DOMINICIDE 85 DONJON at the instigation of St. Dominic for the ex- a certain number of points of all the combi- The Romans were entertained with shows and tirpation of the Albigenses. They were nations possible between the double blank donatives. Dryden. known also as Tertiary Dominicans and and double six.-8. One of the pieces with 2. In canon law, a benefice given and colPenitents of St. Dominic. which the game is played. lated to a person by the founder or patron, Dominicide (do-min'i-sid), n. [L. dominus, Dominus (do'mi-nus), n. pl. Domini (do'- without either presentation, institution, or a lord or master, and cado, to kill.] 1. The mi-ni). (L.) 1. Master; sir; a title anciently induction by the ordinary. act of murdering a master. -2. One who kills given to a clergyman, gentleman, or lord of Donative (don'a-tiv), a. Vested or vesting his master. a manor.–2. In civil law, one who possesses by donation; as, a donative advowson. Dominie (dom'i-ni), n. (From L. domine, anything by right.-3. In feudal law, one Donator (do-nā'ter), n. In law, a donor. vocative case of dominus, a lord or master.) who grants part of his estate in fee, to be Donatory, Donatary (don'at-o-ri, don'at-aA schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [$cotch. ] enjoyed by another. ri), n. In Scots law, a donee of the crown; Dominion (do-min'yon), n. (L. dominium. Domitable (dom'it-a-bl), a. (From L. domo, one to whom escheated property is, on See DOMAIN. ) 1. Sovereign or supreme domitum, to tame.) Capable of being tamed. certain conditions, made over. authority; the power of governing and con- Animals . : . more domitable, domestic, Donaught (don'nat), n. An idle, good-fortrolling and subject to be governed.' Sir M. Hale. nothing person. ' Crafty and proud doAnd I praised and honoured him that liveth for Domite (do'mit), n. An earthy variety of naughts.' Granger. (Rare.] See DONNAT. ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion. trachyte, named from the Puy-de-Dôme in Donax (doʻnaks), n. [L.; Gr. donax, a reed, Dan. iv. 34. Auvergne, in France, of a white or grayish also a kind of shell-fish.] 1. A species of 2. Power to direct, control, use, and dispose white colour, having the aspect and gritty grass of the genus Arundo (A. Donax), oc. of at pleasure; right of possession and use feel of a sandy chalk. casionally cultivated in gardens, and attainwithout being accountable. Don (don). [From L. dominus, a lord. ] 1. A ing a height of 8 or 10 feet. In Spain and He could not have private dominion over that title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen other parts of the south of Europe it grows which was under the private dominion of another. and gentlemen only, but now common to all much taller, and is used for fishing rods, Locke. classes. — 2. Any person of high importance looms, &c. The leaves are beautifully 3. Territory under a government; region; country; district governed, or within the or leading position: applied ironically to striped like ribbon-grass.—2. A genus of any one giving himself airs of importance. lamellibranchiate molluscs, of the family limits of the authority of a prince or state; The great dons of wit.' Dryden.-3. A Tellinida, with shells of two equal valves, as, the British dominions.-4. Government; fellow or officer of a college. which close perfectly, and are of a triangular right of governing; as, Jamaica is under the Don, v.t. pret. & pp. donned; ppr. donning. form, prettily striated from the beak to the dominion of Great Britain.-5. Predominance; ascendency. [Todo on : opposed to doff.] To put on; to margin, the beak occupying the obtuse angle invest with. of the triangle. Several are found on the What am I That I dare to look her way; Then up he rose, and donned his clothes, Shak. British coasts. Done (dun), pp. of do. 1. Performed exe cuted, finished. Done was frequently used, Tennyson. Donable (dõn'a-bl), a. [L. dono, to give.] in Old English and Scotch, as an auxiliary 6. pl. An order of angels. That may be given. (Rare or obsolete.) Whether they be thrones, or dominions, or princi- Donary (do'na-ri), n. (L. donarium, the to express completed action; as, 'has done palities, or powers. avance,' for 'has advanced;''has done comCol. 1. 16. place in a temple where votive offerings 7. Persons governed. were kept, an offering to a deity, from dono, pleit,' for 'has completed.' to give.) A thing given to a sacred use. And quhen that Noe had done espye, Judah was his sanctuary; Israel his dominion. (Rare.) How that the eirth began to drye. Sir D. Lyndsay. Ps. cxiv. SYN. Sovereignty, control, rule, authority, Donatt (don'at), n. [From Donatus the cele- Although we have now lost this use of done, government, territory, country, region. brated grammarian.) A grammar. Spelled the preterite (did) of do is still used as an Dominium do-min’i-um), n. (See DOMAIN.. Donatary (don'a-ta-ri) , n. also Donet (which see). auxiliary. Compare the use of done among A term in the Roman law used to signify Donate don'āt), v.t. To give as a donation; See DONARY. the American negroes, as in the following ownership of a thing, as opposed to a mere quotations :life-interest, to an equitable right, to a to contribute. (United States.) What use dis dried-up cotton stalk, when Life done merely possessory right, or to a right against More than a hundred thousand dollars have been picked my cotton? a person, such as a covenantee has against a donated ... by members of his family. I'se like a word dat somebody done said, and den Dr. E. A. Park. forgotten. Scribner's Magazine. covenanter. - Dominium directum, in feudal Uncle Pete is done dead and buried. E.Bartlett. law, the superiority or interest vested in the Donation (do-nā'shon), n. [L. donatio, an superior. - Dominium utile, the property or offering, from dono, to give; donum, a gift, the vassal's interest, as distinguished from from do, to give.] 1. The act of giving or 2. A word by which agreement to a proposal the superiority. bestowing; a grant. is expressed; as in laying a wager, an offer being made, the person accepting or agreeDomino (do'mi-no), n. (Fr., and L. L. domino, That right we hold by his donation. Milton. ing says, Done; that is, it is agreed, I agree, a covering for the head worn by priests 2. That which is gratuitously given; a grant; I accept.-3. Óverreached; cheated. (Col'from (says Littré) dominicale, the head. a gift. loq.)