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To foredoom.

said to have been borrowed from Provence in France. W. Irving. Whose dancing dogs in rigadoons excel. Wolcott.

A machine, resembling a well sweep, used in Egypt for raising water from the Nile for irrigation.

A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor.

See Voodooism.

A degraded form of superstition and sorcery, said to include human sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. It is prevalent among the negroes of Hayti, and to some extent in the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism.

An imaginary creature, of undefined character. [Slang]

Outdoor; exterior. [Obs.] "Her without-door form." Shak.

We might have withheld our political noodles From knocking their heads against hot Yankee-Doodles. Moore.

Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindoo of aboriginal blood.

Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; -- as, an accursed deed. Shak. -- Ac*curs"ed*ly, adv. -- Ac*curs"ed*ness, n.

Behind in place; as, men in line one after another. "Shut doors after you." Shak.

Slightly turned or opened; as, the door was standing ajar.

An outer port, gate, or door.

to the case; to apply an epithet to a person. Yet God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied. Milton.

utcast boy or girl. Tylor. The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways. Lond. Sat. Rev.

Made with an arch or curve; covered with an arch; as, an arched door.

The group of moldings, or other architectural member, above and on both sides of a door or other opening, especially if square in form.

lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo

A relation of proximity to, or of presence in or on, something; as, at the door; at your shop; at home; at school; at hand; at sea and on land.