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A perennial, creeping grass (Cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States. [Written also doub grass.]

A trifler; a simple fellow.

The Scotch bagpipe. [Prov. Eng.]

Sorrow; dole. [Obs.] Spenser.

uspended from men's shoulders, for carrying persons or things; a palanquin. [Written also doolee and doolie.] [East Indies] Having provided doolies, or little bamboo chairs slung on four men's shoulders, in which I put my papers and boxes, we next morning commenced the ascent. J. D. Hooker.

Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation. The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens. J. R. Green. Now against himself he sounds this doom. Shak.

has the flavor of gingerbread, and is largely eaten in Egypt and Abyssinia. [Written also doum palm.]

A penalty or fine for neglect. [Local, New England]

Full of condemnation or destructive power. [R.] "That doomful deluge." Drayton.

A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death. "My body's doomsday." Shak.

A judge; an umpire. [Obs.] Hampole.

Same as Dempster. [Scot.]

to go in and out; an entrance way. To the same end, men several paths may tread, As many doors into one temple lead. Denham.

The surrounding frame into which a door shuts.

The jamb or sidepiece of a door. Ex. xii. 22 (Douay version).

A Hindoo divinity, the consort of Siva, represented with ten arms. [Written also Durga.] Malcom.

The frame of a door. Milton.

One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.

Without a door.

The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, "As dead as a doornail."