▪ I. dole, n.1
(dəʊl)
Forms: 1 dál, 2–4 dal(e, 3 dol, 4–6 dool(e, 5 doylle, dooll, 6 Sc. daill, 6–7 doal(e, 3– dole.
[OE. dál, a parallel form to dǽl which gives deal n.1 In senses 5–7, used as n. of action from deal v. See also dale2.]
† 1. The state of being divided; division. Obs.
| c 1000 ælfric Exod. viii. 23 Ic sette dal betwux þin folc & min folc. c 1275 Passion Our Lord 446 in O.E. Misc. 50 Hi nolden þer-of makie nones cunnes dol. c 1340 Cursor M. 23521 (Trin.) Þei are in onehede so in dole. |
† 2. a. A part or division of a whole; a portion; = deal n.1 1. Obs.
| a 1000 Guthlac (Gr.) 25 Is þes middan-ᵹeard, dalum ᵹedæled. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 47 Beo heo dal neominde of heofene riches blisse. c 1200 Ormin 8266 Siþþenn wass þe kinedom O fowwre daless dæledd. a 1225 Ancr. R. 10 Þe latere dole of his sawe limpeð to recluses; vor þer beoð two dolen to two manere of men þet beoð of religiun. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 151 On four doles delen he ðe ȝer. 13.. E.E. Allit. P. B. 216 Þer he tynt þe tyþe dool of his tour ryche. a 1400–50 Alexander 3844 As þai þe forthing-dole had of þe flode past. 1573 Tusser Husb. xlviii. (1878) 104 Amongst those same hillocks deuide them by doles. |
b. Mining. A portion of ore: see quots.
| 1823 Crabb Technol. Dict., Dole (Min.), a pile of ore for sale. 1874 J. H. Collins Metal Mining 112 The piles or doles belonging to the different parties. 1880 W. Cornw. Gloss., Dole, a parcel of copper ore; a share in a mine; mine dues. ‘What dole do you pay?’ |
† c. A portion of a common or undivided field; = dale2 1. Obs.
| 1523 Fitzherb. Surv. 41 They [meadows] ought to be well staked bytwene euery mannes dole. 1611 Manch. Crt. Leet Rec. (1885) XI. 263 One Barne and a doale of Lande. 1787 W. Marshall Norfolk II. 10 To cut and burn ant-hills off a dole belonging to his farm, upon a common. |
d. A portion (conventionally fixed) for sale; a ‘lot’.
| 1887 Doncaster Tradesman's Advt. Bill, We shall clear out several hundred doles of superior Wakefield Worsted at 9½d and 11½d per dole. |
3. A part allotted or apportioned to one, or belonging to one by right; share, portion, lot. arch.
| a 1225 St. Marher. 22 Ne schaltu habben wið me dale of heouene riche. a 1240 Ureisun 150 in Cott. Hom. 199 Þu schalt me a ueir dol of heoueriche blisse. c 1325 Chron. Eng. 414 in Ritson Metr. Rom. II. 287 Made al Englond yhol Falle to ys oune dol. 13.. E.E. Allit. P. B. 699, I..dyȝt drwry þer-inne, doole alþer-swettest. 1548 Forrest Pleas. Poesye 649 O Nobul thynge belongethe to youre Doale [rime soule]. 1601 Shakes. All's Well ii. iii. 176 What great creation, and what dole of honour Flies where you bid it. 1676 Hale Contempl. i. 272 Our measure and dole is given unto us. 1871 Tennyson Last Tourn. 556 Hath not our great Queen My dole of beauty trebled? |
4. Portion or lot (in life); fate, destiny: chiefly in proverbial phr. happy man be his dole. arch.
| ? a 1500 Parl. Byrdes 179 in Hazl. E.P.P. III. 176, I woulde the hauke brake his necke, Or [were] brought vnto some myscheuous dale [rime tale]. 1562 J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 169 Happy man happy dole, so say sycke and hole. 1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. ii. 79 Happy man be his dole, say I: euery man to his businesse. 1663 Butler Hud. i. iii. 638 Let us that are unhurt and whole Fall on, and happy Man be's Dole. 1803 W. S. Rose Amadis 99 Death be his dole who worst maintains the strife. 1838 Southey Doctor V. 147 Happy man would be his dole, who, when he had made up his mind [etc.]. |
5. a. Dealing out or distribution of gifts; esp. of food or money given in charity.
