Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The back.
- noun A piece of stuff used to cover the back of a settle or chair, or hung at the back of an altar or at the sides of a chancel; especially, a piece of rich stuff forming the back of a chair of state or a throne, reaching from the canopy to the floor of the dais. In ecclesiastical use now dossal. Formerly also dorser, dorsel, dosser.
- noun A young cod, formerly supposed to be a distinct species called the variable cod, Gadus callarias.
- noun The back of a book or of a folded document.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Same as
dorsal , n. - noun obsolete The back of a book.
- noun (Zoöl.) The Baltic or variable cod (
Gadus callarias ), by some believed to be the young of the common codfish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
Baltic orvariable cod (Gadus callarias), by some believed to be the young of the commoncodfish .
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Examples
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The "dorse" is an animal with a dog's body and a horse's head that scientists had just figured out how to breed, according to the article.
dispatch.com: RSS 2010
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The "dorse" is an animal with a dog's body and a horse's head that scientists had just figured out how to breed, according to the article.
dispatch.com: RSS 2010
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And we'll be wedded ere we dorse this night; [9] "Well lipp'd," quoth Joe, "no more you need to say" -- [10] "Gee-up! gallows, do you want my sand to-day?"
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer
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[3] The formula of this date, "anno R.R.E. septimo," would at first sight be considered to refer to the preceding reign; but the list is merely a memorandum on the dorse of a completely executed instrument dated A.D. 1300, which it is highly improbable that it preceded.
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I want to come north some time soon but I do not want to leve here looking for a job wher I would be in dorse all winter.
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FREE MASONRY, CO-MASONRY, AND CATHOLICISM At the end of last month's lesson a few words were said about men and women practicing Mystic Masonry, and it might appear to some as if we en - dorse Co-Masonry, but this is emphatically not the case.
Max Heindel's Letters to Students by The Rosicrucian Fellowship 1910
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En-dorse-ment, the writing one's name on a bill of exchange, &c.
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Wilder cited Deeds 'pledge as one reason why he declined to en-dorse the Democratic nominee.
News for InsideNova.com InsideNova.com 2010
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Siebel Systems does not en - plementation and ongoing management dorse Great Divide Research LLC or The Siebel Ob - Blend External Services w / New! of internal customer data quality and server LLC.
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(laughter) but more often of the crŠme-de-citron, vair ‚ mail paon-coque or marshmallow series, which she, as bearer, used to en — dorse, adhesively, to her various payers-drawers who in most cases were identified by the timber papers as wellknown tetigists of the city and suburban.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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