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See Colophene.

A woman who divines. Dryden.

A game played with it. [Written also jereed, jerrid, etc.]

Shattered; infirm. "A laurel grew, doddered with age." Dryden.

Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes. This may well be rhyme doggerel, quod he. Chaucer.

Decayed. "Some old dotterel trees." [Obs.] Ascham.

One of the twelve peers of France, companions of Charlemagne in war. [Written also douzepere.] [Obs.] Big-looking like a doughty doucepere. Spenser.

Furnished with, or as with, dower or a marriage portion. Shak.

One who feigns dumbness. [Obs.] Burton.

The Chinese yellow antelope (Procapra gutturosa), a remarkably swift-footed animal, inhabiting the deserts of Central Asia, Thibet, and China.

Everywhere. [Obs.] The sky eachwhere did show full bright and fair. Spenser.

The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.

Conveyed outward; as, efferent impulses, i. e., such as are conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards; -- opposed to afferent.

Eglantine. [Obs. or R.] [Written also eglantere.] Tennyson.

One who electioneers.

Same as Electrotype.

In any other place; as, these trees are not to be found elsewhere.

One who embroiders.

See Empress. [Obs.]

Burnt to cinders. [R.]