dowland
- n English lutenist and composer of songs for the lute (1563-1626)
douglass
- n United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)
- n 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)
doula
- n an assistant (often the father of the soon-to-be-born child) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classes