doom-palm 
1733 
In the Court of Justiciary, the doom or sentence was re- 
peated liy tin r\, nitiniier in the judge's words, with tin- 
addition, "This I pronounce for doom." 
Repenting after the Clerk of Court, he gabbled over the 
words of the sentence, which condemned Euphcmia Deans 
to be ... conveyed to the common place of execution, 
and there hanged by the neck upon a gibbet. "And 
tiiis," said the Doomster, aggravating his harsh voice, "I 
pronounce for doom." ficnll, Heart of Mid-Lothian, xxlv. 
doon 1 (<16n), . [Singhalese name.] A large 
tree of Ceylon, Doona Zeylanica, of the natural 
order Dipterocarpaceie. The timber is much 
used for building, and the tree also yields aresin 
which is made into varnish. 
doon 2 (d8n), adv. and prep. A Scotch form of 
down-. 
doonga (dBng'gS), . [< Hind, dunga (cerebral 
(1), a canoe, a trough, lit. deep.] A canoe 
made out of a single piece of wood and carry- 
Doom-palm (Hyphant Tkebatca). 
dooms (doraz), adi\ [Altered toward .doom, by 
way of explaining an obscure word, from doons, 
doonsin, dunze, doon, done, doyn, also doonlinx 
(-lins = E. -ling), very, in a great degree, < Icel. 
daindis-, rather, pretty (adv.), a prefix to adjec- 
tives and adverbs, < da-, very, prob. orig. 'won- 
derfully,' < da, reflex, dost, admire, be charmed 
at, = Norw. daa, daast, pity, compassionate.] 
Very; absolutely: as, dooms bad (very bad). 
[North. Eng. and Scotch.] 
"Aweel,"he said, "this suld be nae sic doonut desperate 
business surely." Scott, Guy Mannering, xlv. 
doomsday (dSmz'da), n. [< ME. domesdai, 
domesdeie, etc., < AS. domes daig, day of doom, 
1. e., of judgment: domes, gen. of Mm, doom, 
judgment; da:g { day. Cf. doomday.~\ 1. The 
day of the last judgment. 
What shuld I make lenger tale ? 
Of all the pepil I ther say, 
1 coude not telle tyl domestlay. 
Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 1284. 
An he wad harpit till domisday, 
She'll never speak again. 
Glenklndie (Child's Ballads, II. 14). 
They may serve for any theme, and never be out of date 
until doomsday. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err. 
2. Any day of sentence or condemnation. 
Buck. This Is All-Souls' day, fellow, is it not? 
Sher. It is, my lord. 
Brick. Why, then All-Souls' day is my body's domnxdaii. 
Shak., Rich. III., v. 1. 
3. [cap.} The Doomsday Book (see below), 
or a record similar to it, as the Exon Dooms- 
day, contemporary with it, preserved in Exeter 
cathedral. 
A Domesday of the conquerors was drawn up in the 
ducal hall at Lillebonne, a forerunner of the great Domes- 
day of the conquered. 
E. A. Freeman, Norman Conquest, III. 200. 
Doomsday Book [written archaically Douuiday Book, < 
ME. Domesdeie Book, etc., so called because its decision 
was regarded as final], a book containing a digest, in 
Norman French, of the results of a census or survey of 
England undertaken by order of William the Conqueror, 
and completed In 10S8. It consists of two volumes in 
vellum, a large folio containing 382 pages, and a quarto 
containing 4&0. They form a valuable record of the own- 
ership, extent, and value of the lands of England (1) at 
the time of the survey, (2) at the date of bestowal when 
they had been granted by the king, and (3) at the time of 
Edward the Confessor, when a somewhat similar survey 
had been made ; the numbers of tenants and dependents, 
amount of live stock, etc., were also returned. The book 
was long kept under three different locks in the Ex- 
chequer, along with the king's seal, but is now kept in 
the Public Record Office. In 1783 a facsimile edition 
printed from types made for the purpose was issued by 
the British government. The counties of Northumber- 
land, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Durham were not 
included in the survey. There existed also local dooms- 
day books. 
doomsmant (dSmz'man), . [< ME. domcsman, 
dMMMMM) domesmon, a judge, < domes, gen. 
of rfom, judgment, + man.'] A judge ; an um- 
pire. 
For counteth he no kynges wratthe whan he in courte sit- 
teth 
To demcn as a domes-man. Piers Plomnan (B), xix. 302. 
Nowe sir, ye ninste jnvsrntr this boy unto sir Pilate, 
For he is donsymon nere and nexte to the kiii^'. 
