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dory any of several marine fishes of the family Zeidae (order Zeiformes), found worldwide in moderately deep waters. The members of the family are large-mouthed fish, deep-bodied but thin from side to side. dory small boat with pointed ends and high, flaring sides. A dory may be up to 22 feet (7 m) long and commonly has a narrow, V-shaped stern and a narrow, flat bottom. It is a seaworthy boat that can be rowed, engine-driven, or sailed; it is used extensively by New ... Dos Hermanas city, Sevilla provincia (province), in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Andalusia, southern Spain. It lies southeast of Sevilla city between the Guadaira and Guadalquivir rivers. The city was founded by Ferdinand III of Castile at the time of his conquest of Sevilla (1248) and named Dos Hermanas ("two sisters") ... Dos Passos, John American writer, one of the major novelists of the post-World War I "lost generation," whose reputation as a social historian and as a radical critic of the quality of American life rests primarily on his trilogy U.S.A. Dos Pilas ancient capital of the Petexbatun kingdom of the Maya, situated near the Salinas River in what is now Peten, west-central Guatemala, about 5 miles (8 km) east of the border with Mexico. At the height of its hegemony the kingdom covered an area of some 1,500 square miles (3,885 square ... dos Santos, Jose politician who became president of Angola in 1979. Dosho Japanese priest who helped introduce Buddhism into his country. dosimeter instrument that measures exposure to ionizing radiation over a given period. There are three types of dosimeters worn by persons who work with or near sources of radiation. The film badge is the most popular and inexpensive. In it, photographic or dental X-ray film, wrapped in light-tight paper, is mounted ... Dositheos patriarch of Jerusalem, an important church politician and theologian of the Greek church who staunchly supported Eastern orthodoxy over Roman Catholicism. Ordained deacon in 1652, he became archdeacon of Jerusalem in 1661. He subsequently was made archbishop of Caesarea Palestinae (now Horbat Qesari, Israel) in 1666 and patriarch of Jerusalem ... Dosso town, southwestern Niger, situated about 80 miles (130 km) southeast of Niger's capital, Niamey. Dosso is the traditional headquarters of the Zerma people, who are sedentary farmers. The town is connected by road to Niamey in the west and Tahoua in the northeast. There is also an airfield at Dosso. ... Dosso Dossi late Italian Renaissance painter and leader of the Ferrarese school in the 16th century. Very little is known about his early life, and his artistic influences and training have long been open to speculation. His byname comes from the name of the family estate near his place of birth. Dost Mohammad Khan ruler of Afghanistan (1826-63) and founder of the Barakzay dynasty, who maintained Afghan independence during a time when the nation was a focus of political struggles between Great Britain and Russia. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Russian novelist and short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the darkest recesses of the human heart, together with his unsurpassed moments of illumination, had an immense influence on 20th-century fiction. dotaku thin, elongated bell-shaped bronze forms, evidence of a short-lived bronze culture, localized in the centre of Japan, from the middle of the Yayoi period (c. 300 BCE-c. 250 CE) into the Tumulus period (c. 250-c. 500 CE). Dotaku are sometimes decorated with domestic and hunting scenes delineated in thread relief ... Dothan city, Houston and Dale counties, seat (1903) of Houston county, southeastern Alabama, U.S., about 90 miles (145 km) southeast of Montgomery. Originally settled as Poplar Head in the early 1800s, the name was changed to Dothan (for a biblical location) in 1885. Cotton was the main crop until it was ... Dotremont, Christian Belgian poet and energetic cultural figure who is probably best known as one of the founders of the experimental art group, COBRA. dotterel any of several species of birds of the plover family, Charadriidae (order Charadriiformes), especially the Eurasian dotterel (Eudromias morinellus). The Eurasian dotterel is mottled brown above, with a broad, white eye stripe and a narrow, white band separating its breast, which is gray, from its russet-coloured belly. It is about ... Dottore stock character of the Italian theatrical form known as the commedia dell'arte, who was a loquacious caricature of pedantic learning. dou type of ancient Chinese bronze vessel used to contain food. The dou is usually a circular bowl supported on a short stem rising from a flaring base. The rim has two ring-shaped handles at opposite sides of the bowl, and another shallow bowl serves as a lid. Dou, Gerrit Dutch Baroque painter, leading artist of the school of Leiden, especially known for his domestic genre paintings and portraits. Douai town, northern France, in the Nord departement, Nord-Pas-de-Calais region. It is situated in flat country on the Scarpe River, 24 miles (39 km) south of Lille and 13 miles southwest of the Belgian border. Douai was once a coal-mining centre with related chemical and engineering works; now its industrial economy ... Douai-Reims Bible English translation of the Latin Vulgate Bible produced by Roman Catholic scholars in exile from England at the English College in Douai (then in the Spanish Netherlands but now part of France). The New Testament translation was published in 1582 at Rheims, where the English College had temporarily relocated in ... Douala city and chief port of Cameroon. It is situated on the southeastern shore of the Wouri River estuary, on the Atlantic coast about 130 miles (210 km) west of Yaounde. The Wouri Bridge, 5,900 feet (1,800 metres) long, joins Douala to the port of Bonaberi and carries both road and ... Douarnenez town, Finistere departement, Bretagne (Brittany) region, northwestern France. It lies at the mouth of Pouldavid Estuary on Douarnenez Bay of the Atlantic Ocean, northwest of the city of Quimper. double bass stringed musical instrument, the lowest-pitched member of the violin family, sounding an octave lower than the cello. It has two basic designs-one shaped like a viol (or viola da gamba) and