The purple morning left her crimson bed, And don'd her robes of pure vermilion hue. you. Her helm the virgin don'd. 1. The act of giving any thing; the act He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl, Milton's Paradise Lost. After donation there is an absolute change and alienation made of the property of the thing given: which being so alienated, a man has no more to do with it than with a thing bought with another's money. South. 2. The grant by which any thing is given or conferred. Howsoever the letter of that donation may be regarded by men, yet the sense thereof is so imprinted in their hearts, as if every one laid daim for himself unto that which was conferred upon all. The kingdoms of the world to thee were Raleigh's Essays. giv'n, Permitted rather, and by thee usurp'd; 1. A gift; a largess; a present; a dole The Roman emperor's custom was, at certain solemn times, to bestow on his soldiers a dotive; which donative they received wearing garlands upon their heads. Hooker. "Twas done and done, and the fox, by consent, was to be the judge. L'Estrange. Do'NJON. n. s. [now corrupted to dungeon, from domnionum, low Latin, according to Menage.] The highest and strongest tower of the castle, in which prisoners were kept; as in Chaucer. It is now used of subterraneous prisons. They were entertained with publick shews and donatives, to make them more easily digest their lost liberty. Dryden. The grete toure, that was so thické and strong, Which of the castle was the chief dongion, Wherein the knightes were in prison, Was evin joynant to the garden-wall, Do'NOR. n.s. [from dono, Latin.] A Ther as this Emely had her playeing. Chaucer. giver; a bestower; one who gives any thing. 2. [In law.] A benefice merely given and collated by the patron to a man, without either presentation to the ordinary, or insitution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders. Cowell. Never did steeple carry double truer ;- Litters thick besiege the donor's gate, It is a mighty check to beneficent tempers to DONE. The part. pass. of To do. all to dye. Done: the wager? Shakspeare's Tempest. I'll throw my mask off when I kiss. Cleaveland. To DOOM. v. a. [deman, Saxon.]1 2. 3. Him through malice fall'n, Milton. sentence. While proud Hippolitus shall mount his throne. Justly th' impartial fates conspire, Of such another son. Smith. Granville. To pronounce condemnation upon any. Minos, the strict inquisitor, appears, And lives and crimes, with his assessors, hears; Round in his urn the blended balls he rowls, Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls. Dryden's Eneid 4. To command judicially or authoritatively. 5. Have I a tongue to doom my brother's death, And shall that tongue give pardon to a slaye. Shakspeare. To destine; to command by uncontrollable authority. Fate and the gods, by their supreme command Have doom'd our ships to seek the Latian land. Dryden's Eneid. 1 have no will but what your eyes ordain; Destin'd to love, as they are doom'd to reign. Granville Dooм. n. s. [dom, Sax. doem, Dutch.] 1. Judicial sentence; judgment. He's fled, my lord, and all his pow's do field; And humbly thus, with halters on their necks, Expect your highness' doom of life or death. Shakspeare. To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied, Though in mysterious terms, judg'd as then best. Milton. And now, without redemption, all mankind 3. Must have been lost, adjudg'd to death and hell By doom severe. Milton. In the great day, wherein the secrets of all hearts shall be laid open, no one shall be made to answer for what he knows nothing of; but shall receive his doom, his conscience accusing or excusing him. Locke. 2. The great and final judgment. Search Windsor Castle, elves, within and out: Strew good luck, ouphes, on every sacred room, That it may stand till the perpetual doom. Shaks. 3. Condemnation; judicial sentence. Revoke thy doom, Or whilst I can vent clamour from my throat, If friend or foe, let him be gently us'd. 6. Ruin; destruction. From the same foes, at last, both felt their doom; And the same age saw learning fall, and Rome. Pope. Doo MSDAY. n. s. [doom and day.] 1. The day of final and universal judgment; the last, the great day. Men, wives, and children, stare, cry out, As it were doomsday. Shakspeare's Julius Casar. Our souls, not yet prenar'd for upper light, We privileg'd in sunshine may appear. Dryden. 2. The day of sentence or condemnation. All-souls day is my body's doomsday. Shaks. DOOMSDAY-BOOK. n. s. [doomsday and book.] A book made by order of William the Conqueror, in which the estates of the kingdom were registered. The Danes also brought in a reckoning of money by ores, per oras, which is mentioned in doomsday-book. DOOR. n. s. [dor, dure, Saxon; dorris, Erse.] Camden. 1. The gate of a house; that which opens to yield entrance. Door is used of houses and gates of cities or publick buildings; except in the licence of poetry. All the castle quaked from the ground, And every door of free-will open new. Fa. Qu. In the side, a door Contriv'd; and of provisions laid in large, For man and beast." Milton's Paradise Lost. To the same end men sev'ral paths may tread, As many deers into one. temple lead. Denbam. For without rules there can be no art, any more than there can be a house without a door to conduct you in. Dryden. 