Word Meanings - DODDERED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Shattered; infirm. "A laurel grew, doddered with age." Dryden.

Related words: (words related to DODDERED)

• SHATTER-BRAINED; SHATTER-PATED
  Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild. J. Goodman.
• SHATTER
  cf. D. schateren to crack, to make a great noise, OD. schetteren to 1. To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters
• SHATTERY
  Easily breaking into pieces; not compact; loose of texture; brittle; as, shattery spar.
• LAURELED
  Crowned with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate.
• DODDERED
  Shattered; infirm. "A laurel grew, doddered with age." Dryden.
• INFIRMNESS
  Infirmity; feebleness. Boyle.
• INFIRMARIAN
  A person dwelling in, or having charge of, an infirmary, esp. in a monastic institution.
• LAUREL
  An evergreen shrub, of the genus Laurus , having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils; -- called also sweet bay. Note: The fruit is a purple berry. It is found about the
• DODDER
  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.
• INFIRMARY
  A hospital, or place where the infirm or sick are lodged and nursed gratuitously, or where out-patients are treated.
• INFIRMLY
  In an infirm manner.
• INFIRMITY
  1. The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind. 'T is the infirmity of his age. Shak. 2. A personal frailty or failing;
• INFIRM
  1. Not firm or sound; weak; feeble; as, an infirm body; an infirm constitution. A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. Shak. 2. Weak of mind or will; irresolute; vacillating. "An infirm judgment." Burke. Infirm of purpose! Shak. 3. Not solid
• INFIRMATORY
  An infirmary.
• INFIRMATIVE
  Weakening; annulling, or tending to make void.