Name Report For First Name DOY:
DOY
First name DOY's origin is Celtic. DOY means "dark stranger". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with DOY below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of doy.(Brown names are of the same origin (Celtic) with DOY and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with DOY - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming DOY
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES DOY AS A WHOLE:
doyleNAMES RHYMING WITH DOY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (oy) - Names That Ends with oy:
joy gilroy alroy conroy delroy eloy elroy evoy leeroy leroy macelroy malloy mccoy molloy roy troy benroy pomeroy noyNAMES RHYMING WITH DOY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (do) - Names That Begins with do:
doane doanna doba dobhailen dobi dodinel dohnatello dohosan dohtor doire doireann dolan doli dolie dolius dollie dolly dolores dolorita dolph dolphus domenica domenick domenico domenique domevlo domhnall domhnull domhnulla dominga domingart domingo dominic dominica dominick dominik dominique don dona donagh donaghy donahue donal donald donalda donall donat donata donatello donatien donato donavan donavon doncia dondre donegan donel donell donella donelle dong donia donita donkor donn donna donnachadh donnally donnan donnchadh donne donnel donnell donnelly donnie donnitta donny donogb donogh donoma donovan dontae dontay dontaye donte dontell dontrell donzel dooley doon dor dora doralie doran dorbeta dorcas dorcey dordei dordie doreNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DOY:
First Names which starts with 'd' and ends with 'y':
dacey dacy dahy daisey daisy daizy daley daly daney danithy danny dany darby darcey darcy darry dary daudy daveney davey davy debby delancy delaney delmy delray dempsey denby denley denney denny derry desirey destiny destrey destry devaney devany devenny devery devony devry devy dewey dimitry diondray dorothy dorsey dory dudley duffy dunley dunly dustyEnglish Words Rhyming DOY
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES DOY AS A WHOLE:
| doyly | noun (n.) See Doily. |
| doyen | noun (n.) Lit., a dean; the senior member of a body or group; as, the doyen of French physicians. |
| ondoyant | adjective (a.) Wavy; having the surface marked by waves or slightly depressed furrows; as, ondoyant glass. |
| verdoy | adjective (a.) Charged with leaves, fruits, flowers, etc.; -- said of a border. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DOY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (oy) - English Words That Ends with oy:
| annoy | noun (n.) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks. |
| noun (n.) To molest, incommode, or harm; as, to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade. | |
| noun (n.) A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes; also, whatever causes such a feeling; as, to work annoy. |
| bavaroy | noun (n.) A kind of cloak or surtout. |
| billyboy | noun (n.) A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel. |
| boy | noun (n.) A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son. |
| noun (n.) In various countries, a male servant, laborer, or slave of a native or inferior race; also, any man of such a race. | |
| verb (v. t.) To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage. |
| buoy | noun (n.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc. |
| verb (v. t.) To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up. | |
| verb (v. t.) To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel. | |
| verb (v. i.) To float; to rise like a buoy. |
| bushboy | noun (n.) See Bushman. |
| candroy | noun (n.) A machine for spreading out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing. |
| canticoy | noun (n.) A social gathering; usually, one for dancing. |
| carboy | noun (n.) A large, globular glass bottle, esp. one of green glass, inclosed in basket work or in a box, for protection; -- used commonly for carrying corrosive liquids; as sulphuric acid, etc. |
| convoy | noun (n.) The act of attending for defense; the state of being so attended; protection; escort. |
| noun (n.) A vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons, employed in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence, clothing, etc., and having an armed escort. | |
| noun (n.) A protection force accompanying ships, etc., on their way from place to place, by sea or land; an escort, for protection or guidance. | |
| noun (n.) Conveyance; means of transportation. | |
| noun (n.) A drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill. | |
| verb (v. t.) To accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman. |
| corduroy | noun (n.) A sort of cotton velveteen, having the surface raised in ridges. |
| noun (n.) Trousers or breeches of corduroy. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form of logs laid side by side. |
| cowboy | noun (n.) A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States. |
| noun (n.) One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans. |
