DORADO

, a southern constellation, not visible in our latitude; called also Xiphias, or the Sword-fish. The stars of this constellation, in Sharp's catalogue, are six.

DORIC Order, of Architecture, is the second of the five orders, being placed between the Tuscan and the Ionic. The Doric seems the most natural, and best proportioned, of all the orders; all its parts being founded on the natural position of solid bodies; for which reason it is most proper to be used in great and massy buildings, as the outside of churches and public places.

The Doric order has no ornaments on its base, nor its capital. Its column is 8 diameters high, and its freeze is divided between triglyphs and metopes.