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- Dub - v. t. - To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight.
- Dub - v. t. - To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call.
- Dub - v. t. - To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
- Dub - v. t. - To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab;
- Dub - v. t. - To dress with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber smooth.
- Dub - v. t. - To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
- Dub - v. t. - To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of cyrrying it.
- Dub - v. t. - To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
- Dub - v. i. - To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
- Dub - n. - A blow.
- Dub - n. - A pool or puddle.
- Dubb - n. - The Syrian bear. See under Bear.
- Dubbed - imp. & p. p. - of Dub
- Dubber - n. - One who, or that which, dubs.
- Dubber - n. - A globular vessel or bottle of leather, used in India to hold ghee, oil, etc.
- Dubbing - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Dub
- Dubbing - n. - The act of dubbing, as a knight, etc.
- Dubbing - n. - The act of rubbing, smoothing, or dressing; a dressing off smooth with an adz.
- Dubbing - n. - A dressing of flour and water used by weavers; a mixture of oil and tallow for dressing leather; daubing.
- Dubbing - n. - The body substance of an angler's fly.
- Dubieties - pl. - of Dubiety
- Dubiety - n. - Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt.
- Dubiosities - pl. - of Dubiosity
- Dubiosity - n. - The state of being doubtful; a doubtful statement or thing.
- Dubious - a. - Doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined.
- Knight - v. t. - To dub or create (one) a knight; -- done in England by the sovereign only, who taps the kneeling candidate with a sword, saying: Rise, Sir ---.
- Dub - v. t. - To dress with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber smooth.