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tare is that peculiar shape of a column 

 and its entablature originally formed in 

 imitation of a wooden fabric, supported 

 with fluted posts or the trunks of trees. 

 In the most ancient specimens the distin- 

 guishing character is the absence of base. 

 The order is characterised by strength 

 and simplicity, and is appropriately used 

 in the gates of cities and citadels, out- 

 side of churches, &c. The doricmode was 

 the first of the musical modes of the an- 

 cients. Its character is severe, tempered 

 with gravity and joy. 



DORMANT, is applied, in heraldry, to an 

 animal when in a sleeping posture ; and 

 in commerce, to a partner in a concern 

 when he takes no share of the business. 



DOR'MER, DOR'MANT-WINDOW. The attic 

 stories of houses were in former times 

 Kft-.ra.ly occupied by sleeping-rooms, 

 and the windows opened on the inclined 

 plane of the roof; on this account the 

 rooms were called dormitories, and the 

 application of dormant was applied to the 

 windows of these apartments. 



DOR'NOCH, a species of ligured linen of 

 a stout fabric ; it takes its name from 

 Dornoch, a town in Scotland, where it 

 was first manufactured for table-cloths. 



DORSAL, I/at, dorsalis, belonging to the 

 hack (dorsum} ; as dorsal Jim, dorsal 

 nerves, &c. 



DORSIBRAN'CHIATA, from dorsum and 

 branches ; an order of articulate animals: 

 class annulata. The branchiae -resemble 

 trees, tufts, laminae or tubercles, in which 

 the vessels ramify and are placed on the 

 middle of the body, the dorsum. They 

 mostly inhabit mud or swim in the ocean. 



DORSIF'EROUS, from dorsum and/<?ro, ) 



DORSIP'AROUS, from dorsum andpnrio, ) 

 Back- bearing: applied to plants which 

 have no stems and bear their seeds on the 

 back of their leaves. The fern is an ex- 

 ample. 



DOR'STTM (Lat.), the back. In conchology, 

 the upper surface of the body of the shell, 

 the aperture being downwards. In phy- 

 rical geography, the ridge of a hill. , 



DORT, SYNOD or. An assembly of Pro- 

 testant divines convoked at Dort in 1618- 

 19, by the states-general. 



DO'RT, JOHN, corrupted from Fr. jaunt 

 doree; a fish, the zeus faber. 



DOSI'THEANS. A religious sect which 

 sprung up in the first century of the Chris- 

 tian era. 



DOS'SIL, from Fr. dossier, a bundle. In 

 surgery, a pledget or piece of lint made 

 into a cylindrical form. 



DOTHINEJJ'TERITES, from SoQtr.v, aboil, 

 and ivrt^ov, an intestine; an enlargement 

 of Peyer's and Brunner's glands, regarded 

 by Bretonneau as the cause of those symp- 

 toms which constitute typhui and several 

 other kinds of fevers 



DorLLE-ACTING INCLINED Pi. AS E. UpOB 



railways, &c., an inclined plane worked 

 by the gravity of the load conveyed : the 

 loaded waggons descending being made 

 to pull up the empty ones by mean-, of a 

 rope passing round a pully or drawn at 

 the top of the plane. 



DOUBLE-BANKED, the situation of the 

 oars of a boat when two opposite ones are 

 managed by rowers seated on the same 

 bench or thwart; the oars are also said to 

 be double-banked when there are two men 

 labouring upon each oar. 



DOCBLE-BASS. See CONTRABASSO. 



DOUBLE-CAST, a term used by farmers 

 for that method of sowing which does 

 not dispense the requisite quantity of seed 

 at once, but requires to be gone over 

 twice. 



DOUBLE-OCTAVE. In music, an interval 

 of two octaves ; a fifteenth. 



Dnt-BLE-rLEA. In law, a plea in which, 

 two matters are alleged to bar an action. 



DOUBLE-UUARREL. In ecclesiastical af- 

 fairs, a complaint of a clerk to the arch- 

 bishop against an inferior ordinary for 

 delay of justice. 



DOUBLE-RAILED INCLINED PLANE. An 

 inclined plane having a double line of 

 rails upon it. 



DOUB'LET. Among lapidaries, a coun - 

 terfeit stone composed of two pieces of 

 crystal with a colour between them, so 

 that it may have the appearance of a 

 naturally coloured gem. 



DOUB'LINO. 1. In the military art, put- 

 ting two files or ranks of soldiers into one. 

 1. Doubling upon is a phrase used by 

 naval tacticians for enclosing a part of 

 the enemy's fleet so as to cannonade it 



from two sides. 3. Doubling a Cape is 



to sail round or pass beyond it 



DOUBLO'ON (properly doblon), a Spanish 

 and Portuguese coin, value two pistoles. 



DOUCHE. In baths, a current of water 

 directed to some particular part of the 

 body. 



DOUCI'NE (Fr.), a moulding concave 

 above and convex below, serving as a 

 cymatium to a delicate cornice. 



DOVE-TAIL. In carpentry, a method of 

 fastening boards together by letting one 

 piece into another in the form of a dove'8 

 tail spread, or of a wedge reversed. 



DOW'AOER, properly a widow who en- 

 joys a dower, but now generally confined 

 as the title of the widows of princes and 

 nobility, as the Queen Dowager. 



DOW'AL, a round doical, or coak, is the 

 piece of timber to which the felloes of a 

 carriage wheel are united. 



DOWN. 1. Germ, dunen: the fine fea- 

 thers from the breasts of several birds, 

 particularly those of the duck kind, and 

 especially the eider-duck. This bird plucks 

 it from its breast to line its nost: thi 

 taken from the nest is called lire dovtt 



