> donee /dəʊˈniː/.

Etymology: f. stem of don-or + -ee.

One to whom anything is given; esp. in Law, (a).one to whom anything is given gratuitously; (b).one to whom land is conveyed in fee tail; (c).one to whom a ‘power’ is given for execution.

1523 Fitzherb. Surv. 7 b, ― This donee or this purchasoure shall take [etc.].
1598 Kitchin Courts Leet (1675) 218 ― A Donee in tail.
1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. vi. vii. §16 ― Not sixty of the Kings Donees had sons owning their fathers estates.
1767 Blackstone Comm. II. vii. 110 ― If the donee died without such particular heirs, the land should revert to …

> In one picture, the pool was half hidden by a fringe of mace-weeds, and the dead willow was leaning across it at a prone, despondent angle, as if mysteriously arrested in its fall towards the stagnant waters. Beyond, the alders seemed to strain away from the pool, exposing their knotted roots as if in eternal effort.
In the other drawing, the pool formed the main portion of the foreground, with the skeleton tree looming drearily at one side. At the water's farther end, the cat-tails seemed to wave and whisper among themselves in a dying wind; and the steeply barring slope of pine at the m…