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{ Dornick (?), or Dornock (?) }, n. A coarse sort of damask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stout figured linen manufactured in Scotland. [Formerly written also darnex, dornic, dorneck, etc.] Halliwell. Jamieson.
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☞ Ure says that dornock, a kind of stout figured linen, derives its name from a town in Scotland where it was first manufactured for tablecloths.
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Dorp (?), n. [LG. & D. dorp. See .] A hamlet. “A mean fishing dorp.” Howell.
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Dorr (?), n. The dorbeetle; also, a drone or an idler. See 1st . Robynson (More's Utopia).
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Dorr, v. t. 1. To deceive. [Obs.] See , v. t.
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2. To deafen with noise. [Obs.] Halliwell.
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Dorrfly (?), n. (Zoöl.) See 1st .
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Dorrhawk (?), n. (Zoöl.) See .
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Dorsad (?), adv. [Dorsum +L. ad towards.] (Anat.) Toward the dorsum or back; on the dorsal side; dorsally.
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Dorsal (?), a. [F. dorsal, LL. dorsalis, fr. L. dorsualis, fr. dorsum back; cf. Gr. �, �, mountain ridge. Cf. , , .] 1. (Anat.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
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2. (Bot.) (a) Pertaining to the surface naturally inferior, as of a leaf. (b) Pertaining to the surface naturally superior, as of a creeping hepatic moss.
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Coloq. Dorsal vessel (Zoöl.), a central pulsating blood vessel along the back of insects, acting as a heart.
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Dorsal, n. [LL. dorsale, neut. fr. dorsalis. See , a.] (Fine Arts) A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, or of an altar, or in any similar position.
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Dorsale (?), n. Same as , n.
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Dorsally (?), adv. (Anat.) On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.
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Dorse (?), n. [Cf. L. dorsum the back. See , .] 1. Same as , n. [Obs.]
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2. The back of a book. [Obs.]
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Books, all richly bound, with gilt dorses. Wood.
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Dorse, n. (Zoöl.) The Baltic or variable cod (Gadus callarias), by some believed to be the young of the common codfish.
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Dorsel (?), n. [See .] 1. A pannier.
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2. Same as , n.
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Dorser (?), n. See .
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dorsibranchiata (?), n. pl. [NL., from L. dorsum back + branchiae gills.] (Zoöl.) A division of chætopod annelids in which the branchiæ are along the back, on each side, or on the parapodia. [See Illusts. under and .]
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Dorsibranchiate (?), a. (Zoöl.) Having branchiæ along the back; belonging to the Dorsibranchiata. -- n. One of the Dorsibranchiata.
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Dorsiferous (?),. [Dorsum + -ferous; cf. F. dorsifère.] (Biol.) Bearing, or producing, on the back; -- applied to ferns which produce seeds on the back of the leaf, and to certain Batrachia, the ova of which become attached to the skin of the back of the parent, where they develop; dorsiparous.
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Dorsimeson (?), n. [Dorsum + meson.] (Anat.) See .
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Dorsiparous (?), a. [Dorsum + L. parere to bring forth.] (Biol.) Same as .
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Dorsiventral (?), a. [Dorsum + ventral.] 1. (Biol.) Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral.
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2. (Anat.) See .
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Dorsoventral (?), a. [dorsum + ventral.] (Anat.) From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis.
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Dorsum (?), n. [L.] 1. The ridge of a hill.
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2. (Anat.) The back or dorsal region of an animal; the upper side of an appendage or part; as, the dorsum of the tongue.

{ Dortour (?), Dorture (?), } n. [F. dortoir, fr. L. dormitorium.] A dormitory. [Obs.] Bacon.
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Dory (?), n.; pl. Dories (#). [Named from 1st color, fr. F. dorée gilded, fr. dorer to gild, L. deaurare. See , and cf. .] 1. (Zoöl.) A European fish. See , and .
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2. (Zoöl.) The American wall-eyed perch; -- called also doré. See .
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Dory, n.; pl. Dories (�). A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides.
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Doryphora (?), n. [NL. See .] (Zoöl.) A genus of plant-eating beetles, including the potato beetle. See .
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Doryphoros (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. �, lit., spear bearing; � a spear + ferein to bear.] (Fine Arts) A spear bearer; a statue of a man holding a spear or in the attitude of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us.
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Dos-à-dos (?), adv. [F.] Back to back; as, to sit dos-à-dos in a dogcart; to dance dos-à-dos, or so that two dancers move forward and pass back to back.
