door-case 
1734 
The cornish, door case, and a sort of a basement above doorsteadt (dor'sted), . The entrance of or 
the steps, are proofs that the architecture is antient. parts about a door; a doorway. 
Pococke, DeBcription of the East, II. I. 134. * ^ ^^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^.^ more than I( 
Jamie- there would be room for all honest men. 
Warburton, To Hurd, Letter cxci. 
dopping 
sew.] Cotton cloth used for tents and other 
things requiring strong material, from Agra in 
northern India. Also dosootee. 
[< ME. *doppen (only as in 
The step of a door; 
A bonny marble stane. 
Lord William (Child's Ballads, III. 20). 
door-Stone (dor'ston), . The stone at the 
threshold; the step-stone. 
They durstna' on ony errand whatsoever gang owerthe 
dore-stane after gloaming. Scott. 
door-Stop (dor'stop), n. 1. A flange against 
door-cheek (dor'chek), . A door-post 
son. [Scotch.] 
The next thing I admire in it [the Pantheon] is the door-Step (ddr'step), n. 
doore-cheeks and couple, which is all of one peece of white foe threshold, 
marble. Sir A. Balfour, Letters, p. 137. 
doorea (do're-a), n. A variety of Dacca mus- 
lin of the finest quality, printed in colors, and 
striped. 
door-frame (dor'fram), . The structure form- 
ing the skeleton of a paneled door, it consists 
of The stiles at the sides, the inontant or centerpiece, and 
the rails or horizontal pieces. See cut B under door. 
Doorga, . See Durga. , w ..-,. w , \ ~.~ r/ , -. - 
door-guard (dor'gard), n. A light framework w hieh a door shuts in its frame. 2. A device 
of scantling on the inside of a railroad-car for placed behind a door to prevent it from being 
freight or other stowage, to keep the freight opened too widely. 
from impeding the movement of the sliding door-strap (dor'strap), n. In some street-cars 
doors. having no conductor, a cord or strap by which 
door-hanger (dor'hang'er), n. A metallic hook the driver can close the rear door. ^ u , 
sustaining a sliding door from above, and slid- door-strip (dor'strip), . A border or weather- R^k] "Wright's AS Vocab.. ed. Wulcker, 
ing on an iron track as the door moves. guard affixed to the edge of a door, and arranged 23 j 3Q and in c . dufe-doppa, > E. 
door-hawk (dor'hak), n. Same as dor-hawk. to fit tightly against the casing when the door r - * - 
Montagu. is closed. 
dopringt (dor'ing), . [< door + -inff 1 .] A door floor-treet (dor'tre), n. [< ME. doretre (= Dan. 
with all its appendages. dartres = Sw. dorrtros) ; < door + tree.'] The 
So terrible a noise as shakes the doorings of houses . . . side-piece or jamb of a door; the door-post. 
ten miles off. Milton, Hist. Moscovia, v. Dead as a door-tree. Same as dead as a door-nail 
(which see, under dead). 
For lames the gentil iugged in his bokes, 
That faith with-oute the faite is rigte no thinge worthi, 
And as ded as a dore-tre but gif the dedes f olwe. 
Piers Plowman (B), i. 185. 
dapper. Cf. also OFlem. doppen, var. of dopen 
= MD. dopen, D. doopen = MLG. dopen, etc., 
dip, baptize : see dope, .] To dip or duck. 
So was he dight, 
That no man might 
Hym for a frere deny, 
He dopped and dooked, 
He spake and looked, 
So religiously. 
Sir T. More, A Merry lest. 
Like tonny-flsh they be which swiftly dive and dop. 
North, tr. of Plutarch. 
(dop), w. 1 [< ME. doppe, a water-bird, 
r, diver, < AS. doppa (in a gloss, "funix 
\Julix, coot], gonot [gannet] vel dopjpa, enid 
door-jamb (dor'jam), n. See jamb. 
doorkeeper (dor 'keeper), n. 1. One who 
guards the door or entrance of a house or an 
apartment, and admits persons entitled to ad- 
mittance ; a janitor. 
I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, 
than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. Ps. Ixxxiv. 10. 
