to do into, to put into the form of; to translate or transform into, as a text.
Done to death by slanderous tongues.
Shak.
The ground of the difficulty is done away.
Paley.
Suspicions regarding his loyalty were entirely done away.
Thackeray.
To do on our own harness, that we may not; but we must do on the armor of God.
Latimer.
Then Jason rose and did on him a fair
Blue woolen tunic.
W. Morris
Though the former legal pollution be now done off, yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as much
to be shunned.
Milton.
It ["Pilgrim's Progress"] has been done into verse: it has been done into modern English.
Macaulay. 8. To cheat; to gull; to overreach. [Colloq.]
He was not be done, at his time of life, by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him
seventy- five per cent.
De Quincey. 9. To see or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of interest. [Colloq.]
10. (Stock Exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
(a) Do and did are much employed as auxiliaries, the verb to which they are joined being an infinitive.
As an auxiliary the verb do has no participle. "I do set my bow in the cloud." Gen. ix. 13. [Now archaic
or rare except for emphatic assertion.]
Rarely . . . did the wrongs of individuals to the knowledge of the public.
Macaulay. (b) They are often used in emphatic construction. "You don't say so, Mr. Jobson. — but I do say so."
Sir W. Scott. "I did love him, but scorn him now." Latham. (c) In negative and interrogative constructions,
do and did are in common use. I do not wish to see them; what do you think? Did Cæsar cross the
Tiber? He did not. "Do you love me?" Shak. (d) Do, as an auxiliary, is supposed to have been first
used before imperatives. It expresses entreaty or earnest request; as, do help me. In the imperative
mood, but not in the indicative, it may be used with the verb to be; as, do be quiet. Do, did, and done
often stand as a general substitute or representative verb, and thus save the repetition of the principal
verb. "To live and die is all we have to do." Denham. In the case of do and did as auxiliaries, the
sense may be completed by the infinitive (without to) of the verb represented. "When beauty lived and
died as flowers do now." Shak. "I . . . chose my wife as she did her wedding gown." Goldsmith.
My brightest hopes giving dark fears a being.
As the light does the shadow.
Longfellow. In unemphatic affirmative sentences do is, for the most part, archaic or poetical; as, "This just reproach
their virtue does excite." Dryden.
To do one's best, To do one's diligence to exert one's self; to put forth one's best or most or most
diligent efforts. "We will . . . do our best to gain their assent." Jowett — To do one's business, to
ruin one. [Colloq.] Wycherley. — To do one shame, to cause one shame. [Obs.] — To do over.
(a) To make over; to perform a second time. (b) To cover; to spread; to smear. "Boats . . . sewed together
and done over with a kind of slimy stuff like rosin." De Foe. — To do to death, to put to death. (See
7.) [Obs.] — To do up. (a) To put up; to raise. [Obs.] Chaucer. (b) To pack together and envelop; to
pack up. (c) To accomplish thoroughly. [Colloq.] (d) To starch and iron. "A rich gown of velvet, and
a ruff done up with the famous yellow starch." Hawthorne. — To do way, to put away; to lay aside.
