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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Dŏn'key-èn'gine, n. p. 404A small engine in steam-vessels, deriving its steam from the main engine, and used for pumping water into the boilers, raising heavy weights, and like purposes.Dŏn'key-pŭmp, n. p. 404A steam-pump for feeding boilers.Dŏn'nă, n. p. 404A lady; madam; mistress; — the title given a lady in Italy.Dōn'nat, n. p. 404A good-for-nothing, lazy fellow. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.Dōn'nism, n. p. 404(Eng. Universities.) Self-importance; distance and loftiness of carriage. [Colloq.] Heber.Dō'nor, n. p. 404One who gives or bestows; one who confers any thing gratuitously; a benefactor. 2. (Law.) One who grants an estate; in later use, one who confers a power. Kent.Dŏn'ship, n. p. 404The quality or rank of a gentleman or knight. Hudibras.Dŏn'zel, n. p. 404A young man following arms and not yet knighted; a young squire or attendant. [Obs.] “My dear donzel.” Beau. & Fl.Dōob'-grăss, n. p. 404(Bot.) A perennial, creeping grass, the Cynodon dactylon, highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the southern part of the United States. [Written also doub grass.]Dōo'dle, n. p. 404A trifler; a simple fellow.Dōō'dle-säck, n. p. 404The Scotch bagpipe. [Prov. Eng.]Do͝ok, n. p. 404A piece of wood inserted in a brick wall for the purpose of attaching finishing pieces; a plug, or wooden brick. [Scot.]Do͞ole, n. p. 404Same as DOLE. Spenser.Do͞o'ly, n. p. 404An apparatus for conveying persons or things upon men's shoulders; a palanquin; a litter. [East Indies.] Having provided doolies, or little bamboo chairs slung on four men's shoulders, in which I put…Do͞om, v. t. p. 404To form judgment; to judge; to decree; hence, to fix irrevocably, as by facts. [Obs.] “Him . . . thou didst not doom So strictly.” Milton. 2. To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to…Dōom, n. p. 404Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment. [Obs.] And there he learned of things and haps to come, To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom. Fairfax. 2. Judicial sentence…Dōom'age, n. p. 404A penalty or fine for neglect. [Local, New England.]Dōom'ful, a. p. 404Full of condemnation or destructive power. [Rare.] “The infectious slime that doomful deluge left.” Drayton.Dōōm'-pālm, n. p. 405(Bot.) A species of palm-tree (Hyphæne Thebaica), highly valued in Egypt for various uses. [Written also doum-palm.] Simmonds.Dōōms'dāy, n. p. 405A day of sentence or condemnation. “My body's doomsday.” Shak. 2. The day of the final judgment. “I could not tell till doomsday.” Chaucer.Dōōms'dāy-bōōk, n. p. 405A book compiled by order of William the Conqueror, containing a survey of all the lands in England, their ownership, value, &c. It consists of two volumes, a large folio and a quarto. [Written also…Dōōm’ster, n. p. 405The public executioner in Scotland, who, formerly, when criminals were condemned to die, repeated over the sentence in the judge’s words, adding, “This I pronounce for doom.” [Obs.] W. Scott.Dōor, n. p. 405An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, for going in and out at; an entrance-way. To the same end, men several paths may tread, As many doors into one temple lead. Denham. 