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Full of rods or twigs.

Mottled pottery made from scraps of differently colored clays.

A goddess supposed to live in or reign over the sea, or some part of the sea.

A fabric of inferior quality made of, or containing a large amount of, shoddy.

A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoa and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust.

The quality or state of being shoddy. [Colloq.] See the Note under Shoddy, n.

Boiled; seethed; also, soaked; heavy with moisture; saturated; as, sodden beef; sodden bread; sodden fields.

Heavy; dull. Shak.

Consisting of sod; covered with sod; turfy. Cotgrave.

To grow; to thrive. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

A toddling walk. Trollope.

One who toddles; especially, a young child. Mrs. Gaskell.

A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation.

A fool; a dunce; a noddy.

p. p. of Tread.

deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price. Nine thousand parishes, abating the odd hundreds. Fuller.

Precipitously. Abruptly pinnate (Bot.), pinnate without an odd leaflet, or other appendage, at the end. Gray.

The quality or condition of being accommodable. [R.] Todd.

A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants.

Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.