| c 1205 Lay. 19646 Six cnihtes..gan to þas kinges dale, swulc heo weoren vn-hale. 1297 R. Glouc. (1724) 165 Messagers in pouere monne wede, Þat at doles in þe court her mete myd oþere bede. c 1449 Pecock Repr. iii. xv. 375 Of the ouerplus make doole to othere. 1620 Sanderson 12 Serm. (1637) 60 The Gifts here spoken of are distributed as it were by doale. 1653 Milton Hirelings Wks. (1851) 388 As he dispenses it in his Sunday Dole. 1778 Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2), Stretham, Surry..has a charity-school, and a dole every Sunday, of 21 two-penny loaves. 1878 Browning La Saisiaz 59 Pleasures stinted in the dole. |
† b. Dealing, distribution, delivery (of blows, death). Obs.
| a 1525 (ed. Pynson) Sir Beues (1885) 48 note, Al they sayde, seke and hole, That they had ben at Beuys dole. 1587 Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1321/2 They..fought couragiouslie, as if the Greeks and Troians had dealt their deadlie dole. 1597 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, i. i. 169 That in the dole of blowes your Son might drop. 1621 Fletcher Isl. Princess iv. ii, Dealing large doles of death. 1671 Milton Samson 1529 What if..He now be dealing dole among his foes? |
6. a. That which is distributed or doled out; esp. a gift of food or money made in charity; hence, a portion sparingly doled out; spec. (usu. the dole); the popular name for the various kinds of weekly payments made from national and local funds to the unemployed since the war of 1914–18. Phr. (to be or go) on the dole: (to be or start being) in receipt of such unemployment relief; also transf. and fig.
| 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. iii. 63 Whon ȝe ȝiuen doles. 1480 Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxlvi. (1482) 311 A dole to poure peple of vi shyllynges viii pens to be delyd peny mele. 1566 R. Mighells in Suckling Suffolk (1847) 86 There was tythe of fysche called Christs dole, paid in this manner: vidl{supt}, of every fisher boat going to the sea, half a dole. 1635 R. Bolton Comf. Affl. Consc. vi. 396 Rich men cast into the Treasury large Doles, and royall offerings. 1793 Burke Rem. Policy Allies Wks. VII. 136 At Paris..the bread they buy is a daily dole. 1862 Merivale Rom. Emp. (1871) V. xl. 55 Recipients of the ordinary dole of grain. 1894 Times (weekly ed.) 19 Jan. 59/4 Not a penny of it was distributed until November 1, and then only in doles and driblets. 1919 Daily Mail 11 June 8/4 You won't draw your out-of-work dole of 29s. this week. 1923 L. A. Harker Master & Maid (new ed.) xx. 265 If only I'd danced an Irish jig I believe I could have got the whole of them to increase the dole. 1925 Westm. Gaz. 26 Mar., 3,000 Aliens on the Dole. 1928 Britain's Industrial Future (Lib. Ind. Inq.) 277 To speak of Unemployment Benefit as ‘the dole’ is to misrepresent the facts. 1933 W. Greenwood (title) Love on the dole. A tale of the two cities. 1937 Daily Herald 21 Jan. 4/2 Beef producers must not consider themselves as ‘on the dole for ever’, but must use the assistance to reorganise the industry. 1955 Times 29 July 5/6 The nation was on the dole, and had been for 10 years. |
† b. Reward given to hounds. Obs.
