DONKEY 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'ke), 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'ke-man), n. 1. One who drives or lets out a donkey for hire.2. One who works a donkey-engine. Donkey-pump (dong'ke-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 person. [Old English and Scotch.] Donne, Don,ta. Of a dun colour. Chaucer. The donnard bodie croon'd right lowne, Donnism (don'izm), n. [See DON.] Self- I draw the lady Beau. & Fl 86 Doob, Doub (döb), n. An Indian name for Cynodon Dactylon, used as a fodder grass. Doodle (dö'dl), n. [Probably from same root as dawdle, to trifle.] A trifler; a simple fellow. Doodle-sack (dö'dl-sak), n. [G. dudelsack.] The Scotch bagpipe. Dook, Douk, v. i. or t. To duck; to bathe; Dool (döl), n. [See DOLE, grief.] Grief; sor- Burns. The brethren o' the Commerce-Chaumer May mourn their loss wi' doolfu' clamour. Burns. Dooly (doli), n. In the East Indies, a bamboo chair, carried on men's shoulders by poles, used for conveying persons, especially the sick; a palanquin; a litter. Doom (döm), n. [A. Sax. dom, O. Sax. O. Fris. dóm, Goth. doms, Icel. domr, the same word as the common suffix dom in kingdom, &c., and derived probably from do, like Gr. themis, established law, from Gr. root the, Skr. dha, to place, which, indeed, is the ultimate root of the verb do. (See Do.) The A. Sax. déman, E. deem, is from dóm.] 1. Judgment; judicial sentence. From the same foes, at last, both felt their doom. 7. Discrimination; discernment. In him no point of courtesy there lackt, He was of manners mild, of doom exact. Mir. for Mags. -Crack of doom, dissolution of nature. What! will the line stretch out to the crack o' doom! Shak. -To false a doom,t in Scots law, to protest against a sentence. SYN. Sentence, judgment, condemnation, decree, fate, destiny, lot, ruin, destruction. Doom (döm), v.t. 1. To judge; to form a judgment upon. Him. thou didst not doom so strictly.' Milton.-2. To condemn to any punishment; to consign by a decree or sentence; to pronounce sentence or judgment on; as, the criminal is doomed to chains. Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls. Dryden. 3. To ordain as a penalty; to decree. Have I a tongue to doom my brother's death? Shak. 4. To destine; to fix irrevocably the fate or direction of; as, we are doomed to suffer for our sins and errors. Doomed to go in company with pain.' Wordsworth.-5. To tax by estimate or at discretion. [New England.] Doomage (döm'aj), n. In New Hampshire, a penalty or fine for neglect. Doomer (döm'ér), n. One who dooms. That fatal look of a common intelligence, of a common assent, was exchanged among the doomers of the prisoner's life and death as the judge concluded. Lord Lytton. Doomful (döm'ful), a. Full of destruction. Doom Palm. See DOUM PALM. Dooms (dömz), adv. Very; absolutely; as, dooms bad, very bad. [Scotch.] Doomsday (dömz'da), n. [Doom and day.] 1. The day of the final judgment. They may serve for any theme, and never be out of date until doomsday. Sir T. Browne. 2. A day of sentence or condemnation. 'My body's doomsday.' Shak. Doomsday-book, Domesday-book(dömz' DOOR-NAIL A da-buk), n. A book compiled by order of William the Conqueror, containing a survey of all the lands in England. It consists of two volumes, a large folio and a quarto. The folio contains 382 double pages of vellum, written in a small but plain character. The quarto contains 450 double pages of vellum, written in a large fair character. It was begun in 1085, finished 1086 record, called Exeter or Exon Domesday book, preserved among the muniments of the cathedral of Exeter, and containing a description of the counties of Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall, is supposed to contain an exact copy, so far as it goes, of the original rolls which formed the bases of the great Domesday-book. Doomsman (dömz'man), n. A judge; an umpire. Doomster, Dempster (döm'stèr, dem'stér). n. [From doom and suffix ster.] The name formerly given in Scotland to the public executioner. In the case of a capital conviction in the court of justiciary the doom or sentence was in use to be repeated by the public executioner in the judge's words, with the addition, 'This I pronounce for doom;' hence the name. Doonga (dön'ga), n. A canoe made out of a single piece of wood, employed for navigating the marshes and the branches of the mouth of the Ganges. The doongas are used by a miserable population, chiefly for ob taining salt, in marshy unhealthy tracts, infested with tigers. Door (dor), n. [A. Sax. dora, duru, dure-a word found throughout the Indo-European family of languages. Comp. O. Sax. dur, dor, Icel. dyr, Goth. daur, G. thür, L. fores, Gr. thura, Lith. durris, Rus. dverj, W. dries, Ir. dorus, Skr. dvára, door.] 1. An opening or passage into a house or other building. or into any room, apartment, or closet, by which persons enter. To the same end, men several paths may tread, As many doors into one temple lead. Denham. 