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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Bald :: Bald (a.) Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal.
Embassy :: Embassy (n.) The person or persons sent as ambassadors or envoys; the ambassador and his suite; envoys.
Dorian :: Dorian (a.) Same as Doric, 3..
Tapestry :: Tapestry (v. t.) To adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry..
Empasm :: Empasm (n.) A perfumed powder sprinkled upon the body to mask the odor of sweat.
Embroyde :: Embroyde (v. t.) To embroider; to adorn.
Spinebill :: Spineback (n.) A fish having spines in, or in front of, the dorsal fins..
Smelling :: Smelling (n.) The sense by which odors are perceived; the sense of smell.
Warm :: Warm (a.) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven.
Conine :: Conine (n.) A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock (Conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called also coniine, coneine, conia, etc. See Conium, 2..
Cachou :: Cachou (n.) A silvered aromatic pill, used to correct the odor of the breath..
Rubric :: Rubric (v. t.) To adorn ith red; to redden; to rubricate.
Idol :: Idol (n.) That on which the affections are strongly (often excessively) set; an object of passionate devotion; a person or thing greatly loved or adored.
Stinkhorn :: Stinker (n.) Any one of the several species of large antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odor, as the giant fulmar..
Vaseline :: Vaseline (n.) A yellowish translucent substance, almost odorless and tasteless, obtained as a residue in the purification of crude petroleum, and consisting essentially of a mixture of several of the higher members of the paraffin series. It is used as an unguent, and for various purposes in the arts. See the Note under Petrolatum..
Lipogram :: Lipogram (n.) A writing composed of words not having a certain letter or letters; -- as in the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus there was no A in the first book, no B in the second, and so on..
Empyreumatical :: Empyreumatical (a.) Of or pertaining to empyreuma; as, an empyreumatic odor..
Frounce :: Frounce (v. i.) To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair..
Yakin :: Yakin (n.) A large Asiatic antelope (Budorcas taxicolor) native of the higher parts of the Himalayas and other lofty mountains. Its head and neck resemble those of the ox, and its tail is like that of the goat. Called also budorcas..
Dorse :: Dorse (n.) Same as dorsal, n..
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