| 1576 Turberv. Venerie 144 The houndes must be rewarded with the Bowels, the bloud and the feete..it is not called a rewarde but a dole. 1688 R. Holme Armoury ii. 187/2 Dole is the reward of a Roe-Buck, given to the Hounds. |
c. transf. and fig.
| 1642 Milton Apol. Smect. i. Wks. (1847) 85/1 Who made you the busy almoner to deal about this dole of laughter and reprehension? 1844 Mrs. Browning Vis. Poets ccxvi. Poems 1850 I. 232 Hand-service, to receive world's dole. |
† 7. Dealing, intercourse; = dale2 2. Obs.
| c 1340 Cursor M. 683 (Trin.) Þese beestis were so meke in dole Wiþouten hurtyng þei ȝeoden hole. 1549 Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. 1 Peter iii. 7 Yf bothe parties..refrayne from bodyly doale. 1561 Child Marriages (1897) 9 He had neuer any Carnall dole with her. |
8. attrib. and Comb., as in dole-bag, dole-beer, dole-cup, dole-penny, dole-silver; dole-cupboard (see quot. 19101); dole-drawer, one who receives the dole (sense 6 a); dole-fish (see quot. 1641); dole-land, -meadow, -moor, a piece of common land, moor, etc. in which various persons have portions indicated by landmarks, but not divided off; dolesman, -woman, a man or woman who receives a dole; dole queue, a queue of people waiting to collect unemployment benefit; freq. as a general symbol of unemployment; dole-window, a window at which doles were distributed.
| 1610 B. Jonson Alch. i. i, Sell the *dole-beere to aqua-vitæ men. |
| 1583 J. Higins tr. Junius' Nomenclator (N.) Pain d'aumosne, *dole-bread. a 1652 Brome City Wit iv. iv. Wks. 1873 I. 352 Five pound in dole bread. |
| a 1845 A. E. Bray Warleigh xiii, He..received the customary fee, and having drunk what was called a ‘*dole cup’ of excellent waters, returned home. |
| 1910 Encycl. Brit. VII. 634/2 The livery cupboard..was often used in churches to contain the loaves of bread doled out to poor persons... They were then called *dole cupboards. 1910 V. Tree Let. 9 Oct. in Castles in Air (1926) i. 37, I am rather inclined to sell our Dole cupboard we bought together. 1926 Good Housekeeping July 188/2 Profiteers, *dole-drawers and music-hall artists—in fact, the only people who have any money to-day. 1938 R. G. Collingwood Princ. Art xv. 333 An audience of wage-earners or dole-drawers. |
| 1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII, c. 4 §2 No..person..shall..bie any dole or dooles of any of the maryners of any of the seid shyppe or shippes, called the maryners *Dole fysshe. 1641 Termes de la Ley 126 Dole-fish seemeth to bee those fishes which the fisher-men yeerly employed in the North seas, doe of custome receive for their allowance. |
| 1805 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. III. 57 The plots of field are often parcelled out like *dole-lands in petty compartments. |
| 1881 Times 30 Mar. 11/4 The trustees, the *dolesmen, and the *doleswomen might be a small group of old faces well known to one another. |
| 1726 Dict. Rust. (ed. 3) s.v. *Dole-Meadow, a Meadow wherein several Persons have a share. |
| 1825–7 Hone Every-Day Bk. II. 918 The two large pieces of common land called *Dolemoors. Ibid. 921 The Marks for allotting Dolmoors. |
| 1686 Plot Staffordsh. 314 This *dole-penny is..given to all persons then residing in the parish. |
| 1972 Guardian 16 Feb. 14/5 The *dole queues in the West Midlands. 1979 S. Wilson Greenish Man 22 In Eire, we can rely on young men..finding the patriot cause more attractive than the dole queue. 1985 Financial Times 21 Mar. i. 12/5 Pushing wage levels even further below the poverty line will do nothing to cut the dole queues. |
| 1579 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) 169 (Jam.) All landis, annuellis, obitis, *daill siluer, mailis, rentis, etc. |
| 1859 Turner Dom. Archit. III. ii. vii. 214 In the hall..is a low side window, called a *Dole window, formerly used for distributing alms. |
▪ II. dole, dool, dule, n.2 arch. and dial.
