<B>dogtooth spar,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a variety of calcite occurring in sharp crystals that resemble canine teeth. </DL>
<A NAME="dogtoothviolet">
<B>dogtooth violet,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small plant of the lily family that has one yellow, white, purple, or pink flower and, in some species, mottled leaves; adder's-tongue; trout lily. Also, <B>dog's-tooth violet.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="dogtrack">
<B>dogtrack, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a race track for dogs. </DL>
<A NAME="dogtrot">
<B>dogtrot, </B>noun, verb, <B>-trotted,</B> <B>-trotting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a gentle, easy trot. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to go or move at a dogtrot. <BR> <I>Ex. Reed dogtrotted and walked until the last 9 miles, which he ran (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dogvane">
<B>dogvane, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small vane of bunting, cork, or feathers on the weather gun-wale of a ship to show the direction of the wind. </DL>
<A NAME="dogviolet">
<B>dog violet,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a wild violet of northern Europe and the British Isles, bearing four to six blue flowers. <BR> <I>Ex. The dog violet is so called by the English because it lacks fragrance (Theodor Just).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dogwatch">
<B>dogwatch, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Nautical.) a two-hour period of work on a ship. There are two dogwatches a day, one from 4 to 6 P.M. and the other from 6 to 8 P.M. </DL>
<A NAME="dogweary">
<B>dog-weary, </B>adjective. =dog-tired.</DL>
<A NAME="dogwhelk">
<B>dog whelk,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small, marine mud snail. </DL>
<A NAME="dogwhistle">
<B>dog whistle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a whistle for calling a dog, especially such a whistle with a high-frequency sound inaudible to people. </DL>
<A NAME="dogwood">
<B>dogwood, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of various trees or shrubs, especially: <DD><B> a. </B>a common North American tree bearing springtime blossoms that consist of tiny flowers surrounded by large white or pinkish leaves; cornel. It bears red berries in the fall. <DD><B> b. </B>a common European shrub with dark-red branches, greenish-white flowers, and dark-purple berries; cornel. <DD><B> 2. </B>the hard wood of any of these trees. <DD><B> 3. </B>any shrub or tree of the same family as the dogwood. </DL>
<A NAME="dogwoodfamily">
<B>dogwood family,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a group of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees, found chiefly in north temperate regions. The family includes the flowering dogwood, bunchberry, aucuba, and cornel. </DL>
<B>doily, </B>noun, pl. <B>-lies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small piece of linen, lace, paper, or plastic, used under plates, other dishes, or vases on a table. <DD><B> 2. </B>a small, ornamental napkin used at dessert. <DD><B> 3. </B>(U.S. Slang.) a toupee. </DL>
<A NAME="doing">
<B>doing, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> action; performance; execution. <BR> <I>Ex. Talking about the project was easier than the doing. To get him to give that large amount will take some doing.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>doings,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>things done; actions; deeds. </I> <I>Ex. The story is the story of Bart's doings and of the mark he leaves on those who love him (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>conduct; behavior. <DD><B> c. </B>(U.S. Dialect.) food or drink. </DL>
<A NAME="doit">
<B>doit, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a former Dutch copper coin worth about 1/4 cent. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a small sum; trifle; bit. <BR> <I>Ex. No one cares a doit what he thinks.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="doited">
<B>doited, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) enfeebled, especially by age. </DL>
<A NAME="doityourself">
<B>do-it-yourself, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> designed for assembly or use by an amateur. <BR> <I>Ex. a do-it-yourself repair kit. Sometimes they buy do-it-yourself valentine boxes that contain all the materials needed to make valentines (Elizabeth H. Sechrist).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="doityourselfer">
<B>do-it-yourselfer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a handy person; person who does himself work usually done by a handyman or professional. </DL>
<A NAME="doityourselfery">
<B>do-it-yourselfery, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the activities of a do-it-yourselfer. </DL>
<A NAME="doityourselfism">
<B>do-it-yourselfism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the practice of being a do-it-yourselfer. </DL>
<A NAME="dojo">
<B>dojo, </B>noun, pl. <B>-jos.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a place where judo, karate, and other Japanese arts of self-defense are taught. </DL>
<A NAME="dokusan">
<B>dokusan, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a formal private meeting between a Zen master and a disciple. <BR> <I>Ex. None of the following dialogues should be confused with what takes place in dokusan, the student's face-to-face encounter with the roshi in private (Philip Kapleu).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dol">