2. The frame of boards, or any board, plank, or metal plate that shuts the opening of a house or closes the entrance into an apartment or any inclosure, and usually turning on hinges At last he came unto an iron door That fast was locked. Shak 3. An entrance-way, and the house or apartment to which it leads; as, my room is the second door on the left. Martin's office is now the second door on the street. Arbuthnot 4. Avenue; passage; means of approach or 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. John x. 9 -To lie at the door, or be at the door (fig.), to be imputable or chargeable to one. If I have failed, the fault lies wholly at my door. Dryden. Lady Clara Vere de Vere, The guilt of blood is at your door. Tennyson -Next door to, near to; bordering on. A riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult. L'Estrange. -Out of door or doors, (a) out of the house: in the open air; abroad. (b) Quite gone; no more to be found; lost. His imaginary title of fatherhood is out of doors -In doors, within the house; at home. Chalking of a door, in Scotland, a warning to tenants of urban tenements to remove, by having the principal door of the house chalked, forty days before Whitsuntide, by a town officer, acting at the desire of the proprietor, and without written authority from the magistrates. Door-case (dor'kas), n. The frame which incloses a door, and in which it swings; a door-frame. Door-frame (dor'fram), n. 1. The structure in which the panels of a door are fitted, consisting of the upright pieces at the sides, the central upright pieces, the bottom rail, the central or lock rail, and the top rail.2. Same as Door-case. Doorga, n. See DURGA. Dooring + (dor'ing), n. A door with all its appendages. DOOR-PLATE Door-plate (dor'plat), n. A metal plate, usually of brass, upon a door, bearing the name and sometimes the business of the resident Door-stane, Dore-stane (dor'stán), n. The door-stone; the threshold. [Scotch.] They durstna on ony errand whatsoever gang ower the d. re tane after gloaming. Sir W. Scott. Door-stead (dor'sted), n. Entrance of or parts about a door. Dnd nobody clog up the king's door-stead more than I, there would be room for all honest men. Warburton. Door-step (dor-step), n. The stepstone. Door-stone (dor'ston), n. The stone at the threshold; the stepstone. Door-stop (dor'stop), n A piece of wood against which the door shuts in its frame. Doorway (dor'wa), n. In arch. the passage ef a door; the entrance-way into a room or house. Doorways are found to participate in the characteristics of the different classes of architecture in which they have been used In the religious edifices of the middle ages much attention was bestowed upan the designs and adornment of the entrances or doorways, particularly those in the west fronts of cathedrals. Doorway-plane (dor'wa-plán), n. In arch, the space between the doorway, properly so called, and the larger door archway within which it is placed: this space is frequently richly ornamented with sculpture, figures in niches, &c. Dopt (dop), r.i [Form of dip.] To dip; to duck. Like tonny-fish they be which swiftly dive and dop. Dopt (dop), n. A very low bow. The Doper (doper), n. [For dipper.] A dipper; an Anabaptist. B. Jonson. This is a doper, a she-anabaptist! Doquet (dok'et), n. See DOCKET. Dor, Dorr (dor), n. [A. Sax. dora, drone, locust. The name is probably imitative of the sound the insect makes. Comp. drone.] I The black-beetle or Geotrupes stercorarius, belonging to the section Arenicolæ or sanddwellers, of the tribe Scarabaeida. It is one of the most common British beetles, of a stout form, less than 1 inch long, black with a metallic reflection, and may often be heard droning through the air towards the close of the summer twilight. Usually called the Dor- or Dorr-beetle, sometimes the Dor- or Dorr-fly, and provincially in England the Buzzard-clock. What should I care what every dor doth buz In credulous ears. B. Jonson. 2. In Oxfordshire, &c., a name commonly applied to the cockchafer (Melolontha vulgaris)-3. A trick; a practical joke. Beau. & P-To give one the dor, to make a fool of. Fletcher. Dor, Dorrt (dor), v.t. To hoax; to humbug; to make a fool of; to perplex. So easily dorred.. with every sophism.' Hales.To dor the dotterel, to humbug a simpleton. Here he comes, whistle; be this sport called dorring the dot vel B. Jonson. Dorado (do-ra'do), n. [Sp. dorado, gilt, from dorar, to gild.] 1. A southern constellation, containing six stars, called also Xiphias; not visible in our latitude.-2. A large fish of the genus Coryphaena, resembling the dolphin of the ancients. See CORYPHENA. Dorcas Society (dor'kas sõ-si'e-ti), n. [From Dorcas, mentioned in Acts ix.] An association generally composed of ladies for supplying clothes to the poor. Frequently the members of the society meet at stated times and work in common. Partial payment is generally required from all recipients except the very poor. Doree, Dory (do'ré, do'ri), n. A popular Doree (Zeus Faber). name of the acanthopterygious fish Zeus Faber, the type of the family Zeida. It is 87 occasionally found in the seas of Great Britain, and is esteemed very delicate eating. It seldom exceeds 18 inches in length. It is also called John-Dory, a corruption of French Jaune dorée, i.e. golden-yellow. Two other fishes are erroneously called by the same name at some parts of the coast. Dorema (dō-re'ma), n. [Gr., a gift, referring to its product, gum ammoniac.] A genus of plants, nat. order Umbelliferæ. D. ammoniacum, a Persian species, yields the ammoniacum of commerce, a milky juice that exudes from punctures on the stem and dries in little 'tears.' Dor-hawk (dor'hak), n. A name sometimes given to the common goat-sucker, Caprimulgus europaeus, otherwise called the Night-jar or Fern-owl Dorian (do'ri-an), a. Pertaining to Doris in Greece, or its inhabitants.-Dorian or Doric mode or mood, in music, the oldest of the authentic modes or keys of the Greeks. Its character is severe, tempered with gravity and joy, and is adapted both to religious services and to war. Many of the most characteristic Gaelic airs are written in the Dorian mode. Dorian (do'ri-an), n. An inhabitant of Doris Pertaining to Doris or in Greece. Doric (dor'ik), a. the Dorians in Greece, who dwelt near Parnassus. Doric order, in arch. the oldest, strongest, and simplest of the three orders of Grecian architecture, and the second of the Roman, coming between the Tuscan and the Ionic. The distinguishing characteristic of the Doric order is the want of a base; the flutings are few, large, and not deep; the capital has no astragal, but only one or more fillets, which separate the flutings from the torus. The Doric dialect. See DORIC, n.