doolful (dolful)

An obsolete or dialectal form of doleful. Spenser. The brethren o' the Commerce-Chaumer May mourn their lo wi' doolfu ' clamour. Burns, Epistle to William Creech. dool-tree (döl'trē), n. [Sc., also written dule tree ; dool = dole2 + tree .] In Scotland, a mourning-tree (see the extract). It resembled, as marking a place of mourning, the dun deurshuil (the knoll of the tearful eye) of the Highlands, where the clan usually a embled to bewail any misfortune that befell the community. The Earl of Ca ilis fell at Flodden with many of his followers; and there is still to be seen, in front of the castle, a very large plane-tree, underneath whose melancholy boughs his sorrowing people are said to have spent several weeks in lamentations of their own and their country's calamity; for which reason it bears the appellation of the dule -tree. Land of Burns . A whole chapter of sights and customs striking to the mind, from the pyramids of Egypt to the gibbets and dule trees of med iæval Europe. R. L. Stevens on, Æs Triplex. Cas sandra to councell then call thai belyue, To haue a dom of that dede. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 11810. In him no point of courtesy there lackt, He was of manners mild, of doom exact. Mir. for Mags . , p. 175. That Islands space; The which did see me, unto my simple doo me , The onely pleasant and delight full place That ever troden was of footings trace. Spenser, F. Q., IV. x. 21. This one consent in all your dooms of him, Argues a truth of merit in you all. 41. The last judgment. ... B. Jonson, Poetaster, v. 1. See doomsday . Thy Aue maria and thi crede, That shalle the saue at dome of drede. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 303. The Doom schalle ben on Estre Day, suche tyme as oure Lord aroos. Mandeville , Travels, p. 114. Day of doom. See dayl. - Doom bark. See bark2. The crack of doom, the signal for the final di olution of all things; the last trump. What! will the line stretch out to the crack of doom? Shak., Macbeth, iv. 1. Let him not quit his belief that a pop-gun is a pop-gun,. though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom . Emerson, Misc., p. 87. To false a doomt, in Scots law , to protest against a sentence. Syn. 2. Fate , Doom , etc. See destiny . doom (döm), v. t. [ Him, through their malice fallen, Father of mercy and grace, thou didst not doom So strictly; but much more to pity incline. Milton , P. L., iii. 401. 2. To condemn to punishment; consign by a decree or sentence; pronounce sentence or judgment on; destine: as, a criminal doomed to death; we are doomed to suffer for our er rors. He was sentenced to be bound in chains, and doomed to perpetual torments. Bacon, Physical Fables, ii. Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls. Dryden, Eneid. To a mild purgatory. Lowell, Fountain of Youth. Souls doomed of ola dooly (dö'li), n.; pl. doolies (-liz). [ litter used in India and the neighboring countries, inferior to the palkee or palanquin, but also lighter, and used on long journeys. Forbes. Coolies, however, awaited me with a dooly , one of those low litters slung on a bamboo, in which you may travel swiftly and without effort. F. M. Crawford , Mr. Isaacs, xii.