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Doorpost

The jamb or sidepiece of a doorway.

Doorsill

The sill or threshold of a door.

Doorstep

The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.

doorstop

The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door; any object used to stop open doors from moving.

Doorway

The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.

Dooryard

A yard in front of a house or around the door of a house.

Dop

A dip; a low courtesy.

Dopant

a foreign substance added to a material to alter its properties; -- a process used. e.g., in making semiconductors from pure silicon in the manufacture of semiconductor chips and integrated circuits.

Dope

To treat or affect with dope; as, to dope nitroglycerin; To give stupefying drugs to; to drug. To administer a stimulant to (a horse) to increase his speed. It is a serious offense against the laws of racing.

Dope-book

A chart of previous performances, etc., of race horses; a racing form.

Doppelganger

A spiritual or ghostly double or counterpart; esp., an apparitional double of a living person; a cowalker.

Dopper

An Anabaptist or Baptist.

Dopplerite

A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.

Dor

To make a fool of; to deceive.

Dorado

A southern constellation, within which is the south pole of the ecliptic; -- called also sometimes Xiphias, or the Swordfish.

Doree

A European marine fish (Zeus faber), of a yellow color. See Illust. of John Doree.

Dorhawk

The European goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the dor beetle. See Goatsucker.

Dorian

A native or inhabitant of Doris in Greece.

Doris

A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks having a wreath of branchi/ on the back.

Dorism

A Doric phrase or idiom.

dork

a person who is stupid, socially inept, or ridiculous; -- always used disparagingly.

dorky

stupid, socially inept, unfashionable, or ridiculous; -- always used disparagingly.

Dormancy

The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.

Dormant

A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or / sleep./

Dormer window Dormer

A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.

Dormitive

Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium. A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific; an opiate.

Dormitory

A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school.

Dormouse

A small European rodent of the genus Myoxus, of several species. They live in trees and feed on nuts, acorns, etc.; -- so called because they are usually torpid in winter.

Dormy

Up, or ahead, as many holes as remain to be played; -- said of a player or side.

Dorn

A British ray; the thornback.

Dornock Dornick

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.

Dorr

To deceive. [Obs.] See Dor, v. t.

Dorsad

Toward the dorsum or back; on the dorsal side; dorsally.

Dorsal

A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, or of an altar, or in any similar position.

Dorsally

On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.

Dorse

The Baltic or variable cod (Gadus callarias), by some believed to be the young of the common codfish.

dorsibranchiata

A division of ch/topod annelids in which the branchi/ are along the back, on each side, or on the parapodia. [See Illusts. under Annelida and Ch/topoda.]

Dorsibranchiate

Having branchi/ along the back; belonging to the Dorsibranchiata. One of the Dorsibranchiata.

Dorsiventral

Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral.

Dorsoventral

From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis.

Dory

A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides.

Doryphora

A genus of plant-eating beetles, including the potato beetle. See Potato beetle.

Doryphoros

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.

Dos-a-dos

A sofa, open carriage, or the like, so constructed that the occupants sit back to back.

Dosage

The administration of medicine in doses; specif., a scheme or system of grading doses of medicine according to age, etc.

Dose

To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.

dosimeter

a device for measuring doses of radiation, especially ionizing radiation such as X-rays, gamma rays, or ionizing particles.

dosimeter badge

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.

dosimetry

Measurement of doses; specif., a system of therapeutics which uses but few remedies, mostly alkaloids, and gives them in doses fixed by certain rules.

Doss

A place to sleep in; a bed; hence, sleep.

doss

to sleep in a convenient place.

Dossier

A bundle containing the papers in reference to some matter.

Dossil

A small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent.

Dot

To make dots or specks.

Dotage

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.

Dotal

Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it.

Dotard

One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood.

Dotary

A dotard's weakness; dotage.

Dotation

The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.

Dote

An imbecile; a dotard.

Doter

One who dotes; a man whose understanding is enfeebled by age; a dotard.

Dotery

The acts or speech of a dotard; drivel.

Doting

That dotes; silly; excessively fond.

Dotish

Foolish; weak; imbecile.

Dotted

Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects.

Dotterel

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.

Dotty

Composed of, or characterized by, dots.

Doty

Half-rotten; as, doty timber.

Douanier

An officer of the French customs.

Douar

A village composed of Arab tents arranged in streets.

Double

Twice as much; twice the number, sum, quantity, length, value, and the like.

double standard

a standard or set of principles governing conduct, which is applied more stringently or differently to one group of people than to another; -- used especially of standards of sexual behavior that condemn behavior on the part of women that is condoned or not condemned when exhibited by men.

Double-acting

Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a double-acting engine or pump.

Double-bank

To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.

Double-banked

Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart.

Double-breasted

Folding or lapping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side; as, a double-breasted coat.

double-crosser

one who double-crosses another; a person who says one thing and does another.

double-dealing

given to deception especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; as, they accused each other of double-dealing behavior.

Double-dyed

Dyed twice; thoroughly or intensely colored; hence; firmly fixed in opinions or habits; as, a double-dyed villain.

Double-ender

A vessel capable of moving in either direction, having bow and rudder at each end. A locomotive with pilot at each end.

Double-entendre

A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or indelicate.

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