Comes not to rule in wrath, but serve in love. 3. To put away; to get rid of. Your eye in Scotland Crashaw. Would create soldiers, and make women fight, To doff their dire distresses. Shaksp. Macbeth. 4. To shift off; to delay; to refer to another time; to put off. Every day thou doff'st me with some device, Iago; and rather keeps't from 'me all conveniency, than suppliest me with the least advantage of hope. Shakspeare's Othello. Away, I will not have to do with youCanst thou so doff me? Shakspeare. DOG. n. s. [doggbe, Dutch; canis, Lat.] 1. A domestic animal remarkably various in his species; comprising the mastiff, the spaniel, the bull-dog, the greyhound, the hound, the terrier, the cur, with many others. The larger sort are used as a guard: the less for sports. Such smiling rogues as these sooth every passion: Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks. With ev'ry gale and vary of their masters, As knowing naught, like dogs, but following. Shaksp. King Lear. Why should we not think a watch and pistol as distinct species one from another, as a horse and a dog? Locke. The clamour roars of men, and boys and dogs. Thomson. 2. A constellation called Sirius, or Canicula, rising and setting with the sun during the canicular days, or dogdays. Among the southern constellations, two there are who bear the name of the dog; the one in sixteen degrees latitude, containing on the left thigh a star of the first magnitude, usually called Procyon, or Anticanus. Brown's Vulg. Errours. It parts the twins and crab, the dog divides And Argo's keel that broke the frothy tides. Creech. 3. A reproachful name for a man. I never heard a passion so confus'd, So strange, outrageous, and so variable, As the dog Jew did utter in the streets. Shaksp. Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers. Philippians. 4. To give or send to the DoGs; to throw away. To go to the DOGS; to be ruined, destroyed, or devoured. Had whole Colepeper's wealth been hops and hogs, Could he himself have sent it to the dogs? Pope. 5. It is used as the term for the male of several species: as, the dog fox, the dog otter. If ever I thank any man, I'll thank you; but 'that they call compliments is like the encounter of two dog apes. Shakspeares The same ill taste of sense will serve to join Dog foxes in the yoke, and sheer the swine. Dryden. 6. Dog is a particle added to any thing, to mark meanness, or degeneracy, or worthlessness: as, dog rose. kind of fish. ness. The dog-fisher is good against the falling sickDOG-TEETH. 2.s. [dog and teeth.] The Walton. teeth in the human head next to the grinders; the eye-teeth. The best instruments for dividing of herbs are incisor-teeth; for cracking of hard substances, as bones and nuts, grinders, or mill teeth; for dividing of flesh, sharp-pointed or dogtecth. Arbuthnot on Aliments. DOG-TRICK. n. s. [dog and trick.] Anill turn; surly or brutal treatment. Learn better manners, or I shall serve you a dog-trick; I'll make you know your rider. Dryden's Don Sebastian. Do'GBANE. n. s. [dog and bane.] Aplant. Miller. DOGBERRY-TREE. n. s. A kind of cherry. Do'GBOLT. n. s. [dog and bolt.] Of this word I know not the meaning, unless it be, that when meal or flower is sifted or bolted to a certain degree, the coarser part is called dogbolt, or flower for dogs. His only solace was, that now His dogbolt fortune was so low, That either it must quickly end, Or turn about again, and mend. Do GBRIAR. n. s. [dog and briar.] The briar that bears the hip; the cynosbaton. Do GCHEAP. adj. [dog and cheap.] Cheap as dog's meat; cheap as the offal bought for dogs. Hudibras. Good store of harlots, say you, and dogcheap? Dryden. Do'GDAYS, n. s. [dog and days.] The days in which the dogstar rises and sets with the sun, vulgarly reputed unwholesome. Nor was it more in his power to be without promotion and titles, than for a healthy man to sit in the sun, in the brightest dogdays, and reGlarendon. main without warmth. Do ́GDRAW. n. s. [dog and draw.] A manifest deprehension of an offender against venison in the forest, when he is found drawing after a deer by the scent of a hound which he leads in his hand. Cowell. DOGE. n. s. [doge, Italian.] The title of the chief magistrate of Venice and Genqa. Doria has a statue at the entrance of the dog's It is part of the jaw of a shark, or dog fish. Do GFLY.. s. dag and y.] A voracious Thump buckler Mars began, These vile words ushering his blows, Thou deg Thou