dolly shop (dolishop)

[Now understood asdolly (in reference to the black doll suspended over the door as a sign) + shop; but prob. a corruption of orig. tally - shop, q. v.] In Great Britain, a shop where rags and refuse are bought ght and sold; an illegal pawn-shop. dolly-tub (d tub (dol'i-tub), n. The keeve forming a part of the so-called dollying or dolling-machine, used in Cornwall in the proce of to ing and packing tin-stuff. See to and dolly3. Dolly Varden Varden (dol'i vär'dn). [From Dolly Varden, a character in Dickens's "Barnaby Rudge."] 1. A woman's gown of gay-flowered material, usually a muslin print, made with a pointed pointed bodice and a skirt tucked up or draped over a petticoat of solid color: worn about 186570.-2. [In allusion to the coloring: see def. 1.] A species of trout or char of California, Salve lin us malm a . dolma (dol'mä), n. [Turk. dolma , lit. stuffing, dolmaq , fill, stuff, become full.) A Turkish dish made of vine-leaves, egg-plant, gourds, dolorific and about 6 feet high, and consists of four upright stones on each side, one at each end, and four on the top. The great stone of the dolmen represented in the accompanying cut is 33 feet long, 14 feet deep, and 18 feet acro ; it is calculated to weigh 750 tons, and is poised on the points of two natural rocks. It is now generally believed that dolmens were sepulchers, although afterward they may have been used as altars. They are often present within stone circles. The dolmen was probably a copy of a primitive rude dwelling, and may sometimes have been the actual structure in which the savage sheltered himself, converted afterward into his tomb. In several cases one of the stones is pierced with a hole. This is supposed to have been for the purpose of introducing food to the dead. Conclusions in regard to the original identity of various races have been based on the similarity of such structures in various parts of the world, as in Hindu stan, Cir ca ia, Algeria, and Europe; but too much importance may be attached to this, as the inclosed dolmen is simply the structure which savages of a very low type, of whatever race, would naturally erect for shelter. See cromlech and menhir. dolmenic (dol-men'ik), a. [ mens. The ethnological character and the migrations of the supposed dolmenic people. N. Joly, Man before Metals (trans.), p. 158. Dolomedes (dol-ō-mē dēz), n. [NL., δο λομήδης, wily, crafty, δόλος , wile, craft, + μῆδος, in pl. μήδεα, counsels, plans, arts, cunning, μήδεσθαι , plan, plot, contrive.) A genus of citigrade spiders, of the family Lycoside , or wolf spiders. D. mirabilis is an example, and is one of the spiders which carry their eggs about in special webs. dolomite (dol'ō-mīt), n. [Named from the French geologist Dolomieu (1750-1801).] 1. A native carbonate of calcium and magnesium, occurring as a crystallized mineral, and also on a large scale in white granular crystalline rock ma es, and then often called dolomite marble. The proportions of the carbonates vary from 1:1 to 1:3 or 1:5.-2. A rock consisting e en ma es in tially of this mineral. It occurs in large mas various regions, and especially in that of the upper Mi i ippi, where there are several members of the geological series which are at least two or three hundred feet thick, made up of dolomite in a remarkably pure form. dolomitic (dol-o-mit'ik), a. [ To form into dolomite. sturing, etc., stuffed with rice and chopped meat. dolman (dol'man), n. [Also written, in first sense, doliman, formerly dollymant,