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  • English Word Dossil Definition A small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent.
  • English Word Dossil Definition A roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines.
  • English Word Dost Definition of Do.
  • English Word Dot Definition A marriage portion; dowry.
  • English Word Dot Definition A small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck, or small mark.
  • English Word Dot Definition Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen; as, a dot of a child.
  • English Word Dot Definition To mark with dots or small spots; as, to dot a line.
  • English Word Dot Definition To mark or diversify with small detached objects; as, a landscape dotted with cottages.
  • English Word Dot Definition To make dots or specks.
  • English Word Dotage Definition Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage.
  • English Word Dotage Definition Foolish utterance; drivel.
  • English Word Dotage Definition Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection.
  • English Word Dotal Definition Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it.
  • English Word Dotant Definition A dotard.
  • English Word Dotard Definition One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood.
  • English Word Dotardly Definition Foolish; weak.
  • English Word Dotary Definition A dotard's weakness; dotage.
  • English Word Dotation Definition The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.
  • English Word Dotation Definition Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation.
  • English Word Dote Definition A marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st Dot, n.
  • English Word Dote Definition Natural endowments.
  • English Word Dote Definition To act foolishly.
  • English Word Dote Definition To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel.
  • English Word Dote Definition To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to be weakly affectionate; -- with on or upon; as, the mother dotes on her child.
  • English Word Dote Definition An imbecile; a dotard.
  • English Word Doted Definition of Dote
  • English Word Doted Definition Stupid; foolish.
  • English Word Doted Definition Half-rotten; as, doted wood.
  • English Word Dotehead Definition A dotard.
  • English Word Doter Definition One who dotes; a man whose understanding is enfeebled by age; a dotard.