dorhawk, dorrhawk

Caprimul gus vocif erus, the Nightjar, Whippoorwill, or Goat-sucker. "The dor - hawk, solitary bird." Words worth: Wagoner, c. i. *dor, *dorr, v . t . [DOR (1), s.] To cheat, to trick, to humbug, to hoax, to perplex, to puzzle. "When we are so easily dord and amated with every sophisme."- Hales: Remains, ser. 2. To dor the dottrell: To cheat or humbug a sim pleton. "This sport called dorring the dottrell."-Ben Jonson: Bartholomew Fair , iv. 1. do-ra-dō, s. [Sp.=gilt, from dorar = to gild; Lat. deauro, from aurum =gold.] [EL DORADO.] *I. Ord . Lang .: A rich man. "A troop of these ignorant Doradoes ."- Browne : Religio Medici , pt. ii., § 1. II. Technically : 1. Astron.: The Sword-fish, a constellation in the southern hemisphere. It is also called Xiphias. 2. Ichthy .: A species of fish of the genus Coryphæna, C. hippurus . [CORYPHENA, DOLPHIN II. 10 (2).] Dor-cas, s. [Gr.] The name of a woman "full tioned in Acts ix. 36-41. IMG:content-0382.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0383.jpg:[ocr errors] 1. Grecian Doric : The earliest and most simple form of columnar edifice. The Doric column was first adapted to edifices having the proportions, strength, and beauty of the body of a man. The trunks of trees probably suggested the first idea of columns, but in the Doric style the proportions of a man appear to have been adopted. Aman was found to be six times the length of his foot, hence the plain Doric columns were made six diameters in height. The Greeks composed their beautiful temples upon this idea: their simplicity and harmony are remarkable-simplicity in the long unbroken lines Doric Column. which bound their forms, and the breadth and boldne of every part; harmony in the evident fitne of every part to the rest. fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fall, 1510 2. Roman Doric : An imitation of the Grecian, out in some of the best examples the column is eight times the diameter in height; the shaft is quite plain except fillets above and below with escape and corvet to, and it diminishes one-fifth of its diameter. The capital is four-sevenths of a diameter high, and is composed of a torus which forms the hypotrachelium, and with the necking occupies one third of the whole height; three deep fillets with a quarter-round molding are intended to represent the ovula and annulets of the Greek capital. The Doric order, says Palladio, was invented by the Dorians and named from them, being a Grecian people which dwelt in Asia. If Doric columns are made alone without pilasters, they ought to be seven and a half or eight diameters high. The inter columns are to be little le than three diameters of the columns; and this Vitruvius calls Diastylos. The ancients employed the Doric in temples dedicated to Minerva, to Mars, and to Hercules, whose grave and manly dispositions suited well with the character of this order. Serlio says it is proper for churches dedicated to Jesus Christ, to St. Paul, St. Peter, or any saints remarkable for their fortitude in exposing their lives and suffering for the Chris tian faith. The height of the Doric column, includ ing its capital and base, is sixteen modules; and the height of the entablature, four modules; the latter of which being divided into eight parts, two of them are given to the architrave, three to the frieze, and the remaining three to the cornice. Vitruvius himself makes the Doric column in porticoes higher by half a diameter than in temples; and modern architects have, on some occasions, followed his example. In private houses, therefore, it may be 164, 164, or 16 modules high; in interior decorations even seventeen modules, and sometimes perhaps a trifle more; which increase in the height may be added entirely to the shaft, as in the Tuscan order, without changing either the base or capital. The entablature, too, may remain unaltered in all the aforesaid cases; it will be suffi ciently bold without alteration. In some of the an cient temples the Doric column is executed without a base. ( Weale.) Dor-I-çişm, Dor'-Işm, s. [Eng. Doric; -ism; Gr. dorismos .] A phrase or idiom of the Doric dia lect. IMG:content-0384.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Myth.: A godde of the sea, daughter of Ocean us and Tethys, and wife of Nereus, by whom she had fifty daughters, called Nereids. 3. Astron .: An asteroid, the forty-eighth found. It was discovered by Goldschmidt, on September 19, the date on which Pales was first seen by the same distinguished astronomer. 4. Zool.: A genus of gasteropodous mollusks, the typical one of the family Doride (q. v.). About 100 species are known. dor-lach, dor-loch, s . [ Gael.dorlach =a bundle.] 1. A bundle; apparently that kind of tru formerly worn by the Highland troops instead of a knapsack. "These supple fellows, with their plaids, targes, and dorlachs."- Baillie : Letters , i. 175. IMG:content-0385.png:[blocks in formation] dormer