(dəʊl, duːl)
Forms: α. 3–4 deol, del, (3 deil, 4 diol, dyel), 4–5 deel, dele, (deyl(le); β. 3–5 doel, (5 doell); 3–5 dol, (4–5 doul, 5 doll), 4–9 dool, dole, (4–7 doole, 6 doal(e, 7 dowle); 4 doil, 4–5 doile, doyl, doyll, 5 doylle; γ. 4 duel, dul, 4–9 dule, 4–5 duyl, 5 Sc. dwle, 6–7 dulle, duill; 6 deul, 6–7 dewle, 7–8 Sc. deule; δ. 5 duyel, dueyl, deuel, 6–7 dueil.
[a. OF. doel (11th c.), duel (12–14th c.), deol, diol, dial, diel, del (13th c.), dol, dul, deul (14th c.), duil, dueil (16–17th c.), mod.F. deuil:—late L. dolium grief. The manifold forms of the OF. word are reflected in Middle English. The deol type, which first prevailed, and was at length reduced to dēl, became obs. before 1500. The dōl, dole form survived in English till the 16th c., and its normal representative in modern English is dool; but the word became to a great extent obsolete by 1600, and some of its modern revivers have preferred the ME. spelling dole. It has always been retained in Sc., where it is now regularly (d{obar}ːl, dyːl), variously spelt dool, duil, dule; dule also occurred in English from 14th to 16th c., and is used in preference to dole or dool by some modern poets. In addition to these derivatives from OF., the forms duyel, dueyl, deuel, dueil, imitating later French types, occur from Caxton onwards.]
1. Grief, sorrow, mental distress.
| α c 1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 42/285 Ech man hadde deol þerof. 1307 Elegy Edw. I, vii, For del ne mihte he speke na more. c 1320 Cast. Love 110 Alas whiche sorewe and dyel ther wes! 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. xxi. 306 And al hus issue sholden deye with deol. c 1420 Anturs of Arth. xxv, Thenke quat..dele, that I inne duelle. |
| β a 1240 Wohunge in Cott. Hom. 285 Leue me vnderstonde þi dol and herteli to felen sum hwat of þe sorhe. c 1320 Seuyn Sag. (W.) 2574 For doel therof amorewe he starf. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. 165 [She] felle R[ichard] to fote gretand, þat doole him nam. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints, Thomas 250 He vald..bryne þame sene ine doile and va. c 1430 Lydg. Bochas i. i. (1544) 4 a, Continual sorow, dread, dole. c 1450 Merlin 90 The quene dide wepe as she that hadde grete doel. c 1460 Towneley Myst. (Surtees) 62 Alas for doylle we dy! 1579 Spenser Sheph. Cal. Feb. 155, I..Am like for desperate doole to dye. 1580 Sidney Ps. xliii. vi, Why art thou, my soule, Cast down in such dole? a 1605 Polwart Flyting w. Montgomerie 526 Dryve, with doole, to death detestabill, This mad malitious monster miserabill. 1667 Milton P.L. iv. 894 To change Torment with ease, & soonest recompence Dole with delight. 1776 C. Keith Farmer's Ha' 31 They banish hence a' care and dool. 1820 Scott Monast. v, The Kelpy has risen from the fathomless pool, He has lighted his candle of death and of dool. 1850 Mrs. Browning Poems II. 87 Earth's warm-beating joy and dole. |
| γ a 1300 Cursor M. 23975 (Cott.) Hir dule [v.r. dole] ne ma i noght for-dill, Bot wit hir wepeing wepe i will. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxvii. 93 The Dwle, þat þai had in þat Fycht. 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xiv. 23 The dulis that communis dois sustene. 1631 A. Craig Pilgr. & Heremite 7 Thy duill, her delight. a 1850 Rossetti Dante & Circ. ii. (1874) 287, I stand all day in fear and dule. |
| δ 1307 Elegy Edw. I, i, My song, Of duel that Deth hath diht us newe. c 1477 Caxton Jason 18 b, Wherof their king..hath had grete dueyl and sorowe. Ibid. 116 Jason demened so grete a duyel and sorow. |