- Done brown (from the idea of being dress, worn on going to communion, from And some donation freely to estate roasted at the fire till brown), thoroughly, Dominus, Our Lord. The name has been On the blessed lovers. Shak. effectually cheated, bamboozled. -- Done for, given to the game from the black covering 3. In law, the act or contract by which a ruined; killed; murdered. - Done up, ruined on the under-surface of the pieces with thing or the use of it is transferred to a in any manner; excessively fatigued; worn which it is played.) 1. A hood or cape, person or corporation as a free gift; a deed out. [The above terms are used colloquially formerly worn in winter by priests when of gift; an evident of gift. To be valid, or familiarly.) officiating in cold edifices. - 2. A kind of a donation supposes capacity both in the Done (dun), pp. (O. E. done, from Fr. donné, hood worn by canons of cathedral churches donor to give and donee to take, and re- given, issued, from L. donare, to give. in Italy.-3. À mourning veil formerly worn quires consent, delivery, and acceptance. Comp. L. datum, given; hence, date. ] by women. — 4. A masquerade dress, worn The kingdoms of the world to thee were given ! Given; given out; issued; made public: used Perniitted rather, and by thee usurped ; chiefly in the concluding clause of formal Other conation none thou canst produce. Milton. documents, and expressing the date on Donation mortis causa, lit. a gift by which they received official sanction and reason of death; a gift made of personal became valid. property in the last illness of the donor. Donet (dun), v.i. and t. Old inf. and pl. - A man on donation, a phrase for a man form of do. receiving aid from the funds of a trade's Such are the praises lovers done deserve. Old play. union. - SYN. Gift, grant, benefaction, pre- Sped him thence to done his lord's behest. sent. Fairfax's Tasso. Donation-party (do-ná'shon-pår'ti), n. A Donee (do-nē'), n. (From L. dono, to give.) party consisting of the friends and pari- 1. The person to whom a gift or a donation shioners of a country clergyman, assembled is made.-2. The person to whom lands or together, each individual bringing some tenements are given or granted; as, a donee article of food or clothing as a present to in fee-simple or fee-tail. him. (United States.) Donet, t n. [From Ælius Donatus, author of Donatism (don'at-izm), n. The doctrines of an Introduction to the Latin Language.] A the Donatists. grammar; the elements of any art. Chaucer. Donatist (don'at-ist), n. One of a body Spelled also Donat. of African schismatics of the fourth cen- Doni (dö'ni), n. A clumsy kind of boat used tury, so named from their founder Donatus, on the coast of Coromandel and Ceylon; somebishop of Casa Nigra in Numidia, who times decked, and occasionally furnished taught that though Christ was of the with an outrigger. The donis are about same substance with the Father yet that 70 ft. long, 20 ft. broad, and 12 feet deep; he was less than the Father, that the have one mast and a lug-sail, and are navi Catholic Church was not infallible, but had gated in fine weather only. Sir Joshua Reynolds in Domino and Mask.–After erred in his time and become practically Doniferous (don-if'er-us), a. (L. donum, extinct, and that he was to be the restorer Thackeray. doni, a gift, and fero, to bear.) Bearing of it. All joining the sect required to be gifts. by ladies and gentlemen, consisting of an rebaptized, baptism by the impure church Donjon (don'jon), n. [Fr., from domnionem, ample cloak or mantle, generally of silk, being invalid. acc. of L.L. domnio, domnionis, for L. domiwith a cap and wide sleeves.-5. A half- Donatistic, Donatistical (don-at-ist'ik, nio, from same stem as dominate, and thus mask formerly worn on the face by ladies, don-at-ist'ik-al), a. Pertaining to Donatism meaning a house which domineers; or perwhen travelling, at masquerades, &c., as a or the Donatists. haps from Celt. dun, a fortified place.) The partial disguise for the features.-6. A per. Donative (don'a-tiv), n. (Fr. donatif, some principal tower of a castle, which was ususon wearing a domnino. 7. pl. A game thing given, L. donativum, from dono, to ally raised on a natural or artificial mound, played with twenty-eight pieces of ivory or give. See DONATION.) 1. A gift; a largess; a and situated in the innermost court or balbone, dotted, after the manner of dice, with gratuity; a present; a dole. lium, into which the garrison could retreat DONKEY 86 DOOR-NAIL in case of necessity. Its lower part was commonly used as a prison. It was some Donjon-keep, Castle Headingham. times called the Keep, Donjon-keep, or Tower. Donkey (dong kē), n. [Lit. a little dun animal, from dun and diminutive term -key.] 1. An ass. – 2. A stupid or obstinate and wrong-headed fellow. Donkey-engine (dong'ke-en-jin), n. In mach, a small steam-engine used where no great power is required, and often to perform some subsidiary operation. Donkeyengines in steam-vessels, &c., are supplied with steam from the main engine, and are used for pumping water into the boilers, raising large weights, and other similar purposes. Donkey-man (dong'kē - man), n. 1. One who drives or lets out a donkey for hire. 2. One who works a donkey-engine. Donkey-pump(dongʻkė-pump), n. A steampump for feeding boilers. Donna (don'na), n. [It. and Sp., from L. domina, a lady or mistress.) A lady; as, prima donna, the first female singer in an opera, oratorio, &c. Donnat, Donnot (don'nat, don'not), n. [Do and naught.) An idle, good-for-nothing per- The donnard bodie croon'd right lowne, Cromek's Remains. importance, or distance and loftiness of carriage. (University slang. ) Donor (do'nėr), n. (From L. dono, to give.] 1. One who gives or bestows; one who confers anything gratuitously; a benefactor. — 2. In law, one who grants an estate; as, a conditional fee may revert to the donor if the donee has no heirs of his body. Do-nothing (dö-nu'thing), n. An idle person. Donship (don'ship), n. [See Don.) The quality or rank of a gentleman or knight; a title given to persons of quality lower than barons. [Rare.] I draw the lady Unto my kinsman's here only to torture Your donships for a day or two. Beau. & FI. Donsie (don'si), a. (Scotch.] 1. Unlucky. Their donsie tricks, their black mistakes, Their failings and mischances. Burns. Burns. She was a donsie wife and clean. Ramsay. Butler. Doob, Doub (dob), n. An Indian name for dá-byk), n. A book compiled by order of Cynodon Dactylon, used as a fodder grass. William the Conqueror, containing a survey Doodle (do'dl), n. (Probably from same root of all the lands in England. It consists of as daudle, to trifle.) A trifler; a simple fel- two volumes, a large folio and a quarto. low. The folio contains 382 double pages of velDoodle-sack (dö'dl-sak), n. [G. dudelsack.] lum, written in a small but plain character. The Scotch bagpipe. The quarto contains 450 double pages of Dook, Douk, vi, or t. To duck; to bathe; vellum, written in a large fair character. to immerse under water. [Scotch.) It was begun in 1085, finished 1086. A Dook (dụk), n. 1. A piece of wood inserted record, called Exeter or Exon Domesdayinto a wall for attaching finishings to. (The book, preserved among the muniments of term is confined to Scotland; its English the cathedral of Exeter, and containing a synonym is Plug, Nog, or Wooden Brick.)