1. The act of dubbing, as a knight, etc.
2. The act of rubbing, smoothing, or dressing; a dressing off smooth with an adz.
3. A dressing of flour and water used by weavers; a mixture of oil and tallow for dressing leather; daubing.
4. The body substance of an angler's fly. Davy.
DUBIETY
Du*bi"e*ty, n.; pl. Dubieties. Etym: [L. dubietas, fr. dubius. See
Dubious.]
Defn: Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt. [R.] Lamb. "The dubiety of his fate." Sir W. Scott.
DUBIOSITY
Du`bi*os"i*ty, n.; pl. Dubiosities. Etym: [L. dubiosus.]
Defn: The state of being doubtful; a doubtful statement or thing.
[R.]
Men often swallow falsities for truths, dubiosities for certainties,
possibilities for feasibilities. Sir T. Browne.
DUBIOUS Du"bi*ous, a. Etym: [L. dubius, dubiosus, fr. duo two. See Two, and cf. Doubt.]
1. Doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined. "Dubious policy." Sir T. Scott. A dubious, agitated state of mind. Thackeray.