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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Do \Do\, v. t. or auxiliary. [imp. {Din}; p. p. {Done}; p. pr & vb n. {Doing}. This verb when transitive, is formed in the indicative, present tense, thus: I do thou doest (?) or dost ?, he does (?), doeth (?), or doth (?); when auxiliary, the second person is thou dost. As an independent verb dost is obsolete or rare except in poetry. ``What dost thou in this world?'' --Milton. The form doeth is a verb unlimited, doth, formerly so used now being the auxiliary form The second pers, sing., imperfect tense, is didst (?), formerly didest (?).] [AS. d?n; akin to D. doen, OS duan, OHG. tuon, G. thun, Lith. deti, OSlav. d?ti, OIr. d['e]nim I do Gr ? to put Skr. dh[=a], and to E. suffix -dom, and prob. to L. facere to do E. fact and perh. to L. -dere in some compounfds as addere to add credere to trust. ??? Cf {Deed}, {Deem}, {Doom}, {Fact}, {Creed}, {Theme}.] 1. To place to put [Obs.] --Tale of a Usurer (about 1330). 2. To cause to make -- with an infinitive. [Obs.] My lord Abbot of Westminster did do shewe to me late certain evidences. --W. Caxton. I shall . . . your cloister do make --Piers Plowman. A fatal plague which many did to die. --Spenser. We do you to wit [i. e., We make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia. --2 Cor. viii. 1. Note: We have lost the idiom shown by the citations (do used like the French faire or laisser), in which the verb in the infinitive apparently, but not really, has a passive signification, i. e., cause . . . to be made 3. To bring about to produce, as an effect or result; to effect; to achieve. The neglecting it may do much danger. --Shak. He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good not harm. --Shak. 4. To perform, as an action to execute; to transact to carry out in action as to do a good or a bad act do our duty; to do what I can. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work --Ex. xx 9. We did not do these things --Ld. Lytton. You can not do wrong without suffering wrong --Emerson. Hence: To do homage, honor, favor, justice, etc., to render homage, honor, etc 5. To bring to an end by action to perform completely; to finish; to accomplish; -- a sense conveyed by the construction, which is that of the past participle done ``Ere summer half be done.'' ``I have done weeping.'' --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Done \Done\, a. [Prob. corrupted from OF don['e], F. donn['e], p. p. of OF doner, F. donner, to give issue, fr L. donare to give See {Donate}, and cf {Donee}.] Given executed; issued; made public; -- used chiefly in the clause giving the date of a proclamation or public act From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Doni \Do"ni\, n. [Tamil t?n[=i].] (Naut.) A clumsy craft, having one mast with a long sail, used for trading purposes on the coasts of Coromandel and Ceylon. [Written also {dhony}, {doney}, and {done}.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Done \Done\, p. p. from {Do}, and formerly the infinitive. 1. Performed; executed; finished. 2. It is done or agreed; let it be a match or bargain; -- used elliptically. {Done brown}, a phrase in cookery; applied figuratively to one who has been thoroughly deceived, cheated, or fooled. [Colloq.] {Done for}, tired out used up collapsed; destroyed; dead; killed. [Colloq.] {Done up}. a Wrapped up b Worn out exhausted. [Colloq.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: done adj 1: having finished or arrived at completion; "certain to make history before he's done"; "it's a done deed"; "after the treatment, the patient is through except for follow-up"; "almost through with his studies" [syn: {through}, {through with(p)}] 2: cooked until ready to serve
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