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Dowdy
- adjective -
- deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust
- lacking in smartness or taste; "a dowdy grey outfit"; "a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room"
- primly out of date; "nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game"
Dowel
- noun - a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together
Dower
- noun - a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband
- furnish with an endowment; "When she got married, she got dowered"
- money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
Dowle
- - Feathery or wool-like down; filament of a feather.
Downs
- noun - (American football) a complete play to advance the football; "you have four downs to gain ten yards"
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- cause to come or go down; "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet"
- drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work"
- eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
- English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing;
- shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"
- soft fine feather
Downy
- adjective - covered with fine soft hairs or down; "downy milkweed seeds"
- like down or as soft as down
Dowry
- noun - money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
Dowse
- noun - cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face"
- searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod
- slacken; "douse a rope"
- use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal
- wet thoroughly