| coy | adjective (a.) Quiet; still. |
| adjective (a.) Shrinking from approach or familiarity; reserved; bashful; shy; modest; -- usually applied to women, sometimes with an implication of coquetry. | |
| adjective (a.) Soft; gentle; hesitating. | |
| verb (v. t.) To allure; to entice; to decoy. | |
| verb (v. t.) To caress with the hand; to stroke. | |
| verb (v. i.) To behave with reserve or coyness; to shrink from approach or familiarity. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make difficulty; to be unwilling. |
| decoy | noun (n.) Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait. |
| noun (n.) A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot. | |
| noun (n.) A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them. | |
| noun (n.) A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net. |
| deploy | noun (n.) Alt. of Deployment |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy; as, to deploy a column of troops into line of battle. |
| drawboy | noun (n.) A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office. |
| employ | noun (n.) That which engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular service or business; employment. |
| verb (v. t.) To inclose; to infold. | |
| verb (v. t.) To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies. | |
| verb (v. t.) To occupy; as, to employ time in study. | |
| verb (v. t.) To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an envoy. |
| envoy | noun (n.) One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador. |
| noun (n.) An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi. |
| footboy | noun (n.) A page; an attendant in livery; a lackey. |
| foy | noun (n.) Faith; allegiance; fealty. |
| noun (n.) A feast given by one about to leave a place. |
| hautboy | noun (n.) A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and similar in shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone. Now more commonly called oboe. See Illust. of Oboe. |
| noun (n.) A sort of strawberry (Fragaria elatior). |
| henchboy | noun (n.) A page; a servant. |
| hobbledehoy | noun (n.) Alt. of Hobbletehoy |
| hobbletehoy | noun (n.) A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow . |
| hoboy | noun (n.) A hautboy or oboe. |
| hoy | noun (n.) A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port. |
| (interj.) Ho! Halloe! Stop! |
| highboy | noun (n.) One who lives high; also, in politics, a highflyer. |
| noun (n.) A kind of set of drawers. |
| joy | noun (n.) The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire; gladness; exhilaration of spirits; delight. |
| noun (n.) That which causes joy or happiness. | |
| noun (n.) The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity. | |
| noun (n.) To rejoice; to be glad; to delight; to exult. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give joy to; to congratulate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To enjoy. |
| l'envoy | noun (n.) One or more detached verses at the end of a literary composition, serving to convey the moral, or to address the poem to a particular person; -- orig. employed in old French poetry. |
| noun (n.) A conclusion; a result. |
| linkboy | noun (n.) Alt. of Linkman |
| loy | noun (n.) A long, narrow spade for stony lands. |
| lowboy | noun (n.) A chest of drawers not more than four feet high; -- applied commonly to the lower half of a tallboy from which the upper half has been removed. |
| maccaboy | noun (n.) Alt. of Maccoboy |
| maccoboy | noun (n.) A kind of snuff. |
| newsboy | noun (n.) A boy who distributes or sells newspaper. |
| norroy | noun (n.) The most northern of the English Kings-at-arms. See King-at-arms, under King. |
| noy | noun (n.) That which annoys. |
| verb (v. t.) To annoy; to vex. |
| overjoy | noun (n.) Excessive joy; transport. |
| verb (v. t.) To make excessively joyful; to gratify extremely. |
| padesoy | noun (n.) See Paduasoy. |
| paduasoy | noun (n.) A rich and heavy silk stuff. |
| plowboy | noun (n.) Alt. of Ploughboy |
| ploughboy | noun (n.) A boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a young rustic. |
| ploy | noun (n.) Sport; frolic. |
| verb (v. i.) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy. |
| postboy | noun (n.) One who rides post horses; a position; a courier. |
| noun (n.) A boy who carries letters from the post. |
| potboy | noun (n.) A boy who carries pots of ale, beer, etc.; a menial in a public house. |
| poy | noun (n.) A support; -- used in composition; as, teapoy. |
| noun (n.) A ropedancer's balancing pole. | |
| noun (n.) A long boat hook by which barges are propelled against the stream. |
| puoy | noun (n.) Same as Poy, n., 3. |
| renvoy | noun (n.) A sending back. |
| verb (v. t.) To send back. |
| roy | noun (n.) A king. |
| adjective (a.) Royal. |
| saveloy | noun (n.) A kind of dried sausage. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DOY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (do) - Words That Begins with do:
| do. | noun (n.) An abbreviation of Ditto. |
| doing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Do |
