DOMINIONS. It is a settled point that a conquered country forms immediately a part of the king's dominions; and a condemnation of ships within its harbours as droits of admiralty, is valid, although the conquest may not yet have been confirmed by treaty. DON. A general name for Spaniards. One of the "perfumed" terms of its time.--_To don._ To put on. DONDERBASS. _See_ BOMBARD. DONEY. The doney of the Coromandel coast is about 70 feet long, 20 feet broad, and 12 feet deep; with a flat bottom or keel part, which at the broadest place is 7 feet, and diminishes to 10 inches in the siding of the stem and stern-post. The fore and after bodies are similar in form from midships. Their light draught of water is about 4 feet, and when loaded about 9 feet. These unshapely vessels in the fine season trade from Madras and Ceylon, and many of them to the Gulf of Manar, as the water is shoal between Ceylon and the southern part of the continent. They have only one mast, and are navigated by the natives in the rudest way; their means for finding the latitude being a little square board, with a string fast to the centre, at the other end of which are certain knots. The upper edge of the board is held by one hand so as to touch the north star, and the lower edge the horizon. Then the string is brought with the other hand to touch the tip of the nose, and the knot which comes in contact with the tip of the nose tells the latitude. DONJON. The keep, or place of retreat, in old fortifications. A redoubt of a fortress; the highest and strongest tower. DONKEY-ENGINE. An auxiliary steam-engine for feeding the boilers of the principal engine when they are stopped; or for any other duties independent of the ship's propelling engines. DONKEY-FRIGATE. Those of 28 guns, frigate-built; that is, having guns protected by an upper deck, with guns on the quarter-deck and forecastle; ship-sloops, in contradistinction to corvettes and sloops. DONNY. A small fishing-net. DOOLAH. A passage-boat on the Canton river. DOOTED. Timber rendered unsound by fissures. DORADO. The _Coryphæna hippuris_, an oceanic fish; often called "dolphin." DOREY. A flat-floored cargo-boat in the West Indies, named after the fish John Dory. DORNICLE. A northern name for the viviparous blenny. DORRA. From the Gaelic _dorga_; a crab-net. DORSAL FIN. The median fin placed upon the back of fishes. DORY. A fish, _Zeus faber_, commonly known as "John Dory," or truly _jaune dorée_, from its golden hues. DOTTLE. The small portion of tobacco remaining unsmoked in the pipe. DOUBLE, TO. To cover a ship with an extra planking, usually of 4 inches, either internally or externally, when through age or otherwise she has become loosened; the process strengthens her without driving out the former fastenings. Doubling, however, is a term applied only where the plank thus used is not less than 2 inches thick.--To _double_ a cape. (_See_ DOUBLING A CAPE.)