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▪ I. Douglas1|ˈdʌgləs|
[The name of David Douglas (1798–1834), Scottish botanist.]
In full Douglas fir, Douglas pine, or Douglas spruce: a large coniferous tree, Pseudotsuga menziesii (also known as P. taxifolia) or P. glauca, native to western North America.
[1837A. B. Lambert Descr. Genus Pinus III, (heading) Pinus Douglasii. Trident-bracted fir. Ibid., I gladly adopt the name of P. Douglasii, in honour of the indefatigable botanist to whom I am indebted for the specimens from which I have been enabled to complete my description and plate of the species.] 1856A. W. Whipple in Rep. Explor. Route to Pacific (U.S. War Dept.) III. i. 79 Douglass spruce..would afford a better material for railroad ties. 1868F. Whymper Alaska 44 Where the Douglas pine, spruce, and hemlock had grown. 1873G. M. Grant Ocean to Ocean x. 259 The hillsides and the country beyond support a growth of splendid spruce, black pine, and Douglas fir. 1884C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 209 Pseudotsuga Douglasii... Red Fir. Yellow Fir. Oregon Pine. Douglass Fir. 1931Discovery Sept. 285/1 Methods of forcing the oil into the wood of refractory species, such as larch and Douglas fir, are being investigated. 1937Evening News 11 Feb. 8/4 All the Office of Works stands are being constructed of Douglas Fir and Western hemlock from British Columbia. 1945R. W. Service Ploughman 156 The shack stood in a clearing, engulfed by Douglas pines three hundred feet high. 1947R. Peattie Sierra Nevada 148 It is called Douglas fir or Douglas spruce indiscriminately. 1970H. L. Edlin Collins Guide to Tree Planting & Cultivation xix. 286 The green or Oregon Douglas fir, P. menziesii, comes from British Columbia and the neighbouring regions of Alaska, Canada, and the United States. Ibid., Where there is less room, the best kind to plant is the blue or Colorado Douglas fir, P. glauca.
▪ II. Douglas2 Anat.|ˈdʌgləs|
The name of James Douglas (1675–1742), Scottish physician, used in the possessive or with of-adjunct to designate various anatomical structures described by or named after him; Douglas's pouch (or pouch of Douglas), a pouch of the peritoneum between the uterus and the rectum; the recto-uterine pouch.
1859Todd Cycl. Anat. V. 706/1 The anterior wall of the recto-uterine pouch, or space of Douglas. 1864W. Sharpey et al. Quain's Anat. (ed. 7) I. 251 The deficiency thus resulting in the posterior wall of the sheath of the rectus muscle is marked superiorly by a well-defined lunated edge, whose concavity looks downwards towards the pubes—the semilunar fold of Douglas. 1878W. Turner Introd. Human Anat. xii. 841 The interval between the uterus and rectum..is the utero-rectal pouch, or pouch of Douglas. 1880Lancet 25 Sept. 494/2 Tappings through the peritoneum..for accumulation of fluid in Douglas's pouch. 1907Practitioner Apr. 472 A boggy, ill-defined, and very tender swelling present in Douglas's pouch. 1954L. T. Morton Garrison & Morton's Med. Bibliog. (ed. 2) 107 Douglas described the peritoneum in detail; his name is perpetuated in the ‘pouch’, ‘line’, and ‘fold of Douglas’. 1965L. B. Arey Developmental Anat. (ed. 7) xviii. 329 The pelvic cœlom is thereby subdivided into two blind bays, the recto-uterine pouch (of Douglas) and the vesico-uterine pouch. 1970Cumul. Index Med. 1969 X. 5621/1 Puncture of Douglas' pouch in cytodiagnosis of ovarian neoplasms.
▪ III. Douglas3 Economics.|ˈdʌgləs|
The name of Major Clifford Hugh Douglas (1879–1952), British engineer, used attrib. to designate his plan for ‘social credit’. Hence ˈDouglasite a. and n.
1933H. G. Wells Bulpington of Blup ix. 346 A lady who wanted to help forward the Douglas Scheme. Ibid. 369 She took up..the Douglas Plan. 1938D. Garnett in T. E. Lawrence Lett. 866 Ede had asked Lawrence's opinion of the Douglas Credit Scheme. 1939H. G. Wells Holy Terror i. iii. 73 It included everything from..single-taxers to Douglasites. Ibid. 75 An earnest..little man..who had swallowed the Douglas gospel whole. 1962Listener 6 Sept. 357/3 Orage..became the most persuasive exponent of Douglasite economics the Social Creditors ever had.
▪ IV. Douglas4 Austral. slang.|ˈdʌgləs|
[Formerly a proprietary name in the U.S. for axes, hatchets, etc., produced by the Douglas Axe Manufacturing Co., East Douglas, Mass. (Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office), 1926, 13 July 326/2).]
An axe. Used without art., as if personified, esp. in phr. to swing Douglas.
[1876Internat. Exhibition: Official Catal. (U.S. Centennial Commission) 137/1 Douglas Axe Manufacturing Co., Boston, Mass. — Axes, hatchets, adzes, picks, etc. 1896Australasian Ironmonger 2 Mar. 30 D. Sharp's superior axes manufactured..by the Douglas Axe Mf'g. Co. East Douglas, Mass. U.S.A.] 1905Shearer (Sydney, N.S.W.) 17 June 6/3 The squatter presents him to ‘Douglas’ (the axe!). 1914Bulletin (Sydney) 16 Apr. 22/3 A pair of German girls (sisters) earn the elusive pin-money..by swinging ‘douglas’ for the Mildura firewood supply. 1929C. H. Winter Story of 'Bidgee Queen 106 An' you graft at ‘Swinging Douglas’ an' you chop the limbs away. 1943Bulletin (Sydney) 20 Jan. 13/2, I find myself wielding the weapons in the same manner as I wielded Douglas and banjo. 1966‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 160 Sometimes on a Sunday morning exhibitions of axemanship (theoretical) were given; right and wrong way to swing Douglas. |