Douglas 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) [syn: {Stephen A. Douglas}, {Stephen Arnold Douglas}, {The Little Giant}]
DOUGLAS An early system on the {IBM 701}. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. (1994-12-07)