Douglas Definitions

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery; he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln (1813-1861) [syn: Douglas, Stephen A. Douglas, Stephen Arnold Douglas, Little Giant]

Merriam Webster's

I. biographical name John Sholto 1844-1900 8th Marquess & Earl of Queensberry Scottish boxing patron II. biographical name Stephen Arnold 1813-1861 American politician III. biographical name William Orville 1898-1980 American jurist IV. geographical name town United Kingdom capital of Isle of Man population 22,214

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Roby Douglas, with one eye and a stinking breath; the breech. Sea wit.