doiter (doiter)

i. also doit2 = dote1.] To walk in a feeble manner, as an aged or infirm person; totter. [Cf. dodder2 and totter; [Scotch.] doitkin (doit'kin), n. [Also dodkin , dotkin ; duitken , dim. of duit , a doit.] The name given by the English to a small Dutch coin which was illegally imported into England, especially in the fifteenth century: also applied generally to any small coin or sum of money. Thence he brought him to an oil cellar, and where they sold olives; here you shall have (quoth he) a measure called Chœnix, for two brazen dodkins (a good market, be IMG:content-2995.png:[blocks in formation]