doab 
land. It is used for floors, and, mixed with lime, 
for plastering walls. 
doab 2 , dooab (do'ab), n. [Hind, doab, also 
duab, a tract of land between two rivers, < do, 
in comp. also du (< Skt. dva = Pers. du = E. 
two), + db, < Skt. dp, water, a river.] In the 
East Indies, a tract of country between two 
rivers. Also written duab, 
doable (do'a-bl), a. [< doi + -able.'] Capable 
of being done or executed. [Bare.] 
It was doable, it was done for others. 
Carlyle, Misc., IV. 316. 
do-all (do"al), n. [< do\ v., + obj. all.'] A ser- 
vant, an official, or a dependent who docs all 
sorts of work; a factotum. Fuller. 
doandt. A Middle English form of the present 
participle of do 1 . 
doat, doating, etc. See dote 1 , etc. 
dob (dob), n. [Sc. ; origin obscure.] A Scotch 
name of the razor-fish, a bivalve, Solen ensis. 
dobbeldaler (dob'el-da-ler), n. [Dan., = E. 
double dollar.] A coin formerly current in 
Norway and Denmark, and worth about $1.12. 
dobbin (dob'in), 
proper personal 
of Dob or ~ 
patronymic 
variations of Robin, Rob, diminutives of Robert. 
Cf. dicky 1 , an ass, similarly derived from a dim. 
of Richard.] A common English name for a 
work-horse. [As a quasi-proper name it is 
often written with a capital letter.] 
Thou hast got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my 
phill-horse has on his tail. Shak., M. of V., il. 2. 
The hard-featured farmer reins up his grateful dobbin 
to inquire what you are doing. Thoreau, Walden, p. 171. 
dobby (dob'i), n. ; pi. dobbies (-iz). [Sc. also 
dobbie; dim. of Dob, Dobb, like Hob, var. of Rob, 
abbr. of Robert; a familiar use of the proper 
name. Cf. dobbin.] 1. A fool; a childish old 
man. 2. A sprite or apparition. Grose. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
He needed not to care for ghaist or barghaist, devil or 
dobbie. 
1712 
Docimastes 
Agasia, the kyng of Britonia dochter. 
Bcllenden, Chron., fol. 19, a. 
taken only at 
valuation. 
dobson (dob'son), 
n. [Origin ob- 
scure.] The larva 
DobraofJohnV.. KinzofPortugal, 1733. o f one Of Various 
British Museum. <S,ze of the ong,nal.) ^ Qf ^ 
ropterous insects of the family Sialidte, espe- 
cially of the genus Corydalus (which see ). Also 
called hellgrammite, clipper, and crawler. 
dobllle (dob'ul), n. [< NL. dobula; origin ob- 
scure.] A name of a fresh-water cyprinoid 
fish, Leuciscus dobula (or vulgaris), allied to the 
roach and dace. 
3. Same as dobby-machine. 
dobby-machine (dob'i-ma-shen''), n. 
for weaving fancy patterns, constructed on a 
principle similar to that of the Jacquard loom. 
dobchick (dob'chik), n. Same as dabchick. 
dobee (do'be), . Same as dhobie. 
dobhash (do'bash), n. [< Hind, dobhashi, Tel- 
ugu dubashi, dubasi, an interpreter, a native man 
of business in the service of a European (Ma- 
dras), < Hind, do, du (< Skt. dva = E. two), + 
Hind. Skt. bhashd, language.] In the East In- 
who sp 
dies, an interpreter; 
more languages. 
dobie 1 (do'bi), n. [By apheresis from adobe.] 
Adobe. [Colloq., U. S.] 
dobie 2 , n. Same as dhoby. 
Dobie's line, Dobie's stripe. Same as Krauze's 
membrane (which see, under membrane). 
dobla (do'bia), . [OSp. (= Pg. dobra), fern. 
of doblo, now dobie, = F. double, > E. double, q. 
dobrao(do-bra'o), 
Sp C do g Wof r >f: docibility (dos-i-bil'i-ti), n. [< OF. dodbilite, < 
doublon >E don- LL. docibilita(t-)s, < docibilis, docible: see doct- 
bloon, q. v.] A W-l Teachableness; docility. [Rare or ob- 
gold 'coin, equal solete.] 
to 12800 reis, or To persons of docibility, the real character may be easily 
about $14 for- taught in a few days. Boyle, Works, VI. 446. 
merly current in docible (dos'i-bl), a. [< OF. docible = It. doci- 
PortugaLbutnow bile, < LL. docibilis, that learns easily, teach- 
able, < L. docere, teach : see docile.] 1. Docile ; 
tractable ; ready to be taught; easily taught or 
managed. [Rare or obsolete.] 
