Vocabulary : Dovecote to Dovetailed

Dovecote : A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.
Dove-eyed : Having eyes like a dove; meekeyed; as, dove-eyed Peace.
Dovekie : A guillemot (Uria grylle), of the arctic regions. Also applied to the little auk or sea dove. See under Dove.
Dovelet : A young or small dove.
Dovelike : Mild as a dove; gentle; pure and lovable.

Dover's Powder : A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States) with sulphate of potash, and in France (as in Dr. Dover's original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of potash and licorice. It is an anodyne diaphoretic.
Dove's-foot : A small annual species of Geranium, native in England; -- so called from the shape of the leaf. ;; The columbine.
Doveship : The possession of dovelike qualities, harmlessness and innocence.
Dovetail : A flaring tenon, or tongue (shaped like a bird's tail spread), and a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one. ;; To cut to a dovetail. ;; To join by means of dovetails. ;; To fit in or connect strongly, skillfully, or nicely; to fit ingeniously or complexly.
Dovetailed : of Dovetail

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