dobbeldaler (dobeldaler)

[Dan., E. double dollar.] A coin formerly current in Norway and Denmark, and worth about $1.12. dobbin (dob'in), n. [A familiar use of the proper personal name Dobbin, which is a dim. of Dob or Dobb (now more frequently in the patronymic form Dobbins, Dobbs ), these being variations of Robin, Rob, diminutives of Robert. Cf. dicky1, an a , similarly derived from a dim. of Richard.] A common English name for a work-horse. [As a quasi-proper name it is often written with a capital letter.] Thou hast got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my phill-horse has on his tail. Shak ., M. of V., ii. 2. The hard-featured farmer reins up his grateful dobbin to inquire what you are doing. Thoreau , Walden, p. 171. dobby (dob'i), n.; pl. dobbies (-iz). [Sc. also dobbie ; dim. of Dob , Dobb , like Hob , var. of Rob , abbr. of Robert ; a familiar use of the proper name. Cf. dobbin .] 1. A fool; a childish old man.-2. A sprite or apparition. Grose . [Prov. Eng.] He needed not to care for ghaist or barghaist, devil or dobbie. 3. Same as dobby -machine. Taylor's loom does not appear to have come but a small Jacquard machine, or dobby, was introduced IMG:content-2960.png:[blocks in formation] Docimastes IMG:content-2961.png:[graphic] Agasia, the kyng of Brit on is dochter. n . [Pg. dobrão = Bellenden, Chron., fol, 19, a. Sp. doblon , > F. docibility (dos-i-bil'i-ti), n. [OF. docibilite , E. dou- bloon, q. v.] A gold coin, equal to 12,800 reis, or about $14, formerly current in Portugal, but now taken only at a valuation. n. dobson (dob's on), [Origin obscure.] The larva of one of various species of neu ropterous insects of the family Sialid a, especially of the genus Corydalus (which see). Also called hellgrammite, clipper, and crawler.