'Dutch' definitions:

Definition of 'Dutch'

From: WordNet
adjective
Of or relating to the Netherlands or its people or culture; "Dutch painting"; "Dutch painters"
noun
The people of the Netherlands; "the Dutch are famous for their tulips" [syn: Dutch, Dutch people]
noun
The West Germanic language of the Netherlands

Definition of 'Dutch'

From: GCIDE
  • Dutch \Dutch\, a. [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. pe['o]d, 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Dutch was formerly used for German. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Dutch'

From: GCIDE
  • Dutch \Dutch\, n.
  • 1. pl. The people of Holland; Dutchmen. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The language spoken in Holland. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Dutch'

From: GCIDE
  • German \Ger"man\, n.; pl. Germans[L. Germanus, prob. of Celtis origin.]
  • 1. A native or one of the people of Germany. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The German language. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (a) A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures. (b) A social party at which the german is danced. [1913 Webster]
  • High German, the Teutonic dialect of Upper or Southern Germany, -- comprising Old High German, used from the 8th to the 11th century; Middle H. G., from the 12th to the 15th century; and Modern or New H. G., the language of Luther's Bible version and of modern German literature. The dialects of Central Germany, the basis of the modern literary language, are often called Middle German, and the Southern German dialects Upper German; but High German is also used to cover both groups.
  • Low German, the language of Northern Germany and the Netherlands, -- including Friesic; Anglo-Saxon or Saxon; Old Saxon; Dutch or Low Dutch, with its dialect, Flemish; and Plattdeutsch (called also {Low German}), spoken in many dialects. [1913 Webster]

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