a. Consisting of clods; full of clods. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A gull in the plumage of its first year. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. for hooded. ] (Zool.) See Dun crow, under Dun, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. E. also hoddypeke, hoddypoule, hoddymandoddy. ] An awkward or foolish person. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Noddies [ Prob. fr. nod to incline the head, either as in assent, or from drowsiness. ] 1. A simpleton; a fool. L'Estrange.
Syn. -- tomnoddy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) Any tern of the genus Anous, as Anous stolidus. (b) The arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis). Sometimes also applied to other sea birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An old game at cards. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; -- used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of rods or twigs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ruddy. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perhaps fr. Shed, v. t.; as meaning originally, waste stuff shed or thrown off; cf. dial. shod to shed, and E. Shed a parting, separation, Shode a parting. ] 1. A fibrous material obtained by “deviling, ” or tearing into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags, druggets, etc. See Mungo. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fluffy, fibrous waste from wool carding, worsted spinning, or weaving of woolens. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. A fabric of inferior quality made of, or containing a large amount of, shoddy. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The great quantity of shoddy goods furnished as army supplies in the late Civil War in the United States gave wide currency to the word, and it came to be applied to persons who pretend to a higher position in society than that to which their breeding or worth entitles them; this term is now (1997) rarely used in that sense. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. 1. Made wholly or in part of shoddy; containing shoddy; as, shoddy cloth; shoddy blankets; hence, colloquially, not genuine; sham; pretentious; as, shoddy aristocracy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shoddy inventions designed to bolster up a factitious pride. Compton Reade. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. of poor quality or inferior workmanship. [ RHUD ] [ PJC ]

3. visibly worn or damaged from use; shabby. [ PJC ]

. (Med.) A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoea and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The quality or state of being shoddy. [ Colloq. ] See the Note under Shoddy, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Sod. ] Consisting of sod; covered with sod; turfy. Cotgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Formed from Hind. tā&unr_;ī the juice of the palmyra tree, popularly, toddy, fr. tā&unr_; the palmyra tree, Skr. tāla. ] 1. A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mixture of spirit and hot water sweetened. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Toddy differs from grog in having a less proportion of spirit, and is being made hot and sweetened. [ 1913 Webster ]

Toddy bird (Zool.), a weaver bird of the East Indies and India: -- so called from its fondness for the juice of the palm. --
Toddy cat (Zool.), the common paradoxure; the palm cat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Tom (see Tomboy) + noddy. ] 1. (Zool.) A sea bird, the puffin. [ Prov.Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fool; a dunce; a noddy. [ 1913 Webster ]