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Don

noun

1.

A Spanish gentleman or nobleman.

2.

Teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford). Synonym: preceptor.

3.

The head of an organized crime family. Synonym: father.

4.

Celtic goddess; mother of Gwydion and Arianrhod; corresponds to Irish Danu.

5.

A European river in southwestern Russia; flows into the Sea of Azov. Synonym: Don River.

6.

A Spanish courtesy title or form of address for men that is prefixed to the forename.

verb

(past & past part. donned; pres. part. donning)

1.

Put clothing on one's body. Synonyms: assume, get into, put on, wear. "He put on his best suit for the wedding" , "The princess donned a long blue dress" , "The queen assumed the stately robes" , "He got into his jeans"

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... alone with the good fairy. She calls you beauty, but I don't like her looks. Well, you bid me go, and I'll have my ball anyhow. Shall I find you asleep when ...

— Becket and other plays • Alfred Lord Tennyson

... to lay aside pick and spade and take sword Helmbiter again, and don mail and helm; and I made Harek fence with me, lest I should have lost my sword craft through use of the weapons whereby the churl conquers mother earth. But once the good sword was in my hand I forgot all but ...

— King Alfred's Viking - A Story of the First English Fleet • Charles W. Whistler

... shadow that means. These weeks have made us comrades, and I am jealous because you are the sum of two girls, and I know only one of them. I am jealous of the other girl at home in Europe. I am jealous that I don't know why you, who are seemingly subject only to your own fancy, should crave the freedom of the hobo by ...

— The Lighted Match • Charles Neville Buck

... read? Or do you always 'go on' and 'keep going on'?" "We always go right on," replied several. "We sometimes stop," said a few, among whom was Eddie. "Very well," said I, "let us stop here a moment to talk. What have you to say, Eddie?" "O, we don't talk; the teacher does the talking," said he, with a most nonchalant air. What likelihood was there that that class, after their four years of school training, would show a fair degree of independence in their study ...

— How To Study and Teaching How To Study • F. M. McMurry

... is complayned of & accused as guilty of witchcraft for that on the 25t of Aprill 1692 & in the 4th year of their Maties reigne & at sundry other times she hath by the instigation & help of the diuill in a preternaturall way afflicted & don harme to the bodyes & estates of sundry of their Maties subjects or to some of them contrary to the law of God, the peace of our soueraigne lord & lady the King & Queen their crowne ...

— The Witchcraft Delusion In Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) • John M. Taylor

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