| Dub |
v. t. |
To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight. |
| Dub |
v. t. |
To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call. |
| Dub |
v. t. |
To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn. |
| Dub |
v. t. |
To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab; |
| Dub |
v. t. |
To dress with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber smooth. |
| Dub |
v. t. |
To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap. |
| Dub |
v. t. |
To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of cyrrying it. |
| Dub |
v. t. |
To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles. |
| Dub |
v. i. |
To make a noise by brisk drumbeats. |
| Dub |
n. |
A blow. |
| Dub |
n. |
A pool or puddle. |
| Dubb |
n. |
The Syrian bear. See under Bear. |
| Dubbed |
imp. & p. p. |
of Dub |
| Dubber |
n. |
One who, or that which, dubs. |
| Dubber |
n. |
A globular vessel or bottle of leather, used in India to hold ghee, oil, etc. |
| Dubbing |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Dub |
| Dubbing |
n. |
The act of dubbing, as a knight, etc. |
| Dubbing |
n. |
The act of rubbing, smoothing, or dressing; a dressing off smooth with an adz. |
| Dubbing |
n. |
A dressing of flour and water used by weavers; a mixture of oil and tallow for dressing leather; daubing. |
| Dubbing |
n. |
The body substance of an angler's fly. |
| Dubieties |
pl. |
of Dubiety |
| Dubiety |
n. |
Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt. |
| Dubiosities |
pl. |
of Dubiosity |
| Dubiosity |
n. |
The state of being doubtful; a doubtful statement or thing. |
| Dubious |
a. |
Doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined. |
| Dubious |
a. |
Occasioning doubt; not clear, or obvious; equivocal; questionable; doubtful; as, a dubious answer. |
| Dubious |
a. |
Of uncertain event or issue; as, in dubious battle. |
| Dubiously |
adv. |
In a dubious manner. |
| Dubiousness |
n. |
State of being dubious. |
| Dubitable |
a. |
Liable to be doubted; uncertain. |
| Dubitancy |
n. |
Doubt; uncertainty. |
| Dubitate |
v. i. |
To doubt. |
| Dubitation |
n. |
Act of doubting; doubt. |
| Dubitative |
a. |
Tending to doubt; doubtful. |
| Duboisia |
n. |
Same as Duboisine. |
| Duboisine |
n. |
An alkaloid obtained from the leaves of an Australian tree (Duboisia myoporoides), and regarded as identical with hyoscyamine. It produces dilation of the pupil of the eye. |
