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Dodg"er*y (?), n. trickery; artifice. [Obs.] Hacket.

{ Dod"i*pate (?), Dod"i*poll (?), } n. [Perh. fr. OE. dodden to cut off, to shear, and first applied to shaven-polled priests.] A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead.

Some will say, our curate is naught, an ass-head, a dodipoll.

Latimer.

Dod"kin (?), n. [D. duitken, dim. of duit. See Doit, and cf. Doitkin.] A doit; a small coin. Shelton.

Dod"man (?), n. 1. A snail; also, a snail shell; a hodmandod. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Nares.

2. (Zoöl.) Any shellfish which casts its shell, as a lobster. [Prov. Eng.]

Do"do (?), n.; pl. Dodoes (#). [Said to be fr. Pg. doudo silly, foolish (cf. Booby); this is fr. Prov. E. dold, the same word as E. dolt.] (Zoöl.) A large, extinct bird (Didus ineptus), formerly inhabiting the Island of Mauritius. It had short, half-fledged wings, like those of the ostrich, and a short neck and legs; -- called also dronte. It was related to the pigeons.

Doe (d), n. [AS. d; cf. Dan. daa, daa-dyr, deer, and perh. L. dama. √66.] (Zoöl.) A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female of other animals, as the rabbit. See the Note under Buck.

Doe (d), n. A feat. [Obs.] See Do, n. Hudibras.

Dœg"lic (?), a. Pertaining to, or obtained from, the dœgling; as, dœglic acid (Chem.), an oily substance resembling oleic acid.

||Dœg"ling (?), n. [Native name in Faroe Islands.] (Zoöl.) The beaked whale (Balænoptera rostrata), from which dœgling oil is obtained.

Do"er (?), n. [From Do, v. t. & i.] 1. One who does; one who performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

The doers of the law shall be justified.

Rom. ii. 13.

2. (Scots Law) An agent or attorney; a factor. Burrill.

Does (dz). The 3d pers. sing. pres. of Do.

Doe"skin` (?), n. 1. The skin of the doe.

2. A firm woolen cloth with a smooth, soft surface like a doe's skin; -- made for men's wear.

Doff (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Doffed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Doffing.] [Do + off. See Do, v. t., 7.] 1. To put off, as dress; to divest one's self of; hence, figuratively, to put or thrust away; to rid one's self of.

And made us doff our easy robes of peace.

Shak.

At night, or in the rain, He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn.

Emerson.

2. To strip; to divest; to undress.

Heaven's King, who doffs himself our flesh to wear.

Crashaw.

Doff, v. i. To put off dress; to take off the hat.