John x. 9.
4. An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads.
Martin's office is now the second door in the street.
Arbuthnot.
Blank door, Blind door, etc. (Arch.) See under Blank, Blind, etc. -- In doors, or Within doors, within the house. -- Next door to, near to; bordering on.
A riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult.
L'Estrange.
-- Out of doors, or Without doors, and, colloquially, Out doors, out of the house; in open air; abroad; away; lost.
His imaginary title of fatherhood is out of doors.
Locke.
-- To lay (a fault, misfortune, etc.) at one's door, to charge one with a fault; to blame for. -- To lie at one's door, to be imputable or chargeable to.
If I have failed, the fault lies wholly at my door.
Dryden.
Door is used in an adjectival construction or as the first part of a compound (with or without the hyphen), as, door frame, doorbell or door bell, door knob or doorknob, door latch or doorlatch, door jamb, door handle, door mat, door panel.
Door"case` (?), n. The surrounding frame into which a door shuts.
Door"cheek` (?), n. The jamb or sidepiece of a door. Ex. xii. 22 (Douay version).
||Door"ga (?), n. [Skr. Durg.] (Myth.) A Hindoo divinity, the consort of Siva, represented with ten arms. [Written also Durga.] Malcom.
Door"ing (?), n. The frame of a door. Milton.
Door"keep`er (?), n. One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.
Door"less, a. Without a door.
Door"nail` (?), n. The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, "As dead as a doornail."
Door"plane` (?), n. A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant.
Door"post` (?), n. The jamb or sidepiece of a doorway.
Door"sill` (?), n. The sill or threshold of a door.
Door"stead (?), n. Entrance or place of a door. [Obs. or Local] Bp. Warburton.
Door"step` (?), n. The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.
Door"stone` (?), n. The stone forming a threshold.
Door"stop` (?), n. (Carp.) The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door.
Door"way` (?), n. The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.
Door"yard` (?), n. A yard in front of a house or around the door of a house.
{ Dop, Doop } (?), n. A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.
Dop, v. i. [Cf. Dap, Dip.] To dip. [Obs.] Walton.
Dop, n. A dip; a low courtesy. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Dop"per (?), n. [D. dooper.] [Written also doper.] An Anabaptist or Baptist. [Contemptuous] B. Jonson.
Dop"pler*ite (?), n. [Named after the physicist and mathematician Christian Doppler.] (Min.) A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.
Doq"uet (?), n. A warrant. See Docket.
Dor (?), n. [Cf. AS. dora drone, locust, D. tor beetle, L. taurus a kind of beetle. Cf. Dormouse.] (Zoöl.) 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.
Dor, n. [Cf. Dor a beetle, and Hum, Humbug.] A trick, joke, or deception. Beau. & Fl.
To give one the dor, to make a fool of him. [Archaic] P. Fletcher.
Dor, v. t. To make a fool of; to deceive. [Obs.] [Written also dorr.] B. Jonson.
Do*ra"do (?), n. [Sp. dorado gilt, fr. dorar to gild, fr. L. deaurare. See 1st Dory, and cf. Fl Dorado.] 1. (Astron.) A southern constellation, within which is the south pole of the ecliptic; -- called also sometimes Xiphias, or the Swordfish.