| noun (n.) Anything done; a deed; an action good or bad; hence, in the plural, conduct; behavior. See Do. |
| doable | adjective (a.) Capable of being done. |
| dobber | noun (n.) See Dabchick. |
| noun (n.) A float to a fishing line. |
| dobbin | noun (n.) An old jaded horse. |
| noun (n.) Sea gravel mixed with sand. |
| dobchick | noun (n.) See Dabchick. |
| dobson | noun (n.) The aquatic larva of a large neuropterous insect (Corydalus cornutus), used as bait in angling. See Hellgamite. |
| dobule | noun (n.) The European dace. |
| docent | adjective (a.) Serving to instruct; teaching. |
| docetae | noun (n. pl.) Ancient heretics who held that Christ's body was merely a phantom or appearance. |
| docetic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, held by, or like, the Docetae. |
| docetism | noun (n.) The doctrine of the Docetae. |
| dochmiac | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, the dochmius. |
| dochmius | noun (n.) A foot of five syllables (usually / -- -/ -). |
| docibility | noun (n.) Alt. of Docibleness |
| docibleness | noun (n.) Aptness for being taught; teachableness; docility. |
| docible | adjective (a.) Easily taught or managed; teachable. |
| docile | adjective (a.) Teachable; easy to teach; docible. |
| adjective (a.) Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child. |
| docility | noun (n.) teachableness; aptness for being taught; docibleness. |
| noun (n.) Willingness to be taught; tractableness. |
| docimacy | noun (n.) The art or practice of applying tests to ascertain the nature, quality, etc., of objects, as of metals or ores, of medicines, or of facts pertaining to physiology. |
| docimastic | adjective (a.) Proving by experiments or tests. |
| docimology | noun (n.) A treatise on the art of testing, as in assaying metals, etc. |
| docity | noun (n.) Teachableness. |
| dock | noun (n.) A genus of plants (Rumex), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination. |
| noun (n.) The solid part of an animal's tail, as distinguished from the hair; the stump of a tail; the part of a tail left after clipping or cutting. | |
| noun (n.) A case of leather to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse. | |
| noun (n.) An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide. | |
| noun (n.) The slip or water way extending between two piers or projecting wharves, for the reception of ships; -- sometimes including the piers themselves; as, to be down on the dock. | |
| noun (n.) The place in court where a criminal or accused person stands. | |
| verb (v. t.) to cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail. | |
| verb (v. t.) To draw, law, or place (a ship) in a dock, for repairing, cleaning the bottom, etc. |
| docking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dock |
| dockage | noun (n.) A charge for the use of a dock. |
| docket | noun (n.) A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest. |
| noun (n.) A bill tied to goods, containing some direction, as the name of the owner, or the place to which they are to be sent; a label. | |
| noun (n.) An abridged entry of a judgment or proceeding in an action, or register or such entries; a book of original, kept by clerks of courts, containing a formal list of the names of parties, and minutes of the proceedings, in each case in court. | |
| noun (n.) A list or calendar of causes ready for hearing or trial, prepared for the use of courts by the clerks. | |
| noun (n.) A list or calendar of business matters to be acted on in any assembly. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and indorse it on the back of the paper, or to indorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize; as, to docket letters and papers. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed. | |
| verb (v. t.) To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial. | |
| verb (v. t.) To mark with a ticket; as, to docket goods. |
| docketing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Docket |
| dockyard | noun (n.) A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding. |
| docoglossa | noun (n. pl.) An order of gastropods, including the true limpets, and having the teeth on the odontophore or lingual ribbon. |
| docquet | noun (n. & v.) See Docket. |
| doctor | noun (n.) A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man. |
| noun (n.) An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only. | |
| noun (n.) One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician. | |
| noun (n.) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine. | |
| noun (n.) The friar skate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart. | |
| verb (v. t.) To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor. | |
| verb (v. t.) To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky. | |
| verb (v. i.) To practice physic. |
| doctoring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Doctor |
| doctoral | adjective (a.) Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor. |
| doctorate | noun (n.) The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor. |