2. In familiar language, a house: often in the plural, doors. Lay one piece of flesh or fish in the open air, and another of the same kind and bigness within doors. Bacon's Natural History. Let him doubt whether his cloaths be warm, and so go naked; whether his house be firm, and live without doors. Decay of Piety. Martin's office is now the second door in the street, where he will see Parnel. Arbuthnot. Lambs, though they are bred within doors, and never saw the actions of their own species, push at those who approach them with their foreheads. Addison's Spectator. The sultan entered again the peasant's house, and turned the owner out of doors. Addison. 3. Entrance; portal. year. The tender blades of grass appear; And buds, that yet the blast of Eurus fear, Stand at the door of life, and doubt to clothe the Dryden. 4. Passage; avenue; means of approach. The indispensable necessity of sincere obedience shuts the door against all temptations to carnal security. Hammond. 5. Out of DOOR; or DOORS. No more to be found; quite gone; fairly sent áway. Should he, who was thy lord, command thee now, With a harsh voice and supercilious brow, Dryden's Persius. His imaginary title of fatherhood is ont of doors, and Cain is no prince over his brother. Locke. 6. At the DOOR of any one. Imputable; chargeable upon him. In any of which parts if I have failed, the fault lies wholly at my door, Dryden. 7. Next Door to. Approaching to; near to; bordering upon. A seditious word leads to a broil, and a riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult. L'Estrange. DO ́ORCASE. n. s. [door and case.] The frame in which the door is enclosed. The making of frames for doorcases, is the framing of two pieces of wood athwart two Do'ORKEEPER. other pieces. Moxon. n. s. [door and keeper.] Porter; one that keeps the entrance of a house. Before the institution of this office, no doquet for licence to alien, nor warrant for pardon of alienation made, could be purchased without an DO'RMANT. adj. [dormant, French.] Bacon's Office of Alienation. 1. Sleeping. oath. He a dragon! if he be, 'tis a very peaceful one: I can insure his anger is dormant; or, should he seem to rouse, tis well lashing him, and he will sleep like a top. With this radius he is said to strike and kill his Congreve's Old Bachelor. prey, for which he lies, at it were, dormant, till it swims within his reach. Grew's Museum. 2. In a sleeping posture. If a lion were the coat of Judah, yet were it not a lion rampant, but rather couchant and der manis Brown Rooms that have thorough lights are left for entertainment, and those that have windows on one side for dormitories. Mortimer. Naked mourns the dormitory wall, And Jones' and Boyle's united labours fall. "Pope's Dunciad. 2. A burial place. The places were dead bodies are buried, are in Latin called cemiteria, and in English dormitories. DO'RMOUSE. n. s. [dormio, to sleep, and Ayliffe's Parergon. mause.] A small animal which passes a large part of the winter in sleep. Come, we all sleep, and are mere dormice flies, A little less than dead: more dullness hangs On us than on the moon. Ben Jonson's Cataline. After they have lain a little while, they grow as drowsy as dormice, unless they are roused. DORN. . . [from dorn, German, a Collier on Thought. thorn.] A fish: perhaps the same as the thornback. Carew. ing the property of bearing, or bring ing forth, on the back. It is used of plants that have the seed on the back of their leaves, as fern; and may be properly used of the American frog, which brings forth her young from her back. DOR'TURE, n. s. [contracted from dormiture; dormitura, Latin; dortoir, Fr.] A dormitory; a place to sleep in. The coast is stored both with shell-fish, as scallops and sheath-fish; and holybut. and flat, as turbets, derns, DO'RNICK. n. s. [of Deornick in Flanders, where first made.] A species of linen cloth used in Scotland for the table. To DORR. v. a. [ter, stupid, Teutonick.] To deafen or stupify with noise. This word I find only in Skin DORR. 11. 5. [so named probably from the noise which he makes.] A kind of aying insect, remarkable for flying with a loud noise. He led us to a gallery like a dorture, where he shewed us along the one side seventeen cells, very neat. Bacon Dose. n. s. [dosis.] 1. So much of any medicine as is taken at one time. Some insects fly with four wings, as all the vagimpennous, darrs. or sheath-winged, as beetles and The derr or hedge-chafer's chief marks are Brown's Vulgar Errours. these: his head small, like that of the com Quincy The too vig'rous dose too fiercely wrought, And added fury to the strength it brought. In a vehement pain of the head he prescribed Dryden's Virgil. the juice of the thapsia in warm water, without mentioning the dose. Arbuthnot. 