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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Dool(e, n. Also: dooll, doull, dowll. [e.m.E. (and ME.) doole, variant of dole Dule n.]

1. Grief, sorrow, mourning.(a) a1570-86 Maitland Maitl. F. clxxix. 104.
With small plesour is meikill pane, And dowble dowll with small dilyit a1585 Maitl. Q. xlvi. 114.
Doull and distres almost to deid him drew(b) c1590 Fowler I. 131/133.
His plaints, his woe, his doole, his noy Ib. 186/13.
All the dommage and the doole is myne a1585 Polwart Flyt. 767 (H).
Fleyd foole, … die with doole on ane aik 1606 Craig ii. 159.
I dreame the darke, and driue in dooll the day 1638 Baillie I. 77.
The countrey makes not much doole for him 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. ii. 32.
Fighting is a fool thing, What doth it else but sturt and dool bring

b. Attrib. and comb. with badge, cloak, drop, like. 1609 Gardyne Garden 48.
Although their backs the black doole bages bear's 1629 Boyd Last B. 238.
The dewe and doole droppes of the night of all afflictions 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1671) 143.
Poor & friendless Zion (now going dool-like in sackcloth) 1642 Edinb. B. Rec. VIII. 33.
The rest of the counsell with blak gowns and ... dooll clocks

2. Mourning attire or draperies. 1629 Boyd Last B. 238.
Then shall these mourning Mordecais put off the sack-cloath of their doole 1637 Bk. Carlaverock II. 501.
A mourning horse led by a lackey in doole 1641 Baillie I. 316.
He was alwayes in the same sute of black, as in doole 1665 Lauder Jrnl. 125.
Exposed … in a chamber hung all in doole in their bed, also of dool