| verb (v. t.) To make (one) a doctor. |
| doctoress | noun (n.) A female doctor. |
| doctorly | adjective (a.) Like a doctor or learned man. |
| doctorship | noun (n.) Doctorate. |
| doctress | noun (n.) A female doctor. |
| doctrinable | adjective (a.) Of the nature of, or constituting, doctrine. |
| doctrinaire | noun (n.) One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions. |
| doctrinal | noun (n.) A matter of doctrine; also, a system of doctrines. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, doctrine or something taught and to be believed; as, a doctrinal observation. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or having to do with, teaching. |
| doctrinarian | noun (n.) A doctrinaire. |
| doctrinarianism | noun (n.) The principles or practices of the Doctrinaires. |
| doctrine | noun (n.) Teaching; instruction. |
| noun (n.) That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances. |
| document | noun (n.) That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma. |
| noun (n.) An example for instruction or warning. | |
| noun (n.) An original or official paper relied upon as the basis, proof, or support of anything else; -- in its most extended sense, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information in the case; any material substance on which the thoughts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol. | |
| verb (v. t.) To teach; to school. | |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information; as, a a ship should be documented according to the directions of law. |
| documental | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to instruction. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to written evidence; documentary; as, documental testimony. |
| documentary | adjective (a.) Pertaining to written evidence; contained or certified in writing. |
| doddart | noun (n.) A game much like hockey, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game. |
| dodded | adjective (a.) Without horns; as, dodded cattle; without beards; as, dodded corn. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DOY:
English Words which starts with 'd' and ends with 'y':
| dacoity | noun (n.) The practice of gang robbery in India; robbery committed by dacoits. |
| dactyliography | noun (n.) The art of writing or engraving upon gems. |
| noun (n.) In general, the literature or history of the art. |
| dactyliology | noun (n.) That branch of archaeology which has to do with gem engraving. |
| noun (n.) That branch of archaeology which has to do with finger rings. |
| dactyliomancy | noun (n.) Divination by means of finger rings. |
| dactylology | noun (n.) The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb. |
| dactylomancy | noun (n.) Dactyliomancy. |
| dactylonomy | noun (n.) The art of numbering or counting by the fingers. |
| daddy | noun (n.) Diminutive of Dad. |
| daguerreotypy | noun (n.) The art or process of producing pictures by method of Daguerre. |
| daily | noun (n.) A publication which appears regularly every day; as, the morning dailies. |
| adjective (a.) Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal; as, daily labor; a daily bulletin. | |
| adverb (adv.) Every day; day by day; as, a thing happens daily. |
| dainty | noun (n.) Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything. |
| noun (n.) That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy. | |
| noun (n.) A term of fondness. | |
| superlative (superl.) Rare; valuable; costly. | |
| superlative (superl.) Delicious to the palate; toothsome. | |
| superlative (superl.) Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender. | |
| superlative (superl.) Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious. |
| dairy | noun (n.) The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese. |
| noun (n.) That department of farming which is concerned in the production of milk, and its conversion into butter and cheese. | |
| noun (n.) A dairy farm. |
| daisy | noun (n.) A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositae. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays. |
| noun (n.) The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed. |
| dakoity | noun (n.) See Dacoit, Dacoity. |
| damnability | noun (n.) The quality of being damnable; damnableness. |
| damnatory | adjective (a.) Dooming to damnation; condemnatory. |
| dampy | adjective (a.) Somewhat damp. |
| adjective (a.) Dejected; gloomy; sorrowful. |
| dancy | adjective (a.) Same as Dancette. |
| dandy | noun (n.) One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb. |
| noun (n.) A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set. | |
| noun (n.) A small sail carried at or near the stern of small boats; -- called also jigger, and mizzen. | |
| noun (n.) A dandy roller. See below. |
| dangleberry | noun (n.) A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward. |
| daphnomancy | noun (n.) Divination by means of the laurel. |
| darby | noun (n.) A plasterer's float, having two handles; -- used in smoothing ceilings, etc. |
