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  • English Word Dopplerite Definition A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.
  • English Word Doquet Definition A warrant. See Docket.
  • English Word Dor Definition A large European scaraboid beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius), which makes a droning noise while flying. The name is also applied to allied American species, as the June bug. Called also dorr, dorbeetle, or dorrbeetle, dorbug, dorrfly, and buzzard clock.
  • English Word Dor Definition A trick, joke, or deception.
  • English Word Dor Definition To make a fool of; to deceive.
  • English Word Dorado Definition A southern constellation, within which is the south pole of the ecliptic; -- called also sometimes Xiphias, or the Swordfish.
  • English Word Dorado Definition A large, oceanic fish of the genus Coryphaena.
  • English Word Dorbeetle Definition See 1st Dor.
  • English Word Doree Definition A European marine fish (Zeus faber), of a yellow color. See Illust. of John Doree.
  • English Word Doretree Definition A doorpost.
  • English Word Dorhawk Definition The European goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the dor beetle. See Goatsucker.
  • English Word Dorian Definition Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks of Doris; Doric; as, a Dorian fashion.
  • English Word Dorian Definition Same as Doric, 3.
  • English Word Dorian Definition A native or inhabitant of Doris in Greece.
  • English Word Doric Definition Pertaining to Doris, in ancient Greece, or to the Dorians; as, the Doric dialect.
  • English Word Doric Definition Belonging to, or resembling, the oldest and simplest of the three orders of architecture used by the Greeks, but ranked as second of the five orders adopted by the Romans. See Abacus, Capital, Order.
  • English Word Doric Definition Of or relating to one of the ancient Greek musical modes or keys. Its character was adapted both to religions occasions and to war.
  • English Word Doric Definition The Doric dialect.
  • English Word Doricism Definition A Doric phrase or idiom.
  • English Word Dories Definition of Dory
  • English Word Dories Definition of Dory
  • English Word Doris Definition A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks having a wreath of branchiae on the back.
  • English Word Dorism Definition A Doric phrase or idiom.
  • English Word Dorking fowl Definition One of a breed of large-bodied domestic fowls, having five toes, or the hind toe double. There are several strains, as the white, gray, and silver-gray. They are highly esteemed for the table.
  • English Word Dormancy Definition The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.
  • English Word Dormant Definition Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles.
  • English Word Dormant Definition In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant.
  • English Word Dormant Definition A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or " sleep."
  • English Word Dormer Definition Alt. of Dormer window
  • English Word Dormer window Definition 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.