doplt (dop)

i. [ IMG:content-3041.png:[blocks in formation] Like tonny-fish they be which swiftly dive and dop . North , tr. of Plutarch. dop1t (dop), n. [ doppe , a water-bird, dipper, diver, doppa (in a glo , "funix [ julix , coot], gonot [gannet] vel doppa , enid [duck]"-Wright's AS. Vocab., ed. Wülcker, col. 23, 1. 30; and in comp.: dufe - doppa , > E. dive dopper, dive dapper , usually didapper , q. v.; dop-ened (lit. 'dip-duck'), a coot, L. fulica , fulix ; dop- fugel (lit. 'dip-fowl'), L. mergus , mergulus ; cf. E. dobchick , dabchick , * dop - chick , dial. dop - chicken : see also dopper - bird and dopper ), doppettan , dip, dive: see dop1 , v.] A diving bird; a diver. Hy plumten doune, as a doppe , in the water. King A lisa under , 1. 5776 (Weber's Metr. Rom., I.). In arch ., the pa age of dop1+ (dop), n.2 [ dop1 , v.] A very low bow. a door; the entranceway into a room or building. Doorways exhibit the characteristics of the different cla es of architecture in which they are used. In cla ical architecture and during the middle ages much IMG:content-3042.png:[blocks in formation] The Venetian dop , this. = B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 2. dop2 (dop), n . [Also written dopp ; dop , MD. dop , doppe MLG. dop , doppe , shell, husk, cover.] In diamond - cutting , the instrument into which the diamond to be polished is soldered by means of a fusible metal. It consists of a bowl to receive the diamond and molten metal, and a round iron stem, which is held by the tongs. dop-chicken (dop'chiken), n . [Same as * dop chick , which is found only in the altered forms dobchick, dabchick , dop1 , v ., + chick or chicken: see dop1 , n.1, and dabchick .] Same as dabchick , 3. [Prov. Eng. (Lincoln shire).]