-The Doric mode, in music, see DORIAN. Grecian Doric Order. Doric (dorik), n. The language of the Do rians; a Greek dialect characterized by its broadness and hardness; hence, applied to any dialect with similar characteristics, especially to the Scottish. Doricism, Dorism (dor'is-izm, dor'izm), n. A phrase of the Doric dialect. Dorida (do'ri-de), n. pl. The sea-lemons, a family of naked-gilled marine gasteropod molluscs, some of which occur more than 3 inches in length. Dorippe (do-rip'pi), n. A genus of brachyurous decapod crustaceans, belonging to the subdivision in which the mouth is triangular. Dorippe has the feet of the fourth and fifth pairs shortened, elevated on the back and not terminated with paddles, and the eyes supported upon simple peduncles. Doris (do'ris), n. 1. A small planet or asteroid between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, discovered by Goldschmidt in 1857. 2. The typical genus of the Dorida. Dorking (dork'ing), n. A species of barndoor fowl, distinguished by having five claws on each foot, so named because bred largely at Dorking in Surrey. Dormancy (dor'man-si), n. Quiescence. Dormant (dor'mant), a. [Fr. from dormir, L. dormio, to sleep.] 1. Sleeping; hence, at rest; not in action; as, dormant passions. Dormant sea.' G. Fletcher.-2. In her. in Lion dormant. a sleeping posture; as, the lion dormant. 3. Neglected; not used; not asserted or in DORMOUSE sisted on; as, a dormant title; dormant privileges. It is by lying dormant a long time or being very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people. Burke. 4. Concealed; not divulged; private. [Rare.] -Dormant partner, in com. one whose name does not appear in the title of the firm; a partner who takes no share in the active business of a company or partnership, but is entitled to a share of the profits, and subject to a share in losses: called also Sleeping Partner. - Dormant state of animals, a term sometimes applied to the hibernation of animals, or that state in which they remain torpid for a period in winter.-Dormant window, the window of a sleeping apartment; a dormer-window (which see). Dormant (dor'mant), n. 1. A beam; a sleeper. 2. In cookery, a dish which remains from the beginning to the end of a repast, such as cold pies, hams, potted meats, placed down the middle of a table at large entertainDormar (dor'mér), n. A beam; a sleeper. ments; a centre piece which is not removed. Dormer-window, Dormer (dor'mer-windō, dormer), n. [Lit. the window of a sleep Dormitive (dor'mit-iv), n. [L. dormio, to sleep.] A medicine to promote sleep; au opiate; a soporific. Dormitive (dor'mit-iv), a. Causing or tending to cause sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium. Dormitory (dor'mi-to-ri), n. [L. dormitorium, a sleeping-room, from dormio, to sleep.] 1. A place, building, or room to sleep in; specifically, a gallery in convents divided into several cells where the monks or nuns sleep.-2.† A burial-place. He.... seeth into all the graves and tombs, searcheth all the repositories and dormitories in the earth, knoweth what dust belongeth to each body, Pearson. what body to each soul. Dormouse (dor'mous), n. pl. Dormice (dor'mis). [Probably from Fr. dormeuse, a sleeper (fem.), as it is called in Languedoc radourmeire, dourmeire being sleeper, and in Common Dormouse (Myoxus avellanarius). Suffolk 'sleeper;' or it may be from the provincial dorm, to sleep, and mouse, meaning lit. the sleeping-mouse. The origin in both cases would be the Fr. dormir, to sleep, Lat. dormire, to sleep.] The popular name of the several species of Myoxus, a genus of Mammalia of the order Rodentia. The common dormouse is the M. (Muscardinus) avellanarius, which attains the size of the common mouse; the fat dormouse is the M. glis, a native of France and the south of Europe; the garden-dormouse is the M. (Ehomys) nitela, a native of the temperate parts of Europe and Asia. The dormice pass the winter in a lethargic or torpid DORN state, only occasionally waking, and applying to their stock of provisions hoarded up for that season. Dorn (dorn), n. [Comp. D. doorn, G. dorn, a thorn, and dornfisch, stickleback.] A fish; the thornback. Dornick, Dornic (dornik), n. A species of figured linen of stout fabric which derives its name from Dornick, the Flemish name for Tournay in Flanders, where it was first manufactured for table-cloths. It is the most simple in pattern of all varieties of the diaper or damask style. Also a coarse sort of damask used for carpets, hangings, &c. Written also Darnex, Darnix, Darnick, Dornek, Dornock, Dornoch. Doront (do'ron), n. [Gr. dōron, a gift.] 1. A gift; a present.-2. A handbreadth; a measure of 3 inches. Dorp (dorp), n. [D. and L.G. dorp, a word corresponding to the A. Sax. thorp, G. dorf. See THORPE] A small village. 'A mean fishing dorp. Howell. Dorr, n. See DOR. Dorrt (dor), v.t. To deafen with noise; to cheat. See DOR. Dorr-beetle, Dor-beetle (dor'bē-tl), n. See DOR. Dorrer+ (dor'èr), n. A drone. 'Gentlemen content to live idle themselves like dorrers.' More. Dorr-fly, Dor-fly (dor'fli), n. See DOR, n. Dorr-hawk (dor'hak), n. The goat-sucker (Caprimulgus europaeus). See CAPRIMUL GIDE. Dorsal (dor'sal), a. [From L. dorsum, the back.] Of or pertaining to the back; as, the dorsal fin of a fish; dorsal awn of a seed; dorsal veins; dorsal nerves, &c.-Dorsal vertebræ, the vertebræ situated between the cervical and lumbar vertebræ.- Dorsal vessel of insects, a long blood-vessel or heart lying along the back of the insect, through which the nutritive fluid circulates. Dorse (dors), n. A variety of the cod-fish. Dorset (dors), n. [O. Fr. dors, dorselet; Norm. dorsal; L.L. dorsale, tapestry, from L. dorsum, the back, so called because it hung at the back of priests officiating at the altar, or the seats in a hall. See DOSEL, definition.] 