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A child's puppet; a toy baby for a little girl.

The value of a dollar; the unit commonly employed in the United States in reckoning money values. Chop dollar. See under 9th Chop. -- Dollar fish (Zoöl.), a fish of the United States coast (Stromateus triacanthus), having a flat, roundish form and a bright silvery luster; -- called also butterfish, and Lafayette. See…

A species of sunfish (Lepomis pallidus), common in the United States; -- called also blue sunfish, and copper-nosed bream.

See Dolman.

A child's mane for a doll. Dolly shop, a shop where rags, old junk, etc., are bought and sold; usually, in fact, an unlicensed pawnbroker's shop, formerly distinguished by the sign of a black doll. [England]

A style of light, bright-figured dress goods for women; also, a style of dress. Dolly Varden trout (Zoöl.), a trout of northwest America; -- called also bull trout, malma, and red-spotted trout. See Malma.

A name given to several different silver coins of Denmark, Holland, Sweden,, NOrway, etc., varying in value from about 30 cents to $1.10; also, a British coin worth about 36 cents, used in Ceylon and at the Cape of Good Hope. See Rigsdaler, Riksdaler, and Rixdaler.

In each; to or for each; as, "twenty leagues a day", "a hundred pounds a year", "a dollar a yard", etc.

d. (c) In the state of having advanced money on account; as, A is advance to B a thousand dollars or pounds.

ft to the discretion of the court; as, the amerced the criminal in the sum on the hundred dollars.

a structure entirely cellular, and no distinct sexual organs; -- a term applied by De Candolle to the lowest order of plants.

uantity, made out of unequal sums or quantities; an arithmetical mean. Thus, if A loses 5 dollars, B 9, and C 16, the sum is 30, and the average 10.

A doll for children. Spenser.

A small image of an infant; a doll. Babies in the eyes, the minute reflection which one sees of one's self in the eyes of another. She clung about his neck, gave him ten kisses, Toyed with his locks, looked babies in his eyes. Heywood.

A place for children's dolls and dolls' furniture. Swift.

To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill.

Salvelinus malma of California and Oregon; -- called also Dolly Varden trout and red-spotted trout.

-- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.

A former gold coin of Germany worth nearly five dollars; also, a gold coin of Sweden worth nearly five dollars.

A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.