(Δουλεία), among the Athenians, a kind of punishment by which the criminal was reduced into the condition of a slave. It was never inflicted upon any but the ἀρχαῖοι, sojourners and freed servants.

To DOUSE, in sea language, is to lower suddenly, or slacken; and it is applied to a sail in a squall of wind, an extended hawser, &c.