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▪ I. † dorse, n.1 Obs.
[ad. L. dors-um back.]
1. = dosser1 1.
a1524Will of Sir R. Sutton in Churton Life 521 (T.) A dorse and redorse of crymsyn velvet.
2. The back of a book or writing.
c1640J. Smyth Lives Berkeleys (1883) II. 94 Without any reverse or privy seale on the dorse. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 484 Books..richly bound with gilt dorses. 1866Horwood Yearbks. 32 & 33 Edw. I Pref. 37 note, Edward the Second's letter to the Friars Preachers on the dorse of the Close Roll of 19 Ed. II.
3. Pugilistic slang. The back. to send to dorse: to throw on one's back, throw down.
1822Blackw. Mag. XII. 461 Sent to dorse in a bloodless fight by Painter.
▪ II. dorse, n.2|dɔːs|
Also 7 dorce.
[ad. LG. dorsch in same sense = ON. torskr codfish.]
A young cod. (Formerly supposed to be a distinct species, and named Gadus (or Morrhua) callarias.)
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey iv. iii. 83 Base, Dorce, Mackeril, Whiteing. 1611Cotgr., Poisson S. Pierre, the Dorce. 1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. I. 423 M[orrhua] callarias, Lin. The Dorse. Body gray, with brown spots in summer, and black in winter.
▪ III. † dorse, v. Obs. Pugilistic slang.
[f. dorse n.1 3.]
trans. To throw on the back.
1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 40 The straight hitting..soon dorses your roundabout hand-over-head hitters.
▪ IV. dorse
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