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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[Of. uncertain origin. Cf.

To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a child while he toddles.

[Obs.]

Little children when they learn to go
By painful mothers

daded

to and fro.

Drayton.

Verb.

To walk unsteadily, as a child in leading strings, or just learning to walk; to move slowly.

[Obs.]

No sooner taught to

dade

, but from their mother trip.

Drayton.

Verb.

To hold up by leading strings.

See also: dade, Dade, and -dade

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