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[Eng.dort: y] 1. Saucy, nice. "Then, tho' a Minister grow dorty , An' kick your place, Before his face." Ye'll snap your fingers poor and hearty 2. Delicate, tender, hard to rear or cultivate. (Said of plants.) Arras, or needlework; hence, however much ornament might be lavished on windows, upper walls, and roof, five feet above the basement was reserved for the dorsarium. "The dosers alle of camaca." Poems from Porking ton MS . , p. 4. 2. Eccles .: Hangings placed at the back of the altar as a decoration, and to hide the bare wall. The dosels used in the ancient churches corresponded in color with the other ornaments of the altars, and were changed according to the festival. At funerals it is customary, on the European Continent, to suspend a black dosel with a large cro over the back of the altar. dōs-ing, pr. par., a. & s. [DOSE, v.] A. & B. As pr . par . & particip . adj .: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of administering doses to a person. *dōs-Is, s . (Gr.) A dose. "As if a physician should prescribe a dos is or recipe to his patient of such simples, or compounded medicines, as cannot be had in this part of the world."- Dr . Jackson: Works (1673), iii. 517. Dos-ith-e-anş, s. pl . [From their founder, Dos i the us. See definition.] Burns: Earnest Cry and Prayer. Church Hist. or Hist . of Religions : A sect founded by Dos i the us, whose life and labors were in Samaria. The popular belief is that he was the first Christian "heretic." Mosheim, on the contrary, thought that he was not a Christian at all, but a false Me iah, who lived at or about the time of our Lord. He is said to have been very rigid in his Sabbatarian ism. His other opinions were partly Samaritan, partly Sadducean. (Mosheim: Ch. Hist ., Cent. I., ch. v., pt. ii., § 10, .)