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See Dotterel.

Composed of, or characterized by, dots.

Half-rotten; as, doty timber. [Local, U. S.]

Not having scales. -- n.

Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes. All history, therefore, being built partly, and some of it altogether, upon anecdotage, must be a tissue of lies. De Quincey.

Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation.

Unpublished narratives. Burke.

Pertaining to, consisting of, or addicted to, anecdotes. "Anecdotical traditions." Bolingbroke.

One who relates or collects anecdotes.

Having the quality an antidote; fitted to counteract the effects of poison. Sir T. Browne. -- An"ti*do`tal*ly, adv.

Antidotal. -- n. Antidote; also, a book of antidotes.

of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison.

Serving as an antidote. -- An`ti*dot"ic*al*ly, adv.

Hostile to priests or the priesthood. Waterland.

To cause to dote; to deceive. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest.

The hydroid or naked-eyed medusæ. See Hydroidea.

Of or pertaining to the Craspedota.

The tissue which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It usually consists of a series of oblique tranverse septa, one above another. -- En`do*the"cal, a.

The inner lining of an another cell.