makest gods fight thus? Chapman's Iliad. Do GCED. adj. [from dog. ] Sullen; sour; morose; ill-humoured; gloomy. Your uncle must not know but you are dead: I'll fill these dogged spies with false reports. Dogged York, that reaches at the moon, Shakspeare's King Jobn. Whose over-weening arm I have pluck'd back, By false accuse doth level at my life. Shaksp. Few miles on horseback had they jogged, But fortune unto them turn'd dogged. Hudibras. Do'GGEDLY. adv. [from dogged.] Sullenly; gloomily; sourly; morosely. Do'GGEDNESS. n. s. [from dogged.] Gloom of mind; sullenness; morose ness. Reverse your ornaments, and hang them all On some patch'd dogbole ek'd with ends of wall. Do'GKENNEL. n. s. [dog and kennel.] A Pope. little hut or house for dogs. Do'GGER. n. s. [from dog, for its meanness. Skinner.] A small ship with one mast. Do'GGEREL. adj. [from dog.] Loosed from the measures or rules of regular poetry; vile; despicable; mean: used of verses. A certain nobleman, beginning with a dog kennel, never lived to finish the palace he had con trived. Dryden I am desired to recommend a dogkennel to any that shall want a pack. DO GLOUSE. n. s. [dog and louse.] An Tatler. DOGMA. n. s. [Latin.] insect that harbours on dogs. that sect. 1. Established principle; doctrinal notion. Our poet was a stoick philosopher, and all his moral sentences are drawn from the dogmas of Dryden 2. [In canon law.] Dogma is that determination which consists in, and has a relation to, some casuistical point of doctrine, or some doctrinal part of the christian faith. DOGMATICAL. adj. [from dogma.] AuAyliffe's Parergon. } DOGMATICK. thoritative; magisterial; positive; in the manner of a philosopher laying down the first principles Then hasten Og and Doeg to rehearse, It is a dispute among the criticks, whether worthless verses. brutal. Do GHEARTED. adj. [dog and heart.] His unkindness, That stript her from his benediction, turn'd her Do'GHOLE. n. 5. Shakspeare. [dog and bole.] A vile hole; a mean habitation. France i tread of a man's foot: to the wars. sadeghole, and it no more merits the of a sect. The dim and bounded intellect of man seldom prosperously adventures to be dogmatical about things that approach to infinite, whether in vastness or littleness. I laid by my natural diffidence and scepticism Boyle for a while, to take up that dogmatical way which is so much his character. Dryden. Learning gives us a discovery of our ignorance, and keeps us from being peremptory and dogmatical in our determinations. Collier on Pride. Criticks write in a positive dogmatick way, without either language, genius, or imagination. Spectator. indeed so grave, sen One of these authors tentious, dogmatical a rogue, that there is no enDOGMATICALLY. adv. [from dogmatiduring him. Swift. cal.] Magisterially; positively. I shall not presume to interpose dogmatically in a controversy, which I look never to see de cided. South. DOGMATICALNESS. n. s. [from dogmatical.] The quality of being dogmatical; magisterialness; mock authority. DOGMATIST. 2. s. [dogmatiste, Fr.] A magisterial teacher; a positive asserter ; a bold advancer of principles. But could you be content to bid adieu I could describe the vanity of bold opinion, which the dogmatists themselves demonstrate in all the controversies they are engaged in. Glanville. A dogmatist in religion is not a great way off To DOGMATIZE. v. n. [from dogma] from a bigot, and is in high danger of growing up to be a bloody persecutor. Watts. To assert positively; to advance with out distrust; to teach magisterially. These, with the pride of dogmatizing schools, Forc'd her their vain inventions to obey, Such opinions, being not entered into the con essions of our church, are not properly chargeable either on papists or protestants, but on particular dogmatizers of both parties. Hammond. DO'GROSE. n. s. [dog and rose.] The flower of the hip. Of the rough or hairy excrescence, those on the briar, or dog rose, are a good instance. Derbam. Do GSLEFP. n. s. [dog and sleep.] Pretended sleep. Juvenal indeed mentions a drowsy husband, who raised an estate by snoring; but then he is represented to have slept what the common people call dogsleep. Addison. DO'GSMEAT. n. s. [dog and meat.] Refuse; vile stuff; offal like the flesh sold to feed dogs. His reverence bought of me the flower of all the market; these are but dogsmeat to 'em. Dryden. DO'GSTAR. n. s. [dog and star; canicula, Latin.] The star which gives the name