2. The frame…Dōor'-cāse, n. p. 405The frame which incloses a door.Dōor'gā, n. p. 405(Myth.) A Hindoo divinity, the consort of Siva, represented with ten arms. [Written also Durga.] Malcolm.Dōor'ing, n. p. 405A door-case. [Obs.]Dōor'-keep'er, n. p. 405One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.Dōor'-nāil, n. p. 405The nail or knob on which the knocker of a door strikes; hence the phrase, dead as a door-nail.Dōor'-plāte, n. p. 405A plate on a door, giving the name or business of the resident.Dōor'-stēad, n. p. 405Entrance or place of a door. [Obs. or local.] Warburton.Dōor'-stōne, n. p. 405The stone at a threshold.Dōor'-stōp, n. p. 405(Carp.) One of the pieces of wood against which a door shuts in its frame.Dōor'-wāy, n. p. 405The passage of a door; entrance-way into a room or house.Dōor'-way-plāne', n. p. 405(Arch.) The space between the door-way, properly so called, and the larger door-archway within which it is placed. It is often richly ornamented with sculptured figures.Dŏp, v. i. p. 405To dip. [Obs.] Holland.Dōp, n. p. 405A dip; a low courtesy. [Obs.] B. Jonson.Dōp'per, n. p. 405One who dips; hence, in contempt, an Anabaptist. [Obs.] B. Jonson.Dōq'ue†, n. p. 405A warrant. See DOCKET.Dōr, n. p. 405(Entom.) The blackbeetle, or the hedge-chafer, a species of Scarabæus; — called also dorr, dor-beetle, or dorr-beetle, and dorr-fly.Dōr, v. t. p. 405To make a fool of; to deceive. [Obs.] [Written also dorr.] B. Jonson.Dōr, n. p. 405A trick, joke, or deception. Beau. & Fl. To give one the dor, to make a fool of him. [Obs.] Fletcher.Do-rā'do, n. p. 405A southern constellation, containing six stars; — called also Xiphias, or Swordfish. 2. (Ichth.) A large fish, a species of the genus Coryphæna, or dolphin.Do-ree' or Dō'ree, n. p. 405(Ichth.) An acanthopterygious fish (Zeus faber of Linnæus). The popular name in England is John-dorée, or dory, well known to be a corruption of jaune-dorée, i. e., golden-yellow. See Dory.Dōr'-hawk, n. p. 405The European species of the goat-sucker, Caprimulgus Europæus. [Written also dorr-hawk.] Booth.Dō'ri-an or Dōr'ie, a. p. 405Pertaining to Doris, or the Dorian race, in ancient Greece; as, the Doric dialect. 2. (Arch.) Belonging to, or resembling, the second order of columns, between the Tuscan and Ionic. The Doric order…Dōr'i-cism, n. p. 405A phrase of the Doric dialect.Dō'ris, n. p. 405(Zoöl.) A genus of mollusks without shells, having a flower-like, branchial tuft on the back. Carpenter.Dōr'man-cy, n. p. 405State of being dormant; quiescence. Horsley.Dōr'mant, a. p. 405Sleeping; as, a dormant animal or person; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles. It is by lying…Dôr'mant, n. p. 405(Arch.) The large beam lying across a room; a joist;—called also dormant-tree, dormond, and dormer. Halliwell.Dōr'mer p. 405Dôr'mer-wīn'dow, n. p. 405(Arch.) A window placed on the inclined plane of the roof of a house, the frame being placed vertically on the rafters. [Written also dormant.] Gwilt.Dōr'mi-tīve, n. p. 405(Med.) A medicine to promote sleep; an opiate; a narcotic; a soporific. Arbuthnot.Dōr'mi-tīve, a. p. 405Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium. Clarke.Dōr'mi-to-ry, n. p. 405A room, suite of rooms, or building, used to sleep in; a bed-room; sleeping-quarters, or sleeping-house; a lodging-house. Mortimer. 2. A place where the bodies of the dead repose; a burial-place.…Dôr'mouse, n. p. 405(Zoöl.) A small rodent mammal of the genus Myoxus, which lives on trees like the squirrel, and feeds on acorns, nuts, &c.;—so called because, as cold weather comes on, it retires to its nest, and is…Dōrn, n. p. 405(Ichth.) A fish; the thornback, one of the ray family. Carew.Dōr'nie, n. p. 405A coarse sort of damask made at Tournay (in Flemish Dornick), and used for hangings, &c.; also, a kind of table-linen made at the same place. [Written also darnex, darnick, darnic, and dornic.]…Dōr'nock, n. p. 405A species of stout, figured linen, made, originally, at Dornock, in Scotland. Ure.Dō'ron, n. p. 405A gift; a present. [Obs.] 2. A measure of three inches. Ash.