Dido

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Dido
       n : (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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

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