- description of the counties of Wilts, Dorset, 2. The act of bathing; a bath.-3. In mining, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall, is supposed same as Dip-working. (Scotch.) to contain an exact copy, so far as it goes, Dool (döl), n. (See DOLE, grief.] Grief; sor- of the original rolls which formed the bases row; cause of grief; misfortune. (Scotch.) of the great Domesday-book. O' a' the numerous human dools, Doomsman (domz'man), n. A judge; an il Harsts, datt bargains cutty stools, Burnes. umpire. Thou bear'st . Doomster, Dempster (döm'ster, dem'stér), Doolet (döl), n. Dole; woe. “Hapless doole.' n. [From doom and suffix ster.] The name Spenser. formerly given in Scotland to the public Doolfu'(döl'fy), a. Doleful. [Scotch.) executioner. In the case of a capital conThe brethren o' the Commerce-Chaumer viction in the court of justiciary the doom May mourn their loss wi' doolfu clamour. Burns. or sentence was in use to be repeated by Dooly (do'li), n. In the East Indies, a the public executioner in the judge's words, bamboo chair, carried on men's shoulders with the addition, “This I pronounce for by poles, used for conveying persons, espe doom;' hence the name. cially the sick; a palanquin; a litter. Doonga (dön'ga), n. A canoe made out of Doom (dom), n. [A. Sax. dôm, O. Sax. 0. Fris. a single piece of wood, employed for navi. dóm, Goth. doms, Icel. dómr, the same gating the marshes and the branches of the word as the common suffix dom in king mouth of the Ganges. The doongas are used dom, &c., and derived probably from do, by a miserable population, chiefly for oblike Gr. themis, established law, from Gr. taining salt, in marshy unhealthy tracts, root the, Skr. dha, to place, which, indeed, infested with tigers. is the ultimate root of the verb do. (See Do.) Door (dor), n. [A. Sax. dora duru, dure-a The A. Sax. déman, E. deem, is from dom.] word found throughout the Indo-European 1. Judgment; judicial sentence. family of languages. Comp. 0. Sax. dur, From this new world dor, Icel. dyr, Goth. daur, G. thür, L. fores, Retiring, by his own doom alienated. Milton. Gr. thura, Lith. durris, Rus. dverj, w. drus, 2. Passing of sentence; the final judgment. Ir. dorus, Skr. dvůra, door.) 1. An opening or passage into a house or other building, Forthwith, from all winds The living, and forth with the cited dead or into any room, apartment, or closet, by Of all past ages, to the general doom which persons enter. Shall hasten. Milton. To the same end, men several paths may tread, Infliction of punishment. “To me their As many doors into one teniple lead. Denham. doom he hath assigned.' Milton.-4. The 2. The frame of boards, or any board, plank,or state to which one is doomed or destined. metal plate that shuts the opening of a house Ill doom is mine or closes the entrance into an apartment or To war against my people and my knights. any inclosure, and usually turning on hinges. Tennyson. At last he came unto an iron door 5. Fate; fortune, generally evil; adverse That fast was locked. Shak. issue. 3. An entrance-way, and the house or apartOthers, more mild, sing Their own heroic deeds, and hapless fall ment to which it leads; as, my room is the By doom of battle. Milton. second door on the left. 6. Ruin; destruction. Martin's office is now the second door on the street. Arbuthnot. From the same foes, at last, both felt their doom. 4. Avenue; passage; means of approach or Pope. 7.7 Discrimination; discernment. access; as, an unforgiving temper shuts the door of reconciliation. I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved. Mir. for Mags. John X. 9. -Crack of doom, dissolution of nature. -To lie at the door, or be at the door (fig.), What! will the line stretch out to the crack o' doom) to be imputable or chargeable to one. Shak. If I have failed, the fault lies wholly at my door. -To false a doom, t in Scots law, to protest Dryden. against a sentence. -SYN. Sentence, judg Lady Clara Vere de Vere, The guilt of blood is al your door. Tennyson. ment, condemnation, decree, fate, destiny, lot, ruin, destruction. - Next door to, near to; bordering on. Doom (dom), v.t. 1. To judge; to form a A riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult. judgment upon. “Him ... thou didst not L'Estrange. doom so strictly.' Milton.-2. To condemn -Out of door or doors, (a) out of the house; in the open air; abroad. (6) Quite gone; no to any punishment; to consign by a decree or sentence; to pronounce sentence or judg more to be found; lost. ment on; as, the criminal is doomed to His imaginary title of fatherhood is out of doors. Locke. chains. In doors, within the house; at home. Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls. Dryden. Chalking of a door, in Scotland, a warning 3. To ordain as a penalty; to decree. to tenants of urban tenements to remove, by having the principal door of the house Have I a tongue to doom my brother's death? Shak. chalked, forty days before Whitsuntide, by a 4. To destine; to fix irrevocably the fate or town officer, acting at the desire of the prodirection of; as, we are doomed to suffer for prietor, and without written authority from our sins and errors. 'Doomed to go in com the magistrates. pany with pain. Wordsworth.-5. To tax Door-case (dörkās). n. The frame which by estimate or at discretion. [New England. ] incloses a door, and in which it swings; a Doomage (döm'āj), n. In New Hampshire, door-frame. a penalty or fine for neglect. Door-frame (dor'frām), n. 1. The structure Doomer (döm'ér), n. One who dooms. in which the panels of a door are fitted, conThat fatal look of a common intelligence, of a com sisting of the upright pieces at the sides, mon assent, was exchanged among the doomers of the central upright pieces, the bottom rail, the prisoner's life and death as the judge concluded. the central or lock rail, and the top rail. Lord Lytton. 2. Same as Door-case. Dooring + (dor'ing), n. A door with all its So terrible a noise as shakes the doorings of houses Doomsday (dömz'dā), n. [Doom and day. ] ... ten miles off. Milton. 