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Dos-à-dos, n. A sofa, open carriage, or the like, so constructed that the occupants sit back to back.
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Dosage (dōs�j), n. [Cf. F. dosage. See , v.] 1. (Med.) The administration of medicine in doses; specif., a scheme or system of grading doses of medicine according to age, etc.
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2. The process of adding some ingredient, as to wine, to give flavor, character, or strength.
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3. same as ; as, 200 mg q.i.d. [wns=1]
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4. the quantity of a medicine or other substance given to an animal, expressed as a quantity per body weight; as, use a dosage of 10 milligrams per kilogram
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5. the quantity of radiation given to or absorbed by an object; as, a maximum dosage of 1 mrad per day is allowed. [wns=1]
Syn. -- dose.
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Dose (dōs), n. [F. dose, Gr. dosis a giving, a dose, fr. didonai to give; akin to L. dare to give. See point of time.] 1. The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.
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2. A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive.
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3. Anything unpleasant that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one; also used figuratively, as to give someone a dose of his own medicine, i. e. to retaliate in kind.
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I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not by violent doses. W. Irving.
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I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give him, he shall readily take it down. South.
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4. a quantity of radiation which an object absorbs, or to which it is exposed.
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Dose, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dosed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. dosing.] [Cf. F. doser. See , n.] 1. To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.
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2. To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need.
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A self-opinioned physician, worse than his distemper, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill him, “secundum artem.” South
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3. To give anything nauseous to.
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Dosel (?), n. [OF. dossel; cf. LL. dorsale. See , and cf. , .] Same as , n. [R.]
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do-si-do (?), n. [from dos-à-dos, back to back.] a movement in square-dancing in which two dancers move around each other in a back-to-back position, and return to their original places.
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dosimeter n. 1. for measuring doses of .
Syn. -- dosemeter.
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dosimeter (?), n. [NL. dosis dose + -meter.] a device for measuring doses of radiation, especially ionizing radiation such as X-rays, gamma rays, or ionizing particles.
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dosimeter badge (?), n. a dosimeter cosisting of a radiation-sensitive material, such as film, worn in a small package on a person's clothing, to record the accumulated radiation exposure of the person over a period of time; -- used to monitor the exposure of individuals, such as workers in a nuclear power plant, to ionizing radiation.
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dosimetry (?), n. [NL. dosis dose + -metry.] (Med.) Measurement of doses; specif., a system of therapeutics which uses but few remedies, mostly alkaloids, and gives them in doses fixed by certain rules. -- Dosimetric (#), a. -- Dosimetrist (#), n.
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Dosology (?), n. [Dose + -logy.] Posology. [R.] Ogilvie.
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Doss (dŏs), n. [Etym. uncertain.] A place to sleep in; a bed; hence, sleep. [Slang]
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doss v. i. to sleep in a convenient place.
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Doss house. A cheap lodging house.

They [street Arabs] consort together and sleep in low doss houses where they meet with all kinds of villainy. W. Besant.
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Dossel (?), n. [See , n.] Same as , n.
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Dosser (?), n. [LL. dosserum, or F.dossier bundle of papers, part of a basket resting on the back, fr. L. dorsum back. See , and cf. .] [Written also dorser and dorsel.] 1. A pannier, or basket.
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To hire a ripper's mare, and buy new dossers. Beau. & Fl.
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2. A hanging tapestry; a dorsal.
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Dossier (d�ssy�; E. dŏssĭẽr), n. [F., back of a thing, bulging bundle of papers, fr. dos back.] A bundle containing the papers in reference to some matter.
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Dossil (?), n. [OE. dosil faucet of a barrel, OF. dosil, duisil, spigot, LL. diciculus, ducillus, fr. L. ducere to lead, draw. See , .] 1. (Surg.) A small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent.
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2. (Printing) A roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines.
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Dost (?), 2d pers. sing. pres. of .
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Dostoevski, Dostoyevski prop. n. Russian author Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski; born 1821, died 1881.
Syn. -- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski.
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Dostoevskian Dostoyevskian prop. adj. of or pertaining to Fyodor Dostoevski.
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Dot (dŏt), n. [F., fr. L. dos, dotis, dowry. See , and cf. dowry.] (Law) A marriage portion; dowry. [Louisiana]
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Dot, n. [Cf. AS. dott small spot, speck; of uncertain origin.] 1. A small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck, or small mark.
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2. Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen; as, a dot of a child.
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Dot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Dotting.] 1. To mark with dots or small spots; as, to dot a line.
