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Any one of several species of nudibranchiate mollusks of the genus Doris and allied genera, having a smooth, thick, convex yellow body.
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The putting of one order above another; also, an architectural work produced by this method; as, the putting of the Doric order in the ground story, Ionic above it, and Corinthian or Composite above this.
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A native or inhabitant of Doris in Greece.
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Pertaining to Doris, in ancient Greece, or to the Dorians; as, the Doric dialect.
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The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.
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One of a series of ornaments, in the form of a frustum of a cone, attached to the lower part of the triglyphs, and also to the lower faces of the mutules, in the Doric order; -- called also campana, and drop.
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The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic mode, etc., of ancient Greek music.
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Same as Doric, 3.
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The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave.
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An ornament in the frieze of the Doric order, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of a rectangular tablet, slightly projecting, and divided nearly to the top by two parallel and perpendicular gutters, or channels, called glyphs, into three parts, or spaces, called femora. A half channel, or glyph, is also cut upon each of the perpendicular edges of the tablet. See Illust. of Entablature.
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A projecting block worked under the corona of the Doric corice, in the same situation as the modillion of the Corinthian and Composite orders. See Illust. of Gutta.
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A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiae in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
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Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks of Doris; Doric; as, a Dorian fashion.
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The Doric dialect.
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A Doric phrase or idiom.
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A Doric phrase or idiom.
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Pertaining to, or designating, architecture, in which the beginnings of the Doric style are supposed to be found.
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A celebrated marble temple of Athene, on the Acropolis at Athens. It was of the pure Doric order, and has had an important influence on art.
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The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
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The space between two triglyphs of the Doric frieze, which, among the ancients, was often adorned with carved work. See Illust. of Entablature.
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