douloureu-x, -se, adj., painful, tender, smarting, sore; grievous, afflicting, sorrowful; sad. Cri —; mournful cry.
doupion, n.m., double cocoon; coarse, raw silk.
doute, n.m., doubt; scruple, fear, dubiousness; apprehension, misgiving, distrust. Mettre en —; to call in question. Faire naître des —s; to give rise to misgivings. Jeter des —s dans l’esprit; to fill the mind with distrust. Sans —; without doubt, no doubt, doubtless, unquestionably, to be sure. Sans — que; no doubt that. Cela ne fait aucun —; there is no doubt about it.
douter, v.a., to doubt, to question, to hesitate, to suspect, to scruple. Il doute de tout; he doubts everything. Je doute que cela soit; I doubt whether it be so. Je doute qu’il veuille le faire; I doubt whether he will do it. Je ne doute pas qu’il ne le fasse; I do not doubt but that he will do it. Ne — de rien; to be over confident, credulous.
se douter, v.r., to suspect, to surmise, to conjecture; to distrust, to mistrust, to fear. Je m’en doutais bien; I thought as much. Je me doutais qu’il viendrait; I suspected he would come. Pouvais-je me — qu’il dût venir sitôt? could I imagine that he was to come so soon? Ne se — de rien; to suspect nothing; to be unconscious of what is going on.
douteur (doo-), n.m., doubter.
douteusement (doo-teûz-mān), adv., doubtfully.
douteu-x, -se, adj., doubtful, dubious, ambiguous, questionable. D’une manière —se; doubtfully. Il est — qu’il le fasse; it is doubtful whether he will do it.
douvain, n.m., stave-wood.
douve, n.f., stave; trench, moat; salt-marsh; (bot.) spearwort.