Dado

1. n. In interior decoration, the lower part of the wall of an apartment when adorned with moldings, or otherwise specially decorated.
2. n. That part of a pedestal included between the base and the cornice (or surbase); the die. See Illust. of Column.
3. n. In any wall, that part of the basement included between the base and the base course. See Base course, under Base.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.