See Canine tooth, under Canine.

A gentle trot, like that of a dog.

A small vane of bunting, feathers, or any other light material, carried at the masthead to indicate the direction of the wind.

A half watch; a watch of two hours, of which there are two, the first dogwatch from 4 to 6 o'clock, p. m., and the second dogwatch from 6 to 8 o'clock, p. m.

The Cornus, a genus of large shrubs or small trees, the wood of which is exceedingly hard, and serviceable for many purposes.

a motherless calf in a range herd of cattle.

the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major diatonic scale in solmization, usually written do.

The capital city of Qatar. Population (2000) = 300,000.

Daughters.

A kind of woolen stuff.

Anything done; a deed; an action good or bad; hence, in the plural, conduct; behavior. See Do.

A small Dutch coin, worth about half a farthing; also, a similar small coin once used in Scotland; hence, any small piece of money.

A very small coin; a doit.

Docimastic.

See Lepidosiren.

A rude ancient ax or hatchet, seen in museums.

Shaped like the head of an ax or hatchet, as some leaves, and also certain organs of some shellfish.

Softly; sweetly; with soft, smooth, and delicate execution.

A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for weeks; -- so called by sailors.

To deal out in small portions; to distribute, as a dole; to deal out scantily or grudgingly.

Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal.

Sorrowful.

Plaintively. See Doloroso.

A dark, crystalline, igneous rock, chiefly pyroxene with labradorite. Coarse-grained basalt. Diabase. Any dark, igneous rock composed chiefly of silicates of iron and magnesium with some feldspar.

Of the nature of dolerite; as, much lava is doleritic lava.

Doleful; dismal; gloomy; sorrowful.

imp. of Delve.

The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.

Having the cranium, or skull, long to its breadth; long-headed; -- opposed to brachycephalic.

a genus of rodents including the maras.

Barrel-shaped, or like a cask in form.

a natural family of oceanic tunicates.

A genus of freeswimming oceanic tunicates, allied to Salpa, and having alternate generations.

A genus of large univalve mollusks, including the partridge shell and tun shells.

a small, usually flexible figure representing a human being, especially a toy baby for a little girl; a child's puppet.

A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 412.5 grains. A gold coin of the United States containing 23.22 grains of gold and 2.58 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 25.8 grains, nine-tenths fine. It is no longer coined.

A species of sunfish (Lepomis pallidus), common in the United States; -- called also blue sunfish, and copper-nosed bream.

small food fish (Poronotus triacanthus) of the Atlantic coast.

a house so small that it is likened to a child's dollhouse. Sometimes used in reference to a small house with especially elaborate exterior decoration.

See Dolman.

A child's mane for a doll.

a dish composed of well-seasoned rice (with nuts or currants of minced lamb) simmered or braised in stock, stuffed into tomatoes or green peppers, or wrapped in grape leaves; -- popular in the near east.

A long robe or outer garment, with long sleeves, worn by the Turks.

plural of dolma; -- sometimes used as a singular form.

A cromlech. See Cromlech.

A mineral consisting of the carbonate of lime and magnesia in varying proportions. It occurs in distinct crystals, and in extensive beds as a compact limestone, often crystalline granular, either white or clouded. It includes much of the common white marble. Also called bitter spar.

Pertaining to dolomite.

To convert into dolomite.

Pain; grief; distress; anguish.

Producing pain.

Causing pain or grief.

Plaintive; pathetic; -- used adverbially as a musical direction.

Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses.

a stone or rock entirely composed of the mineral dolomite.

same as dolorous.

A cetacean of the genus Delphinus and allied genera (esp. Delphinus delphis); the true dolphin.

A female dolphin.

either of two large slender food and game fish (Coryphaena equisetis or Coryphaena hippurus) of warm waters. They are highly esteemed as food fish, especially in Hawaii, where they are usually referred to as mahimahi. See also dolphin{2}.

To behave foolishly.

Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown.

of Delve.

A title anciently given to the pope, and later to other church dignitaries and to some monastic orders. See Don, and Dan.

Capable of being tamed; tamable.

Tamableness.

Damage; hurt.

Dominion; empire; authority.

Pertaining to a house.

Of or relating to a domain or to domains.

Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision.

A book said to have been compiled under the direction of King Alfred. It is supposed to have contained the principal maxims of the common law, the penalties for misdemeanors, and the forms of judicial proceedings. Domebook was probably a general name for book of judgments.

Furnished with a dome; shaped like a dome.

A day of judgment. See Doomsday.

A judge; an umpire.

One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant.

A family; a household.

In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.

Forming part of the same family.

To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.

tame, tamed; -- of animals. Opposite of wild.

The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.

One who domesticates.

The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life.

A kind of baize of which the ward is cotton and the weft woolen.

A massive mineral of tin-white or steel-gray color, an arsenide of copper.

Relating to, or shaped like, a dome.

To establish in a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy; to domiciliate.

A member of a household; a domestic.

To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.

The act of domiciliating; permanent residence; inhabitancy.

Of or pertaining to a domicile, or the residence of a person or family.

The art of house-keeping, cookery, etc.

To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. See House, in astrological sense.

Lady; a lady; -- a title formerly given to noble ladies who held a barony in their own right.

Predominance; ascendency; authority.

The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.

To be dominant.

controlled or ruled by superior authority or power.

exercising influence or control. Opposite of subordinate.

The act of dominating; exercise of power in ruling; dominion; supremacy; authority; often, arbitrary or insolent sway.

Governing; ruling; imperious.

A ruler or ruling power.

A name given to a pastor of the Reformed Church. The word is also applied locally in the United States, in colloquial speech, to any clergyman.

To rule with insolence or arbitrary sway; to play the master; to be overbearing; to tyrannize; to bluster; to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness; -- often with over; as, to domineer over dependents.

Ruling arrogantly; overbearing.

The Lord's day or Sunday; also, the Lord's prayer.

One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221. The first foundation in the United States was made in 1807. The Master of the Sacred Palace at Rome is always a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also preaching friars, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins.

The act of killing a master.

an American breed of chicken having barred gray plumage raised for meat and brown eggs.

A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.

Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy.

an American breed of chicken having barred gray plumage raised for meat and brown eggs.

A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.

Master; sir; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor.

That can be tamed.

A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de-D/me in Auvergne, France, where it is found.

To put on; to dress in; to invest one's self with.

Lady; mistress; madam; -- a title of respect used in Spain, prefixed to the Christian name of a lady.

Capable of being donated or given.

the Teutonic god of thunder; counterpart of Norse Thor.

A thing given to a sacred use.