Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The spoken representation of the dot in radio and telegraph code.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To stop up; close.
  • noun A word; a saying; a sentence.
  • noun A ditty; anything sung.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A word; a decree.
  • noun obsolete A ditty; a song.
  • transitive verb obsolete To close up.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun archaic, rare A ditty, a little melody.
  • noun The spoken representation of a dot in radio and telegraph Morse code.
  • verb obsolete To close up.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Imitative.]

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Variant of dite.

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Imitative.

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Anglo-Saxon dyttan, akin to Icelandic ditta.

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