dido

3 definitions found

dido - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Dido \Di"do\, n.; pl. Didos.
     A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     To cut a dido, to play a trick; to cut a caper; -- perhaps
        so called from the trick of Dido, who having bought so
        much land as a hide would cover, is said to have cut it
        into thin strips long enough to inclose a spot for a
        citadel.
        [1913 Webster]

dido - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Dido
      n 1: (Roman mythology) a princess of Tyre who was the founder
           and queen of Carthage; Virgil tells of her suicide when she
           was abandoned by Aeneas

dido - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  18 Moby Thesaurus words for "dido":
     antic, bauble, bibelot, caper, curio, frolic, gewgaw, gimcrack,
     lark, monkeyshine, shenanigan, shines, tomfoolery, toy, trick,
     trifle, trinket, whatnot