Definition of Dowds

1. dowd [n] - See also: dowd

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dowds

dowagers' humps
dowar
dowars
dowd
dowdier
dowdies
dowdiest
dowdified
dowdifies
dowdify
dowdifying
dowdily
dowdiness
dowdinesses
dowds (current term)
dowdy
dowdyish
dowdyism
dowdyisms
dowed
dowel
dowel pin
doweled
doweling
dowelled
dowelling
dowels
dower
dowered

Literary usage of Dowds

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

1. The Biographical Annals of Ohio, 1902-: A Handbook of the Government and by William Alexander Taylor, Ohio General Assembly (1905)
"SG dowds was born July 18, 1865. His early life was spent on the farm; ... dowds have three children — two boys and one girl. vj He is a member of the firm ..."

2. The Future of Privacy by Perri 6 (1998)
"Tarling R and dowds L, 1997, ‘Crime and punishment' in Jowell R, Curtice J, Park A, Brook L, Thomson K and Bryson C,British social attitudes: the fourteenth ..."

3. The History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the English Invasion by Geoffrey Keating (1866)
"The chiefs of North, Ui Fiachrach in Sligo und Mayo wero the O'dowds,'&c. According to O'Dugan and Mac Fii-bis, fourteen of the nice of Ui Fiachra ' were ..."

4. Duffy's Hibernian Magazine: A Monthly Journal of Legends, Tales, and Stories (1861)
"... writing of Captain James O'Dowd, who was executed at Killala in 1798, states, "that they (the O'dowds) have a burying-place in the abbey of Moyne, ..."

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