to the dogdays. All shun the raging dogstar's sultry heat, And from the half-unpeopled town retreat. Addison. DOGSTOOTH. n. s. [from dog and tooth.] A plant. Miller. DO'GTROT. n. s. [dog and trot.] A gentle trot like that of a dog. This said, they both advanc'd, and rode A dogtrot through the bawling crowd. Hudibras. DOGWEARY. adj. [dog and weary.] Tired as a dog, excessively weary. Oh, master, master, I have watch'd so long, That I'm degweary. Shakspeare. Do'GWOOD. n. s. A species of cornelian cherry. DorLY. n. s. A species of woollen stuff, so called, I suppose, from the name of the first maker. We should be as weary of one set of acquaintance, though never so good, as we are of one suit, though never so fine: a fool, and a doily stuff, would now and then find days of grace, and be worn for variety. Congreve's Way of the World. Do'INGS. n. s. [from To do. This word has hardly any singular.] 1. Things done; events; transactions." I have but kill'd a fly -But how if that fly had a father and mother? How would he hang his slender gilded wings, And buz lamented doings in the air! 2. Feats; actions: good or bad. Shaksp. The next degree was to mark all Zelmane's doings, speeches, and fashions, and to take them unto herself, as a pattern of worthy proceeding. Sidney. If I'm traduc'd by tongues which neither know My faculties nor person, yet will be The chronicles of my doing, let me say "Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake That virtue must go through. Shakspeare. At length a reverend sire among them came, And of their doings great dislike declar'd, And testified against their ways. 3. Behaviour; conduct. Milton. Never the earth on his round shoulders bare A maid train'd up from high or low degree, That in her doings better could compare Mirth with respect, few words with curtesy. 4. Conduct; dispensation. Dangerous it were for the feeble brains of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High. Hooker. 5. Stir; bustle; tumult." Shall there be then, in the mean while, no doings? Hooker. 6. Festivity; merriment: as, jolly doings. 7. This word is now only used in a ludicrous sense, or in low mean language. After such miraculous doings, we are not yet in a condition of bringing France to our terms. Swift. DOIT. n. s. [duyt, Dutch; doyght, Erse.] A small piece of money. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Shakspeare's Tempest Indian. In Anna's wars a soldier, poor and old, Had dearly earn'd a little purse of gold; Tir'd with a tedious march, one luckless night He slept, poor dog! and lost it to a doit. Pope. DOLE. n. s [from deal; dælan, Sax.] 1. The act of distribution or dealing. It was your presurmise, 2. 3. 4. That in the dole of blows your son might drop. Shakspeart. The personal fruition in any man cannot reach to feel great riches: there is a custody of them, or a power of dole and donative of them, or a fame of them, but no solid use to the owner. At her general dole, Each receives his ancient soul. Bacen. Cleaveland. Any thing dealt out or distributed. Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I; every man to his business. Shakspeare. Fall on, and happy man be's dole. Hudibras. Provisions or money distributed in charity. Let us, that are unhurt and whole, They had such firm dependence on the day, That need grew pamper'd, and forgot to pray; So sure the dole, so ready at their call, They stood prepar'd to see the manna fall. Dryden. Clients of old were feasted; now a poor Divided dole is dealt at th' outward door, Which by the hungry rout is soon dispatch'd. Dryden's Juvenal. Blows dealt.out. What if his eye-sight, for to Israel's God Nothing is hard, by miracle restor'd, He now be dealing dole among his foes, And over heaps of slaughter'd walk his way? Milton. 5. [from dolor.] Grief; sorrow; misery. Obsolete. Yonder they lie; the poor old man, their fa ther, making such pitiful dole over them, that all beholders take his part with weeping. Shaksp. Our sometime sister, now our queen, Have we, as 'twere, with a defeated joy, With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole, Shakspeare's Hamlet. They might hope to change Torment with ease, and soonest recompense, Dole with delight. Milton's Paradise Lost To DoL. v. a. [from the noun.] To deal; to distribute. Dict. DOLE. n. s. Void space left in tillage. Dict. DO LEFUL. adj. [dole and full.] 1. Sorrowful; dismal; expressing grief; querulous. She earnestly entreated to know the cause thereof, that either she might comfort or ac company her doleful humour. Sidney. For none but you, or who of you it learns, Can rightfully aread so doleful lay. Spenser. With screwed face, and doleful whine, they only ply with senseless harangues of conscience against carnal ordinances. South. Just then the hero cast a doleful cry, Dryden. 