dornic, dorneck, dornick, dornock, dornek, dornoch, dornyk

& a. [From Dornick, the Dutch name for Tournay, often applied to the manufactures of that place, but usually corrupted into Darnick, Darnex, . The city had once a flourishing woolen trade, which is now decayed (that is, early in the eighteenth century), says the Atlas Geographic us. We find the traces of that trade in the Dornick hangings and carpets, mentioned by old English authors. But at the latter period we are told that it had a considerable trade "in a sort of table linen, thence called Dornick." (Atl. Geogr., vol. i., p. 948.) ( Nares.)] IMG:content-0390.png:[blocks in formation] boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, cell, chorus, [DOSSER.] "I may meet her Riding from market one day, 'twixt her dorsers." Beaum, & Flet.: Little Thief, i. 1. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; Bot.: A genus of plants belonging to the natural order Urticaceae. The receptacle is slightly c cave and broad, bearing numerous naked flowers, D. contrayerva, D. houston i, and D. bras i liens is furnish the contrayerva root of commerce. They are natives of tropical America. 2. Pharm .: The rhizome is used as a stimulant, tonic, and diaphoretic. [CONTRAYERVA.] dor-sŭm, s. [Lat. the back.] I. Ord. Lang .: A ridge of a hill. "A similar ridge which suddenly rises into a ma y dorsum." -T. Warton: Hist. of Kidding ton, p. 69. II. Technically: 1. Anat.: The back. 2. Bot . The back, the part of the carpel which is farthest from the axis. 3. Conchol.: The upper surface of the body of a shell, when laid upon its aperture or opening. *dort, s . [Cf. Ger. trotzig =stubborn, sulky.] A pet or sullen humor. (Commonly used in the plural.) "First and foremost, Andrew, that left you in the dorts , is going to marry Nanny Kemp, and they are intending to tak up a public-house; but, said I to Jenny Galbraith, Andrew will be the best customer himsel." - Petticoat Tales , i. 288. To take the dorts: To be in a pet, or discontented humor. "I hope ye gard the lady tak the dorts, For sic rough courting I hae never seen." Ro : Helenore, p. 38. *dort, v . i . [DORT, s.] To become pettish. "They maun be toyed wi' and sported, Or else ye're sure to find them dorted." Shirref: Poems, p. 333. The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-0392.png:[blocks in formation] *dort-ěd, *dort-it, a. [Eng. dort; ed, -it.] the custom to decorate them with tapestry, cloth of Sulky, sullen, in a pet. "But yet he coudna gain her heart, She was sae vera tort it An' shy that night." Rev. J. Nicol : Poems , i. 151. *dort-i-ly, adv . [Eng. dorty ; -ly .] In a saucy, pettish, or sullen manner; saucily. *dort-1-ne , *dort-y-nes, s. [Eng. dorty ; ne .] Pride, haughtine , arrogance, insolence. "The dortynes of Achilles of spring In bondage vnder the proude Pirrus ying, By force sustenyt thraldome mony ane day." Douglas: Virgil , 78, 49. *dor'-tour, *dor-ter, *dor-toure, *dor-towre, *dor-ture, s. [O. Fr. dort or ; Fr.dortoir , from Lat dormitorium, from dormito , freq. of dormio = to sleep.] [DORMITORY.] A bed-chamber, a dorm i tory. "And them pursued into their dortours sad, And searched all their cels and secrets near." Spenser: F. Q., VI. xii