Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dor"
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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dor \Dor\, v. t.
To make a fool of; to deceive. [Obs.] [Written also {dorr}.]
--B. Jonson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dor \Dor\, n. [Cf. AS. dora drone, locust, D. tor beetle, L.
taurus a kind of beetle. Cf. {Dormouse}.] (Zo["o]l.)
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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dor \Dor\, n. [Cf. {Dor} a beetle, and {Hum}, {Humbug}.]
A trick, joke, or deception. --Beau. & Fl.
{To give one the dor}, to make a fool of him. [Archaic] --P.
Fletcher.
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