<B>dol, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a unit of pain intensity, based on the application of heat from a lamp to the skin, and measured on a scale of 1-10, representing increasing degrees of intensity on a dolorimeter. <BR> <I>Ex. The pain in the second stage of childbirth registers ten and a half dols (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dol">
<B>dol.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> dollar or dollars. </DL>
<A NAME="dolabriform">
<B>dolabriform, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany, Zoology.) shaped like an ax or a cleaver. </DL>
<A NAME="dolby">
<B>Dolby, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or designating any of various electronic devices that reduce or eliminate noise from tape and other sound recordings. <BR> <I>Ex. Consumers ... can record and replay their own material through the Dolby circuitry to keep tape hiss at bay (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dolbyized">
<B>Dolbyized, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> recorded or provided with a Dolby device or equipment. <BR> <I>Ex. Dolbyized cassettes.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dolce">
<B>dolce, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>(Italian.) sweet. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Music.) sweet and soft (a direction). <DD><I>noun </I> a plate organ stop of soft tone. </DL>
<A NAME="dolcefarniente">
<B>dolce far niente,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Italian.) <DD><B> 1. </B>pleasant idleness. <BR> <I>Ex. the dolce far niente of the young scions of the new rich (Harper's).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(literally) it is sweet doing nothing. </DL>
<A NAME="dolcevita">
<B>dolce vita,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Italian.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a way of life given over to pleasure and amusement; self-indulgent or dissolute living. <DD><B> 2. </B>(literally) sweet life. </DL>
<A NAME="doldrums">
<B>doldrums, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>dullness; gloomy feeling; low spirits. <BR> <I>Ex. My brother has been in the doldrums since he failed to get on the swimming team.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>certain regions of the ocean near the equator where the wind is very light or constantly shifting. When a sailing ship gets in the doldrums, it makes hardly any headway. <DD><B> 3. </B>the calm or windless weather characteristic of these regions. </DL>
<A NAME="dole">
<B>dole</B> (1), noun, verb, <B>doled,</B> <B>doling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a portion of money or food given in charity. <BR> <I>Ex. a full measure of bread, wine and olives being his dole (Cardinal Newman).</I> (SYN) alms. <DD><B> 2. </B>a small portion. <DD><B> 3. </B>relief money given by a government to unemployed workers. <DD><B> 4. </B>a dealing out of money or food given in charity. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Archaic.) lot; fate. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to deal out in portions to the poor; distribute in charity. <DD><B> 2. </B>to give in small portions. <BR> <I>Ex. Mother doled out one piece of candy a day to each child.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>on</B> (<B>the</B>) <B>dole,</B> </I>in receipt of relief money from the government. <BR> <I>Ex. Of Perry County's 36,000 people, 14,000 exist on dole (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dole">
<B>dole</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) sorrow; grief. <BR> <I>Ex. She died. So that day there was dole in Astolat (Tennyson).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="doleful">
<B>doleful, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> very sad or dreary; mournful; dismal. <BR> <I>Ex. a doleful expression. The hound gave a doleful howl.</I> (SYN) sorrowful, woeful, plaintive. adv. <B>dolefully.</B> noun <B>dolefulness.</B> </DL>
<B>dolente, </B>adverb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Music.) plaintive; with sadness (used as a direction). <BR> <I>Ex. [a] wordless chorus wailing dolente (Punch).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dolerite">
<B>dolerite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a coarse-grained basalt. <DD><B> 2. </B>(British.) diabase. <DD><B> 3. </B>(U.S.) any dark igneous rock whose elements can be identified only with the microscope. </DL>
<A NAME="doleritic">
<B>doleritic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> consisting of or like dolerite. </DL>
<B>dolichocephal, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a dolichocephalic person. <BR> <I>Ex. ... the tall, fair, blue-eyed dolichocephals of north Europe (Arthur C. Haddon).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dolichocephalic">
<B>dolichocephalic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having a long, narrow head; having a breadth of skull less than four-fifths of the length from front to back. </DL>
<A NAME="dolichocephalism">
<B>dolichocephalism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality or condition of being dolichocephalic. </DL>
<B>dolichomorphic </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having disproportionately long bodily members, as the head and neck. </DL>
<A NAME="dolichos">
<B>dolichos, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any plant of a group of tropical vines having clusters of purple or white flowers and slightly curved, flat pods containing edible beans. </DL>
<A NAME="dolittle">
<B>do-little, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><I>noun </I> a person who does or seeks to do as little as possible. <DD><I>adj. </I> seeking to do or doing as little as possible. <BR> <I>Ex. a do-little legislature.</I> </DL>
