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Webster 1913 Edition
Dutch
Dutch
,Adj.
[D.
duitsch
German; or G. deutsch
, orig., popular, national, OD. dietsc
, MHG. diutsch
, tiutsch
, OHG. diutisk
, fr. diot
, diota
, a people, a nation; akin to AS. peód
, OS. thiod
, thioda
, Goth. piuda
; cf. Lith. tauta
land, OIr. tuath
people, Oscan touto
. The English have applied the name especially to the Germanic people living nearest them, the Hollanders. Cf. Derrick
, Teutonic
.] Pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabitants.
Dutch auction
. See under
– Auction
. Dutch cheese
, a small, pound, hard cheese, made from skim milk.
– Dutch clinker
, a kind of brick made in Holland. It is yellowish, very hard, and long and narrow in shape.
– Dutch clover
(Bot.)
, common white clover (
– Trifolium repens
), the seed of which was largely imported into England from Holland. Dutch concert
, a so-called concert in which all the singers sing at the same time different songs.
[Slang]
– Dutch courage
, the courage of partial intoxication.
[Slang]
Marryat.
– Dutch door
, a door divided into two parts, horizontally, so arranged that the lower part can be shut and fastened, while the upper part remains open.
– Dutch foil
, Dutch leaf
, or Dutch gold
a kind of brass rich in copper, rolled or beaten into thin sheets, used in Holland to ornament toys and paper; – called also
– Dutch mineral
, Dutch metal
, brass foil
, and bronze leaf
. Dutch liquid
(Chem.)
, a thin, colorless, volatile liquid,
– C2H4Cl2
, of a sweetish taste and a pleasant ethereal odor, produced by the union of chlorine and ethylene or olefiant gas; – called also Dutch oil
. It is so called because discovered (in 1795) by an association of four Hollandish chemists. See Ethylene
, and Olefiant
. Dutch oven
, a tin screen for baking before an open fire or kitchen range; also, in the United States, a shallow iron kettle for baking, with a cover to hold burning coals.
– Dutch pink
, chalk, or whiting dyed yellow, and used in distemper, and for paper staining. etc.
Weale.
– Dutch rush
(Bot.)
, a species of horsetail rush or
– Equisetum
(Equisetum hyemale
) having a rough, siliceous surface, and used for scouring and polishing; – called also scouring rush
, and shave grass
. See Equisetum
. Dutch tile
, a glazed and painted ornamental tile, formerly much exported, and used in the jambs of chimneys and the like.
☞ Dutch was formerly used for German.
Germany is slandered to have sent none to this war [the Crusades] at this first voyage; and that other pilgrims, passing through that country, were mocked by the
Dutch
, and called fools for their pains. Fuller.
Dutch
,Noun.
1.
pl.
The people of Holland; Dutchmen.
2.
The language spoken in Holland.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dutch
DUTCH
,Noun.
DUTCH
,Adj.