Dorse

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- Dorse Same as dorsal n.
- Dorse The back of a book. "Books, all richly bound, with gilt dorses ."
- n Dorse (Zoöl) The Baltic or variable cod (Gadus callarias), by some believed to be the young of the common codfish.
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

- n dorse The back.
- n dorse 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 dorse A young cod, formerly supposed to be a distinct species called the variable cod, Gadus callarias.
- n dorse The back of a book or of a folded document.
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

- n Dorse (obs.) the back of a writing: a dossal: the back
- n Dorse dors a young cod.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Cf. L. dorsum, the back. See Dorsel Dosel

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

Low Ger. dorsch.

Dorse Rogers "D. R." O'Dell, 95, of Benton, died Monday, August 6, at Marshall Co. Hospital in Benton.

BENTON — Dorse Rogers "D. R." O'Dell, 95, of Benton died at 3:40 pm Monday at Marshall County Hospital in Benton.

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