1. The day of the final judgment. Doorkeeper (dör'kēp-ėr), n. A porter; one They may serve for any theme, and never be out who guards the entrance of a house or of date until doomsday. Sir T. Brotune. apartment. 2. A day of sentence or condemnation. “My Door-nail (dör'nāl), n. The nail on which, body's doomsday.' Shak. in ancient doors, the knocker struck. Doomsday-book, Domesday-book(dömz' Dead as a door-nail. Piers Plowman. DOOR-PLATE 87 DORMOUSE Door-plate (dör plāt), n. A metal plate, occasionally found in the seas of Great Bri- sisted on; as, a dormant title; dormant priusually of brass, upon a door, bearing the tain, and is esteemed very delicate eating. vileges. name and sometimes the business of the It seldom exceeds 18 inches in length. It It is by lying dormant a long time or being resident. is also called John-Dory, a corruption of very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals Burke. Door-stane, Dore-stane (dor'stān), n. The French Jaune dorée, i.e. golden-yellow. Two upon a people. door-stone; the threshold. [Scotch] other fishes are erroneously called by the 4. Concealed; not divulged; private. (Rare.) They durstna' on ony errand whatsoever gang same name at some parts of the coast. - Dormant partner, in com. one whose name ower the dore-stane after gloaming. Sir W. Scott. Dorema (do-rē'ma), n. (Gr., a gift, referring does not appear in the title of the firm; a Door-stead (dor'sted), n. Entrance of or to its product, gum ammoniac.) A genus of partner who takes no share in the active parts about a door. plants, nat. order Umbellifera. D. ammo business of a company or partnership, but is Did nobody clog up the king's door-stead more than niacum, a Persian species, yields the am entitled to a share of the profits, and subI, there would be room for all honest men. moniacum of commerce, a milky juice that ject to a share in losses: called also SleepWarburton. exudes from punctures on the stem and ing Partner. — Dormant state of animals, Door-step (dör-step), n. The stepstone. dries in little tears.' a term sometimes applied to the hibernaDoor-stone (dor'ston), n. The stone at the Dor-hawk (dor'hak), n. A name sometimes tion of animals, or that state in which they threshold; the stepstone. given to the common goat-sucker, Capri remain torpid for a period in winter. - DorDoor-stop (dor'stop), n. A piece of wood mulgus europeus, otherwise called the mant window, the window of a sleeping against which the door shuts in its frame. Night-jar or Fern-owl. apartment; a dormer-window (which see). Doorway (dôrwā), n. In arch. the passage Dorian (döʻri-an), a. Pertaining to Doris in Dormant (dor'mant), 17. 1., A beam;a sleeper. of a door, the entrance-way into a room Greece, or its inhabitants. -Dorian or Doric 2. In cookery, a dish which remains from the or house. Doorways are found to partici- mode or mood, in music, the oldest of the beginning to the end of a repast, such as pate in the characteristics of the different authentic modes or keys of the Greeks. Its cold pies, hams, potted meats, placed down classes of architecture in which they have character is severe, tempered with gravity the middle of a table at large entertainbeen used. In the religious edifices of the and joy, and is adapted both to religious Dormar (dormer), n. A beam; a sleeper: ments; a centre piece which is not removed. middle ages much attention was bestowed services and to war. Many of the most chaupon the designs and adornment of the enracteristic Gaelic airs are written in the Dormer-window, Dormer (dor' mér-wintrances or doorways, particularly those in Dorian mode. do, dor'mér), 1. [Lit. the window of a sleepthe west fronts of cathedrals. In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood Doorway-plane (dor'wā-plān), n. In arch. Of flutes and soft recorders. Milton. the space between the doorway, properly Dorian (dōʻri-an), n. An inhabitant of Doris so called, and the larger door archway in Greece. within which it is placed: this space is fre- Doric (dor'ik), a. Pertaining to Doris or quently richly ornamented with sculpture, the Dorians in figures in niches, &c. Greece, who Dopt (dop), v... [Form of dip.) To dip; to dwelt near Parduck. nassus. - Doric Like tonny-fish they be which swiftly dive and dop. North order, in arch. Dopt (dop), n. A very low bow. 'The the oldest, Venetian dop, this.' B. Jonson. strongest, and Dopert (dop'er), n. [For dipper.] A dipper; simplest of the an Anabaptist. three orders of This is a doper, a she-anabaptist! B. Fonson. Grecian archi tecture, and the Doquet (dok'et), n. See DOCKET. second of the Dor, Dorr (dor), n. [A. Sax. dora, drone, Roman, coming locust. The name is probably imitative of between the the sound the insect makes. Comp. drone.) Tuscan and the 1. The black-beetle or Geotrupes stercorarius, Ionic. The disbelonging to the section Arenicolæ or sand Dormer-window, Oxford. dwellers, of the tribe Scarabæidæ. It is one tinguishing cha racteristic of ing apartment. See DORMANT, a.) A window of the most common British beetles, of a the Doric order standing vertically on a sloping roof of a stout form, less than 1 inch long, black with is the want of a dwelling-house, and so named because such a metallic reflection, and may often be heard droning through the air towards the close base; the flut- windows are found chiefly in attic bed ings are few, rooms. of the summer twilight. Usually called the Dor- or Dorr-beetle, sometimes the Dor- or large, and not Dormitive (dormit-iv), n. (L. dormio, to deep; the capi. sleep.] A medicine to promote sleep; an Dorr-fly, and provincially in England the tal has no as- opiate; a soporific. Buzzard-clock. tragal, but only Dormitive (dormit-iv), a. Causing or tendWhat should I care what every dor doth buz In credulous ears. one or more fil- ing to cause sleep; as, the dormitive proB. Jonson. lets, which se- perties of opium. 2. In Oxfordshire, &c., a name commonly applied to the cockchafer (Melolontha vul parate the flut- Dormitory (dor/mi-to-ri), n. [L. dormito ings from the rium, a sleeping-room, from dormio, to garis).-3. A trick; a practical joke. Beau. & Grecian Doric Order. torus. - The Do- sleep.) 1. A place, building, or room to Fl. - To give one the dor, to make a fool of. ric dialect. See sleep in; specifically, a gallery in convents Fletcher DORIC, n.—The Doric mode, in music, see divided into several cells where the monks Dort Dorrt (dor), v.t. To hoax; to humbug; DORIAN. or nuns sleep.