2. Melancholy; afflicted; feeling grief; sorrowful. How oft my doleful sire cried to me, tarry, son, When first he spied my love! Sidney. 3. Dismal; impressing sorrow; dolorifick. It watereth the heart to the end it may fructify; maketh the virtuous, in trouble, full of magnanimity and courage; serveth as a most approved remedy against all do eful and heavy accidents, which befal men in this present life. Hooker. No light, but rather darkness visible, Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell! Milton. Happy the mortal man, who now at last Has through this doleful vale of mis'ry past; Who to his destin'd stage has carried on The tedious load, and laid his burden down. Prior. DOLEFULLY.adv. [from doleful.] In a doleful manner; sorrowfully; dismally; querulously. DO'LEFULNESS. n. s. [from doleful.] 3. Dismalness. DOLESOME. adj. [from dole.] Melancholy; gloomy; dismal; sorrowful; doleful. Hell-ward bending o'er the beach descry The delesome passage to th' infernal sky. Pope. DOLESOMELY. adv. [from dolesome.] In a dolesome manner. DO LESOMENESS. . s. [from dolesome.] Gloom; melancholy; dismalness. DOLL. n. J. 1. A contraction of Dorothy. Delt Tearsheet. Their dispatch is quick, and less dolorous than the paw of the bear, or teeth of the lion. More's Antidote against Atheism. DO'LOUR. n. s. [dolor, Latin.] 1. Grief; forrow. Shakspeare. I've words too few to take my leave of you, When the tongue's office should be prodigal, To breathe th' abundant dolour of the heart. Shakspeare, 2. Lamentation; complaint. Never troubling him either with asking ques tions, or finding fault with his melancholy; but rather fitting to his dolour dolorous discourses of their own and other folks misfortunes. Sidney. 3. Pain; pang. 2. A little girl's puppet or baby. DO'LLAR. n. s. [daler, Dutch.] A dutch and German coin of different value, from about two shillings and sixpence to four and si pence. He disburs'd Bacon. A mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death. DOLPHIN. n. s. [delphin, Latin; though the dolphin is supposed to be not the same fish.] The name of a fish. His delights Ten thousand dollars for our gen'ral use. Shake, DOLORI FICK. adj. [dolorificus, Latin.] That causes grief or pain. The pain returned, dissipating that vapour which cbstructed the nerves, and giving the delarifick motion free passage again. Ray. Thus, by the softness and rarity of the fluid, is insensible, and not dolorifick. Arbuth. on Air. DO'LOROUS. adj. [from dolor, Latin.] Were dolphin like; they shew'd his back above The element they liv'd in. Shakspeare. Draw boys riding upon goats, eagles, and dolphins. Peacham. DOLT. n. s. [dol, Teutonick.] A heavy stupid fellow; a blockhead; a thickskull; a loggerhead. -Let dolts in haste some altar fair erect To those high pow'rs, which idly sit above. Sidney. Thou hast not half that power to do me harm, As I have to be hurt: oh gull, oh dolt, As ignorant as dirt! Shaksp, Othello. Like men condemn'd to thunder-bolts, Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts;. They neither have the hearts to stay, Nor wit enough to run away. 1. Sorrowful; doleful; dismal; gloomy; 3. The land about a mansion-house occu impressing sorrow. pied by the lord... We are taught, by his example, that the pre- DOME. n. s. [dome, French, from domus, sence of dolorous and dreadful objects, even in minds most perfect, may, as clouds, overcast all seasonable joy Latin.] Hooker. 1. A building; a house; a fabrick, Best be he called among good men, Who to his God this column rais'd: Priar. Though lightning strike the dome again, The man who built it shall be prais'd. Stranger! whoe'er thou art, securely rest Affianc'd in my faith, a friendly guest; Approach the dome, the social banquet share. Pope's Odyssey. 2. A hemispherical arch; a cupola. DOMESTICAL. Į adj. [domesticus, LaDOMESTICK. S . tin.] 1. Belonging to the house; not relating to things publick. The necessities of man had at the first no other helps and supplies than domestical; such as that which the prophet implieth, saying, Can a mother forget her child. Hooker. The practical knowledge of the domestick duties is the principal glory of a woman. Clarissa. 