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Damage; hurt. [Obs.] Chapman.

A penalty or fine for neglect. [Local, New England]

medicine in doses; specif., a scheme or system of grading doses of medicine according to age, etc.

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. Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature. Macaulay.

om her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease. Blount. Burrill.

The rank or condition of a dowager; formality, as that of a dowager. Also used figuratively. Mansions that have passed away into dowagerism. Thackeray.

Sugar-coated medicines.

Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc. Latham.

Use of a dray.

The tenure by which a drench held land. [Obs.] Burrill.

Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.

The act of drowning. [R.]

The act of dumping loads from carts, especially loads of refuse matter; also, a heap of dumped matter.

Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion.

Sharp; sour; acid. [Obs.] "Like eager droppings into milk." Shak.

In an eager manner.

The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire. "The eagerness of love." Addison.

Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath.

An embassy. "He sent a solemn embassage." Bacon. Except your embassages have better success. Motley.

A substitution, as of one part of speech for another, of one gender, number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the same word, for another.