noun
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A small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver.
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A small amount; a bit, a jot.
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In jazz music, a note that slides to an indefinite pitch chromatically upwards.
Examples of doit in a Sentence
When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Although relegated to a note (vii.), and propounded "Avec la defiance que doit inspirer tout ce qui n'est point un resultat de l'observation ou du calcul," it is plain, from the complacency with which he recurred to it 3 at a later date, that he regarded the speculation with considerable interest.
Here his evangelical preaching, and especially a sermon on the duties of communicants ("Qui doit cornmunier"?), led to his deposition by the Catholic Minister of education and religion.
The right of wife-beating was formally recognized by more than one code of laws, and it was already a forward step when, in the 13th century, the Coutumes du Beauvoisis provided "que le mari ne doit battre sa femme que raisonnablement" (Gautier, p. 349).