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To cut off, as wool from sheep's tails; to lop or clip off. Halliwell.

, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game. [Local, Eng.] Halliwell.

Without horns; as, dodded cattle; without beards; as, dodded corn. Halliwell.

A male or drone bee. Halliwell.

hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is well suited for making straw plait; -- called also goldseed.

latform (landing) or platforms, and running in opposite directions without an intervening wellhole.

The act of drawing after, or pursuing, deer with a dog. Cowell.

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

d as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine. The obscure and loose dogmas of early antiquity. Whewell.

A boundary; a landmark. Halliwell.

the citizen scrupulously guarded. Motley. Domiciliary visit (Law), a visit to a private dwelling, particularly for searching it, under authority.

e or arbitrary sway; to play the master; to be overbearing; to tyrannize; to bluster; to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness; -- often with over; as, to domineer over dependents. Go to the feast, revel and domineer. Shak. His wishes tend abroad to roam, And hers to domineer at home. Prior.…

Relating to, or given by, our Lord; as, the dominical (or Lord's) prayer. Howell. Some words altered in the dominical Gospels. Fuller. Dominical altar (Eccl.), the high altar. -- Dominical letter, the letter which, in almanacs, denotes Sunday, or the Lord's day (dies Domini). The first seven letters of the alphabet ar…

pect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor. Cowell.

See Do-naught. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

site of donee. Kent. Touching, the parties unto deeds and charters, we are to consider as well the donors and granters as the donees or grantees. Spelman.

ep." Arch. Pub. Soc. -- Called also dormant tree, dorman tree, dormond, and dormer. Halliwell.

inen manufactured in Scotland. [Formerly written also darnex, dornic, dorneck, etc.] Halliwell. Jamieson.

A hamlet. "A mean fishing dorp." Howell.

To deafen with noise. [Obs.] Halliwell.