n. One to whom anything is allotted; one to whom an allotment is made. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who allots. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Allotment. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. of Beget. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied. “Besotted devotion.” Sir W. Scott. -- Be*sot"ted*ly, adv. -- Be*sot"ted*ness, n. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bloodshot. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Com.) A wastebook, in which entries of transactions are made as they take place. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Painting) Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting in delineation. Ruskin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A participant in boycotting. [ 1913 Webster ]

p.a. [ See Besmut. ] Bespotted with mud or dirt. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖, n. [ F. calotte, dim. of cale a sort of flat cap. Cf. Caul. ] A close cap without visor or brim. Especially: (a) Such a cap, worn by English serjeants at law. (b) Such a cap, worn by the French cavalry under their helmets. (c) Such a cap, worn by the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. [ 1913 Webster ]

To assume the calotte, to become a priest. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., prop., carrot. ] A cylindrical roll of tobacco; as, a carotte of perique. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. ] A kind of pie or pudding made by lining a dish with slices of bread, and filling it with bread soaked in milk, and baked. [ 1913 Webster ]

Charlotte Russe or
‖Charlotte à la russe [ F., lit., Russian charlotte ] (Cookery), a dish composed of custard or whipped cream, inclosed in sponge cake. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Five-spotted. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Composed of clots or clods; having the quality or form of a clot; sticky; slimy; foul. “The clotted glebe.” J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

When lust . . .
Lets in defilement to the inward parts,
The soul grows clotted by contagion. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ From Clot. ] To concrete into lumps; to clot. [ Obs. ] “Clottered blood.” Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One joined in a plot. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ LL. cotarius, cottarius, coterius. See Cot. ] A cottager; a cottier. Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

Through Sandwich Notch the West Wind sang
Good morrow to the cotter. Whittier. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To fasten with a cotter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts. [ See Illust. ] In the United States a cotter is commonly called a key. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A toggle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. a type of women's trousers with wide legs cut loose and full so as to resemble a skirt.
Syn. -- culotte. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 rest lengthened by a dot in the same manner as a dotted note. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Notes and rests are sometimes followed by two dots, to indicate an increase of length equal to three quarters of their simple value, and they are then said to be double-dotted. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Dottard. ] Decayed. “Some old dotterel trees.” [ Obs. ] Ascham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Dote, v. i. ] 1. (Zool.) A European bird of the Plover family (Eudromias morinellus, syn. Charadrius morinellus). It is tame and easily taken, and is popularly believed to imitate the movements of the fowler. [ 1913 Webster ]

In catching of dotterels we see how the foolish bird playeth the ape in gestures. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The ringed dotterel (or ring plover) is Charadrius hiaticula. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A silly fellow; a dupe; a gull. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Marked with spots like eyes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Juno's bird, in her eye-spotted train. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. of Flote, v. t. Skimmed. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. of Forget. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. gavotte, fr. Gavots, a people inhabiting a mountainous district in France, called Gap. ] (Mus.) A kind of difficult, old formal French dance in quadruple time. [ wns=1 ] [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte, having a dance tune which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over. [ wns=2 ] [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ G., lit. Twilight of the Gods; a modern mistranslation of the Old Icelandic Ragnarok, meaning, fate of the gods. RHUD ] (German mythology) 1. A myth about the ultimate destruction of the gods in a battle with evil.
Syn. -- Ragnarok, Twilight of the Gods. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. An opera by Richard Wagner. [ PJC ]

p. p. of Get. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. Hottentot; -- so called from hot and tot, two syllables of frequent occurrence in their language. Wedgwood. ] 1. (Ethnol.) One of a degraded and savage race of South Africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The language of the Hottentots, which is remarkable for its clicking sounds; the Khoisan language. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Hottentot cherry (Bot.), a South African plant of the genus Cassine (Cassine maurocenia), having handsome foliage, with generally inconspicuous white or green flowers. Loudon. --
Hottentot's bread. (Bot.) See Elephant's foot (a), under Elephant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A term employed to describe one of the varieties of stammering. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. obtained illegally or by improper means; as, ill-gotten gains.
Syn. -- dirty. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who jots down memoranda. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A memorandum book. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Full of knots; having knots; knurled; as, a knotted cord; the knotted oak. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Interwoven; matted; entangled. [ 1913 Webster ]

