Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 86

Dollar (n.) The value of a dollar; the unit commonly employed in the United States in reckoning money values.

Dollardee (n.) A species of sunfish (Lepomis pallidus), common in the United States; -- called also blue sunfish, and copper-nosed bream.

Dollman (n.) See Dolman.

Dollies (pl. ) of Dolly

Dolly (n.) A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer.

Dolly (n.) A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.

Dolly (n.) In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.

Dolly (n.) A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.

Dolly (n.) A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.

Dolly (n.) A child's mane for a doll.

Dolly Varden () A character in Dickens's novel "Barnaby Rudge," a beautiful, lively, and coquettish girl who wore a cherry-colored mantle and cherry-colored ribbons.

Dolly Varden () A style of light, bright-figured dress goods for women; also, a style of dress.

Dolman (n.) A long robe or outer garment, with long sleeves, worn by the Turks.

Dolman (n.) A cloak of a peculiar fashion worn by women.

Dolmen (n.) A cromlech. See Cromlech.

Dolomite (n.) A mineral consisting of the carbonate of lime and magnesia in varying proportions. It occurs in distinct crystals, and in extensive beds as a compact limestone, often crystalline granular, either white or clouded. It includes much of the common white marble. Also called bitter spar.

Dolomitic (a.) Pertaining to dolomite.

Dolomize (v. t.) To convert into dolomite.

Dolor (n.) Pain; grief; distress; anguish.

Doloriferous (a.) Producing pain.

Dolorific (a.) Alt. of Dolorifical

Dolorifical (a.) Causing pain or grief.

Doloroso (a. & adv.) Plaintive; pathetic; -- used adverbially as a musical direction.

Dolorous (a.) Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses.

Dolorous (a.) Occasioning pain or grief; painful.

Dolphin (n.) A cetacean of the genus Delphinus and allied genera (esp. D. delphis); the true dolphin.

Dolphin (n.) The Coryphaena hippuris, a fish of about five feet in length, celebrated for its surprising changes of color when dying. It is the fish commonly known as the dolphin. See Coryphaenoid.

Dolphin (n.) A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck of an enemy's vessel.

Dolphin (n.) A kind of wreath or strap of plaited cordage.

Dolphin (n.) A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables.

Dolphin (n.) A mooring post on a wharf or beach.

Dolphin (n.) A permanent fender around a heavy boat just below the gunwale.

Dolphin (n.) In old ordnance, one of the handles above the trunnions by which the gun was lifted.

Dolphin (n.) A small constellation between Aquila and Pegasus. See Delphinus, n., 2.

Dolphinet (n.) A female dolphin.

Dolt (n.) A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.

Dolt (v. i.) To behave foolishly.

Doltish (a.) Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown.

Dolus (n.) Evil intent, embracing both malice and fraud. See Culpa.

Dolven (p. p.) of Delve.

-dom () A suffix denoting

-dom () Jurisdiction or property and jurisdiction, dominion, as in kingdom earldom.

-dom () State, condition, or quality of being, as in wisdom, freedom.

Dom (n.) A title anciently given to the pope, and later to other church dignitaries and some monastic orders. See Don, and Dan.

Dom (n.) In Portugal and Brazil, the title given to a member of the higher classes.

Domable (a.) Capable of being tamed; tamable.

Domableness (n.) Tamableness.

Domage (n.) Damage; hurt.

Domage (n.) Subjugation.

Domain (n.) Dominion; empire; authority.

Domain (n.) The territory over which dominion or authority is exerted; the possessions of a sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. Also used figuratively.

Domain (n.) Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne.

Domain (n.) Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership.

Domal (a.) Pertaining to a house.

Domanial (a.) Of or relating to a domain or to domains.

Dome (n.) A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry.

Dome (n.) A cupola formed on a large scale.

Dome (n.) Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.

Dome (n.) A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.

Dome (n.) Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision.

Domebook (n.) A book said to have been compiled under the direction of King Alfred. It is supposed to have contained the principal maxims of the common law, the penalties for misdemeanors, and the forms of judicial proceedings. Domebook was probably a general name for book of judgments.

Domed (a.) Furnished with a dome; shaped like a dome.

Domesday (n.) A day of judgment. See Doomsday.

Domesmen (pl. ) of Domesman

Domesman (n.) A judge; an umpire.

Domestic (a.) Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants.

Domestic (a.) Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions.

Domestic (a.) Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman.

Domestic (a.) Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals.

Domestic (a.) Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc.

Domestic (n.) One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant.

Domestic (n.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods.

Domestical (a.) Domestic.

Domestical (n.) A family; a household.

Domestically (adv.) In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.

Domesticant (a.) Forming part of the same family.

Domesticated (imp. & p. p.) of Domesticate

Domesticating. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Domesticate

Domesticate (a.) To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.

Domesticate (a.) To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word.

Domesticate (a.) To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant.

Domestication (n.) The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.

Domesticator (n.) One who domesticates.

Domesticity (n.) The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life.

Domett (n.) A kind of baize of which the ward is cotton and the weft woolen.

Domeykite (n.) A massive mineral of tin-white or steel-gray color, an arsenide of copper.

Domical (a.) Relating to, or shaped like, a dome.

Domicile (n.) An abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an individual or a family.

Domicile (n.) A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode.

Domiciled (imp. & p. p.) of Domicile

Domiciling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Domicile

Domicile (v. t.) To establish in a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy; to domiciliate.

Domiciliar (n.) A member of a household; a domestic.

Domicillary (a.) Of or pertaining to a domicile, or the residence of a person or family.

Domiciliated (imp. & p. p.) of Domiciliate

Domiciliating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Domiciliate

Domiciliate (v. t.) To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.

Domiciliate (v. t.) To domesticate.

Domiciliation (n.) The act of domiciliating; permanent residence; inhabitancy.

Domiculture (n.) The art of house-keeping, cookery, etc.

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