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A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant.

The jamb or sidepiece of a doorway.

The sill or threshold of a door.

Entrance or place of a door. [Obs. or Local] Bp. Warburton.

The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.

The stone forming a threshold.

k or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door.

The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.

A yard in front of a house or around the door of a house.

To dip. [Obs.] Walton.

A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.

To treat or affect with dope; as, to dope nitroglycerin; specif.:

A chart of previous performances, etc., of race horses. [Race- track Slang]

Affected by "dope"; esp., sluggish or dull as though under the influence of a narcotic. [Slang]

A spiritual or ghostly double or counterpart; esp., an apparitional double of a living person; a cowalker.

An Anabaptist or Baptist. [Contemptuous] B. Jonson.

A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.

A warrant. See Docket.

flying. The name is also applied to allied American species, as the June bug. Called also dorr, dorbeetle, or dorrbeetle, dorbug, dorrfly, and buzzard clock.

A southern constellation, within which is the south pole of the ecliptic; -- called also sometimes Xiphias, or the Swordfish.