DOLEFULLY
DOLEFULLY, adverb In a doleful manner; sorrowfully; dismally; sadly.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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DOLEFULNESS
DOLEFULNESS, noun Sorrow; melancholy; querulousness; gloominess; dismalness.
DOLENT
DOLENT, adjective [Latin] Sorrowful. [Not in use.]
DOLESOME
DOLESOME, adjective Gloomy; dismal; sorrowful; doleful.The dolesome passage to th infernal sky.
DOLESOMENESS
DOLESOMENESS, noun Gloom; dismalness.
DOLL
DOLL, noun [Gr., an idol; to see.] A puppet or baby for a child; a small image in the human form, for the amusement of little girls.
DOLLAR
DOLLAR, noun [G.] A silver coin of Spain and of the United States, of the value of one hundred cents, or four shillings and sixpence sterling. The dollar seems to have been orig...
DOLOMITE
DOLOMITE, noun A variety of magnesian carbonate of lime, so called from the French geologist Dolomieu. Its structure is granular.
DOLOR
DOLOR, noun [Latin] Pain; grief; lamentation.
DOLORIFEROUS
DOLORIFEROUS, adjective [Latin, pain; to produce.] Producing pain.
DOLORIFIC
DOLORIFIC, adjective [Latin]1. That causes pain or grief.2. Expressing pain or grief.
DOLOROUS
DOLOROUS, adjective [Latin, grief.]1. Sorrowful; doleful; dismal; impressing sorrow or grief; as a dolorous object; a dolorous region.2. Painful; giving pain.Their dispatch is q...
DOLOROUSLY
DOLOROUSLY, adverb Sorrowfully; in a manner to express pain.
DOLPHIN
DOLPHIN, noun [Gr.]1. A genus of cetaceous fish, with teeth in both jaws, and a pipe in the head, comprehending the dolphin the porpoise, the grampus and the beluga. But the fis...
DOLPHINET
DOLPHINET, noun A female dolphin.
DOLT
DOLT, noun [G.] A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; to behave foolishly.
DOLTISH
DOLTISH, adjective Dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as a doltish clown.
DOLTISHNESS
DOLTISHNESS, noun Stupidity.
DOM
DOM, used as a termination, denotes jurisdiction, or property and jurisdiction; primarily, doom, judgment; as in kingdom, earldom. Hence it is used to denote state, condition or...
DOMAIN
DOMAIN, noun [Latin]1. Dominion; empire; territory governed, or under the government of a sovereign; as the vast domains of the Russian emperor; the domains of the British king....
DOMAL
DOMAL, adjective [Latin] Pertaining to house in astrology.
DOME
DOME, noun [Gr., a house, a plain roof. Latin]1. A building; a house; a fabric; used in poetry.2. A cathedral.3. In architecture, a spherical roof, raised over the middle of a b...
DOMESDAY
DOMESDAY. [See Doomsday.]
DOMESDAY-BOOK
DOOMSDAY-BOOK, DOMESDAY-BOOK noun A book compiled by order of William the Conqueror, containing a survey of all the lands in England. It consists of two volumes; a large folio, ...
DOMESMAN
DOMESMAN, noun [See Doom.] A judge; an umpire.
DOMESTIC
DOMESTIC, adjective [Latin, a house.]1. Belonging to the house, or home; pertaining to ones place of residence, and to the family; as domestic concerns; domestic life; domestic ...
DOMESTICALLY
DOMESTICALLY, adverb In relation to domestic affairs.