2. Any thing nauseous. If you can tell an ignoramus in power and place that he has a wit and understanding above all the world, I dare undertake that, as fulsome a dose as you give him, he shall readily take it down. South 3. As much of any thing as falls to a No sooner does he peep into Is cuckolded, and breaks, or thrives. Hudibras. 4. Quantity. We pity or laugh at those fatuous extravagants, while yet ourselves have a considerable dose of what makes them so. Granville 5. It is often used of the utmost quantity 1. To proportion a medicine properly to Plants seldom used in medicine, being esteemed poisonous, if corrected, and exactly dosed, may prove powerful medicines. Derham. 2. To give physick, or any thing nauseous, to any man in a ludicrous sense. A Do'sSIL. n. s. [corrupted from dorsel, something laid upon the part.] pledget; a nodule or lump of lint to be laid on a sore. mon beetle: this, and his eyes, black: his shoulder-piece, and the middle of his belly, also black; but just under the wing-shell spotted with white. His wing-shells, legs, and the end of kis tail, which is long and flat-pointed, of a light chesnut: his breast, especially, covered with a downy hair. DO'RSEL. n.s. [from dorsum, the back.] Grew's Museum. DO'RSER. A pannier; a basket or bag, one of which hangs on either side a beast of burden, for the reception of things of small bulk. It is corruptly spoken, and perhaps, written, dossel. DORSI FEROUS.2 adj. [dorsum and fero, DORSI PAROUS.S or pario, Latin.] Hay • Her complaints put me upon dressing with DOST. The second person of do. such medicaments as basilicon, with præcipitate, upon a dorsil. Wiseman. Why then dost treat me with rebukes, instead Of kind condoling cares, and friendly sorrow? Addison's Cato. DOT. n. s. [This is derived by Skinner from dotter, German, the white of an egg; and interpreted by him a grume of pus. It has now no such significacation, and seems rather corrupted from jot, a point.] A small point or spot made to mark any place in a writing. To DOT. v. a. To mark with specks. To Dor. v. n. [from the noun.] To make dots or spots, DOʻTAGE. # [from dote.] 1. Loss of understanding; imbecility of mind; deliriousness. The soul in all hath one intelligence; Though too much moisture in an infant's brain, And too much driness in an old man's sense, Cannot the prints of outward things retain: Then doth the soul want work, and idle sit; And this we childishness and dotage call. Davies. I hold, that perfect joy makes all our parts As joyful as our hearts: Our senses tell us, if we please not them, Our love is but a dotage, or a dream. Suckling. 2. Excessive fondness. If on your head my fury does not turn, Thank that fond dotage which so much you scorn. Dryden. DOTAL. adj. [dotalis, Latin.] Relating to the portion of a woman; constituting her portion; comprised in her por tion. Shall I, of one poor dotal town possest, My people thin, my wretched country waste, hAn exil'd prince, and on a shaking throne, Or risk my patron's subjects, or my own. Garth's Ovid. DO TARD. n. s. [from dote.] A man whose age has impaired his intellects; a man in his second childhood, called in some provinces twichild. Dotard, said he, let be thy deep advise, And that weak old hath left thee nothing wise, Fairy Queen. The sickly detard wants a wife, To draw off his last dregs of life. DOTATION. n.s. [dotatio, Latin.] Prior. The act of giving a dowry or portion. Dict. To DOTE. v. n. [doten, Dutch; radoter, French.] 3. To have the intellect impaired by age or passion; to be delirious. Unless the fear of death make me date, I see my son. Sbaksp. Comedy of Errours. A sword is upon the liars, and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed. Jer. Time has made you dote, and vainly tell Of arms imagin'd in your lonely cell: Go, be the temple and the gods your care; Permit to men the thought of peace and war. When an old woman begins to dete, and grow Dryden's Eneid. chargeable to a parish, she is turned into a witch, and fills the country with extravagant fancies. Addison's Spectator. 2. To be in love to extremity. He was stricken with great affection towards me, which since grown to such a doting love, that I was fain to get this place sometimes to retire in freely. Sidney. I have long loved her, and bestowed much on her, followed her with a doting observance. Shakspeare. 3. To DOTE upon. To regard with excessive fondness; to love to excess. All their prayers and love Were set on Hereford, whom they doted on, And bless'd and grac'd. Shaksp, Henry IV. Forgive me, that I do not dream on thee, Because thou seest me dete upon my love. 7 Shakspeare His senseless speech and doted ignorance DO'TER. n. s. [from dote.] The prince had marked well. Spenser. 1. One whose understanding is impaired by years; a dotard. What should a bald fellow, do with a comb, a dumb doter with a pipe, or a blind man with a looking-glass. Burton. 