1. A cloth of state hanging full over, and falling low behind, a sovereign prince's chair of state; a dosel; a canopy. A dorse and redorse of crymsyn velvet with flowers of gold, in length two yards three quarters. Robinson. 2. [Immediately from L. dorsum.] The back of a book. 'Books, all richly bound, with gilt dorses.' Wood. Dorsel (dor'sel), n. [See DORSE.] 1. A pannier for a beast of burden. See DORSER.-2. A kind of woollen stuff.-3. A rich canopy or curtain at the back of a throne or chair of state. See DORSE, DOSEL. Dorser, Dossert (dors'ér, dos'èr), n. [From L.L. dosserum or dorserum, from L. dorsum, the back; Fr. dossier, a bundle.] A pannier or basket. By this some farmer's dairymaid I may meet her, Riding from market one day 'twixt her dorsers. Beau. & Fl Dorsibranchiata (dor-si-brang' ki-ā "ta), n. pl. [See below.] Cuvier's appellation for the second order of annelidans, now called Polychata, which have their branchiæ distributed along the back. Dorsibranchiate (dor-si-brang'ki-āt), a. [L. dorsum, dorsi, the back, and branchia, gills. J Having the branchia distributed along the back, as certain annelidans and molluses. Dorsiferous, Dorsiparous (dor-sif'èr-us, dor-sip'ar-us), a. [L. dorsum, the back, and fero, or pario, to bear.] In bot. bearing or producing spores on the back of the fronds; an epithet given to certain groups of ferns. Dorsi-spinal (dor-si-spin'al), a. Of or per taining to the back and the spine.-Dorsispinal vein, in anat. one of a set of veins forming a net-work round the spinous, transverse, and articular processes and arches of the vertebræ. Dorso-cervical (dor-sõ-sêr-vi'kal), a. Of or pertaining to the back of the neck; as, the dorso-cervical region. 888 denly rises into a massy dorsum.' T. Warton. 2. In anat. the back. --3. In conch. the upper surface of the body of the shell, the aperture being downwards. Dortour, Dorture, n. [Fr. dortoir, a dormitory, from L. dormitorium.] A dormitory. Written also Dorter. The Monckes he chased here and there, And them pursu'd into their dortours sad. Spenser. Dorts (dorts), n. pl. A sulky or sullen mood or humour; sulks; as, he is in the dorts. [Scotch.] Dorty (dor'ti), a. [Comp. G. trotzig, stubborn, sulky.] [Scotch.] 1. Pettish; prone to sullenness; saucy. Dorty Jenny's pride.' Allan Ramsay.-2. Applied to plants, delicate; ill to cultivate. Dory (do'ri), n. See DOREE. Dory (do'ri), n. Marryatt. A canoe or small boat. Doryphora (dō-rif′ō-ra), n. [Gr. dory, a stem, and phero, to bear.] The name formerly given to the genus of Coleoptera which includes the Colorado beetle. See COLORADO BEETLE. Dose (dos), n. [Fr., from Gr. dosis, a giving, from didomi, to give.] 1. The quantity of medicine given or prescribed to be taken at one time. I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not by violent doses. W. Irving. 2. Anything given to be swallowed; specifically, anything nauseous that one is obliged to take, or that is offered to one to be taken. As fulsome a dose as you shall give him he shall South. readily take it down. 3. As much as a man can take; a quantity in general. We pity or laugh at those fatuous extravagants, while yet ourselves have a considerable dose of what makes them so. Granville. 4. What it falls to one's lot to receive. Married his punctual dose of wives, Is cuckolded, and breaks, or thrives. Hudibras. Dose (dos), v.t. pret. & pp. dosed; ppr. dosing. [Fr. doser. See the noun.] 1. To proportion a medicine properly to the patient or disease; to form into suitable doses. 2. To give doses to; to give medicine or physic to. 'A bold, self-opinioned physician, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill him secundum artem.' South.-3. To give anything nauseous to. Dosein, n. [Fr.] A dozen. Chaucer. Dosel, Doser (dos'el, dos'èr), n. [See DORSE.] 1. Hangings of tapestry or carpet-work, sometimes richly embroidered with silks, and gold and silver, placed round the walls of a hall, or at the east end, and sometimes the sides, of the chancel of a church.-2. A hanging or screen of rich stuff at the back of the dais or seat of state. See DAIS, 3. There were dosers on the deis. Warton. Dosithean (do-si'the-an), n. One of an ancient sect among the Samaritans, so called from their founder Dositheus, who was a contemporary and associate of Simon Magus, and lived in the first century of the Christian era. They rejected the authority of the prophets, believed in the divine inspiration of their founder, and had many superstitious practices. Dosology (do-sol'o-ji), n. [Gr. dosis, a dose, and logos, discourse.] A treatise on doses of medicine. Doss (dos), v.t. 1. To attack with the horns; to toss. [Local.]-2. To pay; as, to doss down money. [Scotch.] Dosser, n. See DORSER. Dossil (dos'sil), n. [O. E. dosil, doselle, from O. Fr. dosil, dousil, a spigot, L.L. duciculus, from duco.] In surg. a pledget or portion of lint made into a cylindric form, or the shape of a date. Dost (dust), the second person singular of do (which see). Dot (dot), n. [Probably from same root as A. Sax. dyttan, to close up, the primary meaning being a small lump which stops any opening; a clot. Cog. L.G. dutte, a plug, a stopper.] 1. A small point or spot made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck, used in marking a writing or other thing; a spot; specifically, in music, a point or speck placed after a note or rest, in order to make such note or rest half as long again. In modern music a double dot is often used, in which case the second is equal to half of the first. Dorstenia (dor-stē'ni-a), n. [After T. Dorsten, a German botanist.] A genus of plants, nat. order Urticaceae, found in tropical America. They have their naked flowers buried in a flat, fleshy, somewhat concave receptacle. D. Contrajerva and other species have a stimulant and tonic rhizome, which is used medicinally under the name of contrayerva root (which see). Dorsum (dor'sum), n. [L] 1. The ridge of a hill. A similar ridge, which . . . sud Long stood Sir Bedivere Revolving many memories, till the hull Look'd one black dot against the verge of dawn. Tennyson. DOTTEREL 2. A patch of plaster put on to regulate the floating rule in making screeds and bays. Dot (dot), v.t. pret. & pp. dotted; ppr. dotting. 