A doll, a puppet. Also poppin-show n.

An image, a dressed-up figure; a doll, a puppet. Also: a person of grotesque appearance or costume; a scarecrow, a guy.

figurative. man of clouts, king of clouts, etc.: a mere ‘doll’ in the garb of a man, a king, etc.; a ‘lay-figure’. Cf. babe of clouts n. at babe, n.…

A young child, an infant.

A small figure in the form of a person; a doll. Cf. puppet, n. 2. Now chiefly U.S. regional (chiefly south Midland).

A doll; = baby, n. 3. Obsolete.

A puppet, a doll. Cf. poupée, n. 2.

A child's doll; (in later use) esp. one representing a baby (cf. baby doll, n. 1). Cf. earlier babe, n. 2.

A (typically small) figure representing a human being; a child's doll. Cf. poppet, n. 2b. Obsolete.

A baby, an infant; (also) a doll.

A child's doll; see puppet, n. 2b. Obsolete. rare.

An image of a human being (commonly of a child or lady) used as a plaything; a girl's toy-baby.

A child's doll designed to resemble a baby. Cf. baby, n. 3.

A pet name for a child's doll. (Also treated as the personal name of a female doll.)

= doll, n.1 2 3; in quot. 1807, a small image of the human figure on which clothes are displayed. Also attributive.

More fully babushka doll. = matryoshka, n.