Their Camels also are docible ; they will more bee per- 
swaded to hold on a journey further then ordinarie by 
songs then blowes. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 657. 
They shall be able to speak little to the purpose, so as 
to satisfy sober, humble, docible persons, who have not 
passionately espoused an errour. Bp. Bull, Sermons, vi. 
2. That may be imparted by teaching; com- 
municable. [Rare.] 
Whom nature hath made docile, it is injurious to pro- 
hibit him from learning anything that is docible. 
Bp. Hacket. 
docibleness (dos'i-bl-nes), n. Teachableness; 
docility. [Rare or obsolete.] 
I might enlarge myself in the commendation of Hunt- 
ing, and of the noble Hound especially, as also of the doci- 
blenessol dogs.' /. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 81. 
The World stands in Admiration of the Capacity and 
Docibleneis of the English. Howell, Letters, iv. 47. 
, ,, [Formerly also do- 
cil; = F. docile = Sp. docil = Pg. docil = It. 
docile, < L. docilis, easily taught, teachable, < 
docere, teach. Cf. didactic.'] 1. Teachable ; easi- 
ly taught; quick to learn ; amenable. 
Dogs soon grow accustomed to whatever they are taught, 
and being docile and tractable, are very useful. 
H. Ellis, Voyage to Hudson's Bay. 
2. Tractable ; easily managed or handled. 
The ores are docile and contain ruby-silver and sub-sul- 
phides. L. Hamilton, Mex. Handbook, p. 95. 
The different ores of the Rayo Mine are docile in their 
reduction, undergoing the common Spanish amalgamation 
process. Quoted in Alowry's Arizona and Sonora, p. 148. 
Of docility (do-sil'i-ti), n. [= F. docilitt = Sp. do- 
2) '_ cilidad = P'g. docilidade = It. docilita, doeilitade, 
docilitate, < L. docilita(t-)s, teachableness, < do- 
cilis, teachable, docile: see docile.'] The qual- 
ity of being docile; teachableness; readiness 
or aptness to learn ; tractableness. 
The humble docility of little children is, In the New 
Testament, represented as a necessary preparative to the 
reception of the Christian faith. 
Beattie, Moral Science, I. ii. 5. 
Docetistic (do-se-tis'tik), o. [< Docetist + -ic.] docimacy (dos'i-ma-si), n. A less correct spell- 
Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Docetse or ing of docimasy. 
... T^....:. Docimastes (dos-i -mas 'tez),M, [NL. (Gould, 
1850), also Docimaster (Bonaparte, 1850), < Gr. 
6oiafiaoTr/c, doxi/iaoT^p, an assayer, examiner, < 
Jo/afta&iv, assay, test, examine.] A genus of 
humming-birds, notable for the enormous 
length of the beak, which may exceed that of 
all the rest of the bird. D. ensiferus is the only 
species. The bill is from 3 to 4 inches long, the whole 
bird being from ?i to 8J inches. The bill U used to probe 
The church here is taken for the church as it is docent 
and regent, as it teaches and governs. 
Abp. Laud, Against Fisher, xxxiii. do?ile ( a<js'il or d6 'g 11 ) ) ? . 
II. n. See privat-docent. 
Docetae (do-se'te), n.pl [LL., < Gr. Aomp-a/, < 
iomlv, seem.] A sect of heretics of the first and 
second centuries who denied the human origin 
of Christ's body, some holding that it was a 
mere phantom, and others that it was real but 
of celestial substance. Thus they believed the in- 
carnation, crucifixion, and resurrection of Christ to have 
been mere appearances or illusions. Strictly this name 
seems to have belonged to a single sect of the second cen- 
tury, but it is commonly used indifferently or collectively 
of the various Gnostic sects which held similar views on 
this point. Certain Monophysites afterward taught a doc- 
trine as to Christ's body related to that of the Docetw. See 
Aphthartodocelce, Phantasiast. 
Smtt'Rob Boy, xiv. Docetic (do-set'ik), a. [< Docetw + -ic.] 
pertaining to, or held by the Docetse: as, 
cetic gnosticism," Plumptre. 