1. To mark with dots.-2. To mark or diversify with small detached objects resembling dots; as, a landscape dotter with cottages or clumps of trees. Dotting the fields of corn and vine, Like ghosts, the huge gnarl'd olives shine. Matt. Arnold. Dot (dot), v.i. To make dots or spots. Dot (dot), n. [Fr. dot; L. dos, dotis, dowry, from do, dare, to give.] The fortune or dowry a woman brings her husband on her marriage. [United States, Louisiana.] Dotage (dot'aj), n. [From dote.] 1. Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind. particularly in old age; childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man now in his dotage. The infancy and the dotage of Greek literature.' Macaulay. From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow. And Swift expires, a driveller and a show, Johnson. 2. Weak and foolish affection; excessive fondness. 'Voluntary dotage of some mistress.' Shak. Dotal (dot'al), a. [Fr., from L. dotalis, from dos, dower. Pertaining to dower or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it. Shall I, of one poor dotal town possest, Garth Dotant (dot'ant), n. A dotard. A decayed dotant.' Shak. Dotard (dot'érd), n. [From dote, and affix ard (which see).] 1. A man whose intellect is impaired by age; one in his second childhood. The sickly dotard wants a wife. Prior 2. A doting fellow; one foolishly fond. Dotardly (dōt'érd-li), a. Like a dotard: weak. Dotation (do-ta'shon), n. [L. L. dotatio. from L. doto, dotatum, to endow, to portion, from dos, dotis, a dowry.] 1. The act of endowing or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.-2. Endowment; establishment of funds for the support of an hospital or other eleemosynary corporation. Dote (dot), v.i. pret. & pp. doted; ppr. doting. [The same word as O. D. doten, to dote. From same root comes Fr. radoter, to rave Probably akin to D. dut, a nap, dutten, to take a nap, dodderig, sleepy, stupified, and to W. dotiaw, to become confused. Written also Doat.] 1. To be delirious; to have the intellect impaired by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to be silly. Time has made you dote, and vainly tell Of arms imagined in your lonely cell. Dryden. 2. To be excessively in love; to love to excess or extravagance: usually with on or upon, What dust we dote on, when 'tis man we love. Pope Aholah... doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians Ezek. xx. 5 Dotet (dot), n. [L. dos, dotis, a dowry.] 1. A marriage portion; a dowry.-2. pl. Natural gifts or endowments. B. Jonson. Doted (dōt'ed), a. 1. Stupid; foolish. Whose sencelesse speach, and doted ignorance. Spenser 2. Decayed. Such an old oak, though now it be doted, will not be struck down at one blow, Bp. Howson. Doter (dōt'èr), n. 1. One who dotes; a man whose understanding is enfeebled by age. a dotard.-2. One who is excessively fond or weakly in love. Doth (duth), the irregular third person singular of do (which see. Dotingly (dot'ing-li), adv. In a doting manner; foolishly; in a manner characterized by excessive fondness. Dotish (dōt'ish), a. Childishly fond; weak; stupid. Dotkin, ". See DODKIN. Dottard (dot'tėrd), n. [From dote, in old sense of to decay.] A decayed tree. Dotted (dot'ed), pp. Marked with small dots or punctures.-Dotted note, in music, a note followed by a dot to indicate an increase of length equal to one half of its simple value; thus a dotted semibreve is equal to three minims, and a dotted minim to three crotchets.-Dotted rest, a rest lengthened by a dot, in the same manner as a dotted note. Dotterel, Dottrel (dot'tér-el, dottrel), n [From dote, from the bird's supposed stupidity. 1. Charadrius morinellus, a grallatorial bird about 10 inches long, a species of plover, breeding in the highest latitudes of Asia and Europe, and migrating to the DOUANIER shores of the Mediterranean. It appears our moors and mountains in its northand miration in spring, and in its southwarsi in autumn Coming from regions little frequented by man it has no fear of him, and allows itself to be easily taken; hence its name. It was popularly believed to imitate the actions of any one near it, and t be taken by reason of this peculiarity. Its flesh is much esteemed. In catching A dotterels we see how the foolish bird jhay “h the ape in gestures. Басом. A booby, a dupe, a gull. 'Devout dottrels and worldly-wise people.' Bale. Douanier, Douaneer (dwan-yã, dò-a-nēr′),n. Fr: An officer of the customs. Douay Bible (do'a bibl), n. [From Douay, a town in France] An English translation of the Scriptures sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church, of which the New Testatent was first printed at Rheims in 1582, and the Old Testament at Douay in 1609-10. Doub, n See DooB. Double (dubl), a. [Fr. double, from L. duĮvus, double- duo, two, and term plus, from rent of pleo, to fill. See FILL.] 1. In pairs. representing two in a set together; coupled, composed of two mutual equivalents or corresponding parts; twofold; as, a double leaf; a double chin. Dryden. Darkness and tempest make a double night. 2 Twice as much; multiplied by two; containing the same quantity or length repeated Take double money in your hand Gen. xliii. 12. Let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. 2 Ki. ii. 9. 3 Deceitful; acting two parts, one openly, the other in secret. And with a double heart do they speak. Ps. xii. 2. 