*lotte*

n. One who allots. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Allotment. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Com.) A wastebook, in which entries of transactions are made as they take place. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Painting) Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting in delineation. Ruskin. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖, n. [ F. calotte, dim. of cale a sort of flat cap. Cf. Caul. ] A close cap without visor or brim. Especially: (a) Such a cap, worn by English serjeants at law. (b) Such a cap, worn by the French cavalry under their helmets. (c) Such a cap, worn by the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. [ 1913 Webster ]

To assume the calotte, to become a priest. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] A kind of pie or pudding made by lining a dish with slices of bread, and filling it with bread soaked in milk, and baked. [ 1913 Webster ]

Charlotte Russe or
‖Charlotte à la russe [ F., lit., Russian charlotte ] (Cookery), a dish composed of custard or whipped cream, inclosed in sponge cake. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Composed of clots or clods; having the quality or form of a clot; sticky; slimy; foul. “The clotted glebe.” J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

When lust . . .
Lets in defilement to the inward parts,
The soul grows clotted by contagion. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ From Clot. ] To concrete into lumps; to clot. [ Obs. ] “Clottered blood.” Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One joined in a plot. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. a type of women's trousers with wide legs cut loose and full so as to resemble a skirt.
Syn. -- culotte. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

p. p. of Flote, v. t. Skimmed. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Lotteries [ Lot + -ery, as in brewery, bindery. ] 1. A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of the tickets are blanks. Fig.: An affair of chance. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The laws of the United States and of most of the States make private lotteries illegal, except in certain circumstances for charitable institutions; however, many of the states now conduct lotteries tehmselves as a revenue source. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. Allotment; thing allotted. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ F. matelote, fr. matelot a sailor; properly, a dish such as a sailors prepare. ] 1. A stew, commonly of fish, flavored with wine, and served with a wine sauce containing onions, mushrooms, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. An old dance of sailors, in double time, and somewhat like a hornpipe. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One who plots or schemes; a contriver; a conspirator; a schemer. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., without breeches. ] 1. A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; -- a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, an extreme or radical republican; a violent revolutionist; a Jacobin. [ 1913 Webster ]