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A Linnæan class of plants including all that have any number of stamens between twelve and nineteen.

Of or pertaining to the Dodecandria; having twelve stamens, or from twelve to nineteen.

An ornament common in Gothic architecture, consisting of pointed projections resembling teeth; -- also called tooth ornament. Dogtooth spar (Min.), a variety of calcite, in acute crystals, resembling the tooth of a dog. See Calcite. -- Dogtooth violet (Bot.), a small, bulbous herb of the Lily family (genus Erythronium…

grief; sorrow; lamentation. [Archaic] And she died. So that day there was dole in Astolat. Tennyson.

olics; -- done from the Latin Vulgate by English scholars resident in France. The New Testament portion was published at Rheims, A. D. 1582, the Old 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.]…

beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally double.

Feathery or wool-like down; filament of a feather. Shak. No feather, or dowle of a feather. De Quincey.

To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down. [R.] Young.

designed, or drawn; a delineation. A draught of a Toleration Act was offered to the Parliament by a private member. Macaulay. No picture or draught of these things from the report of the eye. South.

ns; one equally contested. -- Drawn fox, one driven from cover. Shak. -- Drawn work, ornamental work made by drawing out threads from fine cloth, and uniting the cross threads, to form a pattern.

A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by a main armament of big guns all of the same caliber. She has a displacement of…

nd or France dressed up like a Julius Cæsar." Addison. -- To dress a ship (Naut.), to ornament her by hoisting the national colors at the peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when dressed full, the signal flags and pennants are added. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments.

Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire. B. Jonson.

That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug.

unembellished; jejune; plain. These epistles will become less dry, more susceptible of ornament. Pope.

To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn. [Obs.] His diadem was dropped down Dubbed with stones. Morte d'Arthure.

The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.

A stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; -- a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff.

e portion of time during which anything exists. It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should be limited. Macaulay. Soon shall have passed our own human duration. D. Webster.