Doit

[D. duit; Ger. deut, a small coin; Fr. doigt; Lat. digit us, a finger.] A small Dutch copper coin of infinitesimal value; hence, any very small piece of money. "When they will not give a doit to a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian." Shaks. -Anything of little or no value; as, I do not mind him a doit. (Used figuratively.) Doit/kin, n. A small coin, le than a doit. Dokimas'tic, a . See DOCIMASTIC. Do'ko, a country of tropical Africa, S. of Aby in i a, near the river Gojeb, in Lat. 3o N., Lon. 37° E. The negroes inhabiting this region are dwarfs; they wear no clothing; subsist on roots, honey, and reptiles; and are supposed to be the "pigmies" of the ancients. Do labella, P. CORNEL I US, the son-in-law of Cicero, who took sides with Julius Cæsar in the civil war, served under him at Pharsalia, Thapsus, and Munda, and was made by him consul and governor of Syria. He was deprived of his government by Ca ius, and revenged himself by putting to death Trebonius, governor of Asia Minor, and one of the a a ins of the diet at or. Declared an enemy of the republic for this act, he took refuge in Laodicea, where he was besieged by Ca ius and compelled to commit suicide, B. c. 43. Dolab/riform, a . [Lat. dolabra , pickaxe, and form a , form.] ( Bot . ) Applied to those bodies, principally leaves, which are fleshy, compre ed towards the upper end, with one border thick and straight, and the other thin and convex. ( Zool .) Shaped like a hatchet, as the foot of certain bivalves. Dolce, ( dol'chā ,) Dolcemente, ( dol'cha - men'ta ,) adv. [1t., from Lat. dulcis .] ( Mus .) A term denoting that the pa age over which it is written is to be played in a soft, smooth, and delicate manner. In instrumental music, this term is generally applied to those portions of melody which are so peculiarly adapted to the voice that the performer cannot expre them better than by taking the vocal tones as his guide.