n. [ Cf. Ir. dób mire, stream, W. dwvr water. ] A pool or puddle. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. to add sound to an existing recording, audio or video; -- often used with in. The sound may be of any type or of any duration. [ PJC ]

2. to mix together two or more sound or video recordings to produce a composite recording. [ PJC ]

n. A blow. [ R. ] Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dubbed p. pr. & vb. n. Dubbing. ] [ AS. dubban to strike, beat (“dubbade his sunu . . . to rīdere.” AS. Chron. an. 1086); akin to Icel. dubba; cf. OF. adouber (prob. fr. Icel.) a chevalier, Icel. dubba til riddara. ] 1. To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with the sword. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His diadem was dropped down
Dubbed with stones. Morte d'Arthure. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab; as: (a) To dress with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber smooth. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap. Halliwell. (c) To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of cyrrying it. Tomlinson. (d) To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles. [ 1913 Webster ]

To dub a fly, to dress a fishing fly. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. --
To dub out (Plastering), to fill out, as an uneven surface, to a plane, or to carry out a series of small projections. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make a noise by brisk drumbeats. “Now the drum dubs.” Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ar. ] (Zool.) The Syrian bear. See under Bear. [ Written also dhubb, and dub. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, dubs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hind. dabbah. ] A globular vessel or bottle of leather, used in India to hold ghee, oil, etc. [ Also written dupper. ] M'Culloch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of dubbing, as a knight, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of rubbing, smoothing, or dressing; a dressing off smooth with an adz. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A dressing of flour and water used by weavers; a mixture of oil and tallow for dressing leather; daubing. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The body substance of an angler's fly. Davy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Dubieties [ L. dubietas, fr. dubius. See Dubious. ] Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt. [ R. ] Lamb. “The dubiety of his fate.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Dubiosities [ L. dubiosus. ] The state of being doubtful; a doubtful statement or thing. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Men often swallow falsities for truths, dubiosities for certainties, possibilities for feasibilities. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

A dubious, agitated state of mind. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Occasioning doubt; not clear, or obvious; equivocal; questionable; doubtful; as, a dubious answer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wiping the dingy shirt with a still more dubious pocket handkerchief. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of uncertain event or issue; as, in dubious battle.

Syn. -- Doubtful; doubting; unsettled; undetermined; equivocal; uncertain. Cf. Doubtful. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a dubious manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being dubious. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dubitabilis. Cf. Doubtable. ] Liable to be doubted; uncertain. [ R. ] Dr. H. More. -- Du"bi*ta*bly, adv. [R.] [1913 Webster]

n. [ LL. dubitantia. ] Doubt; uncertainty. [ R. ] Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. dubitatus, p. p. of dubitare. See Doubt. ] To doubt. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

If he . . . were to loiter dubitating, and not come. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dubitatio. ] Act of doubting; doubt. [ R. ] Sir T. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dubitativus: cf. F. dubitatif. ] Tending to doubt; doubtful. [ R. ] -- Du"bi*ta*tive*ly, adv. [R.] . Eliot. [1913 Webster]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Ireland. Population (2000) = nk. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ NL. ] (Med.) Same as Duboisine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) An alkaloid obtained from the leaves of an Australian tree (Duboisia myoporoides), and regarded as identical with hyoscyamine. It produces dilation of the pupil of the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. indubius. See In- not, and Dubious. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not dubious or doubtful; certain. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not doubting; unsuspecting. “Indubious confidence.” Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt; indubitableness.
Syn. -- indisputability, unquestionability, unquestionableness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. indubitabilis: cf. F. indubitable. See In- not, and Dubitable. ] Not dubitable or doubtful; too evident to admit of doubt; unquestionable; evident; apparently certain; as, an indubitable conclusion. -- n. That which is indubitable.

Syn. -- Unquestionable; evident; incontrovertible; incontestable; undeniable; irrefragable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being indubitable. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Undoubtedly; unquestionably; in a manner to remove all doubt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Oracles indubitably clear and infallibly certain. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. indubitatus; pref. in- not + dubitatus, p. p. of dubitare to doubt. ] Not questioned or doubtful; evident; certain. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. indubitatus, p. p. of indubitare; pref. in- in + dubitare to doubt. ] To bring into doubt; to cause to be doubted. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To conceal, or indubitate, his exigency. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. radouber to refit or repair. ] 1. To refit; to repair, or make reparation for; hence, to repay or requite. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It shall be good that you redub that negligence. Wyatt. [ 1913 Webster ]

God shall give power to redub it with some like requital to the French. Grafton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To dub again. [ PJC ]

n. The sound of a drum when continuously beaten; hence, a clamorous, repeated sound; a clatter. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rubadub of the abolition presses. D. Webster. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Indubitable; as, an undubitable principle. [ Obs. ] Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]