n. [ It., literally fine lady; bella beautiful + donna lady. ] (Bot.)
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n. [ It. donna, L. domina. See Don, Dame. ] A lady; madam; mistress; -- the title given a lady in Italy. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Corrupted from do-naught. ] See Do-naught. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ It. madonna my lady. See Dame, Donna, and cf. Madame, Monkey. ]
The Italian painters are noted for drawing the Madonnas by their own wives or mistresses. Rymer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Bot.) A lily (Lilium candidum) of the Eastern Mediterranean and Balkans with broad funnel-shaped white flowers.
n. [ F. See Ordinance. ] (Fine Arts) The disposition of the parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole. [ 1913 Webster ]
Their dramatic ordonnance of the parts. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ F., p. pr. of ordonner. See Ordinant. ] Of or pertaining to ordonnance. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
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