Doloriferous, Dolorific, Dolor if i cal

[From Lat. dolor, and ferre, to produce, facere, to make.] Producing or causing pain, anguish, or misery. Doloro'so, n [It.] ( Mus.) Noting a soft and pathetic style of execution. Dol'orous, a . [See DOLOR.] Full of dolor; sorrowful; doleful; dismal.-Painful; giving pain or sorrow; expre ing grief or trouble; as, dolorous cries. Dol'orously, adv . Sorrowfully; in a manner to expre pain. Dolphin, ( dol'fin ,) n. [Lat. delphin , delphin us; Gr. delph is; Fr. dauphin . Etymol. uncertain.] ( Zool .) A name commonly applied to two inhabitants of the ocean of widely different habits and organization: by naturalists it is generally used to signify the dolphin of the ancients, which is a cetaceous mammal of the genus Del phis of Linnæus; by poets it is applied to the coryphene ( Coryphæna hippurus , Linn.), a fish long celebrated for the swiftne of its swimming, and the brilliant and beantiful colors which it succe ively a umes in the act of death. See DELPHIN IDE, and CORIPHΕΝΑ. ( Mech .) A technical term applied to the pipe and cover at a source for the supply of water. (Archæol.) A contrivance formed of iron or lead, and so placed as to hang suspended ready to fall on any ship pa ing under it. ( Arch .) The figure of a fish placed as an ornament on a building, as symbolic of amity. ( Naut . ) A lashing to secure the puddening of a mast when the lower yards rest in the slings. - A mooring post or pillar on a dock-quay. - A buoy attached to an anchor, with a ring for the bending of a cable thereto. Dolphin, in Minnesota , a village on the boundary line between Ramsey and Washington cos., abt. 6 m. E. of St. Paul.