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

Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal. With screwed face and doleful whine. South. Regions of sorrow, doleful shades. Milton.

Sorrowful. [Obs.] Ford.

Plaintively. See Doloroso.

A dark-colored, basic, igneous rock, composed essentially of pyroxene and a triclinic feldspar with magnetic iron. By many authors it is considered equivalent to a coarse-grained basalt.

Of the nature of dolerite; as, much lava is doleritic lava. Dana.

Doleful; dismal; gloomy; sorrowful. -- Dole"some*ly, adv. -- Dole"some*ness, n.

The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.

from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper.

A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt.

n sympathy; -- followed by with. Your friends would have cause to rejoice, rather than condole with you. Sir W. Temple.

Condolence. "A pitiful condolement." Milton.

xpression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief. Their congratulations and their condolences. Steele. A special mission of condolence. Macaulay.

One who condoles.

Feeling no compunction; apathetic. [R.] Hallywell.

A rapid dance in six-eight time in which a large number join hands and dance in various figures, sometimes moving from room to room. It originated in Provence.

An ornamental branched candlestick.

A small gondola. T. Moore.

harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc. [Obs.] I have ease, if it may not rather be called indolence. Bp. Hough.