Make . . . thy knotted and combined locks to part. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Having intersecting lines or figures. [ 1913 Webster ]

The west corner of thy curious knotted garden. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Geol.) Characterized by small, detached points, chiefly composed of mica, less decomposable than the mass of the rock, and forming knots in relief on the weathered surface; as, knotted rocks. Percival. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Entangled; puzzling; knotty. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They're catched in knotted lawlike nets. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. born in wedlock; legitimate; enjoying full filial rights; not illegitimate; -- of people. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Lotteries [ Lot + -ery, as in brewery, bindery. ] 1. 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 the tickets are blanks. Fig.: An affair of chance. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The laws of the United States and of most of the States make private lotteries illegal, except in certain circumstances for charitable institutions; however, many of the states now conduct lotteries tehmselves as a revenue source. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. Allotment; thing allotted. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Physics.) See Boyle's law, under Law. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fine oil obtained from the kernel of Prunus brigantiaca. It is used instead of olive or almond oil. De Colange. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Through French fr. Pr. mascot a little sorcerer or magician, mascotto witchcraft, sorcery. ] 1. A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Anything that brings good luck; especially, an animal kept by a group, as a sports team, to serve as a symbol and to bring luck. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

{ , n. [ F. matelote, fr. matelot a sailor; properly, a dish such as a sailors prepare. ] 1. A stew, commonly of fish, flavored with wine, and served with a wine sauce containing onions, mushrooms, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. An old dance of sailors, in double time, and somewhat like a hornpipe. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } p. a. 1. Unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad or disreputable origin; pernicious. “Valor misbegot.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Poorly designed or planned; badly carried out; ill-conceived. [ PJC ]

a. Unjustly gotten. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. motte a clod, clump, or hillock. ] A clump of trees in a prairie. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of nooks, angles, or corners. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That nook-shotten isle of Albion. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. oter, AS. otor; akin to D. & G. otter, Icel. otr, Dan. odder, Sw. utter, Lith. udra, Russ, vuidra, Gr. "y`dra water serpent, hydra, Skr. udra otter, and also to E. water. √137, 215. See Water, and cf. Hydra.] [1913 Webster]

1. (Zool.) Any carnivorous animal of the genera Lutra, Enhydra, and related genera of the family Mustelidae. Several species are described. They have large, flattish heads, short ears, and webbed toes. They are aquatic, and feed on fish. The sea otter (Enhydra lutris) also eats clams, crabs, starfish, abalone, and other marine animals; they may come to the surface, and lying on their backs using the stomach as a table, may be seen cracking open the shell of its prey with a rock. The common otter of Europe is Lutra vulgaris; the North American otter (or American otter) is Lutra Canadensis, which inhabits marshes, streams and rivers; other species inhabit South America and Asia. The North American otter adult is about three to four feet long (including the tail) and weighs from 10 to 30 pounds; the sea otter is commonly four feet long and 45 pounds (female) or 60 pounds (male). Their fur is soft and valuable, and in the nineteenth century they were hunted extensively. The sea otter was hunted to near extinction by 1900, and is now protected. Fewer than 3,000 sea otters are believed to live along the central California coast. [1913 Webster +PJC]

2. (Zool.) The larva of the ghost moth. It is very injurious to hop vines. [1913 Webster]

Otter hound,
Otter dog (Zool.), a small breed of hounds, used in England for hunting otters; see otterhound . --
Otter sheep. See Ancon sheep, under Ancon. --
Otter shell (Zool.), very large bivalve mollusk (Schizothaerus Nuttallii) found on the northwest coast of America. It is excellent food, and is extensively used by the Indians. --
Sea otter. (Zool.) See in the Vocabulary. [1913 Webster]

n. A corruption of Annotto. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A small hardy British hound having long pendulous ears and a thick coarse shaggy coat with an oily undercoat; bred in England for hunting otters. Called also otter dog. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who plots or schemes; a contriver; a conspirator; a schemer. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]