2. The expression of sorrow or grief; mourning, weeping, lamentation; chiefly in phr. to make dole, to lament, mourn.
| α c 1290 Beket 645 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 125 Þe deol þat thomas makede: no tounge telle ne may. a 1300 Fall & Passion 83 in E.E.P. (1862) 15 Who spekiþ of deil a-ȝe þat del . neuer such nas þer none. c 1350 Leg. Cath., Joachim & Anna 133 Gret diol made Anne for him. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. xx. 318 Þauh men maken muche deol in here angre, And beo inpacient in here penaunces. c 1420 Chron. Vilod. 774 For hurre deth he made gret deylle. |
| β a 1300 Cursor M. 10455 (Gött.) Þu blamys me for i mak dol. Ibid. 16752 + 97 (Cott.) Ilk a creature for his ded made doyl on þer wise. c 1380 Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 99 Jesus making dool in himsilf cam to þe sepulcre. c 1450 Merlin 34 After the corse was made grete doel and wepynge. a 1547 Surrey æneid iv. 43 Time of thy doole, thy spouse new dead, I graunt None might thee move. 1600 Shakes. A.Y.L. i. ii. 139 Making such pittiful dole. 1790 Burns Bard's Epitaph 5 Owre this grassy heap sing dool, And drap a tear. 1859 Tennyson Elaine 1130 She died. So that day there was dole in Astolat. |
| γ c 1380 Sir Ferumb. 3785 Four sithes he ful a-doun y-sowe, & oþre dules made ynowe, & ofte cryede, ‘Alas!’ c 1425 Seven Sag. (P.) 710 For the dule he made ther-fore, The knyght hym selven he was for-lore. 1513 Douglas æneis ii. i. 25 Thair langsum duile and murnyng. 1546 St. Papers Hen. VIII, XI. 13 There was evensong song of our Lady, very freshely, to recompense the deul bifore. 1559 Sackville in Mirr. Mag. Induct. xiv, The deadly dewle, which she so sore dyd make, With dolefull voice. 1567 Fenton Fragm. Disc. 12 Dolefull voyce, redoubled with an eccho of treble dule. |
| δ c 1500 Melusine xxxiii. 234 He lefte & passed his deuel the best wyse that he coude. a 1656 Ussher Ann. vi. (1688) 95 Continual dueil, and mourning for him. |
† b. clothes, habit, weeds of dole: mourning garments, = sense 5. Obs.
| c 1340 Cursor M. 10419 (Laud) Clothis of dele [v.r. deol] she did on thore. 1388 Wyclif 2 Sam. xiv. 2 Be thou clothid with clooth of duyl [v.rr. deol, doel, deel, deyl]. 1577 Fenton Gold. Epist. (1582) 5 To weare attire of dule. |
† 3. Physical pain or suffering. Obs. rare.
| c 1320 Sir Beues 602 Þis is þe ferste dai of ȝoul, Þe god was boren wiþ outen doul. c 1350 Will. Palerne 2757 He for dul of þe dent diued to þe ground. |
4. That which excites sorrow, grief, or pity; a grievous or piteous thing; a grief, sorrow.
| c 1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 43/303 Þat deol it was to seo. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iv. xxxviii. 63 Grete doel and pyte was hit to byholde. c 1430 Chev. Assigne 359 Hit was doole for to see y⊇ sorowe y{supt} he made. c 1450 Erle Tolous 801 Grete dele hyt was to see. c 1450 Cov. Myst. (1841) 47 Gret doyl it is to se this watyr so wyde! 1789 Burns To Toothache iv, O' a' the numerous human dools..Thou bear'st the gree. |
† 5. transf. Clothing or trappings worn as a sign of mourning; ‘mourning’. Obs.
