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Pertaining to written evidence; contained or certified in writing. "Documentary evidence." Macaulay.

amily (genus Erythronium). It has two shining flat leaves and commonly one large flower. [Written also dog's-tooth violet.]

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

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

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

arge folio and a quarto, and gives the proprietors' tenures, arable land, woodland, etc. [Written also Doomsday Book.]

A grammar. [Obs.] [Written also donet.]

mast with a long sail, used for trading purposes on the coasts of Coromandel and Ceylon. [Written also dhony, doney, and done.]

), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States. [Written also doub grass.]

d of litter suspended 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.…

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

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

To make a fool of; to deceive. [Obs.] [Written also dorr.] B. Jonson.

The European goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the dor beetle. See Goatsucker. [Written also dorrhawk.] Booth.

r hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stout figured linen manufactured in Scotland. [Formerly written also darnex, dornic, dorneck, etc.] Halliwell. Jamieson.

d Testament at Douai, A. D. 1609-10. Various revised editions have since been published. [Written also Doway Bible. Called also the Rheims and Douay version.]

One of the twelve peers of France, companions of Charlemagne in war. [Written also douzepere.] [Obs.] Big-looking like a doughty doucepere. Spenser.

A grebe or diver; -- applied also to the golden-eye, pochard, scoter, and other ducks. [Written also ducker.] [Prov. Eng.]

A government by slaves. [Written also dulocracy.] Hare.

The carrion crow. [Written also dob.] [Prov. Eng.]