doit

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(p. 50 Toute terre calcaire à changer dans une autre doit, avant toute chose, être rendue réfractaire ce qui ne peut se faire qu'en la saturant avec un acide.

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  1. A small copper coin (the eighth part of a stiver) formerly current in the Netherlands and the Dutch colonies, and worth about a farthing.
  2. Any trifling coin or sum of money. Morel. You will give me my gold again? 1st Guard. Not a doit, as I am virtuous and sinful. Shirley, Bird in a Cage. And force the beggarly last doit, by means That his own humour dictates, from the clutch Of Poverty. Cowper, Task, v. 316.
  3. Hence A trifle: as, I care not a doit.
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  • Certes ce n'est pas sous la domination de Cesar qu'on pourroit aller chercher l'Epouse legitime de J. C. Mais doit-on esperer la trouver dans la creation combinee de la volonte tyrannique de Henri VIII. —  Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2
  • YQL API and defines slideshareTranscripts. doit () as the callback parameter. —  Wait till I come!
  • The job of doit () is to generate the right markup and inject it into the embed codes. —  Wait till I come!
  • Pour être conservé, un son édité depuis le blofeld SOUND DESIGNER doit être sauvegardé directement sur le synthétiseur via la fonction Store du menu Utility. —  MATRIXSYNTH
  • Maintenant, je suis convaincue que l'accès à Internet, et l'accès à l'information au sujet des droits des femmes et des enfants, et au sujet des ressources qui existent et qui s'adressent à elles, je suis certaine que c'est une bonne chose et que cet Internet-là, ça doit se développer et prendre plus de place à l'avenir. —  FeminisTIC
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  1. = Low German and G. deut = Danish döit, from Dutch duit (pron. nearly doit), formerly duyt, also called duycken, a small coin (see def.); origin unknown. Cf. doitkin = dotkin = dodkin.
 

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