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noun

Don n.

Sir; Mr; Signior; a title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes. "Don is used in Italy, though not so much as in Spain. France talks of Dom Calmet, England of Dan Lydgate."

A grand personage, or one making pretension to consequence; especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the English universities. (Univ. Cant) "The great dons of wit."

verb

Don v. t. (past & past part. donned; pres. part. donning) To put on; to dress in; to invest one's self with. "Should I don this robe and trouble you." "At night, or in the rain, He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn."

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... offer money. "We don't need your money, ma'am; we can support ourselves in other ways; my girls can braid straw, and bind shoes, but they are not going to be slaves to ...

— The American Woman's Home • Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe

... happy in a fairer bride! But none can ever love thee like Monimia. When I am dead, as presently I shall be (For the grim tyrant grasps my hand already), Speak well of me: and if thou find ill tongues Too busy with my fame, don't hear me wrong'd; 'Twill be a noble justice to the memory Of a poor wretch, once honour'd with thy ...

— The Orphan - or, The Unhappy Marriage • Thomas Otway

... destroyed, as the prince may be cut off. So Caligula wished that the people of Rome had but one neck, that he might cut them off at a blow.' OGLETHORPE. 'It was of the Senate he wished that[825]. The Senate by its usurpation controlled both the Emperour and the people. And don't you think that we see too much of ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 3 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill

... Stroom—"call the troops in with their firelocks. Quick, sir. Am I to be murdered, torn to pieces, and devoured? For mercy's sake, sir, don't stare, but do something—look, it's coming to the table! O dear! O dear!" continued the supercargo, evidently ...

— The Phantom Ship • Frederick Marryat

... and left him to rot here on the ground, like a wolf." And the boy was filled with indignation against the slayer of his father. Then the stranger asked, "Is your mother in yonder lodge?" and the boy replied, "No." "Does your mother live on the banks of this river?" and the boy answered, "I don't know my mother; I have never seen her; she is dead." "My son," replied the stranger, "Stone Shirt, who killed your father, stole your mother, and took her away to the shore of a distant lake, and there she is his wife to-day." And the boy wept bitterly, and while the tears filled ...

— Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians • John Wesley Powell

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