-2. A burial-place. to make a fool of; to perplex. So easily Doric (dor'ik), n. The language of the Do- He seeth into all the graves and tombs, dorred ... with every sophism.' Hales. – rians; a Greek dialect characterized by its searcheth all the repositories and dormitories in the To dor the dotterel, to humbug a simpleton. broadness and hardness; hence, applied to earth, knoweth what dust belongeth to each body, Pearson. Here he comes, whistle; be this sport called dor. any dialect with similar characteristics, Dormouse (dormous), n. pl. Dormice (dor' what body to each soul. ring the dottrell B. Jonson. especially to the Scottish. Dorado (dő-ra'dő), n. (Sp. dorado, gilt, from Doricism, Dorism (dor'is-izm, dor'izm), n. mis). (Probably from Fr. dormeuse, a sleeper dorar, to gild.) 1. A southern constellation, A phrase of the Doric dialect. (fem.), as it is called in Languedoc radourcontaining six stars, called also Xiphias; not Doridæ (do'ri-dē), n. pl. The sea-lemons, a meiré, dourmeire being = sleeper, and in visible in our latitude.-2. large fish of family of naked-gilled marine gasteropod the genus Coryphæna, resembling the dol molluscs, some of which occur more than phin of the ancients. See CORYPHÆNA. 3 inches in length. Dorcas Society (dorkas sã-si'e-ti), n. (From Dorippe (dő-rip'pi), n. A genus of brachyuDorcas, mentioned in Acts ix.) An asso- rous decapod crustaceans, belonging to the ciation generally composed of ladies for sup- subdivision in which the mouth is trianguplying clothes to the poor. Frequently the lar. Dorippe has the feet of the fourth and members of the society meet at stated times fifth pairs shortened, elevated on the back and work in common. Partial payment is and not terminated with paddles, and the generally required from all recipients ex- eyes supported upon simple peduncles. cept the very poor. Doris (dò'ris), n. 1. A small planet or as- Jupiter, discovered by Goldschmidt in 1857. Common Dormouse (Myoxus avellanarius). vincial dorm, to sleep, and mouse, meanbecause bred largely at ing lit. the sleeping-mouse. The origin in Dorking in Surrey. both cases would be the Fr. dorinir, to Dormancy (dor/man-si), sleep, Lat. dormire, to sleep.) The popular 1. Quiescence. name of the several species of Myoxus, a Dormant (dor' mant), a. genus of Mammalia of the order Rodentia. (Fr. from dormir, L. dor The common dormouse is the M. (Muscarmio, to sleep.) 1. Sleep dinus) avellanarius, which attains the size ing; hence, at rest; not of the common mouse; the fat dormouse in action; as, dormant is the M. glis, a native of France and the Dorce (Zeus Faber). passions. 'Dormant sea. Lion dormant. south of Europe; the garden-dormouse is G. Fletcher.--2. In her. in the M. (Ehomys) nitela, a native of the temname of the acanthopterygious fish Zeus a sleeping posture; as, the lion dormant. perate parts of Europe and Asia. The dorFaber, the type of the family Zeidæ. It is 3. Neglected; not used; not asserted or in- mice pass the winter in a lethargic or torpid DORN 88 DOTTEREL state, only occasionally waking, and apply- denly rises into a massy dorsum.' T. War. 2. A patch of plaster put on to regulate the ing to their stock of provisions hoarded up ton. — 2. In anat. the back. -- 3. In conch. ! floating rule in making screeds and bays. for that season. the upper surface of the body of the shell, Dot (dot), v.t. pret. & pp. dotted; ppr. dot. Dorn (dorn), n. (Comp. D. doorn, G. dorn, a the aperture being downwaris. ting. 1. To mark with dots. -2. To mark thorn, and dornfisch, stickleback.) A fish; Dortour,t Dorture, n. [Fr. dortoir, a dor- or diversify with small detached objects the thornback. mitory, from L dorinitorium.) A dormi- resembling dots; as, a landscape dotted Dornick, Dornic (dornik), n. A species of tory. Written also Dorter. with cottages or clumps of trees. figured linen of stout fabr which derives The Monckes he chased here and there, Dotting the fields of corn and vine, its name from Dornick, the Flemish name And them pursu'd into their dortours sad. Spenser. Like ghosts, the huge gnarld olives shine. for Tournay in Flanders, where it was first Matt. Arnold manufactured for table-cloths. It is the Dorts (dorts), n. pl. A sulky or sullen mood Dot (dot), v.i. To make dots or spots. most simple in pattern of all varieties of or humour; sulks; as, he is in the dorts. Dot (dot), n. [Fr. dot; L. dos, dotis, dowry, [Scotch.) the diaper or damask style. Also a coarse from do, dare, to give.) The fortune or sort of damask used for carpets, hangings, Dorty (dor'ti), a. [Comp. G. trotzig, stub dowry a woman brings her husband on her &c. Written also Darnex, Darnix, Darnick, born, sulky.) [Scotch.) 1. Pettish; prone to marriage. (United States, Louisiana.) sullenness; saucy, • Dorty Jenny's pride.' Dotage (clotāj), n. [From dote.) 1. Feeble. Dornek, Dornock, Dornoch. Doront (doʻron), n. [Gr. döron, a gift.) 1. A Allan Ramsay.--2. Applied to plants, deli- ness or imbecility of understanding or mind. gift; a present. ---2. A handbreadth; a mea. cate; ill to cultivate. particularly in old age; childishness of old Dory (do'ri), n. See DOREE. sure of 3 inches. age; senility; as, a venerable man now in Dorp (dorp), n. (D. and L.G. dorp, a word Dory (cló'ri), n. A canoe or small boat. his dotage. The infancy and the dotage of Marryatt. corresponding to the A. Sax. thorp, G. dorf. Greek literature.' Macaulay. [Gr. dory, a From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires, a driveller and a show. Johnson. merly given to the genus of Coleoptera which Dorr, n. See DOR. 2. Weak and foolish affection; excessive includes the Colorado beetle. See COLORADO Dorrt (dor), v.t. To deafen with noise; to fondness. Voluntary dotage of some misBEETLE cheat. See DOR. tress. Shak. Dose (dos), n. [Fr., from Gr. dosis, a giving, Dotal (dőt'al), a. (Fr., from L. dotalis, from Dorr-beetle, Dor-beetle (dor'bē-tl), n. See from didomi, to give.] 1. The quantity of DOR. dos, dower.) Pertaining to dower or a Dorrert (dor'ér), n. A drone. 'Gentlemen medicine given or prescribed to be taken at woman's marriage portion; constituting one time. content to live idle themselves like dorrers.' dower, or comprised in it. More. I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not by violent doses. W. Irving Shall I, of one poor dotal town possest, Dorr-fly, Dor-fly (dor'Ai), n. See DOR, n. My people thin, my wretched country waste. Garth. Dorr-hawk (dor hək), n. The goat-sucker 2. Anything given to be swallowed; specifi(Caprimulgus europæus). See CAPRIMUL cally, anything nauseous that one is obliged Dotantt (dot'ant), n. A dotard. 