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A style of light, bright-figured dress goods for women; also, a style of dress. Dolly Varden trout (Zoöl.), a trout of northwest America; -- called also bull trout, malma, and red-spotted trout. See Malma.

A long robe or outer garment, with long sleeves, worn by the Turks. [Written also doliman.]

A cromlech. See Cromlech. [Written also tolmen.]

A mineral consisting of the carbonate of lime and magnesia in varying proportions. It occurs in distinct crystals, and in extensive beds as a compact limestone, often crystalline granular, either white or clouded. It includes much of the common white marble. Also called bitter spar.

Pertaining to dolomite.

To convert into dolomite. -- Dol`o*mi*za"tion, n.

Pain; grief; distress; anguish. [Written also dolour.] [Poetic] Of death and dolor telling sad tidings. Spenser.

Producing pain. Whitaker.

Causing pain or grief. Arbuthnot.

Plaintive; pathetic; -- used adverbially as a musical direction.

Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses. You take me in too dolorous a sense; I spake to you for your comfort. Shak.

A cetacean of the genus Delphinus and allied genera (esp. D. delphis); the true dolphin.

A female dolphin. [R.] Spenser.

a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard. This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt. Drayton.

Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown. -- Dolt"ish*ly, adv. -- Dolt"ish*ness, n.

Evil intent, embracing both malice and fraud. See Culpa. Wharton.

Jurisdiction or property and jurisdiction, dominion, as in kingdom earldom.

ly given to the pope, and later to other church dignitaries and some monastic orders. See Don, and Dan.

Capable of being tamed; tamable.

Tamableness.