doomsday (domzda)

[ What shuld I make lenger tale? Of all the pepil I ther say, I coude not telle tyl domesday . Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 1284. An he wad harp it till dom is day , She'll never speak again. Glen kindie (Child's Ballads, II. 14). They may serve for any theme, and never be out of date until doomsday . Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err. 2. Any day of sentence or condemnation. Buck. This is All-Souls' day, fellow, is it not? Sher. It is, my lord. 1733 in the Court of Justiciary, the doom or sentence was repeated by the executioner in the judge's words, with the addition, "This I pronounce for doom." Repeating after the Clerk of Court, he gabbled over the words of the sentence, which condemned Euphemia Deans to be conveyed to the common place of execution, and there hanged by the neck upon a gibbet. "And this," said the Doomster, aggravating his harsh voice, "I pronounce for doom." Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, xxiv. than the Entree began to wexe so gret and so large and so highe as thoughe it had ben of a gret Mynstre, or the zate of a Paleys. Mandeville, Travels, p. 139. IMG:content-3038.png:[graphic] The little boy stoode Looking out a dore. The Boy and the Mantle (Child's Ballads, I. 14). 'Tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Shak ., R. and J., iii. 1. Hence-3. An exterior or public entrance doon1 (dön), n. [Singhalese name.] A large tree of Ceylon, Doona Zeylanica , of the natural way, or the house or apartment to which it leads. order Dipterocarp aceæ. The timber is much used for building, and the tree also yields a resin which is made into varnish. doon2 (dön), adv. and prep. A Scotch form of down2.