\Dote\, n. [See {Dot} dowry.]
1. A marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st {Dot}, n. --Wyatt.
2. pl. Natural endowments. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.

\Dote\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Doted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Doting}.] [OE. doten; akin to OD. doten, D. dutten, to doze,
Icel. dotta to nod from sleep, MHG. t?zen to keep still: cf.
F. doter, OF. radoter (to dote, rave, talk idly or
senselessly), which are from the same source.] [Written also
{doat}.]
1. To act foolishly. [Obs.]
         He wol make him doten anon right.     --Chaucer.
2. To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the
   intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind
   wanders or wavers; to drivel.
         Time has made you dote, and vainly tell Of arms
         imagined in your lonely cell.         --Dryden.
         He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated,
         and doted long before he died.        --South.
3. To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to
   be weakly affectionate; -- with on or upon; as, the mother
   dotes on her child.
         Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote. --Shak.
         What dust we dote on, when 't is man we love. --
                                               Pope.

\Dote\, n.
An imbecile; a dotard. --Halliwell.