4 In bot. having two or more rows of petals formed by cultivation from stamens and carpels Double distress, in Scots law, the name given to those arrestments which are ad by two or more creditors in order to attach the funds of their debtor in the hands of a third party. Double (dubl), adv. Twice. Swift. I was double their age. Double is much used in composition to denote two ways, or twice the number or quantity.] Double (dab), w.t. pret. & pp. doubled; ppr. doubling. (See the adjective.] 1. To lay one part of anything over the other; to fold one part upon another part of; as, to double the leaf of a book, to double down a corner. 2. To increase or extend by adding an equal sum, value, quantity, or length; as, to double a sum of money, to double the amount; to double the quantity or size of a thing: to double the length. Tha shait double the sixth curtain in the tore front of the tabernacle. Ex. xxvi. 9. 3 To be the double of, to contain twice the sum, quantity, or length of, or twice as much as, as, the enemy doubles our army in numbers-4 To repeat, to add; as, to double blow on blow. Doubles that sin in Bethel and in Dan. Milton. 5 To pass round or by; to march or sail round, so as to proceed along both sides of. Saling along the coast he doubled the promontory of Carthage. Knolles. Malit to unite two ranks or files in one.To double and twist, to add one thread to another and twist them together. To double upon (inilit ), to inclose between two fires. Double (dubl), ei. 1. To increase to twice the sum, number, value, quantity, or length; to increase or grow to twice as much. Tis observed in particular nations, that within the space of three hundred years, notwithstanding all Casualties, the number of men doubles. T. Burnet. 2. To enlarge a wager to twice the sum laid. I am resolved to double till I win. Dryden. 3 To turn back or wind in running. Doshing and turning like a hunted hare. Dryden. 4 To play tricks; to use slights. What penalty and danger you accrue, 89 If the thief be found, let him pay double. In all the four great years of mortality,... I do not find that any week the plague increased to the double of the preceding week above five times. Graunt. 2. A turn in running to escape pursuers. 3 A trick; a shift; an artifice to deceive.4. Strong beer; beer professing to be double the ordinary strength. A pot of good double.' Shak. 5. Something precisely equal or like; a counterpart; a counterfeit; a duplicate; a copy; a person's apparition or likeness appearing to himself and admonishing him of his approaching death; a wraith; as, his or her double; the double of a legal instrument. My charming friend... has, I am almost sure, a double, who preaches his afternoon sermons for him. Atlantic Monthly. 6. A fold or plait; a doubling. Rolled up in sevenfold double.' Marston.-7. Milit the quickest step in marching next to the run. In the double the soldier makes 165 steps, each 33 inches long, in the minute. In cases of urgency the steps may be increased up to 180 per minute. Contracted for double-quick.-8. Eccles. a feast in which the antiphon is doubled, that is, said twice, before and after the psalms, instead of only half being said, as in simple feasts.-9. A roofing slate of the smallest size, measuring about 1 foot by 6 inches.-10. In printing, several words, lines, or sentences set twice. Double-acting (du'bl-akt-ing), p. and a. In mech. acting, or applying power in two directions; producing a double result.Double-acting inclined plane, in rail. &c. an inclined plane worked by the gravity of the load conveyed, the loaded waggons which descend being made to pull up the empty ones by means of a rope passing round a pulley or drum at the top of the plane.Double-acting pump, a pump which throws Double-bank (du'bl-bank), v.t. To have an water at both the up and the down stroke. oar pulled by two men. Double-banked, Double-benched (du'blbangkt, du'bl-bensht), a. Naut. having two opposite oars managed by rowers on the same bench, or having two men to the same oar: said of a boat. Double-bar (du'bl-bär), n. In music, two bars placed together at the conclusion of an air or strain. If two dots are added to it, the strain on that side should be repeated. Double-barrelled (du'bl-ba-rel), a. 1. Having two barrels, as a gun.-2. Fig. applied to anything that effects a double purpose or produces a double result. This was a double-barrelled compliment. It implied that Mrs. Weller was a most agreeable female, and also that Mr. Stiggins had a clerical appearance. Dickens. Double-bass, Double-base (du'bl-bas, du'bl-bas), n. The largest musical instrument of the viol kind. In England, France, and Italy the double-base has often only three strings, which are tuned in fourths. Its compass is from the lower A of the bass clef to tenor F. In Germany a fourth string is used, and gives it a range of three notes lower. Double-biting (du'bl-bit-ing), a. Biting or cutting on either side; as, a double-biting axe. Double-breasted (du'bl-brest-ed), a. Applied to a waistcoat or coat either side of which may be made to lap over the other and button. He wore a pair of plaid trousers, and a large rough double-breasted waistcoat. Dickens. Double-charge (du'bl-chärj), v.t. To charge or intrust with a double portion. I will double-charge thee with dignities.' Shak. Double-crown (du'bl-kroun), n. An English gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of 108., afterwards raised to 118. Double-dealer (du'bl-dél-ér), n. One who acts two different parts in the same business or at the same time; a deceitful, trickish person; one who says one thing and thinks or intends another; one guilty of Double-dealing (du'bl-del-ing), n. Artifice; duplicity. duplicity; deceitful practice; the profession of one thing and the practice of another. Double-dealing (du'bl-del-ing), a. Given to duplicity; deceitful. DOUBLE-OCTAVE dyed.