| c 1500 Melusine xxxiv. 239 The kynge..fette the pucelle, and despoylled her of her dueyl & black clothing. 1599 Sickness & Death Philip II, in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 286 My body shall be borne by eight of my chiefest servants..all in dewle. 1636 in Macm. Mag. XLVI. 80 A horsse in doole. 16.. in Q. Eliz. Acad. (1869) 32 Sertayne gentlemen in Dowle. 1734 R. Keith Hist. Ch. & St. Scot. 207 (Jam.) To wear the deule for that day. |
6. A funeral. Obs. exc. dial.
| 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. V, 50 The conduyt & ordre of thys dolorous dole was commaunded to sir William Philip treasorer of the kinges houshold. a 1828 T. Bewick Upgetting (1850) 13 ‘The spak o' the great Swire's deeth..and the number oh fwoak that went to his dhael.’ |
† 7. A fanciful term for a company of doves. [From their mournful cooing.] Obs.
| 1486 Bk. St. Albans F vj b, A Duell of Turtillis. |
8. attrib., as dole colour; dole-cloth, -pall, a funeral pall; dole (dule) habit, weeds, mourning clothes; dule tree, ? a hanging-tree, a gibbet.
| 1508 Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 420, I drup..with a ded luke, in my dule habit. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 73 Ȝoung Alexander was crownit King efter King Williame his Fader deceissit, and tuke on him the Dule Weid, and for his Saik delt Almous Deid. 1536 Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 241 Arrayit in thair dule habit, for doloure of thair husbandis. 1542 in T. Thomson Collect. Inventories 103 (Jam.) Item, foure doule palis of blak clayth. 1710 J. Wilson in Collect. Dying Test. (1806) 154 Then Zion got on her dool weed. 1870 Edgar Runnymede 178 The dule tree is your sure doom. 1876 Whitby Gloss., Dooalweeds, mourning attire. 1881 Stevenson Virg. Puerisque 165 The gibbets and dule trees of mediæval Europe. |
▪ III. dole, n.3
[ad. L. dol-us deceit, cunning, trickery, a. Gr. δόλος: cf. F. dol (16th c.), It., Sp. dolo.]
† 1. Guile, deceit, fraud. Obs.
| 1563–87 Foxe A. & M. (1684) II. 330 No dole, no fraud, no guile was ever found in his mouth. 1612 Ainsworth Annot. Ps. v. 7 Deceit, dole or guile. 1839 J. P. Kennedy Rob of Bowl xii. (1860) 127 What dole hath he done? |
2. Sc. Law. ‘The corrupt, malicious, or evil intention essential to the guilt of a crime’ (Bell).
| 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., Under Dole are comprehended the vices and errors of the will, which are immediately productive of the criminal act, though not premeditated, but the effect of sudden passion. In this respect Dole differs from what the English law calls malice. 1754 Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 526 Capable of dole. 1795 Scott in Lockhart Life July, To preclude all presumption of dole. [1880 Muirhead Gaius iii. §211 He is held to have killed wrongfully to whose dole or fault death is attributable [cuius dolo aut culpa id acciderit].] |
▪ IV. dole, n.4
variant of dool, boundary mark, etc.
▪ V. dole, v.1
Also 6 Sc. dale.
