Definition of dor

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Dor (n.) A large European scaraboid beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius), which makes a droning noise while flying. The name is also applied to allied American species, as the June bug. Called also dorr, dorbeetle, or dorrbeetle, dorbug, dorrfly, and buzzard clock..

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Bespangle :: Bespangle (v. t.) To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering.
Stench :: Stench (v. i.) An ill smell; an offensive odor; a stink.
Bedeck :: Bedeck (v. t.) To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace..
Dorsal :: Dorsal (a.) Pertaining to the surface naturally superior, as of a creeping hepatic moss..
Hyperapophysis :: Hyperapophysis (n.) A lateral and backward-projecting process on the dorsal side of a vertebra.
Ambassadress :: Ambassadress (n.) A female ambassador; also, the wife of an ambassador..
Hall :: Hall (n.) Any corridor or passage in a building.
Myrrh :: Myrrh (n.) A gum resin, usually of a yellowish brown or amber color, of an aromatic odor, and a bitter, slightly pungent taste. It is valued for its odor and for its medicinal properties. It exudes from the bark of a shrub of Abyssinia and Arabia, the Balsamodendron Myrrha. The myrrh of the Bible is supposed to have been partly the gum above named, and partly the exudation of species of Cistus, or rockrose..
Methylal :: Methylal (n.) A light, volatile liquid, H2C(OCH3)2, regarded as a complex ether, and having a pleasant ethereal odor. It is obtained by the partial oxidation of methyl alcohol. Called also formal..
Xiphias :: Xiphias (n.) The constellation Dorado.
Shank :: Shank (v.) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
Tetrathionic :: Tetrathionic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a thionic derivative, H/S/O/, of sulphuric acid, obtained as a colorless, odorless liquid..
Tuft :: Tuft (v. t.) To adorn with tufts or with a tuft.
Sweat :: Sweat (v. t.) To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics..
Betrim :: Betrim (v. t.) To set in order; to adorn; to deck, to embellish; to trim..
Statueless :: Statued (a.) Adorned with statues.
Matador :: Matador (n.) In the game of quadrille or omber, the three principal trumps, the ace of spades being the first, the ace of clubs the third, and the second being the deuce of a black trump or the seven of a red one..
Testudinata :: Testudinata (n. pl.) An order of reptiles which includes the turtles and tortoises. The body is covered by a shell consisting of an upper or dorsal shell, called the carapace, and a lower or ventral shell, called the plastron, each of which consists of several plates..
Sudoriparous :: Sudorific (n.) A sudorific medicine. Cf. Diaphoretic.
Dorado :: Dorado (n.) A southern constellation, within which is the south pole of the ecliptic; -- called also sometimes Xiphias, or the Swordfish..
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