2. A man fondly, weakly, and excessively in love. If in black my lady's brow be deckt, It mourns that painting and usurping air Should ravish doters with a false aspect; And therefore is she born to make black fair. Shakspeare. Our doters upon red and white are incessantly perplexed by the incertainty both of the continuance of their mistress's kindness, and of the lasting of her beauty. Beyle Do TINGLY, adv. [from doting.] Fondly; by excessive fondness. That he, to wedlock dotingly betray'd, Should hope in this lewd town to find a maid? DoTTARD. n. s. This word seems to Dryden's Juvenal signify a tree kept low by cutting. For great trees, we see almost all overgrown trees in church-yards, or near ancient buildings, and the like, are pollards and dottards, and not trees at their full height. DO'TTEREL. Bacon. n. s. [from dote.] The name of a bird that mimicks gestures. We see how ready apes and monkeys are to imitate all motions of man; and, in catching of dotterels, we see how the foolish bird playeth the ape gestures. in Bacon. DOUBLE. adj. [double, Fr. duplex, Lat. duple, Erse.] 1. Two of a sort; one corresponding to the other; in pairs. All things are double one against another, and he hath made nothing imperfect. Ecclus. 2. Twice as much; containing the same quantity repeated. It is sometimes used with to, and sometimes without. Great honours are great burthens; but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads: Ben Jonson's Cataline, This sum of forty thousand pounds is almost double to what is sufficient. Savift. 3. Having one added to another; having more than one in the same order or parallel, It is a curiosity also to make flowers double, which is effected by often removing them into Dryden. Shakspeare's Othello. 7. Deceitful; acting two parts, one openly, the other in secret. I' th' presence He would say untruths, and be ever double Shacksp. Fifty thousand could keep rank, that were not of double heart. 1 Chronicles. DOUBLE-PLEA. n. s. [duplex placitum, Latin.] Is that in which the defendant alleges for himself two several matters, in bar of the action, whereof either is sufficient to effect his desire in debarring the plaintiff. DOUBLE-QUARREL. n.s. Corvell. Is a complaint made by any clerk or other to the archbishop of the province, against an inferiour ordinary, for delaying justice in some cause ecclesiastical. The effect is, that the archbishop directs his letters, under the authentical seal, to all clerks of his province, commanding them to admonish the said ordinary within nine days to do the justice required, or otherwise to cite him to appear before him or his official; and lastly, to intimate to the said ordinary, that if he neither performs the thing enjoined, nor appears at the day assigned, he himself will proceed to perform the justice required. And this seems to be termed a double quarrel, because it is most commonly made against both the judge, and him at whose petition justice is delayed. Do'UBLE. adv. Twice over, Corvell. not. Wrapt in th' embraces of a kersey coat, Gay's Trivia n. s. [doutle and dealer.] A deceitful, subtle, insidious fellow; one who acts two parts at the same time; one who says one thing and thinks another. Double-dealers may pass muster for a while; but all parties wash their hands of them in the conclusion. DOUBLE-DEALING, n. s. [double and L'Estrange. dealing.] Artifice; dissimulation; low or wicked cunning; the action of one thing with the profession of another. Thou shalt not be the worse for me; there's gold. I am not so old in proportion to them as I for- His double-biting ax, and beamy spear, his tons. But that it would be double-dealing, sir, I would you could make it another. Shakip Our poets have joined together such qualities as are by nature most compatible; valour with anger, meekness with piety, and prudence with dissimulation: this last union was necessary for the goodness of Ulysses; for, without that, his dissimulation might have degenerated into wick. edness and double-dealing. Broome To DOUBLE-DIE. v. a. [double and die.] Yes, I'll to the royal bed, Where first the mysteries of our love were acted, DOUBLE-FOUNTED. All things being double-banded, and having the appearances both of truth and falsehood, where our affections have engaged us, we attend only to the former. Glanville's Seepris. DOUBLE-HEADED. adj. [double and head] Having the flowers growing one to another. The double rich scarlet nonsuch is a large double-beaded flower, of the richest scarlet colour. Mortimer. TO DOUBLE-LOCK. v,a. [double and lock.] To shoot the lock twice; to fasten with double security. He immediately double-locked his door, and sat down carefully to reading and comparing both his orders. Tatler. DOUBLE-MINDED. adj. [from double and mind.] Unsettled; undetermined. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. James. DOUBLE-SHINING. adj. [double and shine.] Shining with double lustre. He was Among the rest that there did take delight To see the sports of double-shining day. Sidney. DOUBLE-TONGUED. adj. [double and tongue.] Deceitful; giving contrary accounts of the same thing. The deacons must he grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre. For much she fear'd the Tyrians double-tongud, 1 Timothy. And knew the town to Juno's care belong'd. Dryden's Virgil Others you'll see, when all the town's afloat To Do'UBLE. v.2. [from the adjective.] |