[f. dole n.1]
1. trans. To give as a dole; to distribute by way of alms, or in charity.
| 1465 Mann. & Househ. Exp. 317 The same day my mastyr toke to mastyr Perse Baxter, to dole for my lady in almesse, x. s. 1599 Marston Sco. Villanie i. iv. 188 If to the Parish pouerty, At his wisht death, be dol'd a half-penny. c 1640 J. Smyth Lives Berkeleys (1883) I. 40 That daye shall bee doled to fifty poore men fifty loafes. 1762 Goldsm. Cit. W. cxii, The officers appointed to dole out public charity. 1868 Stanley Westm. Abb. iii. 170 The bread and meat doled out to the poor of Westminster. |
2. To give out in small quantities; to portion or parcel out in a sparing or niggardly manner.
| 1749 Fielding Tom Jones xv. vi, This comfort..she doled out to him in daily portions. 1849 Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 84 They accordingly doled out supplies to him very sparingly. 1886 J. R. Rees Pleas. Bk.-Worm v. 169 The critic..doles out a limited number of praises. |
† 3. To deal about, around, to distribute. Obs.
| 1701 Rowe Amb. Step-Moth. v. ii. 2799 Thy Arts That Dold about Destruction to our Enemies. a 1718 ― Wks. (1747) II. 293 (Jod.) And Plenty doles her various bounties round. 1766 Ld. Mansfield Sp. agst. Prerogative (Jod.), Compensations most liberally doled about to one another. |
Hence ˈdoling vbl. n.
| 15.. Aberdeen Burgh Rec. I. 210 (Jam. Supp.) And viijs. and the daling of thair aill for the secund fault. 1876 Ruskin Fors Clav. VI. lxi. 2 All this temporary doling and coaling is worse than useless. |
▪ VI. dole, v.2 ? Obs.
Also 4 deol(e, 5–6 dool(e, Sc. dule, 7 duill.
[a. OF. doleir, doloir, mod.F. douloir:—L. dolēre to grieve. In the stem-accented forms the OF. verb had the same variety as dole n.2 (ind. pres. dueil, duels (deus), duelt (deut), dolons, dolez, duelent), whence the ME. variant forms.]
† 1. intr. To sorrow, grieve, mourn, lament. Obs.
| 13.. K. Alis. 2734 Alisaundres folk deoleth, y-wis, For the knyght that is y-slawe. 1481 Caxton Reynard (Arb.) 68, I wente dolynge on the heeth, and wist not what to doo for sorowe. 1508 Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 450 We wemen..We dule for na euill deid, sa it be derne haldin. 1570 Levins Manip. 161/11 To Doole, sorow, dolere. a 1668 Davenant Play-House to be Let i. Dram. Wks. 1873 IV. 27 Dismiss your doling, and let in your poet. |
b. Used of the mournful cooing of doves.
| 1848 W. E. Aytoun in Blackw. Mag. LXIV. 110 The throstle's song was silenced, And the doling of the dove. 1852 Blackw. Mag. LXXII. 218 From the dark woods..you hear the doling of the cushats. |
† 2. trans. To mourn, bewail. Obs.
| 1567 Turberv. Poems (Chalmers) II. 617/1 He full shrilly shright and doolde his wofull chaunce. |
† 3. To grieve. Obs.
| a 1637 B. Jonson Sad Sheph. ii. iii, It duills mee that I am thy mother! |
Hence ˈdoling vbl. n.
| a 1668 [see 1]. 1815 L. Hunt Feast Poets 19 There has been such a doling and sameness. 1848–52 [see 1 b]. |
▪ VII. dole, v.3 Glove-manuf.
[a. F. dole-r to chip, plane, etc. (12th c.), spec. to pare and thin skins for gloves:—L. dolāre to hew, plane.]
trans. To pare and thin (leather or skins).
| 1884 Pall Mall G. 16 May 4/1 The kid skin..after it has been unhaired, dressed, nourished, staked, soaked in egg yolk..dried, stained, stretched, ‘doled’, or pared, and cut into shape..is then punched. 1884 Health Exhib. Catal. 38 The doling or reducing the skin to an even substance. |
▪ VIII. dole
see dool, dowel, dull.