Definition of Dumous

1. dumose [adj] - See also: dumose

Medical Definition of Dumous

1. 1. Abounding with bushes and briers. 2. Having a compact, bushy form. Origin: L. Dumosus, fr. Dumus a thornbush, a bramble. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dumous

dummy run
dummy runs
dummy scissors
dummy spit
dummy spits
dummy up
dummy whist
dummying
dummying out
dummying up
dumontite
dumortierite
dumortierites
dumose
dumosity
dumous (current term)
dump core
dump job
dump on
dump out
dump routine
dump tackle
dump tackles
dump truck
dump trucks
dumpage
dumpages
dumpbin

Literary usage of Dumous

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

1. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1892)
"4to. German and Latin versions also appeared. Lenglet-Dufresnoy published an edition considerably augmented by dumous- tier, б vols. 12mo, Paris, 1751. 2. ..."

2. Pleading and Practice of the High Court of Chancery by Edmund Robert Daniell, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins, William Frierson Cooper (1894)
"... to have other in England for a debt which accrued in been performed there,is good; and in dumous- Portugal while both resided there, though the say r. ..."

3. Memoirs of General La Fayette, Embracing Details of His Public and Private (1825)
"... the instructions given to dumous- tier by the unknown person on the quay, Valor/ went on the 20th to Bondy to order horses and wait there for the King. ..."

4. Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books: Being a Guide by J. Lewine (1898)
"... with portrait by de Launay after dumous- tier, 3». Maltou (J.). Picturesque and descriptive Views of the City of Dublin, taken in 1791. ..."

5. The Journal of Sacred Literature by John Kitto, Henry Burgess, Benjamin Harris Cowper (1856)
"True, he was ministered unto of the substance of many, and one of bis followers bare the bag, but that bag was the " dumous" bag, from which three hundred ..."

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