Dor

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dor \Dor\, n. [Cf. AS. dora drone, locust, D. tor beetle, L.
     taurus a kind of beetle. Cf. {Dormouse}.] (Zool.)
     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}.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dor \Dor\, n. [Cf. {Dor} a beetle, and {Hum}, {Humbug}.]
     A trick, joke, or deception. --Beau. & Fl.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {To give one the dor}, to make a fool of him. [Archaic] --P.
        Fletcher.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dor \Dor\, v. t.
     To make a fool of; to deceive. [Obs.] [Written also {dorr}.]
     --B. Jonson.
     [1913 Webster]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Dor
     dwelling, the Dora of the Romans, an ancient royal city of the
     Canaanites (Josh. 11:1, 2; 12:23). It was the most southern
     settlement of the Phoenicians on the coast of Syria. The
     original inhabitants seem never to have been expelled, although
     they were made tributary by David. It was one of Solomon's
     commissariat districts (Judg. 1:27; 1 Kings 4:11). It has been
     identified with Tantura (so named from the supposed resemblance
     of its tower to a tantur, i.e., "a horn"). This tower fell in
     1895, and nothing remains but debris and foundation walls, the
     remains of an old Crusading fortress. It is about 8 miles north
     of Caesarea, "a sad and sickly hamlet of wretched huts on a
     naked sea-beach."
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Dor, generation, habitation