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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.

uspended 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.

One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.

Without a door.