Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The back.
- n. 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.
- n. A young cod, formerly supposed to be a distinct species called the variable cod, Gadus callarias.
- n. The back of a book or of a folded document.
Wiktionary
- n. The Baltic or variable cod (Gadus callarias), by some believed to be the young of the common codfish.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Same as dorsal, n.
- n. obsolete The back of a book.
- n. (Zoöl.) The Baltic or variable cod (Gadus callarias), by some believed to be the young of the common codfish.
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“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]
“[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.”
“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
“En-dorse-ment, the writing one's name on a bill of exchange, &c.”
“Wilder cited Deeds 'pledge as one reason why he declined to en-dorse the Democratic nominee.”
“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.”
“(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.”
“Item una pulcra tabula pro osculo pacis omata cum argento deaiu-ato operis elmatae per totum cum ymagine beatae Mariae puerum tenentis in sinistra et pomum in 'dextra in medio praedictae tabulae constituto et habet in planissie tabulae v pulcros lapiedes •* virides iij rubies 1 j blodiam in claves argenteos infixes non ponderata quia habet tabulam ligniam in dorse.”
Internet Archive: Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform]
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