2. Private; done at home; not open. In this their domestical celebration of the passover, they divided supper into two courses. Hooker, Beholding thus, O happy as a queen! We cry but shift the gaudy, flatt'ring scene, View her at home in her domestick light, For thither she must come, at least at night. Granville. 3. Inhabiting the house; not wild. The faithful prudent husband is an honest, tractable, and domestick animal. Addison. Not foreign; intestine. Domestical evils, for that we think we can master them at all times, are often permitted to run on forward, till it be too late to recall them. Hooker, Dedication. Equality of two domestick pow'rs Breeds scrupulous factions. Shakspeare. Combine together 'gainst the enemy: For these damestick and particular broiis Are not the question here. Shaksp. King Lear. Such they were who might presume t'have done Much for the king, and honour of the state; Having the chiefest actions undergone, Both foreign and domestical of late. Daniel. Next to the sin of those who began that rebellion, theirs must needs be, who hindered the speedy suppressing of it, by domestick dissensions. King Charles. To DOMESTICATE. v. a. [from domestick.] To make domestick; to withdraw from the publick. Clarissa. DOME STICK. n. s. One kept in the same house. A servant dwells remote from all knowledge of his lord's purposes: he lives as a kind of foreigner under the same roof: a domestick, and yet a stranger too. South, To Do MIFY, V. a. [domifico, Latin,] To Dict. DOMINANT. adj. [dominant, French dominans, Latin.] Predominant; presiding; ascendant. tame. Ta DOMINATE, v. a. [dominatus, Latin.] To predominate; to prevail over the rest. I thus conclude my theme, The dominating humour makes the dream. Dryden. DOMINATION. 2.s. [dominatio, Latin.] 3. Power; dominion, Thou and thine usurp The domination, royalties, and rights 2. Tyranny; insolent authority. 3. Maximinus traded with the Goths in the pro duct of his own estate in Thracia, the place of his nativity; whither he retired, to withdraw from the unjust domination of Opilius Macrinus. Arbuthnot on Coins. One highly exalted in power; used of angelick beings. He heav'n of heav'ns, and all the powers therein, By thee created; and by thee threw down Th' aspiring dominations. Milton's Par. Lost, Hear, all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones,dominations, princedoms, virtues, pow'rs. Milton. DO'MINATIVE. adj. [from dominate.] Dict. Imperious; insolent. DOMINATOR. n. 5. [Latin.] The presiding or predominant power or influence. Jupiter and Mars are dominators for this north-west part of the world, which maketh the people impatient of servitude, lovers of liberty, martial, and courageous. Camden's Remains. To DOMINEER. v. n. [dominor, Latin.] To rule with insolence; to swell; to bluster; to act without control. Go to the feast, revel, and domineer, Carouse full measure. Shakspeare, The voice of conscience now is low and weak, chastising the passions, as old Eli did his lustful domineering sons. Both would their little ends secure; South. Prior DOMINICAL. adj. [dominicalis, Latin.] That notes the Lord's day, or Sunday. The cycle of the moon serves to shew the epacts, and that of the sun the dominical letter, throughout all their variations. Holder on Time. DOMINION. n. s. [dominium, Latin.] 1. Sovereign authority; unlimited power. They on the earth Dominion exercise, and in the air," He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl, Milton Milton Blest use of pow'r, O virtuous pride in kings! And like his bounty whence dominion springs. Tickel. 2. Power; right of possession or use, without being accountable. 3. He could not have private dominion over that, which was under the private dominion of another. Locke Territory; region; district : considered as subject. The donations of bishopricks the kings of England did ever retain in all their dominions, when the pope's usurped authority was at the highest. Davies on Ireland. 4. Predominance; ascendant, Objects placed foremost ought to be more finished than those cast behind, and to have da minion over things confused and transient. 5. An order of angels. Dryden's Dufresnoy By him were all things created, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions, or principalities or powers. Colossians. Of this oppressed boy. Shaks. King John Don. n. s. [dominus, Latin.] The Spa |