Doorcase to Dot
Doorcase
(Door"case`) n. The surrounding frame into which a door shuts.
Doorcheek
(Door"cheek`) n. The jamb or sidepiece of a door. Ex. xii. 22
Doorga
(||Door"ga) n. [Skr. Durga.] (Myth.) A Hindoo divinity, the consort of Siva, represented with
ten arms. [Written also Durga.] Malcom.
Dooring
(Door"ing) n. The frame of a door. Milton.
Doorkeeper
(Door"keep`er) n. One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.
Doorless
(Door"less), a. Without a door.
Doornail
(Door"nail`) n. The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; — hence the old
saying, "As dead as a doornail."
Doorplane
(Door"plane`) n. A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the
occupant.
Doorpost
(Door"post`) n. The jamb or sidepiece of a doorway.
Doorsill
(Door"sill`) n. The sill or threshold of a door.
Doorstead
(Door"stead) n. Entrance or place of a door. [Obs. or Local] Bp. Warburton.
Doorstep
(Door"step`) n. The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.
Doorstone
(Door"stone`) n. The stone forming a threshold.
Doorstop
(Door"stop`) n. (Carp.) The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right
place, the shutting of a door.
Doorway
(Door"way`) n. The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.
Dooryard
(Door"yard`) n. A yard in front of a house or around the door of a house.
Dop
(Dop, Doop) n. A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.
Dop
(Dop), v. i. [Cf. Dap, Dip.] To dip. [Obs.] Walton.
Dop
(Dop), n. A dip; a low courtesy. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Dopper
(Dop"per) n. [D. dooper.] [Written also doper.] An Anabaptist or Baptist. [Contemptuous] B.
Jonson.
Dopplerite
(Dop"pler*ite) n. [Named after the physicist and mathematician Christian Doppler.] (Min.)
A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.
Doquet
(Doq"uet) n. A warrant. See Docket.
Dor
(Dor) n. [Cf. AS. dora drone, locust, D. tor beetle, L. taurus a kind of beetle. Cf. Dormouse.]
(Zoöl.) A large European scaraboid beetle 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.
Dor
(Dor), n. [Cf. Dor a beetle, and Hum, Humbug.] A trick, joke, or deception. Beau. & Fl.