'A decayed to take, or that is offered to one to be taken. dotant. Shak. GIDÆ. Dorsal (dor'sal), a. (From L dorsum, the As fulsome a dose as you shall give him he shall Dotard (dot'érd), n. [From dote, and affix South, back.) Of or pertaining to the back; as, the readily take it down. ard (which see). ] 1. A man whose intellect dorsal fin of a fish; dorsal awn of a seed; 3. As much as a man can take; a quantity is impaired by age; one in his second child hood. dorsal veins; dorsal nerves, &c.- Dorsal verin general. The sickly dotard wants a wife. Prior. tebre, the vertebræ situated between the We pity or laugh at those fatuous extravagants, cervical and lumbar vertebra.-- Dorsal ves- while yet ourselves have a considerable dose of what 2. A doting fellow; one foolishly fond. makes them so. Granville. sel of insects, a long blood vessel or heart Dotardly (dot'erd-li), a. Like a dotard; weak. lying along the back of the insect, through 4. What it falls to one's lot to receive. which the nutritive fluid circulates. Dotation (dö-ta'shon), n. (L. L dotatio, Married his punctual dose of wives, from L. doto, dotatum, to endow, to porDorset (dors), n. (O. Fr. dors, dorselet; Norm. tion, from dos, dotis, a dowry.] 1. The act Dose (dos), v. t. pret. & pp. dosed; ppr. dorsal; L.L. dorsale, tapestry, from L. dor of endowing or bestowing a marriage pordosing. [Fr. doser. See the noun.) 1. To sum, the back, so called because it hung at tion on a woman.--2. Endowment; estabproportion a medicine properly to the pa lishment of funds for the support of an the back of priests officiating at the altar, or tient or disease; to form into suitable doses. the seats in a hall. See DOSEL, definition.) hospital or other eleemosynary corporation. 2. To give doses to; to give medicine or 1. A cloth of state hanging full over, and physic to. 'A bold, self-opinioned physi Dote (dot), v.i. pret. & pp. doted; ppr. dotfalling low behind, a sovereign prince's chair cian, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill ing. [The same word as 0.D. doten, to dote. of state; a dosel; a canopy. From same root comes Fr. radoter, to rave. him secundum artem.' South.-3. To give Probably akin to D, dut, a nap, dutten, to A dorse and redorse of crymsyn velvet with flowers anything nauseous to. of gold, in length two yards three quarters. Robinson, Dosein, n. take a nap, dodderig, sleepy, stupified, and (Fr.) A dozen. Chaucer. to W. dotiaw, to become confused. Written 2. (Immediately from L. dorsum.] The back Dosel, Doser (dos'el, dos'èr'), n. (See DORSE. ) of a book. 'Books, all richly bound, with 1. Hangings of tapestry or carpet-work, also Doat.] 1. To be delirious; to have the intellect impaired by age, so that the mind gilt dorses.' Wood. sometimes richly embroidered with silks, wanders or wavers; to be silly. Dorsel (dor'sel), n. (See DORSE.) 1. A pannier and gold and silver, placed round the walls for a beast of burden. See DORSER. — 2. A of a hall, or at the east end, and sometimes Time has made you dote, and vainly tell kind of woollen stuff.-3. A rich canopy or the sides, of the chancel of a church. ---2. A Of arms imagined in your lonely cell. Dryder. curtain at the back of a throne or chair of hanging or screen of rich stuff at the back 2. To be excessively in love; to love to excess state. See DORSE, DOSEL. of the dais or seat of state. See Dais, 3. or extravagance: usually with on or upon. Dorser, t Dossert (dors'ér, dos'èr), n. (From There were dosers on the deis. Warton. What dust we dote on, when 'tis man we love. Pope. L.L. dosserum or dorserum, from L. dor Aholah... doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians. sum, the back; Fr. dossier, a bundle.) A Dosithean (do-si'the-an), n. One of an an Ezek. xxiii. 5. cient sect among the Samaritans, so called Dotet (dot), n. pannier or basket. (L. dos, dotis, a dowry. ] from their founder Dositheus, who was a 1. A marriage portion; a dowry.- 2. pl. NaBy this some farmer's dairymaid I may meet her, Riding from market one day twixt her dorsers. contemporary and associate of Simon Magus, tural gifts or endowments. B. Jonson. Bean & FI. and lived in the first century of the Chris- Doted | (döt'ed), a. 1. Stupid; foolish. Dorsibranchiata (dor-si - brang' ki-ā"ta), tian era They rejected the authority of Whose sencelesse speach, and doted ignorance. n. pl. (See below.) Cuvier's appellation for the prophets, believed in the divine inspi Spenser the second order of annelidans, now called ration of their founder, and had many 2. Decayed. Polychata, which have their branchiæ dis- superstitious practices. Such an old oak, though now it be doted, will not tributed along the back. Dosology (ilo-sol'o-ji), nn. (Gr. dosis, a dose, be struck down at one blow. Bp. Horuson. Dorsibranchiate (dor-si-brang'ki-āt), a. (L. and logos, discourse.) A treatise on doses Doter (dőtér), n. 1. One who dotes; a man dorsum, dorsi, the back, and branchise, gills.) of medicine. whose understanding is enfeebled by age; Having the branchiæ distributed along the Doss (dos), v.t. 1. To attack with the a dotard.-2. One who is excessively fond back, as certain annelidans and molluscs. horns; to toss. [Local.)-2. To pay; as, to or weakly in love. Dorsiferous, Dorsiparous (dor-sif'er-us, dogs down money. (Scotch.) Doth (duth), the irregular third person sindor-sip'ar-us), a. [L. dorsum, the back, and Dosser, n. See DORSER. gular of do (which see fero, or pario, to bear.) In bot. bearing or Dossil (dos'sil), n., [O. E. dosil, doselle, from Dotingly (dòt'ing-li), adv. In a doting man, producing spores on the back of the fronds; O. Fr. dosil, dousil, a spigot, L.L. duciculus, ner; foolishly; in a manner characterized an epithet given to certain groups of ferns. from duco.] In surg. a pledget or por- by excessive fondness. Dorsi-spinal (dor-si-spin'al), a. Of or per tion of lint made into a cylindric form, or Dotish (dot'ish), a. Childishly fond; weak; taining to the back and the spine.--Dorsi- the shape of a date. stupid spinal vein, in anat. one of a set of veins Dost (dust), the second person singular of Dotkin, n. See DODKIN. forming a net-work round the spinous, transdo (which see). Dottard (dot'tèrd), n. (From dote, in old verse, and articular processes and arches of Dot (dot), n. (Probably from same root as sense of to decay. ) A decayed tree. the vertebra. A. Marked with small Dorso-cervical (dor-s7-ser-vi’kal), a. Of or meaning being a small lump which stops any dots or punctures. – Dotted note, in music, pertaining to the back of the neck; as, the opening; a clot. Cog. L.G. dutte, a plug, a a note followed by a dot to indicate an indorso-cervical region. stopper.] 