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Way \Way\, adv. [Aphetic form of away.]
Away. [Obs. or Archaic] --Chaucer.
{To do way}, to take away; to remove. [Obs.] ``Do way your
hands.'' --Chaucer.
{To make way with}, to make away with. See under {Away}.
[Archaic]
6. To make ready for an object, purpose, or use, as food by
cooking; to cook completely or sufficiently; as, the meat
is done on one side only.
7. To put or bring into a form, state, or condition,
especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death;
to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to
remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take
off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form
of; to translate or transform into, as a text.
Done to death by slanderous tongues. -- Shak.
The ground of the difficulty is done away. -- Paley.
Suspicions regarding his loyalty were entirely done
away. --Thackeray.
To do on our own harness, that we may not; but we
must do on the armor of God. -- Latimer.
Then Jason rose and did on him a fair Blue woolen
tunic. -- W. Morris
(Jason).
Though the former legal pollution be now done off,
yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as
much to be shunned. --Milton.
It [``Pilgrim's Progress''] has been done into
verse: it has been done into modern English. --
Macaulay.
8. To cheat; to gull; to overreach. [Colloq.]
He was not be done, at his time of life, by
frivolous offers of a compromise that might have
secured him seventy-five per cent. -- De Quincey.
9. To see or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of
interest. [Colloq.]
10. (Stock Exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a
bill or note.
Note:
(a) Do and did are much employed as auxiliaries, the verb
to which they are joined being an infinitive. As an
auxiliary the verb do has no participle. ``I do set
my bow in the cloud.'' --Gen. ix. 13. [Now archaic or
rare except for emphatic assertion.]
Rarely . . . did the wrongs of individuals to
the knowledge of the public. -- Macaulay.
(b) They are often used in emphatic construction. ``You
don't say so, Mr. Jobson. -- but I do say so.'' --Sir
W. Scott. ``I did love him, but scorn him now.''
--Latham.
(c) In negative and interrogative constructions, do and
did are in common use. I do not wish to see them;
what do you think? Did C[ae]sar cross the Tiber? He
did not. ``Do you love me?'' --Shak.
(d) Do, as an auxiliary, is supposed to have been first
used before imperatives. It expresses entreaty or
earnest request; as, do help me. In the imperative
mood, but not in the indicative, it may be used with
the verb to be; as, do be quiet. Do, did, and done
often stand as a general substitute or representative
verb, and thus save the repetition of the principal
verb. ``To live and die is all we have to do.''
--Denham. In the case of do and did as auxiliaries,
the sense may be completed by the infinitive (without
to) of the verb represented. ``When beauty lived and
died as flowers do now.'' --Shak. ``I . . . chose my
wife as she did her wedding gown.'' --Goldsmith.
My brightest hopes giving dark fears a being.
As the light does the shadow. -- Longfellow.
In unemphatic affirmative sentences do is, for the
most part, archaic or poetical; as, ``This just
reproach their virtue does excite.'' --Dryden.
{To do one's best}, {To do one's diligence} (and the like),
to exert one's self; to put forth one's best or most or
most diligent efforts. ``We will . . . do our best to gain
their assent.'' --Jowett (Thucyd.).
{To do one's business}, to ruin one. [Colloq.] --Wycherley.
{To do one shame}, to cause one shame. [Obs.]
{To do over}.
(a) To make over; to perform a second time.
(b) To cover; to spread; to smear. ``Boats . . . sewed
together and done over with a kind of slimy stuff
like rosin.'' --De Foe.
{To do to death}, to put to death. (See 7.) [Obs.]
{To do up}.
(a) To put up; to raise. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
(b) To pack together and envelop; to pack up.
(c) To accomplish thoroughly. [Colloq.]
(d) To starch and iron. ``A rich gown of velvet, and a
ruff done up with the famous yellow starch.''
--Hawthorne.
{To do way}, to put away; to lay aside. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
{To do with}, to dispose of; to make use of; to employ; --
usually preceded by what. ``Men are many times brought to
that extremity, that were it not for God they would not
know what to do with themselves.'' --Tillotson.
{To have to do with}, to have concern, business or
intercourse with; to deal with. When preceded by what, the
notion is usually implied that the affair does not concern
the person denoted by the subject of have. ``Philology has
to do with language in its fullest sense.'' --Earle.
``What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? --2 Sam.
xvi. 10.