Part 3360

<p><b>9.</b> <def>To see or inspect; to explore; <as>as, to <ex>do</ex> all the points of interest</as>.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<p><b>10.</b> <fld>(Stock Exchange)</fld> <def>To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.</def>

<note>&hand; <sd>(a)</sd> <i>Do</i> and <i>did</i> are much employed as auxiliaries, the verb to which they are joined being an infinitive. As an auxiliary the verb <i>do</i> has no participle. "I <i>do</i> set my bow in the cloud." <i>Gen. ix. 13</i>. <mark>[Now archaic or rare except for emphatic assertion.]</mark>

<blockquote>Rarely . . . <b>did</b> the wrongs of individuals to the knowledge of the public. <i> Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<sd>(b)</sd> They are often used in emphatic construction. "You don't say so, Mr. Jobson. -- but I <i>do</i> say so." <i>Sir W. Scott</i>. "I <i>did love him</i>, <i>but scorn him now</i>." <i>Latham</i>. <sd>(c)</sd> In negative and interrogative constructions, <i>do</i> and <i>did</i> are in common use. I <i>do</i> not wish to see them; what <i>do</i> you think? <i>Did</i> C\'91sar cross the Tiber? He <i>did</i> not. "<i>Do</i> you love me?" <i>Shak</i>. <sd>(d)</sd> <i>Do</i>, as an auxiliary, is supposed to have been first used before imperatives. It expresses entreaty or earnest request; as, <i>do help me</i>. In the imperative mood, but not in the indicative, it may be used with the verb <i>to be</i>; as, <i>do be</i> quiet. <i>Do</i>, <i>did</i>, and <i>done</i> often stand as a general substitute or representative verb, and thus save the repetition of the principal verb. "To live and die is all we have to <i>do</i>." <i>Denham</i>. In the case of <i>do</i> and <i>did</i> as auxiliaries, the sense may be completed by the infinitive (without <i>to</i>) of the verb represented. "When beauty lived and died as flowers <i>do</i> now." <i>Shak</i>. "I . . . chose my wife as she <i>did</i> her wedding gown."

<i>Goldsmith.</i>

<blockquote>My brightest hopes giving dark fears a being. As the light <b>does</b> the shadow. <i> Longfellow.</i></blockquote>

In unemphatic affirmative sentences <i>do</i> is, for the most part, archaic or poetical; as, "This just reproach their virtue <i>does</i> excite."

<i>Dryden.</i> </note>

<cs><mcol><col>To do one's best</col>, <col>To do one's diligence</col></mcol> (and the like), <cd>to exert one's self; to put forth one's best or most or most diligent efforts.</cd> "We will . . . <i>do our<i> best to gain their assent." <i>Jowett (Thucyd.)</i>. -- <col>To do one's business</col>, <cd>to ruin one.</cd> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark> <i>Wycherley</i>. -- <col>To do one shame</col>, <cd>to cause one shame.</cd> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> -- <col>To do over</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To make over; to perform a second time.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To cover; to spread; to smear. "Boats . . . sewed together and <i>done over<i> with a kind of slimy stuff like rosin." <i>De Foe</i>.</cd> -- <col>To do to death</col>, <cd>to put to death.</cd> (See 7.) <mark>[Obs.]</mark> -- <col>To do up</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To put up; to raise. <mark>[Obs.]</mark></cd> <i>Chaucer</i>. <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To pack together and envelop; to pack up.</cd> <sd>(c)</sd> <cd>To accomplish thoroughly. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cd> <sd>(d)</sd> <cd>To starch and iron. "A rich gown of velvet, and a ruff <i>done up<i> with the famous yellow starch." <i>Hawthorne</i>.</cd> -- <col>To do way</col>, <cd>to put away; to lay aside. <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <i>Chaucer</i>.</cd> -- <col>To do with</col>, <cd>to dispose of; to make use of; to employ; -- usually preceded by <i>what<i>. "Men are many times brought to that extremity, that were it not for God they would not know what <i>to do with<i> themselves." <i>Tillotson</i>.</cd> -- <col>To have to do with</col>, <cd>to have concern, business or intercourse with; to deal with. When preceded by <i>what<i>, the notion is usually implied that the affair does not concern the person denoted by the subject of <i>have<i>. "Philology <i>has to do with<i> language in its fullest sense." <i>Earle</i>. "What <i>have<i> I <i>to do with<i> you, ye sons of Zeruiah? <i>2 Sam. xvi. 10.</i></cd></cs>

<h1>Do</h1> <Xpage=440>

<hw>Do</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To act or behave in any manner; to conduct one's self.</def>

<blockquote>They fear not the Lord, neither <b>do</b> they after . . . the law and commandment. <i> 2 Kings xvii. 34.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To fare; to be, as regards health; <as>as, they asked him how he <ex>did</ex>; how do you <ex>do</ex> to-day?</as></def>

<p><b>3.</b> <ety>[Perh. a different word. OE. <ets>dugen</ets>, <ets>dowen</ets>, to avail, be of use, AS. <ets>dugan</ets>. See <er>Doughty</er>.]</ety> <def>To succeed; to avail; to answer the purpose; to serve; <as>as, if no better plan can be found, he will make this <ex>do</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>You would do well to prefer a bill against all kings and parliaments since the Conquest; and if that won't <b>do</b>; challenge the crown. <i> Collier.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To do by</col>. <cd>See under <er>By</er>.</cd> -- <col>To do for</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To answer for; to serve as; to suit.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To put an end to; to ruin; to baffle completely; as, a goblet is <i>done for<i> when it is broken. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cd>

<blockquote>Some folks are happy and easy in mind when their victim is stabbed and <b>done for</b>. <i> Thackeray.</i></blockquote>

-- <col>To do withal</col>, <cd>to help or prevent it.</cd> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "I could not do <i>withal</i>." <i>Shak</i>. -- <col>To do without</col>, <cd>to get along without; to dispense with.</cd> -- <col>To have done</col>, <cd>to have made an end or conclusion; to have finished; to be quit; to desist.</cd> -- <col>To have done with</col>, <cd>to have completed; to be through with; to have no further concern with.</cd> -- <col>Well to do</col>, <cd>in easy circumstances.</cd></cs>

<h1>Do</h1> <Xpage=440>

<hw>Do</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> Deed; act; fear.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sir W. Scott.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Ado; bustle; stir; to do.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>A great deal of <b>do</b>, and a great deal of trouble. <i> Selden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A cheat; a swindle.</def> <mark>[Slang, Eng.]</mark>

<h1>Doab</h1> <Xpage=440>

<hw>Do"ab</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <ety>[Pers. & Hind. <ets>do\'beb</ets>, prop., two waters.]</ety> <def>A tongue or tract of land included between two rivers; <as>as, the <ex>doab</ex> between the Ganges and the Jumna</as>.</def> <mark>[India]</mark>

<i>Am. Cyc.</i>