UU1. <J* li tv ii JIM 1JU ViVJJ-ijj. wvyv**\rjsf*w) r *. 
divedapper, divedapper, usually didapper, q. v. ; 
<top-eed(lit.'dip-duck'), a coot, 1,.fnlica,fulix; 
dop-fugel (lit, 'dip-fowl'), L. mergus, mergulus; 
cf. E. dobchick, dabchick, prop. *dop-chick, dial. 
dop-ehicken : see also dopper-bird and dopper), 
< doppettan, dip, dive : see dop^, v.J A diving 
bird ; a diver. 
Hy plumten doune, as a doppe, in the water. 
King Alisaunder, 1. 6776 (Weber's Metr. Rom., I.). 
. dop 1 ! (dop), M. 2 [< dop\ .] A very low bow. 
doorway (dor'wa), . In arch., the passage of * \ 
a door; the entranceway into a room or build- B jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 2. 
on a door-lock spindle, by which the door is 
opened. 
door-knocker (dor'uok"6r), . Same as knocker. 
The visitor will certainly be sent to see a door-knocker 
in a house in one of the streets on the western slope. 
E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 215. 
door-latch (dor'laeh), n. An attachment to a 
door by which it is kept closed. It is either a latch 
in the typical form, or a spring-bolt in a case of metal 
having a spindle with knobs by which the bolt is released 
from a keeper on the door-post. 
door-mat (dor'mat), n. A heavy mat made of 
hemp, flax, or jute, woven or tied, or of sedge, 
straw, rushes, etc., or sometimes of caoutchouc, 
placed before a door for use in cleaning the 
shoes by those entering. 
door-nail (dor'nal), n. [< ME. dorenail, dor- 
nayl; < door + nail.'] A large nail or stud fixed 
in a door to receive the blow of a knocker of 
simple form. Dead as a door-nail. See dead. 
door-piece (dor'pes), n. In a Cornish pump- 
lift, the valve-chamber of the pump, it is a sec- 
tion in which there is a door that can be taken away when 
it is necessary to examine the valve and seat, or to make 
repairs. 
door-pin (dor'pin), n. A pin or catch used to 
fasten the door of a freight-car. 
door-placet (dor'plas), n. Same as doorway. 
1 went up the hill to the west, opposite to the end of 
the vale of Hinnom, and saw a great number of sepulchral 
grots cut out of the rock, many of which have beautiful 
door-places. Pococke, Description of the East, II. 25. 
door-plate (dor'plat), n. A plate of metal or 
other material on the door of a house or room, 
bearing the name and sometimes the business 
of the occupant. 
dqor-post (dor'post), n. The post, jamb, or 
side-piece of a door. 
And thou shalt write them [my words] upon the door 
posts of thine house, and upon thy gates. Deut. xi. 20. 
door-pull (dpr'pul),. A handle used for open- 
ing or shutting a door. 
door-shaft (dor'shaft), n. A revolving iron 
shaft extending from the front platform to the 
rear door of a street-car having no conductor, 
which the diamond to be polished is soldered 
by means of a fusible metal. It consists of a bowl 
to receive the diamond and molten metal, and a round 
iron stem, which is held by the tongs. 
dop-chicken (dop'chik ; *en), n. [Same as *dop- 
chick, which is found only in the altered forms 
dobchick, dabchick, < dop\ v., + chick or chicken : 
see dopl, n. *, and dabchick.'] Same as dabchick, 
3. [Prov. Eng. (Lincolnshire).] 
dope (dop), n. [< D. doop, sauce, dip, baptism, 
< doopen, dip, baptize : see dip, and cf. dap 1 , 
doper.] 1. Any thick liquid, as a thick sauce, 
thick gruel, or other semi-fluid or pasty thing 
for eating. Specifically 2. A thick pasty lu- 
bricant; specifically, axle-grease. 
"Dope," a preparation of pitch, tallow, and other ingre- 
dients, which, being applied to the bottom of the shoes, 
enables the wearer to lightly glide over snow softened by 
the rays of the sun. Set. Amer. Supp., XXII. 9033. 