| darky | noun (n.) A negro. |
| dashy | adjective (a.) Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy. |
| dastardly | adjective (a.) Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage. |
| dastardy | noun (n.) Base timidity; cowardliness. |
| datary | noun (n.) An officer in the pope's court, having charge of the Dataria. |
| noun (n.) The office or employment of a datary. |
| daubery | noun (n.) Alt. of Daubry |
| daubry | noun (n.) A daubing; specious coloring; false pretenses. |
| dauby | adjective (a.) Smeary; viscous; glutinous; adhesive. |
| daughterly | adjective (a.) Becoming a daughter; filial. |
| day | noun (n.) The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine. |
| noun (n.) The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day, below. | |
| noun (n.) Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work. | |
| noun (n.) A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time. | |
| noun (n.) (Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of contest, some anniversary, etc. |
| dayfly | noun (n.) A neuropterous insect of the genus Ephemera and related genera, of many species, and inhabiting fresh water in the larval state; the ephemeral fly; -- so called because it commonly lives but one day in the winged or adult state. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral. |
| deaconry | noun (n.) See Deaconship. |
| deadly | adjective (a.) Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound. |
| adjective (a.) Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies. | |
| adjective (a.) Subject to death; mortal. | |
| adverb (adv.) In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death. | |
| adverb (adv.) In a manner to occasion death; mortally. | |
| adverb (adv.) In an implacable manner; destructively. | |
| adverb (adv.) Extremely. |
| deafly | adjective (a.) Lonely; solitary. |
| adverb (adv.) Without sense of sounds; obscurely. |
| deambulatory | noun (n.) A covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory. |
| adjective (a.) Going about from place to place; wandering; of or pertaining to a deambulatory. |
| deanery | noun (n.) The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3. |
| noun (n.) The residence of a dean. | |
| noun (n.) The territorial jurisdiction of a dean. |
| deary | noun (n.) A dear; a darling. |
| deathly | adjective (a.) Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive. |
| adverb (adv.) Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick. |
| debauchery | noun (n.) Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance. |
| noun (n.) Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness. |
| debility | adjective (a.) The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor. |
| debonairity | noun (n.) Debonairness. |
| decadency | noun (n.) A falling away; decay; deterioration; declension. "The old castle, where the family lived in their decadence." |
| decay | noun (n.) Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline; deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay. |
| noun (n.) Destruction; death. | |
| noun (n.) Cause of decay. | |
| verb (v. i.) To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to decay; to impair. | |
| verb (v. t.) To destroy. |
| decency | noun (n.) The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty. |
| noun (n.) That which is proper or becoming. |
| decennary | noun (n.) A period of ten years. |
| noun (n.) A tithing consisting of ten neighboring families. |
| decennovary | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the number nineteen; of nineteen years. |
| deceptivity | noun (n.) Deceptiveness; a deception; a sham. |
| deceptory | adjective (a.) Deceptive. |
| deciduity | noun (n.) Deciduousness. |
| decipiency | noun (n.) State of being deceived; hallucination. |
| decisory | adjective (a.) Able to decide or determine; having a tendency to decide. |
| declamatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme. |
| adjective (a.) Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style. |
| declaratory | adjective (a.) Making declaration, explanation, or exhibition; making clear or manifest; affirmative; expressive; as, a clause declaratory of the will of the legislature. |
| declinatory | adjective (a.) Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence. |
| declivity | noun (n.) Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity. |
| noun (n.) A descending surface; a sloping place. |
| decretory | adjective (a.) Established by a decree; definitive; settled. |
| adjective (a.) Serving to determine; critical. |
| decumbency | noun (n.) The act or posture of lying down. |
| decury | noun (n.) A set or squad of ten men under a decurion. |
| dedicatory | noun (n.) Dedication. |
| adjective (a.) Constituting or serving as a dedication; complimental. |
| deducibility | noun (n.) Deducibleness. |
| deedy | adjective (a.) Industrious; active. |
| deerberry | noun (n.) A shrub of the blueberry group (Vaccinium stamineum); also, its bitter, greenish white berry; -- called also squaw huckleberry. |
