n. An insoluble solid alcohol (C12H25OH) with an unbranched paraffin chain, used to make detergents, such as sodium lauryl sulfate.
Syn. -- lauryl alcohol [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf.
Syn. -- cladophyll, phylloclad, phylloclade. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A cake made of the meal of Indian corn, wrapped in a covering of husks or paper, and baked under the embers. [ U.S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ from Department of Defense. ] the United States Department of Defense, the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security; created in 1947. It includes within its jurisdiction control of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. [ acronym ]
Syn. -- Department of Defense, Defense Department, Defense. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

{ , v. t. [ OE. dodden. ] To cut off, as wool from sheep's tails; to lop or clip off. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A game much like hockey, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game. [ Local, Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Dodd. ] Without horns; as, dodded cattle; without beards; as, dodded corn. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Dan. dodder, Sw. dodra, G. dotter. ] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plant, as to flax, goldenrod, etc., and decaying at the root, is nourished by the plant that supports it. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ Cf. AS. dyderian to deceive, delude, and E. didder, dudder. ] To shake, tremble, or totter. “The doddering mast.” Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shattered; infirm. “A laurel grew, doddered with age.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. shaking as from old age.
Syn. -- doddery, shaking, tottering, tottery. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. mentally or physically infirm with age.
Syn. -- gaga, senile. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. same as doddering{ 1 }.
Syn. -- doddering, shaking, tottering, tottery. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; twelve + &unr_; angle: cf. F. dodécagone. ] (Geom.) A figure or polygon bounded by twelve sides and containing twelve angles. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; twelve + &unr_; woman, female. ] (Bot.) A Linnæan order of plants having twelve styles.

{ } a. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the Dodecagynia; having twelve styles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or like, a dodecahedion; consisting of twelve equal sides. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dodecahedral cleavage. See under Cleavage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; twelve + &unr_; seat, bottom, base: cf. F. dodécaèdre. ] (Geom. & Crystallog.) A solid having twelve faces. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The regular dodecahedron is bounded by twelve equal and regular pentagons; the pyritohedron (see Pyritohedron) is related to it; the rhombic dodecahedron is bounded by twelve equal rhombic faces. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; twelve + &unr_;, &unr_;, man, male. ] (Bot.) A Linnæan class of plants including all that have any number of stamens between twelve and nineteen.

{ } a. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the Dodecandria; having twelve stamens, or from twelve to nineteen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; twelve. ] (Chem.) Any one of a group of thick oily hydrocarbons, C12H26, of the paraffin series. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; twelve + &unr_; column: cf. F. dodécastyle. ] (Arch.) Having twelve columns in front. -- n. A dodecastyle portico, or building. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; twelve + E. syllabic. ] Having twelve syllables. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A word consisting of twelve syllables. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; twelve + &unr_;, dim. of &unr_; part: cf. F. dodécatémorie. ] (Astron.) A tern applied to the twelve houses, or parts, of the zodiac of the primum mobile, to distinguish them from the twelve signs; also, any one of the twelve signs of the zodiac. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Dodged p. pr. & vb. n. Dodging. ] [ Of uncertain origin: cf. dodder, v., daddle, dade, or dog, v. t. ] 1. To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some dodging casuist with more craft than sincerity. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility. [ Colloq. ] S. G. Goodrich. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of evading by some skillful movement; a sudden starting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a cunning trick; an artifice. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Some, who have a taste for good living, have many harmless arts, by which they improve their banquet, and innocent dodges, if we may be permitted to use an excellent phrase that has become vernacular since the appearance of the last dictionaries. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a small low-powered electrically powered vehicle driven on a special platform where there are many others to be dodged.
Syn. -- bumper car. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. a member of the professional baseball team called the Dodgers. At one time the team was headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, when it was called the Borrooklyn Dodgers, but the franchise was transferred to Los Angeles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who dodges or evades; one who plays fast and loose, or uses tricky devices. Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small handbill. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. See Corndodger. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. trickery; artifice. [ Obs. ] Hacket.

{ } n. [ Perh. fr. OE. dodden to cut off, to shear, and first applied to shaven-polled priests. ] A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some will say, our curate is naught, an ass-head, a dodipoll. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. duitken, dim. of duit. See Doit, and cf. Doitkin. ] A doit; a small coin. Shelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A snail; also, a snail shell; a hodmandod. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Nares. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Any shellfish which casts its shell, as a lobster. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] (Zool.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Endo- + Gr. &unr_; skin. ] (Biol.) (a) The inner layer of the skin or integument of an animal. (b) The innermost layer of the blastoderm and the structures derived from it; the hypoblast; the entoblast. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

{ } a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to the endoderm. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Endoderm. ] (Bot.) A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the branch of dentistry dealing with diseases of the dental pulp.
Syn. -- endodontia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the treatment of diseases of the dental pulp, especially by completely removing the pulp and nerve inside a tooth and its root, and replacing it with a filling material; root canal therapy; pulp canal therapy. [ PJC ]

n. a dentist specializing in endodontics. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Prob. E. also hoddypeke, hoddypoule, hoddymandoddy. ] An awkward or foolish person. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Dodman. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An order of fossil arborescent plants arising during the Lower Devonian and conspicuous throughout the Carboniferous.
Syn. -- order Lepidodendrales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Paleon.) One of an extinct family of trees allied to the modern club mosses, and including Lepidodendron and its allies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Paleon.) Allied to, or resembling, Lepidodendron. -- n. A lepidodendrid. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. lepi`s -i`dos, a scale + de`ndron tree. ] (Paleon.) A genus of fossil trees of the Devonian and Carboniferous ages, having the exterior marked with scars, mostly in quincunx order, produced by the separation of the leafstalks. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. pseydo`doxos; pseydh`s false + do`xa an opinion. ] Not true in opinion or doctrine; false. -- n. A false opinion or doctrine. “To maintain the atheistical pseudodox which judgeth evil good, and darkness light.” T. Adams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. Gr. "rodo`dendron, literally, rose tree; "ro`don rose + de`ndron tree. See Rose. ] (Bot.) A genus of shrubs or small trees, often having handsome evergreen leaves, and remarkable for the beauty of their flowers; rosebay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of the Zalambdodonta. The tenrec, solenodon, and golden moles are examples. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to a tribe (Zalambdodonta) of Insectivora in which the molar teeth have but one V-shaped ridge. [ 1913 Webster ]