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The Cornus, a genus of large shrubs or small trees, the wood of which is exceedingly hard, and serviceable for many purposes.

A book said to have been compiled under the direction of King Alfred. It is supposed to have contained the principal maxims of the common law, the penalties for misdemeanors, and the forms of judicial proceedings. Domebook was probably a general name for book of judgments. Burrill.

A dove. [Scot.]

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.

spended 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.

A species of palm tree (Hyphæne Thebaica), highly valued for the fibrous pulp of its fruit, which 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.