1. A small point or spot made crease of length equal to one half of its Dorstenia (dor-stė'ni-a), n. (After T. Dor- with a pen or other pointed instrument; a simple value; thus a dotted semibreve is sten, a German botanist.) A genus of plants, speck, used in marking a writing or other equal to three minims, and a dotted minim nat. order Urticaceæ, found in tropical thing; a spot; specifically, in music, a point to three crotchets. – Dotted rest, a rest lengAmerica. They have their naked flowers or speck placed after a note or rest, in order thened by a dot, in the same manner as a buried in a flat, fleshy, somewhat concave to make such note or rest half as long again. dotted note. receptacle. D. Contrajerva and other spe In modern music a double dot is often used, Dotterel, Dottrel (dot'ter-el, dot'trel), n. cies have a stimulant and tonic rhizome, in which case the second is equal to half (From dote, from the bird's supposed stuwhich is used medicinally under the name of the first pidity.) 1. Charadrius morinellus, a gralof contrayerva root (which see). Long stood Sir Bedivere latorial bird about 10 inches long, a species Revolving many memories, till the hull Dorsum (dor'sum), 1. (L.) 1. The ridge of Look'd one black dot against the verge of dawn. of plover, breedling in the highest latitudes a hill. A similar ridge, which sud Tennyson. of Asia and Europe, and migrating to the DOUANIER 89 DOUBLE-OCTAVE 2 ki, ii. 9. shores of the Mediterranean. It appears If the thief be found, let him pay double. dyed.--2. Thorough; complete; utter; atro Ex. xxii. 7. on our moors and mountains in its north cious; as, a double-dyed villain. ward migration in spring, and in its south In all the four great years of mortality, :1.do . Double-eagle (du bl-e-gl), n. 1. A gold coin not find that any week the plague increased to the ward in autumn Coining from regions little double of the preceding week above five times. of the United States, worth $20.--2. The frequented by man it has no fear of him, Grannt. representation of an eagle with two heads, and allows itself to be easily taken; hence 2. A turn in running to escape pursuers. as in the national arms of Russia. its name. It was popularly believed to 3. A trick; a shift; an artifice to deceive. Double-edged (du'bl-eja), a. 1. Having two imitate the actions of any one near it, and 4. Strong beer; beer professing to be double edges. to be taken by reason of this peculiarity. the ordinary strength. 'A pot of good Your Delphic sword,' the panther then replied, Its flesh is much esteemed. double.' Shak. - 5. Something precisely Is double-edged, and cuts on either side. Dryden In catching of dettereis we see how the foolish bird equal or like; a counterpart; a counterfeit; playeth the ape in gestures. Bacon. 2. Fig. applied to an argument which makes a duplicate; a copy; a person's apparition or both for and against the person employing; 2. A booby; a dupe; a gull. “Devout dottrels likeness appearing to himself and admon or to any statement having a double meanand worldly-wise people.' Bale. ishing him of his approaching death; a ing Douanier, Douaneer(dwan-yā, dö-a-nêr'), n. wraith; as, his or her double; the double of Double-elephant (dubl-el-e-fant), ?. A [Fr.) An officer of the customs. a legal instrument. large size of writing, drawing, and printing Douay Bible (do'á bibl), n. [From Douay, My charming friend .. has, I am almost sure, a paper, 40 inches by 26). a town in France.) An English translation double, who preaches his afternoon sermon for him. Double-entendre (do-bl-an-tan-dr), m. of the Scriptures sanctioned by the Roman Atlantic Monthly. (Spurious Fr. form.) A phrase with a double Catholic Church, of which the New Testa- 6. A fold or plait; a doubling. • Rolled up meaning, one of which is often somewhat ment was first printed at Rheims in 1582, in sevenfold double.' Marston.--7. Milit. obscure or indelicate. and the Old Testament at Douay in 1609-10. the quickest step in marching next to the Double-entry (du'bl-en-tri), n. A mode of Doub, ia See DOOB. run. In the double the soldier makes 165 book-keeping in which two entries are made Double (dubl), a [Fr. double, from L. du. steps, each 33 inches long, in the minute. of every transaction, one on the Dr. side of plus, double – duo, two, and term. -plus, In cases of urgency the steps may be in one account, and the other on the Cr. side from root of pleo, to fill. See FILL.] 1. In creased up to 180 per minute. Contracted of another account, in order that the one pairs: representing two in a set together; for double-quick.-3. Eccles. a feast in which may check the other. See BOOK-KEEPING. coupled; composed of two mutual equiva- the antiphon is doubled, that is, said twice, Double-eyed (du'bl-id), a.. Watching in all lents or corresponding parts; twofold; as, a before and after the psalms, instead of only directions; keenly watchful; having keen double leaf; a double chin. half being said, as in simple feasts.-9. A sight. Darkness and tempest make a double night. roofing slate of the smallest size, measuring Prevelie he (the kid) peeped out through a chinck, Dryden. about 1 foot by 6 inches.-10. In printing, Yet not so prevelie but the Foxe him soyed; The swan, on still St. Mary's lake, several words, lines, or sentences set twice. For deceitfull meaning is donble-eyed. Spenser. Float double, swan and shadow. I ordstvorth. Double-acting (du'bl-akt-ing), p. and a. In Double-face (du'bl-fās), n. Duplicity; the 2. Twice as much; multiplied by two; con- mech. acting, or applying power in two acting of different parts in the same transtaining the same quantity or length re- directions, producing a double result. -- action. peated. Double-acting inclined plane, in rail. dc. an Double-faced (du'bl-fāst), a. Deceitful; Take double money in your hand Gen. xliii. 