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2. To mark or diversify with small detached objects; as, a landscape dotted with cottages.
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Dot, v. i. To make dots or specks.
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DoT, DOT, D.O.T. (dēōtē), prop. n. The United States Department of Transportation. [acronym] The Department of Transportation promulgates standards for the strength of shipping containers, and this abgreviation is often seen on cardboard boxes.
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Dotage (?), n. [From , v. i.] 1. Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage.
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Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature. Macaulay.
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2. Foolish utterance; drivel.
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The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca. Milton.
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3. Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection.
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The dotage of the nation on presbytery. Bp. Burnet.
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Dotal (?), a. [L. dotalis, fr. dos, dotis, dowry: cf. F. dotal. See dowry.] Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it. Garth.
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Dotant (?), n. A dotard. [Obs.] Shak.
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Dotard (?), n. [ , v. i.] One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood.
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The sickly dotard wants a wife. Prior.
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Dotardly, a. Foolish; weak. Dr. H. More.
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Dotary (?), n. A dotard's weakness; dotage. [Obs.] Drayton.
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Dotation (?), n. [LL. dotatio, fr. L. dotare to endow, fr. dos, dotis, dower: cf. F. dotation. See dowry.] 1. The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.
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2. Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation. Blackstone.
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Dote (?), n. [See dowry.] 1. A marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st , n. Wyatt.
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2. pl. Natural endowments. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
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Dote, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Doted; p. pr. & vb. n. Doting.] [OE. doten; akin to OD. doten, D. dutten, to doze, Icel. dotta to nod from sleep, MHG. t�zen to keep still: cf. F. doter, OF. radoter (to dote, rave, talk idly or senselessly), which are from the same source.] [Written also doat.] 1. To act foolishly. [Obs.]
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He wol make him doten anon right. Chaucer.
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2. To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel.
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Time has made you dote, and vainly tell
Of arms imagined in your lonely cell. Dryden.
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He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died. South.
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3. To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to be weakly affectionate; -- with on or upon; as, the mother dotes on her child.
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Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote. Shak.
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What dust we dote on, when 't is man we love. Pope.
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Dote, n. An imbecile; a dotard. Halliwell.
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Doted (?), a. 1. Stupid; foolish. [Obs.]
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Senseless speech and doted ignorance. Spenser.
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2. Half-rotten; as, doted wood. [Local, U. S.]
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Dotehead (?), n. A dotard. [R.] Tyndale.
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Doter (?), n. 1. One who dotes; a man whose understanding is enfeebled by age; a dotard. Burton.
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2. One excessively fond, or weak in love. Shak.
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Dotery (?), n. The acts or speech of a dotard; drivel. [R.]
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Doth (?), 3d pers. sing. pres. of .
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Doting (?), a. That dotes; silly; excessively fond. -- Dotingly, adv. -- Dotingness, n.
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Dotish, a. Foolish; weak; imbecile. Sir W. Scott.
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Dottard (?), n. [For ?] An old, decayed tree. [R.] Bacon.
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Dotted (?), a. Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects.
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Coloq. Dotted note (Mus.), 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 quarter to three eighth notes. -- Coloq. Dotted rest , a rest lengthened by a dot in the same manner as a dotted note.
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☞ Notes and rests are sometimes followed by two dots, to indicate an increase of length equal to three quarters of their simple value, and they are then said to be double-dotted.
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Dotterel (?), a. [Cf. .] Decayed. “Some old dotterel trees.” [Obs.] Ascham.
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Dotterel, n. [From , v. i.] 1. (Zoöl.) A European bird of the Plover family (Eudromias morinellus, syn. Charadrius morinellus). It is tame and easily taken, and is popularly believed to imitate the movements of the fowler.
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In catching of dotterels we see how the foolish bird playeth the ape in gestures. Bacon.
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☞ The ringed dotterel (or ring plover) is Charadrius hiaticula.
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2. A silly fellow; a dupe; a gull. Barrow.
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Dotting pen (?). See under .
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Dottrel (?), n. (Zoöl.) See .
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Dotty (?), a. [From 2d .] 1. Composed of, or characterized by, dots.
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2. [Perh. a different word; cf. .] Unsteady in gait; hence, feeble; half-witted. [Eng.]
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Doty (?), a. [See .] Half-rotten; as, doty timber. [Local, U. S.]
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Douane (?), n. [F.] A customhouse.
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Douanier (?), n. [F.] An officer of the French customs. [Anglicized form douaneer.]
