DOR 



DOW 



stigma emarginate; capsule one-celled. 

 One species ; viz. D. japonica, a native 

 of Japan. 



DORIC order, in architecture, the first 

 invented by the Greeks, the second of the 

 five orders, being that between the Tus- 

 can and Ionic. See ARCHITECTURE. 



DORIC dialect, in grammar, one of the 

 five dialects, or manners of speaking, 

 which were principally in use among the 

 Greeks. 



DORIS, in natural history, a genus of 

 the Vermes Mollusca. Generic charac- 

 ter : body creeping, oblong and flat be- 

 neath ; mouth placed below in the fore 

 part ; vent behind on the back, and sur- 

 rounded by a fringe ; feelers two to four, 

 seated on the upper part of the body in 

 front, and retractile within their proper 

 receptacles. There are twenty-four spe- 

 cies, in two sections : A. tentacula, or 

 feelers, four : B. two tentacula only : D. 

 argo inhabits the European seas, and 

 called sea-lemon. This has an oval body, 

 convex, marked with numerous punc- 

 tures, is of a lemon-colour, hence its tri- 

 vial name ; the vent is beset with elegant 

 ramifications. P. verrucosa, or warty 

 doris, found in the sea near Aberdeen, 

 Scotland, is of an ovatedform, convex, and 

 tuberculated. 



DORYCHIUM, in botany, a genus of 

 the DiadelphiaDecandria class and order : 

 calyx five-toothed, two-lipped ; filaments 

 subulate ; stigma capitate ; legume tur- 

 gid, one or two seeded. There are three 

 species, found in France and Spain. 



DORMANT, in heraldry, is used for 

 the posture of a lion, or any other beast, 

 lying along in a sleeping attitude, with 

 the head on the fore paws ; by which it is 

 distinguished from the couchant, where, 

 though the beast be lying, yet he holds 

 up his head. 



DORONICUM, in botany, leopard's 

 bane, a genus of the Syngenesia Polyga- 

 mia Superflua class and order. Natural 

 order of Composite Discoidex. Corym- 

 biferae, Jussieu. Essential character: 

 calyx scales in two rows equal, longer 

 than the disk; seeds of the ray naked, 

 and destitute of down ; dow n to those of 

 the disk simple ; receptacle naked. There 

 are three species ; they grow naturally in 

 Germany, France and Spain. 



DORSTENIA, in botany, a genus of 

 the Tetrandria Monogynia class and or- 

 der. Natural order of Scabridae. Urticse, 

 Jussieu. Essential character : receptacle 

 common, one-leaved, fleshy, in which 

 solitary seeds nestle. There are eight 

 Species. 



DOSSIL, lint made into acylindric form. 

 See SURGERT. 



DOUBLE letter, in grammar, a letter 

 which has the force and effect of two. 

 The Greeks have three of these, viz. 

 Z, E, * ; the Latins have two, X and Z ; 

 and most of the modern languages have 

 the same. 



DOUGLASSIA, in botany, so named in 

 honour of James Douglas, M. D., a genus 

 of the Polyadelphia Polyandria class and 

 order. Essential character: calyx half 

 six-cleft ; corolla none ; nectary six ; fila- 

 ments none ; germ superior ; stigma six- 

 cleft ; berry ovate, one-celled ; seed one, 

 with a brittle shell. There is but one 

 species, viz. D. guianensis, guiana dou- 

 glassia. 



DOVE tailing, in carpentry, is the man- 

 ner of fastening boards together by Let- 

 ting one piece into another, in the form 

 of the tail of a dove. The dove tail is the 

 strongest of the assemblages or jointings, 

 because the tenon, or piece of wood 

 which is put into the other, goes widen- 

 ing to the extreme, so that it cannot be 

 drawn out again, by reason of the extreme 

 or tip being bigger than the hole. 



DOWER, the portion which a widow 

 hath of the lands of her husband, after 

 his decease, for the sustenance of herself 

 and the education of her children. 



DOWER by the comqion latv, is a third 

 part of such lands or tenements whereof 

 the husband was sole seised in fee-sim- 

 ple, or fee-tail, during. the marriage, 

 which the wife is to enjoy during her 

 life ; for which there lies a writ of dower. 

 DOWER by custom. This kind of dower 

 varies according to the custom and usage 

 of the place, and is to be governed ac- 

 cordingly ; and where such custom pre- 

 vails the wife cannot wave the provision 

 thereby made for her, and claim her 

 thirds at common law, because all cusr 

 toms are equally ancient with the com- 

 mon law itself. 



DOWER ad ostium ecdesice, is where a 

 man of full age, seised of lands in fee, 

 after marriage, endows his wife, at the 

 church door, of a moiety, a third, or other 

 part of his lands, declaring them in cer- 

 tainty ; in which case, after her husband's 

 death she may enter into such lands with- 

 out any other assignment, because the 

 solemn assignment at the church door is 

 equivalent to the assignment in pals by 

 metes and bounds ; but this assignment 

 cannot be made before marriage, because 

 before she is not entitled to dower. 



DOWEH ex asseimi palris, is where the 

 father is seised of Jands in fee, and his 



