A young squire, or knight's attendant; a page.

A dove.

A trifler; a simple fellow.

The Scotch bagpipe.

a person who is stupid or inept; -- used contemptuously.

Any object, usually a tool or other device, whose name is forgotten, or not known.

Sorrow; dole.

A kind of litter suspended from men's shoulders, for carrying persons or things; a palanquin.

To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.

A penalty or fine for neglect.

Full of condemnation or destructive power.

A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death.

A judge; an umpire.

Same as Dempster.

A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.

An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.

direct without intermediate changes of vehicle; -- of e.g. journeys or deliveries; as, the limousine offers direct door-to-door service.

a bell or other sounding device, actuated by a push button at an outer door; the push button activating the bell; alos, the ringing of such a bell; as, I was in the shower and didn't hear the doorbell.

The surrounding frame into which a door shuts.

The jamb or sidepiece of a door.

A Hindoo divinity, the consort of Siva, represented with ten arms.

The frame of a door.

One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.

a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door, which may be swung by hand against the door to make a loud knocking sound.

Without a door.

a lock on an exterior door.

someone who guards the entrance to a building.

a mat placed outside and exterior door for wiping the shoes before entering.

The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, /As dead as a doornail./

A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant.

The jamb or sidepiece of a doorway.

The sill or threshold of a door.

Entrance or place of a door.

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

The stone forming a threshold.

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.

same as doorstop.

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

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

A dip; a low courtesy.

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.

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.

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

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

An Anabaptist or Baptist.

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

stupid; as, a dopy kid.

A warrant. See Docket.

To make a fool of; to deceive.

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

See 1st Dor.

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

A doorpost.

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

A native or inhabitant of Doris in Greece.

The Doric dialect.

A Doric phrase or idiom.

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

A Doric phrase or idiom.

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

a dormitory.

The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

A British ray; the thornback.

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.

A hamlet.

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

See 1st Dor.

See Dorhawk.

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

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

Same as Dorsal, n.

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

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

A pannier.

See Dosser.

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.]

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

(Anat.) See Meson.

Same as Dorsiferous.

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

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

The ridge of a hill.

A dormitory.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Same as Dorsal, n.

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

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.

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

Posology.

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

to sleep in a convenient place.

Same as Dorsal, n.

A pannier, or basket.

A bundle containing the papers in reference to some matter.

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

of Do.

Russian author Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski; born 1821, died 1881.

of or pertaining to Fyodor Dostoevski.

To make dots or specks.

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.

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

A dotard.

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

Foolish; weak.

A dotard's weakness; dotage.

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

An imbecile; a dotard.

Stupid; foolish.

A dotard.