%dori%

adv. With adoration. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to an ambassador. H. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of depriving of odor, especially of offensive odors resulting from impurities. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of odor, especially of such as results from impurities. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. He who, or that which, deodorizes; esp., an agent that destroys offensive odors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A native or inhabitant of Doris in Greece. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks of Doris; Doric; as, a Dorian fashion. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) Same as Doric, 3. “Dorian mood.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dorian mode (Mus.), the first of the authentic church modes or tones, from D to D, resembling our D minor scale, but with the B natural. Grove. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Doricus, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; the Dorians. ] 1. Pertaining to Doris, in ancient Greece, or to the Dorians; as, the Doric dialect. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) Belonging to, or resembling, the oldest and simplest of the three orders of architecture used by the Greeks, but ranked as second of the five orders adopted by the Romans. See Abacus, Capital, Order. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This order is distinguished, according to the treatment of details, as Grecian Doric, or Roman Doric. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mus.) Of or relating to one of the ancient Greek musical modes or keys. Its character was adapted both to religions occasions and to war. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The Doric dialect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A Doric phrase or idiom. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. Doris, the daughter of Oceanus, and wife of Nereus, Gr. &unr_;. ] (Zool.) A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks having a wreath of branchiæ on the back. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] A Doric phrase or idiom. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. ambassadorial. ] Same as Ambassadorial. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining, or ascribed, to Isidore; as, the Isidorian decretals, a spurious collection of decretals published in the ninth century. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A kind of feldspar commonly showing a beautiful play of colors, and hence much used for ornamental purposes. The finest specimens come from Labrador. See Feldspar. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. odorifer; odor odor + ferre to bear. See Odoe, and 1st Bear. ] Bearing or yielding an odor; perfumed; usually, sweet of scent; fragrant; as, odoriferous spices, particles, fumes, breezes. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- O`dor*if"er*ous*ly, adv. --O`dor*if"er*ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A pungent oily substance obtained by redistilling bone oil. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Proto- + Doric. ] (Arch.) Pertaining to, or designating, architecture, in which the beginnings of the Doric style are supposed to be found. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sudor sweat + -ferous. ] (Physiol.) Producing, or secreting, sweat; sudoriparous. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sudoriferous glands (Anat.), small convoluted tubular glands which are situated in the subcutaneous tissues and discharge by minute orifices in the surface of the skin; the sweat glands. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sudor sweat (akin to E. sweat) + facere to make. ] Causing sweat; as, sudorific herbs. -- n. A sudorific medicine. Cf. Diaphoretic. [ 1913 Webster ]