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Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen; as, a dot of a child.

ularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage. Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature. Macaulay.

Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it. Garth.

A dotard. [Obs.] Shak.

One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood. The sickly dotard wants a wife. Prior.

Foolish; weak. Dr. H. More.

A dotard's weakness; dotage. [Obs.] Drayton.

The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.

A marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st Dot, n. Wyatt.

Stupid; foolish. [Obs.] Senseless speech and doted ignorance. Spenser.

A dotard. [R.] Tyndale.

One who dotes; a man whose understanding is enfeebled by age; a dotard. Burton.

The acts or speech of a dotard; drivel. [R.]

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That dotes; silly; excessively fond. -- Dot"ing*ly, adv. -- Dot"ing*ness, n.

Foolish; weak; imbecile. Sir W. Scott.

An old, decayed tree. [R.] Bacon.

Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects. Dotted note (Mus.), a note followed by a dot to indicate an increase of length equal to one half of its simple value; thus, a dotted semibreve is equal to three minims, and a dotted quarter to three eighth notes. -- Dotted rest, a…

Decayed. "Some old dotterel trees." [Obs.] Ascham.

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