Di"do (?), n.;
pl. Didos (&?;). A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper. 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.
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