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‖n. Same as Dalmania. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Dalmatia. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dalmatian dog (Zool.), a carriage dog, shaped like a pointer, and having black or bluish spots on a white ground; the coach dog.

n., n. [ LL. dalmatica: cf. F. dalmatique. ] 1. (R. C. Ch.) A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A robe worn on state ocasions, as by English kings at their coronation. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. (Teut. Law) A man or woman having odal, or able to share in it by inheritance. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. & a. etc. [ Icel. ōðal allodium, an hereditary estate; akin to Sw. odal allodial, Dan. odel. ] Vars. of Odal, etc.; property held by udal, or allodial, right -- Obs. exc. in Shetland and the Orkney Islands, where udal designates a freehold, land held in fee simple without any charter and free of any feudal character. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]