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To act foolishly. [Obs.] He wol make him doten anon right. Chaucer.

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.]

Not having scales. -- n.

Unpublished narratives. Burke.

of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison.

To cause to dote; to deceive. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to the Craspedota.

A mineral, commonly of a yellowish green (pistachio) color, occurring granular, massive, columnar, and in monoclinic crystals. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and oxide of iron, or manganese.

Having a coat of scurfy scales, as the leaves of the oleaster.

A division of beetles having the fifth tarsal joint minute and obscure, so that there appear to be but four joints. -- Pseu`do*te*tram"er*al, a.

A device for circulating and cooling the air, consisting essentially of a kind of roasting fan fitted in a window and incased in wet tatties. [India]

Deliberate consideration; knowledge. [Obs.] How shall I dote on her with more advice, That thus without advice begin to love her Shak.

An antidote against poison or infection; a counterpoison.

ning a large amount of cerium. It is usually black in color, opaque, and is related to epidote in form and composition.

f persons or places, used to denote a collection of notable sayings, literary gossip, anecdotes, etc. Thus, Scaligerana is a book containing the sayings of Scaliger, Johnsoniana of Johnson, etc.

Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes. All history, therefore, being built partly, and some of it altogether, upon anecdotage, must be a tissue of lies. De Quincey.

Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation.