Dole beer, beer bestowed as alms. [Obs.] -- Dole bread, bread bestowed as alms. [Obs.] -- Dole meadow, a meadow in which several persons have a common right or share.
Dole (dl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Doled (dld); p. pr. & vb. n. Doling.] To deal out in small portions; to distribute, as a dole; to deal out scantily or grudgingly.
The supercilious condescension with which even his reputed friends doled out their praises to him.
De Quincey.
Dole"ful (?), a. Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal.
With screwed face and doleful whine.
South.
Regions of sorrow, doleful shades.
Milton.
Syn. -- Piteous; rueful; sorrowful; woeful; melancholy; sad gloomy; dismal; dolorous; woe-begone.
-- Dole"ful*ly, adv. -- Dole"ful*ness, n.
Do"lent (?), a. [L. dolens, p. pr. of dolere: cf. F. dolent. See Dole sorrow.] Sorrowful. [Obs.] Ford.
||Do*len"te (?), a. & adv. [It.] (Mus.) Plaintively. See Doloroso.
Dol"er*ite (?), n. [Gr. &?; deceitful; because it was easily confounded with diorite.] (Geol. & Min.) A dark-colored, basic, igneous rock, composed essentially of pyroxene and a triclinic feldspar with magnetic iron. By many authors it is considered equivalent to a coarse-grained basalt.
Dol`er*it"ic (?), a. Of the nature of dolerite; as, much lava is doleritic lava. Dana.
Dole"some, a. Doleful; dismal; gloomy; sorrowful. -- Dole"some*ly, adv. -- Dole"some*ness, n.
Dolf (?), imp. of Delve. [Obs.] Chaucer.
{ Dol`i*cho*ce*phal"ic (dl`*k*s*fl"k), Dol`i*cho*ceph"a*lous (-sf"*ls), } a. [Gr. dolicho`s long + kefalh` head.] (Anat.) Having the cranium, or skull, long to its breadth; long-headed; -- opposed to brachycephalic. -- Dol`i*cho*ceph"al (#), a. & n.
{ Dol`i*cho*ceph"a*ly (-*l), Dol`i*cho*ceph"a*lism (-*lz'm) }, n. [Cf. F. dolichcéphalie.] The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
Do"li*o*form (?), a. [L. dolium large jar + -form.] (Biol.) Barrel-shaped, or like a cask in form.
||Do*li"o*lum (?), n. [L. doliolum a small cask.] (Zoöl.) A genus of freeswimming oceanic tunicates, allied to Salpa, and having alternate generations.