the other like a violin-but there are other designs, such as that of a guitar. It varies considerably in ... double dactyls a light-verse form consisting of eight lines of two dactyls each, arranged in two stanzas. The first line of the poem must be a jingle, often "Higgledy-piggledy" or "Jiggery-pokery"; the second line must be a name; the last lines of each stanza are truncated and they should rhyme; and one ... Double Falsehood tragicomedy in five acts presented by Lewis Theobald at Drury Lane Theatre in 1727. According to Theobald, it was based on a lost play by William Shakespeare (and, scholars now believe, John Fletcher) called Cardenio. The play was probably first performed (as Cardenio) in 1613, but it was not published ... Double Indemnity American film noir, released in 1944, that was considered the quintessential movie of its genre. It followed the time-honoured noir plotline of a man undone by an evil woman. double jeopardy in law, protection against the use by the state of certain multiple forms of prosecution. Double Life, A American drama film, released in 1947, that is notable for Ronald Colman's Academy Award-winning portrayal of an unstable stage actor. double refraction an optical property in which a single ray of unpolarized light entering an anisotropic medium is split into two rays, each traveling in a different direction. One ray (called the extraordinary ray) is bent, or refracted, at an angle as it travels through the medium; the other ray (called the ... double vision perceiving of two images of a single object. Double, The novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, published in 1846 in Russian as Dvoynik. It is a classic of doppelganger literature. double-aspect theory type of mind-body monism. According to double-aspect theory, the mental and the material are different aspects or attributes of a unitary reality, which itself is neither mental nor material. The view is derived from the metaphysics of Benedict de Spinoza, who held that mind and matter are merely two of ... double-truth theory in philosophy, the view that religion and philosophy, as separate sources of knowledge, might arrive at contradictory truths without detriment to either-a position attributed to Averroes and the Latin Averroists. Perhaps neither Averroes, a Muslim philosopher, nor the Christian Scholastics influenced by his philosophy actually held such a theory. Averroes ... Doubleday, Abner U.S. Army officer, once thought to be the inventor of baseball. Doubleday, Frank Nelson American publisher and founder of the book-publishing firm Doubleday & Company, Inc. doublet chief upper garment worn by men from the 15th to the 17th century. It was a close-fitting, waisted, padded jacket worn over a shirt. Its ancestor, the gipon, was a tunic worn under armour, and at first it came down almost to the knees. The civilian doublet at first had ... Doubs River river in eastern France. The river justifies its Latin name, Dubius, by its erratic course, rising near Mouthe in the Jura Mountains (in the Doubs departement) at a height of 3,074 ft (937 m) and following a course 267 mi (430 km) long to flow into the Saone at Verdun-sur-le-Doubs, ... douc any of three colourful species of langur monkeys found in the tropical forests of central and southern Vietnam, southern Laos, and northeastern Cambodia. Doucs are among the most strikingly coloured primates. The head is brownish, but the body appears blue-gray owing to black-and-white bands on each hair. The tail and ... Doudart de Lagree, Ernest-Marc-Louis French explorer and diplomat who secured French hegemony over Cambodia. dough mixture of flour and liquid with other ingredients, such as leavening agents, shortening, sugar, salt, eggs, and various flavouring materials, used to make baked products. A similar mixture, in more liquefied form, is known as batter. Doughty, Charles Montagu British traveller, widely regarded as one of the greatest of all Western travellers in Arabia. Douglas municipal borough and capital, since 1869, of the Isle of Man, one of the British Isles. It lies on the island's east coast, 80 mi (130 km) northwest of Liverpool (across the Irish Sea). Low hills encircle the town, penetrated by the valley of the combined Dhoo (Manx, "dark") and ... Douglas county, west-central Nevada, U.S., adjacent to the lower half of Lake Tahoe and the California border. The first permanent settlement in Nevada was established in 1851 at Mormon Station, renamed Genoa in 1855 (the Mormon Station Historic State Monument commemorates the event). Douglas, created in 1861, is one of Nevada's ... Douglas city, seat (1887) of Converse county, east-central Wyoming, U.S., on the North Platte River, 52 miles (84 km) east of Casper. Founded in 1886 with the arrival of the railroad, it was first called Tent Town but was renamed to honour Stephen A. Douglas, Lincoln's political opponent. It is a ... Douglas city, seat (1858) of Coffee county, south-central Georgia, U.S., about 80 miles (130 km) east of Albany. Founded in 1858, it was named for U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, who became Abraham Lincoln's opponent in the 1860 presidential election. The city is the trading centre for a large ... Douglas city, Cochise county, in Sulphur Springs Valley, southeastern Arizona, U.S. A port of entry (on the Mexican border), it is separated from Aqua Prieta, Mexico, by International Avenue. It was founded in 1901 as a copper-smelting centre and was named for James Douglas, president of the Phelps Dodge (mining) Corporation. ... Douglas fir any of about six species of coniferous evergreen timber trees that make up the genus Pseudotsuga of the family Pinaceae, native to western North America and eastern Asia. A Douglas fir has long, flat, spirally arranged needles that grow directly from the branch. Each yellow- or blue-green needle has a ... Douglas scale either of two arbitrary series of numbers from 0 to 9, used separately or in combination to define qualitatively the degree to which the ocean surface is disturbed by fresh waves (sea) generated by local winds, and by decaying waves, or swell, propagated from their distant wind sources (see Table). ... Douglas, Aaron African American painter and graphic artist who played a leading role in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.