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dout en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From Middle English doute (“doubt”). More at doubt.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete spelling of doubt.
   alt of doubt
2. (alt-of, misspelling) Misspelling of doubt.
   alt of doubt

dout en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

Blend of do + out, from Middle English don ut (“do out”). Compare don, doff, dup.

Meanings

1. (dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To put out; quench; extinguish; douse.
   • Mount them, and make inciſion in their Hides, / That their hot blood may ſpin in Engliſh eyes, / And doubt them with ſuperfluous courage : ha. 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 86, column 1:
   • The fire she lit in every breast was fanned rather than douted by the rumour presently puffed abroad that she was the recipient of letters addressed in a man’s handwriting. 1893, J. Keighley Snowden, “The Angel Barmaid”, in Tales of the Yorkshire Worlds, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, page 136:

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a cone-shaped device with a handle for extinguishing a candle and stopping the smoke · douter