12. inclined plane worked by the gravity of the hypocritical; showing two faces. Fame if Let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. load conveyed, the loaded waggons which not double-faced is double-mouthed.' Milton. descend being made to pull up the empty Double-first (du'bl-férst), n. In Oxford 3. Deceitful; acting two parts, one openly, ones by means of a rope passing round a University-(a) One who gains the highest the other in secret. pulley or drum at the top of the plane. ---- place, after examination, both in classics And with a doubic heart do they speak. Ps. xii. 2. Double-acting pump, a pump which throws and mathematics. The position of an Ox water at both the up and the down stroke. ford double-first is the highest honour of 4. In bot. having two or more rows of petals Double-bank (du’bi-bank), v.t. To have an formed by cultivation from stamens and that university, as that of senior wrangler is carpels. - Double distress, in Scots law, the Double-banked, Double-benched (du bloar pulled by two men. of Cambridge. (6) The degree itself; as, he took a double-first at Oxford. name given to those arrestments which are used by two or more creditors in order to bangkt, du'bl-bensht), a. Naut. having two Double-floor (du'bl-flor), n. A floor conattach the funds of their debtor in the hands opposite oars managed by rowers on the structed with binding and bridging joists. of a third party. same bench, or having two men to the same Double-flower (du'bl-fou-er), no. A flower oar: said of a boat. Double (du'vi), adv. Twice. whose organs of reproduction are partly or Double-bar (du'bl-bär), n. In music, two wholly converted into petals, so that there I was double their age. Swin. bars placed together at the conclusion of are more rows of petals than the normal [Double is much used in composition to an air or strain. If two dots are added to number denote two ways, or twice the number or it, the strain on that side should be repeated. Double-flowered (du'bl-flou-erd), a. Науquantity.) Double-barrelled (du'bl-ba-rel), a. 1. Hay- ing double flowers, as a plant. Double (du'bl), v.t. pret. & pp. doubled; ppr. two barrels, as a gun.-2. Fig. applied | Double-gear (du'bl-ger), n. In mach. the doubling. (See the adjective) 1. To lay one to anything that effects a double purpose gearing attached to the headstock of a lathe part of anything over the other; to fold one or produces a double result. to vary its speed. part upon another part of; as, to double the This was a double-barrelied compliment. It im. Double-gild (du'bl-gild), v.t. To gild with leaf of a book; to double down a corner.-- plied that Mrs. Weller was a most agreeable female, double-coatings of gold. 2. To increase or extend by adding an equal and also that Mr. Stiggins had a clerical appearance. Double-glo'ster (lu'bl-glos-ter), n. A rich Dickens. sum, value, quantity, or length; as, to double kind of cheese, made in Gloucestershire from a sum of money; to double the amount; to Double-bass, Double-base (du'bl-bas, new milk. double the quantity or size of a thing; to du'bl-bās), n. The largest musical instru- Double-handed (du'bl-hand-ed), a. Having double the length. ment of the viol kind. In England, France, two hands; deceitful. Thou ... shalt double the sixth curtain in the and Italy the double-base has often only Double-headed (du'bl-hed-ed), a. Having fore-front of the tabernacle. Ex, xxvi. 9. two heads. 3. To be the double of: to contain twice the Its compass is from the lower A of the bass sum, quantity, or length of, or twice as clef to tenor F. In Germany a fourth string Double-hearted (du’bl-härt-ed). a. Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. is used, and gives it a range of three notes Double-hung (du'bl-hung), a. much as; as, the enemy doubles our army in In arch, a numbers. - 4. To repeat; to add; as, to double Double-biting (du'bl-bit-ing), a. lower. term applied to the two sashes of a window Biting or blow on blow. movable, the one upwards and the other cutting on either side; as, a double-biting Doubled that sin in Bethel and in Dan, Milton. downwards, by means of pulleys and weights, axe. Double-letters (du'bl-let-érz), n. pl. In 5. To pass round or by: to march or sail Double-breasted (du'bl-brest-ed), a. Apround, so as to proceed along both sides of. printing, types such as f, i, and I, which plied to a waistcoat or coat either side of when used in combination are apt to be Sailing along the coast he doubled the promontory which may be made to lap over the other broken, and are therefore cast in one piece, of Carthage. Knolles. and button. or logotype, as if, fi, yl, &c. The diphthongs 6. Milit. to unite two ranks or files in one.-- He wore a pair of plaid trousers, and a large rough æ and we are also cast as double-letters. To double and twist, to add one thread to an double-breasted waistcoat. Dickens. Double-lock (du'bl-lok), v.t. To lock with other and twist them together.-To double Double-charge (du'bl-chärj), v.t. To charge two bolts; to fasten with double security. upon (milit.), to inclose between two fires. or intrust with a double portion. I will | Double-manned (du'bl-mand), a. FurDouble (du'bl), v.i. 1. To increase to twice double-charge thee with dignities.' Shak. nished with twice the complement of men, the sum, number, value, quantity, or length; Double-crown (du'bl-kroun), n. An Eng- or with two men instead of one. to increase or grow to twice as much. lish gold coin of the reign of James I., of Double-meaning (du'bl-mēn-ing), a. Hav 'Tis observed in particular nations, that within the the value of 108., afterwards raised to 118. ing two meanings, conveying two meanings; space of three hundred years, notwithstanding all Double-dealer (du'bl-del-ér), n. One who deceitful. 'A double-meaning prophesier.' casualties, the number of men doubles. T. Burnet. acts two different parts in the same busi- Shak. 2. To enlarge a wager to twice the sum laid. ness or at the same time; a deceitful, trick- Double-minded (du'bl-mind-ed), a. Having I am resolved to double till I win. Dryden. ish person; one who says one thing and different minds at different times; unsettled; 3. To turn back or wind in running. thinks or intends another; one guilty of wavering; unstable; undetermined. Doubling and turning like a hunted hare. Dryden. Double-dealing (du'bl-del-ing), n. Artifice; duplicity. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. Jam. i. 8. 4. To play tricks; to use sl ights. duplicity: deceitful practice; the profession Double-natured (du'bl-nā-türd), a. Having What penalty and danger you accrue, of one thing and the practice of another. a twofold nature. If you be found to double. 7. Webster. Double-dealing (du'bl-del-ing), a. Given Two kinds of life hath double-natured inan, 5. In printing, to set up the same word to duplicity; deceitful. And two of death, Young or words unintentionally a second time. 1. The state of 6. Milit to march at the double. See the There were parsons at Oxford as double-dealing Doubleness (du'bl-nes), n. being doubled. * The doubleness of the noun. -- To double upon (milit.), to inclose Thackeray. benefit.' Shak.-2. Duplicity. Friends full between two fires, as an enemy's fleet. Double-dye (du'bl-dī), v.t. To dye twice of doubleness. Chaucer. Double (du'bl), n. 1. Twice as much; twice Double-octave (du'bl-ok-tāv), n. In music, the number, sum, value, quantity, or length. Double-dyed (du'bl-did), p. and a. 1. Twice an interval composed of two octaves or fif over. |