Donkey engine, a small auxiliary engine not used for propelling, but for pumping water into the boilers, raising heavy weights, and like purposes. -- Donkey pump, a steam pump for feeding boilers, extinguishing fire, etc.; -- usually an auxiliary. -- Donkey's eye (Bot.), the large round seed of the Mucuna pruriens, a tropical leguminous plant.
Don"na (?), n. [It. donna, L. domina. See Don, Dame.] A lady; madam; mistress; -- the title given a lady in Italy.
Don"nat (?), n. [Corrupted from do- naught.] See Do-naught. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Don"nism (?), n. [Don, n., 2.] Self-importance; loftiness of carriage. [Cant, Eng. Universities]
Do"nor (?), n. [F. donneur, OF. daneor, fr. donner. See Donee, and cf. Donator.] 1. One who gives or bestows; one who confers anything gratuitously; a benefactor.
2. (Law) One who grants an estate; in later use, one who confers a power; -- the opposite of donee. Kent.
Touching, the parties unto deeds and charters, we are to consider as well the donors and granters as the donees or grantees.
Spelman.
Do"-noth`ing (?), a. Doing nothing; inactive; idle; lazy; as, a do-nothing policy.
{ Do"-noth`ing*ism (?), Do"-noth`ing*ness (?), } n. Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness. [Jocular] Carlyle. Miss Austen.
Don"ship (?), n. The quality or rank of a don, gentleman, or knight. Hudibras.
Don"zel (?), n. [Cf. It. donzello, Sp. doncel, OF. danzel. See Damsel, Don, n.] A young squire, or knight's attendant; a page. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.