Dutch

Dutch auction — See under Auction.

Dutch cheese — a small, pound, hard cheese, made from skim milk.

Dutch clinker — a kind of brick made in Holland. It is yellowish, very hard, and long and narrow in shape.

Dutch clover — common white clover (Trifolium repens), the seed of which was largely imported into England from Holland.

Dutch concert — a so-called concert in which all the singers sing at the same time different songs.

Dutch courage — the courage of partial intoxication.

Dutch door — a door divided into two parts, horizontally, so arranged that the lower part can be shut and fastened, while the upper part remains open.

Dutch foil — a kind of brass rich in copper, rolled or beaten into thin sheets, used in Holland to ornament toys and paper; -- called also Dutch mineral, Dutch metal, brass foil, and bronze leaf.

Dutch liquid — a thin, colorless, volatile liquid, C2H4Cl2, of a sweetish taste and a pleasant ethereal odor, produced by the union of chlorine and ethylene or olefiant gas; -- called also Dutch oil. It is so called because discovered (in 1795) by an association of four Hollandish chemists. See Ethylene, and Olefiant.

Dutch oven — a tin screen for baking before an open fire or kitchen range; also, in the United States, a shallow iron kettle for baking, with a cover to hold burning coals.

Dutch pink — chalk, or whiting dyed yellow, and used in distemper, and for paper staining. etc.

Dutch rush — a species of horsetail rush or Equisetum (Equisetum hyemale) having a rough, siliceous surface, and used for scouring and polishing; -- called also scouring rush, and shave grass. See Equisetum.

Dutch tile — a glazed and painted ornamental tile, formerly much exported, and used in the jambs of chimneys and the like.