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Shattered; infirm. "A laurel grew, doddered with age." Dryden.

A figure or polygon bounded by twelve sides and containing twelve angles.

A Linnæan order of plants having twelve styles.

Of or pertaining to the Dodecagynia; having twelve styles.

Pertaining to, or like, a dodecahedion; consisting of twelve equal sides. Dodecahedral cleavage. See under Cleavage.

A solid having twelve faces.

A Linnæan class of plants including all that have any number of stamens between twelve and nineteen.

Of or pertaining to the Dodecandria; having twelve stamens, or from twelve to nineteen.

Any one of a group of thick oily hydrocarbons, C12H26, of the paraffin series.

A dodecastyle portico, or building.

Having twelve syllables.

A word consisting of twelve syllables.

A tern applied to the twelve houses, or parts, of the zodiac of the primum mobile, to distinguish them from the twelve signs; also, any one of the twelve signs of the zodiac.

to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble. Some dodging casuist with more craft than sincerity. Milton.

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

trickery; artifice. [Obs.] Hacket.

A 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.