What does "dorse" mean?
Dorse: The back of a book. [Obs.] Books, all richly bound, with gilt dorses. Wood.
Additional senses
- 2.The Baltic or variable cod (Gadus callarias), by some believed to be the young of the common codfish.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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