Definition of Dovier

1. dovie [adj] - See also: dovie

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dovier

dover's powder
dovera
dovered
dovering
dovers
doves
doveship
dovetail
dovetail joint
dovetail plane
dovetailed
dovetailing
dovetailings
dovetails
dovie
dovier (current term)
doviest
doving
dovish
dovishness
dovishnesses
dow
dowable
dowager
dowager's hump
dowager's humps
dowagerism
dowagerlike
dowagers
dowagers' humps

Literary usage of Dovier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Cresswell Cresswell (1825)
"... made by a stranger is a forfeiture; it is an attornment to a stranger; a recognition of a title in him to the (a) Proton on Estates, tit. dovier, 555. ..."

2. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary ...by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (1817)
"... lies utt* recovery by default against tenant in dovier in waste, id, Admitting that it n>ft whether quod ei ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the King's Courts at Westminster by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas (1799)
"... as guardian to her infant fon, or as a tref- f offer, or for her quarentine, in order to have her dovier^ which (he could not have without it's being ..."

4. De Jure Maritimo Et Navali: Or, A Treatise of Affairs Maritime, and of by Charles Molloy (1744)
"Where an Alien is capable cf dovier by the Laws of England, and where not, and of the Mai Incapacity of a Jew. XIV. Whether a Denizen is capable of the ..."

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