Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DO'DO, n.

The Didus, a genus of fowls of the gallinaceous order. The hooded dodo is larger than a swan, with a strong hooked bill. The general color of the plumage is cinereous; the belly and thighs whitish. The head is large, and seems as if covered with a hood. The solitary dodo is a large fowl, and is said to weigh sometimes forty-five pounds. The plumage is gray and brown mixed. – Encyc.