doorshek (dor′shek)

The prayer-carpet used by Mohammedans. See prayer - rug. door-sill (dor's il), n. The sill or threshold of a doorway. Doorsill there was none, but a perennial pa age for the hens under the door board. Thoreau , Walden, p. 47. door-spring (dor's pring), n. An apparatus for automatically closing a door. Door-springs are made in a great variety of forms, and act by means of coiled, twisted, or curved metallic springs, strong elastic bands, or air-compre ing appliances, which store the power spent in opening the door and apply it to close and latch it. For Iames the gentil iugged in his bokes, That faith with-oute the faite is rizte no thinge worth i, And as ded as a dore - tre but gif the dedes folwe. doorway (dor'wā), n. Piers Plowman (B), i. 185. dopping sew.] Cotton cloth used for tents and other things requiring strong material, from Agra in northern India. Also dosootee.