| defamatory | adjective (a.) Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings. |
| defectibility | noun (n.) Deficiency; imperfection. |
| defectuosity | noun (n.) Great imperfection. |
| defensibility | noun (n.) Capability of being defended. |
| defensory | adjective (a.) Tending to defend; defensive; as, defensory preparations. |
| defervescency | noun (n.) A subsiding from a state of ebullition; loss of heat; lukewarmness. |
| noun (n.) The subsidence of a febrile process; as, the stage of defervescence in pneumonia. |
| defiatory | adjective (a.) Bidding or manifesting defiance. |
| deficiency | noun (n.) The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect. |
| deflagrability | noun (n.) The state or quality of being deflagrable. |
| deformity | adjective (a.) The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness. |
| adjective (a.) Anything that destroys beauty, grace, or propriety; irregularity; absurdity; gross deviation from order or the established laws of propriety; as, deformity in an edifice; deformity of character. |
| defy | noun (n.) A challenge. |
| verb (v. t.) To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce. | |
| verb (v. t.) To provoke to combat or strife; to call out to combat; to challenge; to dare; to brave; to set at defiance; to treat with contempt; as, to defy an enemy; to defy the power of a magistrate; to defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy public opinion. |
| degeneracy | adjective (a.) The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse. |
| adjective (a.) The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness. |
| deglutitory | adjective (a.) Serving for, or aiding in, deglutition. |
| dehortatory | adjective (a.) Fitted or designed to dehort or dissuade. |
| deiformity | noun (n.) Likeness to deity. |
| deity | noun (n.) The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in his works. |
| noun (n.) A god or goddess; a heathen god. |
| dejectory | adjective (a.) Having power, or tending, to cast down. |
| adjective (a.) Promoting evacuations by stool. |
| delay | noun (n.) To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before. |
| noun (n.) To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow. | |
| noun (n.) To allay; to temper. | |
| verb (v.) A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry. |
| delegacy | adjective (a.) The act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power. |
| adjective (a.) A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation. |
| delegatory | adjective (a.) Holding a delegated position. |
| deletery | noun (n.) That which destroys. |
| adjective (a.) Destructive; poisonous. |
| deletory | noun (n.) That which blots out. |
| delicacy | adjective (a.) The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like. |
| adjective (a.) Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a thread; delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy of the skin; delicacy of frame. | |
| adjective (a.) Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action. | |
| adjective (a.) Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment. | |
| adjective (a.) Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy. | |
| adjective (a.) The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance. | |
| adjective (a.) That which is alluring, delicate, or refined; a luxury or pleasure; something pleasant to the senses, especially to the sense of taste; a dainty; as, delicacies of the table. | |
| adjective (a.) Pleasure; gratification; delight. |
| delineatory | adjective (a.) That delineates; descriptive; drawing the outline; delineating. |
| delinquency | noun (n.) Failure or omission of duty; a fault; a misdeed; an offense; a misdemeanor; a crime. |
| deliracy | noun (n.) Delirium. |
| delirancy | noun (n.) Delirium. |
| delitescency | noun (n.) Concealment; seclusion. |
| delivery | noun (n.) The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon. |
| noun (n.) The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters. | |
| noun (n.) The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery. | |
| noun (n.) The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes. | |
| noun (n.) The act of exerting one's strength or limbs. | |
| noun (n.) The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery. |
| delusory | adjective (a.) Delusive; fallacious. |
| demagogy | noun (n.) Demagogism. |
| demency | noun (n.) Dementia; loss of mental powers. See Insanity. |
| demisability | noun (n.) The state of being demisable. |
| demissionary | adjective (a.) Pertaining to transfer or conveyance; as, a demissionary deed. |
| adjective (a.) Tending to lower, depress, or degrade. |
| democracy | noun (n.) Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people. |
| noun (n.) Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic. | |
| noun (n.) Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of government. | |
| noun (n.) The principles and policy of the Democratic party, so called. |
| democraty | noun (n.) Democracy. |
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