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Douar (?), n. [F., fr. Ar. d�ār.] A village composed of Arab tents arranged in streets.
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Douay Bible (?). [From Douay, or Douai, a town in France.] A translation of the Scriptures into the English language for the use of English-speaking Roman Catholics; -- done from the Latin Vulgate by English scholars resident in France. The New Testament portion was published at Rheims, A. D. 1582, the Old Testament at Douai, A. D. 1609-10. Various revised editions have since been published. [Written also Doway Bible. Called also the Rheims and Douay version.]
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Doub grass (d�b grȧs).(Bot.) Doob grass.
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Double (dŭb'l), a. [OE. doble, duble, double, OF. doble, duble, double, F. double, fr. L. duplus, fr. the root of duo two, and perh. that of plenus full; akin to Gr. diploos double. See , and , and cf. , .] 1. Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent; made twice as large or as much, etc.
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Let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. 2 Kings ii. 9.
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Darkness and tempest make a double night. Dryden.
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2. Being in pairs; presenting two of a kind, or two in a set together; coupled.
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[Let] The swan, on still St. Mary's lake,
Float double, swan and shadow. Wordsworth.
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3. Divided into two; acting two parts, one openly and the other secretly; equivocal; deceitful; insincere.
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With a double heart do they speak. Ps. xii. 2.
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4. (Bot.) Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally double.
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☞ Double is often used as the first part of a compound word, generally denoting two ways, or twice the number, quantity, force, etc., twofold, or having two.
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Coloq. Double base , or Coloq. Double bass (Mus.), the largest and lowest-toned instrument in the violin form; the contrabasso or violone. -- Coloq. Double convex . See under . -- Coloq. Double counterpoint (Mus.), that species of counterpoint or composition, in which two of the parts may be inverted, by setting one of them an octave higher or lower. -- Coloq. Double court (Lawn Tennis), a court laid out for four players, two on each side. -- Coloq. Double dagger (Print.), a reference mark (‡) next to the dagger (†) in order; a diesis. -- Coloq. Double drum (Mus.), a large drum that is beaten at both ends. -- Coloq. Double eagle , a gold coin of the United States having the value of 20 dollars. -- Coloq. Double entry . See under . -- Coloq. Double floor (Arch.), a floor in which binding joists support flooring joists above and ceiling joists below. See Illust. of Double-framed floor. -- Coloq. Double flower . See , a., 4. -- Coloq. Double-framed floor (Arch.), a double floor having girders into which the binding joists are framed. -- Coloq. Double fugue (Mus.), a fugue on two subjects. -- Coloq. Double letter . (a) (Print.) Two letters on one shank; a ligature. (b) A mail requiring double postage. -- Coloq. Double note (Mus.), a note of double the length of the semibreve; a breve. See . -- Coloq. Double octave (Mus.), an interval composed of two octaves, or fifteen notes, in diatonic progression; a fifteenth. -- Coloq. Double pica . See under . -- Coloq. Double play (Baseball), a play by which two players are put out at the same time. -- Coloq. Double plea (Law), a plea alleging several matters in answer to the declaration, where either of such matters alone would be a sufficient bar to the action. Stephen. -- Coloq. Double point (Geom.), a point of a curve at which two branches cross each other. Conjugate or isolated points of a curve are called double points, since they possess most of the properties of double points (see ). They are also called acnodes, and those points where the branches of the curve really cross are called crunodes. The extremity of a cusp is also a double point. -- Coloq. Double quarrel . (Eccl. Law) See Duplex querela, under . -- Coloq. Double refraction . (Opt.) See . -- Coloq. Double salt . (Chem.) (a) A mixed salt of any polybasic acid which has been saturated by different bases or basic radicals, as the double carbonate of sodium and potassium, NaKCO3.6H2O. (b) A molecular combination of two distinct salts, as common alum, which consists of the sulphate of aluminium, and the sulphate of potassium or ammonium. -- Coloq. Double shuffle , a low, noisy dance. -- Coloq. Double standard (Polit. Econ.), a double standard of monetary values; i. e., a gold standard and a silver standard, both of which are made legal tender. -- Coloq. Double star (Astron.), two stars so near to each other as to be seen separate only by means of a telescope. Such stars may be only optically near to each other, or may be physically connected so that they revolve round their common center of gravity, and in the latter case are called also binary stars. -- Coloq. Double time (Mil.). Same as . -- Coloq. Double window , a window having two sets of glazed sashes with an air space between them.
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