-2. Thorough; complete; utter; atrocious; as, a double-dyed villain. Double-eagle (du'bl-e-gl), n. 1. A gold coin of the United States, worth $20.-2. The representation of an eagle with two heads, as in the national arms of Russia. Double-edged (du’bl-eja), a. 1. Having two edges. Your Delphic sword,' the panther then replied, Is double-edged, and cuts on either side.' Dryden 2. Fig. applied to an argument which makes both for and against the person employing; or to any statement having a double meaning. A Double-elephant (du'bl-el-e-fant), n. large size of writing, drawing, and printing paper, 40 inches by 261. Double-entendre (do-bl-an-tan-dr), n. [Spurious Fr. form.] A phrase with a double meaning, one of which is often somewhat obscure or indelicate. Double-entry (du'bl-en-tri), n. A mode of book-keeping in which two entries are made of every transaction, one on the Dr. side of one account, and the other on the Cr. side of another account, in order that the one may check the other. See BOOK-KEEPING. Double-eyed (du'bl-id), a. Watching in all directions; keenly watchful; having keen sight. Prevelie he (the kid) peeped out through a chinck, Yet not so prevelie but the Foxe him spyed; For deceitfull meaning is double-eyed. Spenser. Double-face (du'bl-fas), n. Duplicity; the acting of different parts in the same transaction. Double-faced (du'bl-fast), a. Deceitful: hypocritical; showing two faces. 'Fame if not double-faced is double-mouthed.' Milton. Double-first (du'bl-férst), n. In Oxford University-(a) One who gains the highest place, after examination, both in classics and mathematics. The position of an Oxford double-first is the highest honour of that university, as that of senior wrangler is of Cambridge. (b) The degree itself; as, he took a double-first at Oxford. Double-floor (du'bl-flor), n. A floor constructed with binding and bridging joists. Double-flower (du'bl-flou-ér), n. A flower whose organs of reproduction are partly or wholly converted into petals, so that there are more rows of petals than the normal number. Hay Double-flowered (du'bl-flou-érd), a. ing double flowers, as a plant. Double-gear (du'bl-gēr), n. In mach. the gearing attached to the headstock of a lathe to vary its speed. Having Double-gild (du'bl-gild), v.t. To gild with double-coatings of gold. Double-glo'ster (du'bl-glos-tér), n. A rich kind of cheese, made in Gloucestershire from new milk. Double-handed (dubl-hand-ed), a. Having two hands; deceitful. Double-headed (du'bl-hed-ed), a. two heads. Double-hearted (du'bl-härt-ed), a. Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. Double-hung (du'bl-hung), a. In arch. a term applied to the two sashes of a window movable, the one upwards and the other downwards, by means of pulleys and weights. Double-letters (du'bl-let-érz), n. pl. printing, types such as f, i, and I, which when used in combination are apt to be broken, and are therefore cast in one piece, or logotype, as ff, fi, fl, &c. The diphthongs æ and a are also cast as double-letters. Double-lock (du'bl-lok), v. t. To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Double-manned (du'bl-mand), a. Furnished with twice the complement of men, or with two men instead of one. Double-meaning (du'bl-mēn-ing), a. Having two meanings; conveying two meanings; deceitful. A double-meaning prophesier.' Shak. In Double-minded (du'bl-mind-ed), a. Having different minds at different times; unsettled; wavering; unstable; undetermined. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. Jam, i. 8. Double-natured (du'bl-na-tūrd), a. Having a twofold nature. Two kinds of life hath double-natured man, Doubleness (du'bl-nes), n. See the 5 In printing, to set up the same word or words unintentionally a second time.— 6 Milit to march at the double. noun- To double upon (milit.), to inclose between two fires, as an enemy's fleet. Double (dubl), n. 1. Twice as much; twice the number, sum, value, quantity, or length. There were parsons at Oxford as double-dealing and dangerous as any priests out of Rome. Thackeray. Double-dye (du'bl-di), v.t. To dye twice over. Double-dyed (duʼbl-did), p. and a. 1. Twice 1. The state of being doubled. "The doubleness of the benefit.' Shak.-2. Duplicity. Friends full of doubleness.' Chaucer. Double-octave (du’bl-ok-tāv), n. In music, an interval composed of two octaves or fif DOUBLE-PLEA teen notes in diatonic progression; a fifteenth. Double-plea (du'bl-plē), n. In law, a plea in which the defendant alleges two different matters in bar of the action. Double-quarrel (du'bl-kwo-rel), n. Eccles. a complaint of the clerk to the archbishop against an inferior ordinary, for delay of justice. Double-quick (du'bl-kwik), n. Milit. the quickest step next to the run, consisting of 165 steps in the minute. See DOUBLE, n. Double-quick (du'bl-kwik), a. 1. Performed in the time of the double-quick; pertaining to or in conformity with the double-quick; as, double-quick step.-2. Very quick or rapid; as, he disappeared in double-quick time. Double-quick (du'bl-kwik), adv. Milit. in double-quick step; as, we were marching double-quick. Milit. to Milit. to Double-quick (du'bl-kwik), v.i. march in double-quick step. Double-quick (du'bl-kwik), v.t. cause to march in double-quick step; as, I double-quicked them. Doubler (du'blèr), n. He who or that doubles; particularly, an instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electrometer. Double-security (du'bl-se-kü'ri-ti), n. Two securities held by a creditor for the same debt. Double-shade (du'bl-shad), v. t. To double the natural darkness of. Double-shining (du'bl-shin-ing), a. Shining with double lustre. Double-shuffle (du'bl-shuf-1), n. A low shuffling, noisy dance. Double-star (dubl stär), n. In astron, two stars so near each other that they are distinguishable only by the help of a telescope. Double-stop (du'bl-stop), v.t. In music, to stop two strings simultaneously with the fingers in violin playing and thus produce two-part harmony. Doublet (dub'let), n. [O. Fr., dim. of double, a garment of two plies, originally lined or wadded for defence.] 