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n. 1. 1 a genus of birds comprising the mynas.
Syn. -- genus Acridotheres. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_;, &unr_;, a scale. ] (Zool.) Not having scales. -- n. A fish without scales. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes. [ 1913 Webster ]

All history, therefore, being built partly, and some of it altogether, upon anecdotage, must be a tissue of lies. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. anecdote, fr. Gr. &unr_; not published; 'an priv. + &unr_; given out, &unr_; to give out, to publish; &unr_; out + &unr_; to give. See Dose, n. ] 1. pl. Unpublished narratives. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Pertaining to, consisting of, or addicted to, anecdotes. “Anecdotical traditions.” Bolingbroke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who relates or collects anecdotes. [ 1913 Webster ]

#) a. Having the quality an antidote; fitted to counteract the effects of poison. Sir T. Browne. -- An"ti*do`tal*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. Antidotal. -- n. An antidote; also, a book of antidotes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. antidotum, Gr. 'anti`doton (sc. fa`rmakon), fr. 'anti`dotos given against; 'anti` against + dido`nai to give: cf. F. antidote. See Dose, n. ] 1. A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract evil which something else might produce. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To counteract or prevent the effects of, by giving or taking an antidote. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor could Alexander himself . . . antidote . . . the poisonous draught, when it had once got into his veins. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fortify or preserve by an antidote. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving as an antidote. -- An`ti*dot"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. Hostile to priests or the priesthood. Waterland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 an antiviral drug, (C10H13N5O4) used in the treatment of AIDS. It has the generic name of zidovudine. an analog of thymidine, it inhibits the replication of the viral chromosome.
Syn. -- AZT, zidovudine[ generic ], 3'-azido 3'-deoxythymidine, Retrovir[ Trademark ] [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

v. t. To cause to dote; to deceive. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Condottieri [ It., captain. ] A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; to be bordered or edged. ] (Zool.) The hydroid or naked-eyed medusæ. See Hydroidea. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Craspedota. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem., Med.) a chemical substance consisting of tyrosine with two hydrogen atoms on the benzene ring replaced by iodine atoms. The isomer 3, 5-diiodotyrosine is an inhibitor of thyroid function. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F., fr. L. dos, dotis, dowry. See Dower, and cf. Dote dowry. ] (Law) A marriage portion; dowry. [ Louisiana ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. AS. dott small spot, speck; of uncertain origin. ] 1. A small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck, or small mark. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen; as, a dot of a child. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Dotting. ] 1. To mark with dots or small spots; as, to dot a line. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To mark or diversify with small detached objects; as, a landscape dotted with cottages. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make dots or specks. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. The United States Department of Transportation. [ acronym ] The Department of Transportation promulgates standards for the strength of shipping containers, and this abgreviation is often seen on cardboard boxes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Dote, v. i. ] 1. Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Foolish utterance; drivel. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection. [ 1913 Webster ]

The dotage of the nation on presbytery. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dotalis, fr. dos, dotis, dowry: cf. F. dotal. See Dot dowry. ] Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it. Garth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dotard. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dote, v. i. ] One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sickly dotard wants a wife. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Foolish; weak. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dotard's weakness; dotage. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. dotatio, fr. L. dotare to endow, fr. dos, dotis, dower: cf. F. dotation. See Dot dowry. ] 1. The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An imbecile; a dotard. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Dot dowry. ] 1. A marriage portion. [ Obs. ] See 1st Dot, n. Wyatt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Natural endowments. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Doted; p. pr. & vb. n. Doting. ] [ OE. doten; akin to OD. doten, D. dutten, to doze, Icel. dotta to nod from sleep, MHG. t&unr_;zen to keep still: cf. F. doter, OF. radoter (to dote, rave, talk idly or senselessly), which are from the same source. ] [ Written also doat. ] 1. To act foolishly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He wol make him doten anon right. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel. [ 1913 Webster ]

Time has made you dote, and vainly tell
Of arms imagined in your lonely cell. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to be weakly affectionate; -- with on or upon; as, the mother dotes on her child. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

What dust we dote on, when 't is man we love. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Stupid; foolish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Senseless speech and doted ignorance. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Half-rotten; as, doted wood. [ Local, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dotard. [ R. ] Tyndale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who dotes; a man whose understanding is enfeebled by age; a dotard. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One excessively fond, or weak in love. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The acts or speech of a dotard; drivel. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3d pers. sing. pres. of Do. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That dotes; silly; excessively fond. -- Dot"ing*ly, adv. -- Dot"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Foolish; weak; imbecile. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ For Dotard? ] An old, decayed tree. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dotted note (Mus.), a note followed by a dot to indicate an increase of length equal to one half of its simple value; thus, a dotted semibreve is equal to three minims, and a dotted quarter to three eighth notes. --
Dotted rest, a rest lengthened by a dot in the same manner as a dotted note. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Notes and rests are sometimes followed by two dots, to indicate an increase of length equal to three quarters of their simple value, and they are then said to be double-dotted. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Dottard. ] Decayed. “Some old dotterel trees.” [ Obs. ] Ascham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Dote, v. i. ] 1. (Zool.) A European bird of the Plover family (Eudromias morinellus, syn. Charadrius morinellus). It is tame and easily taken, and is popularly believed to imitate the movements of the fowler. [ 1913 Webster ]

In catching of dotterels we see how the foolish bird playeth the ape in gestures. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The ringed dotterel (or ring plover) is Charadrius hiaticula. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A silly fellow; a dupe; a gull. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

See under Pun. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Dotterel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From 2d Dot. ] 1. Composed of, or characterized by, dots. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. [ Perh. a different word; cf. Totty. ] Unsteady in gait; hence, feeble; half-witted. [ Eng. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]