Part 485

-- 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.