3. Any absorbent material, as cotton-waste or 
sand, used to absorb and hold a lubricant or 
other liquid. Thus, cotton-waste is used as dope on 
railroads around the axles of the wheels to hold the oil 
used for lubrication ; and in the manufacture of dynamite 
sand is used to hold the nitroglycerin. 
doperf, . Same as dapper, 2. 
doppert (dop'er), n. [ME. dopper, spelled doppar, 
a water-fowl, didapper (see divedapper, dive- 
dopper, didapper, ME. dy doppar, etc., orig. dive 
+ dopper), < doppe, dip: see dop 1 , m. 1 ] 1. A 
diving bird ; a didapper. 
Doppar or dydoppar, watyr byrde, mergulus. 
Prompt. Para., p. 127. 
Medieval Doorway. North Portal, or Door of the Virgin, of the 
western front of Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris. ( From Viollet-le- 
Duc's "Diet, de 1' Architecture.") 
attention was bestowed upon the design and ornamenta- 
tion of entrances, particularly those of churches and other 
public buildings. In all good architecture the chief door- 
way of a building is treated as a very important feature, 
and is made of size and dignity corresponding with the 
facade of which it is a part and the interior to which it 
gives access. 
The Pelasgic races soon learnt to adopt for their door- 
ways the more pleasing curvilinear form with which they 
were alreauy familiar from their interiors. 
J. Fergusson, Hist. Arch., I. 236. 
There are no flying buttresses, no pinnacles, no deep 
and fretted doorways, such as form the charm of French 
and English architecture. 
J. A. Symonds, Italy and Greece, p. 46. 
doorway-plane (dor'wa-plan), n. In arch., a dopper-bird ^dop'er-berd), . The dabchick or 
space between the open passage or the door- didapper. 
Doppar, byrde. Palsgrave. 
2. A dipper: in contempt for an Anabaptist. 
[Cf. Dipper, 2.] Also doper. 
Fact. Have you doppers ? 
2 Her. A world of doppers ! but they are there as luna- 
tic persons, walkers only : that have leave only to hum and 
ha, not daring to prophesy, or start up upon stools to raise 
doctrine. B. Jonson, News from the New World. 
proper and the larger arch within which 
it is placed. This space is frequently richly 
adorned with sculpture, especially in medieval 
architecture. 
loorweed (dor'wed), n. The Polygonum avi- 
cnlare, a common low weed in yards, pathways, 
and waste places. 
A yard about the door 
^oreau,^Waiden,"p. 47. 
door-spring (dor'spring), . An apparatus for ^Ztt^TS^^fiSOftlSL i 
automatically closing a door. Door-springs are yards." J. Fiske, Amer. Pol. Ideas, p. 20. Liter 
made in a great variety of forms, and act by means of coiled, /Jnnanntoo frln aK'tS"! n rTTirirl a^m,t; a o~o 
twisted, or curved metallic springs, strong elastic bands! ao SOOt;ee (ao-SO te), n. [Uind. dttSMfe, a coarse 
[It., 
doorshek (dor'shek), n. 
used by Mohammedans. f ---a-- -a- 
door-sill (dor'sil), n. The sill or threshold of 
a doorway. doonrard (dor'yard), n. 
Doorsill there was none, but a perennial passage for o * a T . 
the hens under the door board. Thar""" '- 1 - 1 - " 
or air-compressing appliances! which store the power spent cloth made of double threads, < do, dn (< Skt. 
and latch it. dvi = E. two), + sut, thread, < Skt. / sit- = E. 
The doppia of Piedmont was equal to 82.72 in American 
gold, that of Rome $3.37, that of Lucca 83.37, that of Milan 
$3.81, that of Venice $4.07, that of Malta ?4.68, and that 
of the island of Sicily $5.05. 
doppietta (dop-piet'ta), n. [It. dial., dim. of 
doppia: see doppia.'] A former gold coin of 
the island of Sardinia, worth $1.90 in American 
gold. 
;t (dop'ing), n. [Verbal n. of doj) 1 , t'.] 
[y, a dipping or ducking; specifically, 
in falconry, a number of sheldrakes together. 
in opening the door and apply it to close an 
A doppiny of sheldrakes. 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 97. 
