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To toddle; to walk unsteadily, like a child or an old man; hence, to do anything slowly or feebly.

The rotten body of a tree. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

Diminutive of Dad. Dryden.

An arachnidan of the genus Phalangium, and allied genera, having a small body and four pairs of long legs; -- called also harvestman, carter, and grandfather longlegs.

of Dread. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To trifle; to toy. -- v. t.

A trifle; trifling talk; nonsense. [Colloq.] Spectator.

Haddock cured in peat smoke, originally at Findon (pron. fìn"an), Scotland. the name is also applied to other kinds of smoked haddock. [Written also finnan haddock.]

One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip.

Going about much, needlessly or without purpose. Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets. Bacon. The good nuns would check her gadding tongue. Tennyson. Gadding car, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes.

In a roving, idle manner.

Disposed to gad. -- Gad"dish*nes, n. "Gaddishness and folly." Abp. Leighton.

ake glad; to cheer; to please; to gratify; to rejoice; to exhilarate. A secret pleasure gladdened all that saw him. Addison.

One who makes glad. Chaucer.

Heather; heath. [Obs.] Burton.

The haddock. [Scot.]

eral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie. Norway haddock, a marine edible fish (Sebastes marinus) of Northern Europe and America. See Rose fish.

t for the head; a headtire. Among birds the males very often appear in a most beautiful headdress, whether it be a crest, a comb, a tuft of feathers, or a natural little plume. Addison.

Added or placed between the parts of another thing, as a clause inserted parenthetically in a sentence.

See Holing.