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    Dido (?), 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.

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