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bbed toes. They are aquatic, and feed on fish. Their fur is soft and valuable. The common otter of Europe is Lutra vulgaris; the American otter is L. Canadensis; other species inhabit South America and Asia.

One who allots.

Allotment. [Obs.] Shak.

One who, or that which blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink.

One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish. Halliwell.

A participant in boycotting.

Bespotted with mud or dirt. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To concrete into lumps; to clot. [Obs.] "Clottered blood." Chapman.

One joined in a plot. Dryden.

To fasten with a cotter.

cottager; a cottier. Burns. Through Sandwich Notch the West Wind sang Good morrow to the cotter. Whittier.

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

One who jots down memoranda.

A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance.

One who plots or schemes; a contriver; a conspirator; a schemer. Dryden.

One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels. Ps. ii. 9. The potter heard, and stopped his wheel. Longfellow.

Of or pertaining to potters. Pottern ore, a species of ore which, from its aptness to vitrify like the glazing of potter's wares, the miners call by this name. Boyle.

The vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed and baked.

The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest. [Prov. Eng.]

The turnstone.