York 1'lni'n. }:. :v,:. 
doomstert (dom'ster), n. [Early mod. E. also 
domestcr; < doom + -ster. Another form is 
deemster, drnijtstrr, q. v. ] One who pronounces 
doom or Judgment ; in Scotland, formerly, the 
public executioner. In the case of a capital conviction 
Doonga. From model in South Kensington Museum, London. 
iug a square sail, employed for navigating the 
marshes and the branches of the mouth of the 
Ganges. The doongas are used chiefly in ob- 
taining salt. 
door (dor), n. [Early mod. E. also doore, dore; 
in earlier speech the word appears in two forms 
more or less mixed: (1) ME. dore, dor, < AS. 
dor (gen. doren, pi. doru), OS. dor = OFries. 
dore = MLG. dor = LG. door = OHG. MHG. 
tor, G. thor = Goth, daur, all neut. ; (2) ME. 
dure, dttr, < AS. duru (gen. dura, pi. dura, duru) 
(also rarely nom. dure, gen. and pi. duran) = 
OS. dura = OPries. dure = D. deur = MLG. 
rfore=LG.dore=OHG. fun', pi., also sing., MHG. 
tiir, G. thiir = Icel. dyrr, pi., = Sw. dorr = Dan. 
dor = Goth, davrons, pi., a door, all fern. 
(Dan. common) except the Icel., which is also 
neut.; all orig. pi. The common Teut. form 
is *dur- = Gr. 6><pa = L. foris, usually in pi., 
fores (> ult. foris-, forum, foraneous, foreign, 
etc.), = Ir. Gael, dorus, later doras = W. drws 
= OBulg. dvirf = Bohem. dvershe = Pol. Azwier- 
ze, drzwi = Little Russ. dreri = Ktiss. dvert 
= Lett, durwis = Lith. duris = Zend dvara (> 
Pers. dar, > Turk, der) = Skt. drdr, dur, fern. 
(> Hind. dvar. Gypsy duvar), all with the gen- 
eral sense of 'door' or 'gate.' In another view, 
referred to Skt. -\/ dhu, move quickly, shake, 
fan (a fire), = Gr. Ovetv, rush, storm, as the 
wind, being thus orig. (like window, q. v.) a 
passage for the air or wind.] 1. A movable 
barrier of wood, metal, 
stone, or other material, 
consisting sometimes of 
one piece, but generally 
of several pieces framed 
together, commonly 
placed on hinges, for 
closing a passage into a 
building, room, or other 
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.-'. Batten-door. B. Panel- 
door : a, top rail ; A, middle rail 
or lock-rait ; c. bottom rail ; /. 
; f. 
inclosure. In antiquity, as 
in China and other Eastern 
countries at the present day, 
doors often swung on pivots 
projecting Into sockets above , , 
and below. Modern carpen- taJSS&n oSSB.! 
ters' doors are classified in montant ; g, panels. 
general as batten-doors and 
C net-doors. Batten-doors are formed of two or more 
mis placed longitudinally side by side, and held toge- 
ther by two or more transverse rails. Panel-doors are 
formed of a skeleton framework called a door-frame, of 
which the openings arc filled with pieces of stuff called 
panels, which are usually cut from thinner boards than 
the framework. If the panels are wider than they are 
high, they are called lying panels; if longer than wide, 
they are called standing panel*. 
At last he came unto an yron doore 
That fast was lockt Spenser, F. Q., I. viii. 37. 
The threshold grates the door to have him heard. 
Shak., Lucrece, L 306. 
2. An opening for passage into or out of a 
building or any apartment of it, or any inclo- 
sure ; a doorway. 
Whan he entred in to the chapelle. that was but a ly- 
tille and a low thing, and had but a litvl Dore and a low, 
door-case 
than the Entree began to wexe so grct ami to large Mid 
so hlghe as thoughe It had ben of a gret Mynstre, or the 
jatc of a Paleys. Mandeville, Travels, p. 139. 
The little boy strode 
Looking out a dore. 
The Hoy and the Mantle (Child's Ballads, 1. 14). 
Tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; 
but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Shak., It. and J., iii. 1. 
Hence 3. An exterior or public entrance- 
way, or the house or apartment to which it leads. 
Martin's office Is now the second door In the street. 
Artmthnot. 
4. Avenue ; passage ; means of approach or 
access, or of exit: commonly in figurative uses: 
as, the door of reconciliation ; a door of escape. 
But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost. Fora great 
door and effectual is opened unto me. 1 Cor. xvl. B, 9. 