1. A close-fitting garment, covering the body from the neck to a little below the waist. It was introduced from France into England in the fourteenth century, and was worn by both sexes and all ranks until the time of Charles II., when it was superseded by the vest and waistcoat. His doublet was of sturdy buff, And though not sword, yet cudgel proof. Hudibras. 2. One of a pair. See DOUBLETS.-3. In lapi 1, Doublet, time of Edward IV. 2, Doublet, portrait of Sir Wm. Russell; 3, Pease-cod bellied Doublet: both time of Elizabeth. 4. Doublet, time of Charles I. dary work, a counterfeit stone composed of two pieces of crystal, with a colour between them, so that they have the same appearance as if the whole substance of the crystal were coloured.-4. In printing, a word or phrase unintentionally doubled or set up the second 90 time.-5. A simple form of microscope, consisting of a combination of two planoconvex lenses whose focal lengths are in the ratio of three to one, placed with their plane sides towards the object, and the lens of shortest focal length next the object. See TRIPLET.-6. A duplicate form of a word; one of two (or more) words really the same but different in form, as drag and draw. Double-tongue (du'bl-tung), v.t. In music, to apply the tongue rapidly to the roof of the mouth in flute playing so as to insure a brilliant execution of a staccato passage. Double-tongued (du'bl-tungd), a. Making contrary declarations on the same subject at different times; deceitful. Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued. I Tim. iii. 8. Doublets (dub'lets), n. pl. 1. A game with dice upon tables, somewhat resembling backgammon.-2. Two; a pair; specifically, two dice which, when thrown, come up each with the same number of spots; as, to throw doublets. Those doublets on the side of his tail seem to add strength to the muscles which move the tail-fins. Grew. 3. A double meaning. Mason. Double-vault (du'bl-valt), n. In arch. one vault built over another, with a space be AT Double Vaults, dome of San Pietro in tween the convexity of the one and the Doubloon (dub-lön'), n. [Fr. doublon.] A coin of Spain and the Spanish American States, originally double the value of the pistole. The doubloon of Spain is of 100 reals, and equivalent to about a guinea sterling. The double doubloon, called also doubloon or onza (ounce of gold), is of 320 reals, or 16 hard dollars, and estimated at its mintage rate is worth 668. 8d. Doubly (dubli), adv. In twice the quantity; to twice the degree; as, to be doubly sensible of an obligation. When musing on companions gone, We doubly feel ourselves alone. Sir W. Scott. Doubt (dout), v. i. [O. Fr. doubter; Fr. douter, DOUBTFULLY from L. dubito, to doubt, a freq. from a fictive dubo, from dubius, doubtful, liable to turn out two ways, from duo, two. To waver or fluctuate in opinion; to hesitate; to be in suspense; to be in uncertainty respecting the truth or fact; to be undetermined: used sometimes with of. Even in matters divine, concerning some things, we may lawfully doubt and suspend our judgment. Hooker. SYN. To waver, fluctuate, hesitate, demur, scruple, question, suspect. Doubt (dout), v.t. 1. To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent from; to hesitate to believe; as, I have heard the story, but I doubt the truth of it.-2. To suspect; to be apprehensive of; to be inclined to think. If they turn not back perverse: But that I doubt. Milton. I doubt there's deep resentment in his mind. Orway. I doubt some little difficulty may arise. Fer. Bentham. Plato is clothed with the powers of a poet, stands upon the highest place of the poet, and (though I doubt he wanted the decisive gift of lyric expression). mainly is not a poet, because he chose to use the poetic gift to an ulterior purpose. Emerson. 3. To distrust; to withhold confidence from; to be diffident of; as, to doubt our ability to execute an office. T'admire superior sense, and doubt their own. Pope. 4. To fill with fear or distrust; to frighten; to daunt. One single valour, The virtues of the valiant Caratach, More doubts me than all Britain. Beau. & Fl Doubt (dout), n. 1. A fluctuation of mind respecting the truth or correctness of a statement or opinion, or the propriety of an action, arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of mind; want of belief; unsettled state of opinion; as, to have doubts respecting the theory of the tides. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. Tennyson. 2. Uncertainty of condition. Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee. is not convinced. Doubtful (dout'ful), a. 1. Not settled in We have sustained one day in doubtful fight 5. Not secure; not without suspicion. Our manner is always to cast a doubtful and a more suspicious eye towards that over which we know we have least power. Hooker. 6. Not confident; not without fear; indicating doubt. With doubtful feet, and wavering resolution. 7. Not certain or defined; as, a doubtful hue. SYN. Wavering, hesitating, undetermined, dubious, uncertain, equivocal, ambiguous, problematical, questionable, precarious, hazardous. Doubtfully (dout'ful-li), adv. 1. In a doubtful manner; dubiously; hesitatingly; as, he gave his assent, but doubtfully.-2. With doubt; irresolutely. 3. Ambiguously; with uncertainty of meaning. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden. 4. In a state of dread. With that she waked full of fright Spenser |