*dde*

v. t. [ Pref. a- + deem. ] To award; to adjudge. [ Obs. ] “Unto him they did addeem the prise.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a number that is added to another number. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n.; pl. Addenda [ L., fr. addere to add. ] A thing to be added; an appendix or addition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Addendum circle (Mech.), the circle which may be described around a circular spur wheel or gear wheel, touching the crests or tips of the teeth. Rankine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Add. ] One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. addere, naddere, eddre, AS. nædre, adder, snake; akin to OS. nadra, OHG. natra, natara, Ger. natter, Goth. nadrs, Icel. naðr, masc., naðra, fem.: cf. W. neidr, Gorn. naddyr, Ir. nathair, L. natrix, water snake. An adder is for a nadder. ] 1. A serpent. [ Obs. ] “The eddre seide to the woman.” Wyclif. Gen. iii. 4. ) [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera berus or Pelias berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho. (b) In America, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc. (c) Same as Sea Adder. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the sculptures the appellation is given to several venomous serpents, -- sometimes to the horned viper (Cerastles). [ 1913 Webster ]

A dragon fly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) (a) A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. (b) The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The common bistort or snakeweed (Polygonum bistorta). [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Anat.) An air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting. [ 1913 Webster ]

compar. of Bad, a. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perh. for Balderlocks, fr. Balder the Scandinavian deity. ] (Bot.) A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Provided with a bed; as, double-bedded room; placed or arranged in a bed or beds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an ornamental plant suitable for planting in a flowerbed.
Syn. -- bedding plant. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. [ OE. bedrede, AS. bedreda, bedrida; from bed, bedd, a bed or couch + ridda a rider; cf. OHG. pettiriso, G. bettrise. See Bed, n., and Ride, v. i. ] Confined to the bed by sickness or infirmity. “Her decrepit, sick, and bedrid father.” Shak. “The estate of a bedridden old gentleman.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. of Bid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. biddere. ] One who bids or offers a price. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ From Beder or Bidar a town in India. ] A kind of metallic ware made in India. The material is a composition of zinc, tin, and lead, in which ornaments of gold and silver are inlaid or damascened. [ Spelt also bidry, bidree, bedery, beder. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bladder, bleddre, AS. bl&aemacr_;dre, bl&aemacr_;ddre; akin to Icel. blaðra, SW. bläddra, Dan. blære, D. blaar, OHG. blātara the bladder in the body of animals, G. blatter blister, bustule; all fr. the same root as AS. blāwan, E. blow, to puff. See Blow to puff. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Anat.) A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Anything inflated, empty, or unsound. “To swim with bladders of philosophy.” Rochester. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bladder nut, or
Bladder tree (Bot.), a genus of plants (Staphylea) with bladderlike seed pods. --
Bladder pod (Bot.), a genus of low herbs (Vesicaria) with inflated seed pods. --
Bladdor senna (Bot.), a genus of shrubs (Colutea), with membranaceous, inflated pods. --
Bladder worm (Zool.), the larva of any species of tapeworm (Tænia), found in the flesh or other parts of animals. See Measle, Cysticercus. --
Bladder wrack (Bot.), the common black rock weed of the seacoast (Fucus nodosus and Fucus vesiculosus) -- called also bladder tangle. See Wrack. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bladdered p. pr. & vb. n. Bladdering. ] 1. To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate. [ Obs. ] G. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. similar to a bladder.
Syn. -- bladdery. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a medium-sized blackish-gray seal (Cystophora cristata) with a large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic-Atlantic waters.
Syn. -- hooded seal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a North American wild lobelia (Lobelia inflata) having small blue flowers and inflated capsules formerly used as an antispasmodic.
Syn. -- Indian tobacco. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. any of a number of annual or perennial herbs with inflated seed pods; some are placed in the genus Lesquerella. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. any of several plants of the genus Physaria having racemose yellow flowers and inflated pods. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. any of several hairy North American herbs having yellow racemose flowers and inflated pods. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. similar to and found with black rockweed.
Syn. -- Ascophyllum nodosum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. common black rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure.
Syn. -- black rockweed, bladder fucus, tang, Fucus vesiculosus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who bids at an auction in behalf of the auctioneer or owner, for the purpose of running up the price of articles. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A gatherer of cods or peas. [ Obs. or Prov. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Marked with crow's-feet, or wrinkles, about the eyes. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Do I look as if I were crow-trodden? Beau. & FL. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ For sense 1, cf. Scot. cuddy an ass; for sense 2, see 3d Cuddy. ] 1. A clown; a low rustic; a dolt. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The slavering cudden, propped upon his staff. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The coalfish. See 3d Cuddy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female demigod. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of the rudder, as a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Dodd. ] Without horns; as, dodded cattle; without beards; as, dodded corn. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Dan. dodder, Sw. dodra, G. dotter. ] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plant, as to flax, goldenrod, etc., and decaying at the root, is nourished by the plant that supports it. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ Cf. AS. dyderian to deceive, delude, and E. didder, dudder. ] To shake, tremble, or totter. “The doddering mast.” Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shattered; infirm. “A laurel grew, doddered with age.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. shaking as from old age.
Syn. -- doddery, shaking, tottering, tottery. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. mentally or physically infirm with age.
Syn. -- gaga, senile. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. same as doddering{ 1 }.
Syn. -- doddering, shaking, tottering, tottery. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power. Shak.

imp. of Dread. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To shiver or tremble; to dodder. [ 1913 Webster ]

I dudder and shake like an aspen leaf. Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ In Suffolk, Eng., to shiver, shake, tremble; also written dodder. ] To confuse or confound with noise. Jennings. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Duds. ] A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A place where rags are bought and kept for sale. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a goddess of fertility and vegetation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To bind the top interweaving edder; as, to edder a hedge. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Adder. ] (Zoöl.) An adder or serpent. [ Prov. Eng. ] Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. edor hedge, fence; akin to etar. ] Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together. [ Obs. ] Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]