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In mod. civil law, dowry; property which the wife brings upon her marriage to the husband, the income of which is in his control for the expenses of the marital establishment, the principal remaining her separate property.
To mark with dots; make a dot or dots in or upon: as, to dot an i; to dot a surface.
To mark or diversify with small detached objects: as, a landscape dotted with cottages or clumps of trees.
To place so as to appear like dots.
To make dots or spots.
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A point or minute spot on a surface; a small spot of different color, opacity, or material from that of the surface on which it is situated.
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Specifically — A small spot introduced in the variegation of cloth: as, polka dots in women's dress-fabrics.
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In writing and printing, a minute round spot serving— as a customary distinction, as the dot over the body of i and j and formerly of y, or
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as a special diacritic, as the dots of ä, ȧ, a, etc., in the notation of pronunciation used in this dictionary, or the vowel-signs or points in Hebrew and Arabic, or
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as a mark of punctuation, as the period, which consists of one dot, and the colon, which consists of two dots.
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In musical notation: A point placed after a note or rest, to indicate that the duration of the note or rest is to be increased one half. A double dot further increases the duration by one half the value of the single dot:
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A point placed over or under a note, to indicate that the note is to be performed somewhat staccato (which see); but in old music, when several dots are placed over a long note, they indicate that it is to be subdivided into as many short notes:
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When placed in the spaces of a staff with a heavy or double bar, dots indicate the beginning or end of a repeat (which see).
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In embroidery, and in weaving imitating embroidery, a simple, small, round spot, especially when solid or opaque, on a thin and translucent ground. There are several kinds, distinguished chiefly by their size, as point de pois, point d'or, etc.
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In plastering: plural -Nails so driven into a wall that their heads are left projecting a certain distance, thus forming a gage to show how thick the plaster should be laid on.
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A patch of plaster put on to regulate the floating rule in making screeds and bays.
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In projective geometry, one of the system of n coplanar points which determine a polystigm.