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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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... leaves. In the second volume, Guido, servile and false, is followed by Caponsacchi, as noble alike in conception and execution as anything that Mr. Browning has ever achieved. In the third volume, the austere pathos of Pompilia's tale relieves the too oppressive jollity of Don Giacinto, and the flowery rhetoric of Bottini; while in the fourth, the deep wisdom, justice, and righteous mind of the Pope, reconcile us to endure the sulphurous whiff from the pit in the confession ...

— Studies in Literature • John Morley

... of Aix-la-Chapelle the most important were those stipulating for (1) a general restitution of conquests, including Cape Breton to France, Madras to England and the barrier towns to the Dutch; (2) the assignment to Don Philip of the duchies of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla; (3) the restoration of the duke of Modena and the republic of Genoa to their former positions; (4) the renewal in favour of Great Britain of the ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... she was between Celery on one side and Cherubs on the other! You know about Celery and Cherubs, don't you? They was two rocks somewhere; and if you didn't hit one, you was pretty sure to run smack on ...

— Women and the Alphabet • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

... mistake. This sea swarms with reefs and shoals nigher in, and I'm not going to be mad enough to risk my vessel, if you're mad enough to risk your life. Now, sir, please, I want to get ahead and claw off here before it falls calm. If I don't, some of these currents 'll be landing me where ...

— Through Forest and Stream - The Quest of the Quetzal • George Manville Fenn

... don't ask you to forgive me for not seeing you before," she wrote. "We understand each other and do not need explanations. I wanted to see nobody. Come at any hour when you feel that you would like ...

— The Call of the Blood • Robert Smythe Hichens

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