Taylor's loom does not appear to have come into use Docetism (do-se'tizm), n. [< Docetce + -ism.] 
but a small Jacquard machine, or dobby, was introduced %; ," + oi rLtlw Af tv,t> Tlnootm 
in the silk trade in 1830 by Mr. S. Dean, of Spitalfields. The doctrinal system of the Docetffi. 
A. Barlow, Weaving, p. 279. Docetist (do-se tist), n. [< Docetx + -tst.] One 
A loom of the Doce'tea. 
These Docelists, as they were called, had a whole series 
of successors in the early church. Encyc. Brit., XI. 736. 
their doctrines ; Doeetic. 
The Gnostic heresy . . . sunders Christianity from its 
historical basis, resolves the real humanity of the Saviour 
into a Doketistic illusion. 
Schaff, Hist. Christ. Church, I. 73. 
the 
Almohade dynasty, and distinguished from the earlier di- 
nars by having the full weight of a mithcal, while the fine- 
ness was reduced so that they should be of the same value. 
As coined by John II. of Castile in 1442, there were 49 to 
the mark (230.04 grams), of a fineness of 19 carats, making 
the value 82.47. 
doblet, a. An obsolete form of double. 
doblert, An obsolete form of doubler. 
doblett, n. An obsolete form of doublet. 
dobra (do'bra), . [Pg., a coin (see def.), also 
a fold, plait, dou- 
ble, fern, of dobro 
= Sp. dobie = F. 
double, > E. dou- 
ble, q. v.] A gold 
coin formerly cur- 
rent in Portugal, 
first issued by 
John V., in the 
eighteenth cen- 
tury. Its value 
varied: the spe- 
cimen here illus- 
3 e n s wf 9irf or " <<{ 3!aHB55 J> ^ 
about $17.35. 
speaks two or doch-an-doris, doch-an-dqracb. (doeh'an-do'- 
ris, -rach), n. [Sc. , also written deuch-an-doris, 
deuch-an-dorach, repr. Gael, deoch an doruis, a 
stirrup-cup, lit. a drink at the door: deoch, 
drink ; an, the ; dorttis, gen. of dorus, door.] A 
stirrup-cup; a parting-cup. 
dochme (dok'me), n. [Gr. foxp>l or 
space contained in a handbreadth, < 
receive.] An ancient Greek measure of length : 
same as palaiste. See palm. 
dochmiac (dok'mi-ak), a. and n. [< Gr. 60x1*10.- 
KOC, < Soxfttof : see dochmius.] I. a. In anc. Gr. 
pros, : (a) Having or characterized by a differ- 
ence of more than one between the number of 
times or morse in the thesis and that in the 
arsis: as, a dochmiac foot; dochmiac rhythm. 
(b) Consisting of dochmii: as, a dochmiac verse, 
trimeter, strophe. Dochmiac rhythm. See rhythm. 
II. n. In anc. Gr. pros., a verse or series com- 
posed of dochmii. 
dochmius (dok'mi-us), n. ; pi. dochmii (-1). [L., 
< Gr. 06x1*101;, so. irovc, foot ; lit. across, athwart, 
aslant.] 1. In anc. Gr. pros., a foot consisting 
in its fundamental form (^ ~ ) of five syl- 
lables, the first and fourth of which are short, 
and the second, third, and fifth long. 2. [cap.] 
[NL.] In zool., a genus of nematoid worms, 
of the family Strongylida. D. duodeiudis is an intes- 
tinal parasite from which a large part of the population 
of Egypt suffer, often fatally. By means of its large, hard, 
and dentate mouth it pierces the intestinal mucous mem- 
brane and sucks the blood, the repeated bleedings thus 
caused resulting in what is known as Egyptian chlorosis. 
This formidable parasite is about four tenths of an inch 
long. Another species, />. trigonocepJtalus, infests dogs. 
Also called Ana/lostoma, Anchylostoma. 
dochter (doch'ter), . An obsolete and dia- 
lectal (Scotch) form of daughter. 
Sword-bearing Hum 
astfs eH'iferus). 
long tubular flowers for food, whence the generic name. 
This remarkable humming-bird inhabits the United States 
of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. The male is chiefly 
green, varied with bronze and purplish tints ; the throat, 
bill, and feet are black, the throat varied with buff, and 
behind the eye is a white spot. 
