daddle, daidle

i. [A freq. form of dade (q. v.).] 1. To walk unsteadily, as a child or old man; to toddle. 2. To loiter about, to be lazy or idle. "Aweel, thriftle bodie, can ye kame wool? that's dainty wark for sic a daídlen bodie."-Blackwood's Mag ., Jan., 1821, p. 407. dăd-dock, s. [Etym. doubtful. Ash suggests dead oak.] The heart or body of a tree thoroughly rotten. *dāde, v. i. & t. [Etym. doubtful.] A. In trans.: To move unsteadily, as a child; to totter. "Which, nourished and bred up at her most plenteous pap, No sooner taught to dade , but from their mother trip, And in their speedy course strive others to outstrip. Drayton: Polyolbion , s. 1. B. Trans.: To lead like a child by the hand; to hold up by leading strings. "A man of years who is a politician, muste offer himself lovingly unto those that make toward him, and be glad to sort and converse with them; such he ought to inform, to correct, to dade and lead by the hand." -Holland: Plu IMG:content-1736.png:[blocks in formation] 1. A term for the die or plane face of a pedestal. The dado employed in the interior of buildings is a continuous pedestal, with a plinth and base molding, and a cornice or dado molding surmounting the die. 2. The solid block or cube forming the body of a pedestal, in cla ical architecture, between the base moldings and cornice; an architectural arrangement of moldings, ., round the lower part of the walls of a room. ( Weale .)