Definition of Dowding

1. Noun. British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Dowding

Douglas mechanism
Douglas squirrel
Dougo
Dover
Dover's powder
Dover's powders
Dovre
Dovyalis
Dovyalis caffra
Dovyalis hebecarpa
Dow
Dow-Jones Industrial Average
Dow Jones
Dowding (current term)
Dowe
Dowland
Down
Down's
Down Easter
Down syndrome
Downe
Downey cell
Downing
Downing Street
Downs' analysis
Dowson

Literary usage of Dowding

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Select Cases on the Law of Evidence by John Henry Wigmore (1913)
"Dowding. (Nisi Prius, 1815. 1 Stark. 81). Assumpsit on bills of exchange, and for goods sold and delivered. In order to prove that the defendants were ..."

2. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence, as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1848)
"Hardwick, 11 East, 589 ; Fox r. Clifton, 6 Bing. 792 ; Nicholls v. Dowding, 1 Stark. R. 81 ; Hoden- pyl v. Vingerhoed, Chitty on Bills, 627, nq; ..."

3. Queen's Bench Reports by John Leycester Adolphus, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Thomas Flower Ellis (1847)
"... to commence at a future time not ascertained. He referred to Clayton v. Burten- J^nr(a), Doe dem. Jackson v. Ashburner (b\ Morgan dem. Dowding v. ..."

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