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Do, n. 1. Deed; act; fear. [Obs.] Sir W. Scott.

2. Ado; bustle; stir; to do. [R.]

A great deal of do, and a great deal of trouble.

Selden.

3. A cheat; a swindle. [Slang, Eng.]

||Do"ab (?), [Pers. & Hind. dob, prop., two waters.] A tongue or tract of land included between two rivers; as, the doab between the Ganges and the Jumna. [India] Am. Cyc.

Do"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being done. Carlyle.

Do"-all` (?), n. General manager; factotum.

Under him, Dunstan was the do-all at court, being the king's treasurer, councilor, chancellor, confessor, all things.

Fuller.

Do"and (?), p. pr. Doing. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

Doat (?), v. i. See Dote.

Dob"ber (?), n. 1. (Zoöl.) See Dabchick.

2. A float to a fishing line. [Local, U. S.]

Dob"bin (?), n. 1. An old jaded horse. Shak.

2. Sea gravel mixed with sand. [Prov. Eng.]

Dob"chick` (?), n. (Zoöl.) See Dabchick.

Dob"son (?), n. (Zoöl.) The aquatic larva of a large neuropterous insect (Corydalus cornutus), used as bait in angling. See Hellgamite.

Dob"ule (?), n. (Zoöl.) The European dace.

Do"cent (?), a. [L. docens, - entis, p. pr. of docere to teach.] Serving to instruct; teaching. [Obs.]

||Do*ce"tæ (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. &?; to appear.] (Eccl. Hist.) Ancient heretics who held that Christ's body was merely a phantom or appearance.

Do*cet"ic (?), a. Pertaining to, held by, or like, the Docetæ. "Docetic Gnosticism." Plumptre.

Doc"e*tism (?), n. (Eccl. Hist.) The doctrine of the Docetæ.

Doch"mi*ac (?), a. (Pros.) Pertaining to, or containing, the dochmius.

||Doch"mi*us (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;.] (Pros.) A foot of five syllables (usually &?; -- -&?; - ).

{ Doc`i*bil"i*ty (?), Doc"i*ble*ness (?), } n. [L. docibilitas.] Aptness for being taught; teachableness; docility.

To persons of docibility, the real character may be easily taught in a few days.

Boyle.