Blank door, a filled-up door-space In a wall, with a cas- 
ing and dressings like those of a door, made for ornament 
or symmetry of appearance. Bulkhead door. Seedu/t- 
head. Center Of a door. See center!.- Chalking Of 
a door, in Scotland, a warning to tenants of urban tene- 
ments to move, given by having the principal door of 
the house chalked, forty days before Whitsuntide, by a 
town officer, acting at the desire of the proprietor, and 
without written authority from the magistrates. Deaf 
as a door. See deaf. Death's door. See death. 
Double door, an entrance-door made like a folding door 
with two leaves. Folding door, a door between apart- 
ments, generally with two leaves, but sometimes with 
four (two hinged together on each side, so that one of each 
pair will fold back against its mate), one half of the door 
having I". Its at top and )>ottom to hold it closed, the two 
halves closing together at the center, and each half when 
fully opened folding back against the adjacent parallel 
line of wall- or door-space. Sometimes confounded with 
sliding door (which see, below). Lodged door, a deal 
door strengthened by cross-pieces at the back. Letters 
of open doors. See open. Next door to. (a) In the 
house next adjacent to. (6) Near to ; bordering on ; very 
nearly. 
A riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult. 
Sir K. L' Estrange. 
Out Of doors, (a) Out of the house ; in the open air ; 
abroad. 
Look you ; I'll turn you out o' doors, and scorn yon. 
Fletcher and Rowley, Maid In the Mill, Iii. 3. 
(o) Hence, figuratively, quite gone ; no more to be found ; 
lost; irrelevant. 
His imaginary title of fatherhood is out of doors. Locke. 
These controversies about the four elements and their 
manner of mlstlon are quite out of doors in their philoso- 
phy. Boyle, Origin of Forms. 
Overhung door, a door supported from above, as In some 
forms of sliding barn- and car-doors. Sliding door, a 
door consisting either of one or of two leaves made so as 
to slide in a direct line in opening or closing it. A sliding 
door between apartments in a dwelling-house usually has 
two leaves, each of which slides back on sheaves Into an 
open space worked in the partition. Sometimes, in the 
latter case, confounded with folding door (which see, 
above! The angelic door r gate, in some Byzantine 
churches, a door which seems toTiave connected the nave 
with the choir, when the latter was separated by a parti- 
tion from the rest of the body of the church. J. M. fieale. 
The holy doors, in Greek churches, the central door 
of the fconostasis. giving access to the liema or sanctuary 
from the choir (if that forms a separate division of the 
building) or from the body of the church. Sometimes 
also called the royal doors, a name properly belonging to 
the doors of the narthex. The holy doors are open only 
at the commencement of great vespers, at the entrances 
(great and little) In the liturgy and vespers, and from the 
invitation of the priest to the communicants to approach 
till the close of the liturgy. See cut under beiita. The 
royal doors or gates, in Greek churches, strictly, the 
doors leading from the narthex into the body of the church : 
also called the silver doors or gates, because in the church 
of St. Sophia they were made of silver. The name royal 
gates is also frequently given to the outer doors of the 
church leading into the narthex from the porch or proau- 
lion, and properly distinguished as the beautijvltmtf*; and 
some writers even use the term royal doors as a name of 
the holy doors of the bema. To darken one's door. See 
darken. To lie or be at one's door, figuratively, to be 
imputable or chargeable to one. 
If I have failed, the fault lies wholly at my door. 
Dryden, tr. of Dufresnoy's Art of Painting, Pref. 
Lady Clara Vere de Vere, . . . 
The guilt of blood i at your door. 
Tennygon, Lady Clara Vere de Vere. 
To make the doors*. See make. -to put or get one 
to the door. (<i) To dismiss one ; drive one away. (6) 
Figuratively, to ruin one. (Scotch.) To throw open 
the door to, to afford an opportunity for. With open 
doors, with publicity. 
doora, n. See durra. 
door-bandt (dor'band), . [< ME. dorbande; < 
door + 6an<ii.] The bolt of a door. 
Hie gumfus I I.L. gomphus, < Gr. yo^os], a dorbande. 
AS. and O. K. Vomit, (ed. Wright) (2d ed. Wiilcker), 
[col. 733, L 25. 
door-bart (dor'biir), . [< ME. dorebar; < door 
+ ftnr 1 .] The bar or bolt of a door. 
door-bell (dor'bel), n. A bell at a door, or con- 
nected with a handle or knob exposed outside 
a door, for the purpose of giving notice when 
one desires admittance. 
door-case (dor'kas), n. The frame or casing 
which incloses a door, and in which it swings. 
