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A genus of plant-eating beetles, including the potato beetle. See Potato beetle.

A spear bearer; a statue of a man holding a spear or in the attitude of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us.

Back to back; as, to sit dos-à-dos in a dogcart; to dance dos- à-dos, or so that two dancers move forward and pass back to back.

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

portion thrust upon one. I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not by violent doses. W. Irving. I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give him, he shall readily take it down. South.

Same as Dorsal, n. [R.]

Measurement of doses; specif., a system of therapeutics which uses but few remedies, mostly alkaloids, and gives them in doses fixed by certain rules. --Do`si*met"ric (#), a. --Do*sim"e*trist (#), n.

Posology. [R.] Ogilvie.

A place to sleep in; a bed; hence, sleep. [Slang]

A cheap lodging house.

Same as Dorsal, n.

A pannier, or basket. To hire a ripper's mare, and buy new dossers. Beau. & Fl.

A bundle containing the papers in reference to some matter.

A small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent.

of Do.

A marriage portion; dowry. [Louisiana]

ularly 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.

Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it. Garth.

A dotard. [Obs.] Shak.

One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood. The sickly dotard wants a wife. Prior.