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See Dit, n.,

A kind of peppergrass (Lepidium latifolium).

A plant of the Mint family (Origanum Dictamnus), a native of Crete.

Set, sung, or composed as a ditty; -- usually in composition. Who, with his soft pipe, and smooth-dittied song. Milton.

names, etc., to save repetition. A spacious table in the center, and a variety of smaller dittos in the corners. Dickens.

A double reading, or twofold interpretation, as of a Scripture text. [R.]

or utterance; especially, one that is short and frequently repeated; a theme. O, too high ditty for my simple rhyme. Spenser.

A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, etc.; -- also called sailor's housewife.

A small box to hold a sailor's thread, needless, comb, etc.

incipal; something additional and subordinate. "The aspect and accessories of a den of banditti." Carlyle.

To cause to blunder. [Obs.] "To blunder an adversary." Ditton.

retreats; a highwayman; a freebooter. Giving them not a little the air of brigands or banditti. Jeffery.

any provinces could be held in subjection by such a dapper little man. Milton. The dapper ditties that I wont devise. Spenser. Sharp-nosed, dapper steam yachts. Julian Hawthorne.

A ditty; a song. [Obs.]

An abbreviation of Ditto.

A hussy. [R.] [Usually written huswife.] Shak. Sailor's housewife, a ditty-bag.

Originating in, or expressive of, languishing love. Where nightingales their love-sick ditty sing. Dryden.

More. See Mo. [Obs.] "Sing no more ditties, sing no moe." Shak.

Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.

l order (Rutacæ) of which the rue is the type, and which includes also the orange, lemon, dittany, and buchu.