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noddies |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Noddy \Nod"dy\, n.; pl {Noddies}. [Prob. fr nod to incline the head, either as in assent, or from drowsiness.] 1. A simpleton; a fool. --L'Estrange. 2. (Zo["o]l.) a Any tern of the genus {Anous}, as {A. stolidus}. b The arctic fulmar ({Fulmarus glacialis}). Sometimes also applied to other sea birds. 3. An old game at cards. --Halliwell. 4. A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle. 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.
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