doria (doʻria)

A cotton cloth woven with stripes of different thickne es. Dorian (dō'ri-an), a. and n. [ south of The aly and northwest of Phocis; relating to or originating with the inhabitants of Doris.-2. Of or pertaining to the Doric race; Doric. There shalt thou hear and learn the secret power Of harmony, in tones and numbers hit By voice or hand; and various-measured verse, Æolian charms and Dorian lyrick odes. Milton , P. R., iv. 257. Dorian chiton, mode, etc. See the nouns. II. n. 1. A native or an inhabitant of Doris in Greece. - 2. A member of the Doric or Dorian race, one of the four great divisions of the ancient Hellenes or Greeks (the others being the Æolians, the Ionians, and the Acheans). In the historical period the Dorians occupied southern and western Peloponnesus, the chief state of the race being Sparta, as well as Megara, Corinth, Argos, Cnidus, Halicarna us, Rhodes, Corcyra, Syracuse, Tarentum, etc. Doric (dor'ik), a. and n. [Formerly Dorick , Doricke ; = F. Dorique = Sp. Dórico = Pg. It. Dorico, Δωρικός , Dorian .] I. a. 1. Pertaining to Doris or its inhabitants. - 2. Pertaining to the Dorian race; characteristic of or derived from the Dorians. He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay. Milton, Lycidas, 1. 189. IMG:content-3048.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-3049.jpg:[merged small][graphic] IMG:content-3050.jpg:[graphic] Doric Architecture.- Diagram of northeast angle of the Par the non, illustrating method of construction. based and distorted form, the Doric constituted the second order of the Romans, coming between their Tuscan and Ionic. A characteristic of the Grecian Doric column is the absence of a base; the channel ings are usually 20 in number, and in section approximate to a semi-ellipse; the capital has generally no astragal, but only one or more fillets or annulets, which separate the channel ings from the echinus. The profile of the capital in the best exam doreet (dō-rē' or dō'rē), n. Same as dory1. Dorema (dō-rem a), n. [NL., so called in allusion to its product, gum ammoniac,