Definition of don

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Don (n.) A grand personage, or one making pretension to consequence; especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the English universities..

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Diprotodon :: Diprotodon (n.) An extinct Quaternary marsupial from Australia, about as large as the hippopotamus; -- so named because of its two large front teeth. See Illustration in Appendix..
Average :: Average (n.) That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc..
Retinaculum :: Retinaculum (n.) One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle..
Battening :: Battening (n.) Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the wall.
Tongue :: Tongue (n.) The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk..
Excuse :: Excuse (v. t.) To regard with indulgence; to view leniently or to overlook; to pardon.
Avow :: Avow (v. t.) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry..
Balloon :: Balloon (n.) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London..
Pardoning :: Pardoning (a.) Relating to pardon; having or exercising the right to pardon; willing to pardon; merciful; as, the pardoning power; a pardoning God..
Diodon :: Diodon (n.) A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. Called also porcupine fishes, and sea hedgehogs..
Espadon :: Espadon (n.) A long, heavy, two-handed and two-edged sword, formerly used by Spanish foot soldiers and by executioners..
Burdon :: Burdon (n.) A pilgrim's staff.
Londonize :: Londonize (v. i.) To impart to (one) a manner or character like that which distinguishes Londoners.
Revenge :: Revenge (v. t.) To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer..
Solenodon :: Solenodon (n.) Either one of two species of singular West Indian insectivores, allied to the tenrec. One species (Solendon paradoxus), native of St. Domingo, is called also agouta; the other (S. Cubanus), found in Cuba, is called almique..
Mylodon :: Mylodon (n.) An extinct genus of large slothlike American edentates, allied to Megatherium..
Expostulate :: Expostulate (v. i.) To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with..
Publication :: Publication (n.) An act done in public.
Ademption :: Ademption (n.) The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like..
Plasma :: Plasma (n.) A variety of quartz, of a color between grass green and leek green, which is found associated with common chalcedony. It was much esteemed by the ancients for making engraved ornaments..
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