separation from, or destitution of; not with use or employment of; independently of; exclusively of; with omission; as, without labor; without damage. I wolde it do withouten negligence. --Chaucer. Wise men will do it without a law. --Bacon. Without the separation of the two monarchies, the most advantageous terms . . . must end in our destruction. --Addison. There is no living with thee nor without thee. --Tatler. {To do without}. See under {Do}. {Without day} [a translation of L. sine die], without the appointment of a day to appear or assemble again; finally; as, the Fortieth Congress then adjourned without day. {Without recourse}. See under {Recourse}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Do \Do\, v. i. 1. To act or behave in any manner; to conduct one's self. They fear not the Lord, neither do they after . . . the law and commandment. -- 2 Kings xvii. 34. 2. To fare; to be, as regards health; as, they asked him how he did; how do you do to-day? 3. [Perh. a different word. OE. dugen, dowen, to avail, be of use, AS. dugan. See {Doughty}.] To succeed; to avail; to answer the purpose; to serve; as, if no better plan can be found, he will make this do. You would do well to prefer a bill against all kings and parliaments since the Conquest; and if that won't do; challenge the crown. -- Collier. {To do by}. See under {By}. {To do for}. (a) To answer for; to serve as; to suit. (b) To put an end to; to ruin; to baffle completely; as, a goblet is done for when it is broken. [Colloq.] Some folks are happy and easy in mind when their victim is stabbed and done for. --Thackeray. {To do withal}, to help or prevent it. [Obs.] [bd]I could not do withal.[b8] --Shak. {To do without}, to get along without; to dispense with. {To have done}, to have made an end or conclusion; to have finished; to be quit; to desist. {To have done with}, to have completed; to be through with; to have no further concern with. {Well to do}, in easy circumstances. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{Tooth powder}, a powder for cleaning the teeth; a dentifrice. {Tooth rash}. (Med.) See {Red-gum}, 1. {To show the teeth}, to threaten. [bd]When the Law shows her teeth, but dares not bite.[b8] --Young. {To the teeth}, in open opposition; directly to one's face. [bd]That I shall live, and tell him to his teeth .[b8] --Shak. |