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One who dodges or evades; one who plays fast and loose, or uses tricky devices. Smart.

trickery; artifice. [Obs.] Hacket.

stupid person; a fool; a blockhead. Some will say, our curate is naught, an ass-head, a dodipoll. Latimer.

A doit; a small coin. Shelton.

A snail; also, a snail shell; a hodmandod. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Nares.

A large, extinct bird (Didus ineptus), formerly inhabiting the Island of Mauritius. It had short, half-fledged wings, like those of the ostrich, and a short neck and legs; -- called also dronte. It was related to the pigeons.

The Cornus, a genus of large shrubs or small trees, the wood of which is exceedingly hard, and serviceable for many purposes.

A trifler; a simple fellow.

The Scotch bagpipe. [Prov. Eng.]

Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power. Shak.

See Dragon's blood, Dragon's head, etc., under Dragon.

A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.

Affliction; dreariness. [Obs.] Spenser.

A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.

Wood drifted or floated by water.

A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries. [U.S.]

Without wetting the feet.

See Dodecahedral, and Dodecahedron.

Consisting of twelve years. [R.] Ash.

A twelfth part; as, the duodecimals of an inch.