a unit of mass, approximately 1.66 x 10-24 grams; -- it is approximately equal to the mass of one hydrogen atom, but the exact value differs slightly as used in physics and chemistry. It is used mostly to describe the size of proteins and nucleic acids in biochemistry.
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One afflicted with color blindness.
Inability to perceive or distinguish certain colors, esp. red; color blindness. It has various forms and degrees. So called from the chemist Dalton, who had this infirmity.
To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up.
a genus of deer including the Eurasian fallow deer, Dama dama.
To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soundness or value; as, some colors in cloth damage in sunlight.
Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo.
changed so as to reduce value, function, or other desirable trait; -- usually not used of persons. Opposite of undamaged.
a sum of money paid in compensation for an injury or wrong.
causing harm or injury; as, damaging to career and reputation.
a genus of African antelopes including the sassaby, Damaliscus lunatus.
A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax. The species found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus; that of Northern Africa is Hyrax Brucei; -- called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. See Cony, and Hyrax.
See Dammar.
A native of Damaraland, German Southwest Africa. The Damaras include an important and warlike Bantu tribe, and the Hill Damaras, who are Hottentots and mixed breeds hostile to the Bantus.
Same as Damask, or Damaskeen, v. t.
decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals; -- of metallic objects; as, a damascened sword.
The capital city of Syria. Population (2000) = 1,549,932.
To decorate in a way peculiar to Damascus or attributed to Damascus; particularly: (a) with flowers and rich designs, as silk; (b) with inlaid lines of gold, etc., or with a peculiar marking or /water,/ as metal. See Damaskeen.
To decorate, as iron, steel, etc., with a peculiar marking or /water/ produced in the process of manufacture, or with designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask.
A sword of Damask steel.
Woven like damask. A damass/ fabric, esp. one of linen.
A kind of modified damask or brocade.
A white, crystalline, sugary substance obtained from an African caoutchouc.
A crystalline variety of fruit sugar obtained from dambonite.
A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady.
A cruciferrous plant (Hesperis matronalis), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet.
A Mexican drug, used as an aphrodisiac.
A follower of Damian, patriarch of Alexandria in the 6th century, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.
A large tree of the order Conifer/, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia; -- called also Agathis. There are several species.
An oleoresin used in making varnishes; dammar gum; dammara resin. It is obtained from certain resin trees indigenous to the East Indies, esp. Shorea robusta and the dammar pine.
To invoke damnation; to curse.
The quality of being damnable; damnableness.
Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature.
The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness.
In a manner to incur severe censure, condemnation, or punishment.
The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.
Dooming to damnation; condemnatory.
Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition.
Procuring or causing loss; mischievous; injurious.
That which causes damage or loss.
To cause loss or damage to; to injure; to impair.
That damns; damnable; as, damning evidence of guilt.
Tendency to bring damnation.
Harm; detriment, either to character or property.
See Damsel.
A kind of Muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.
To become damp; to deaden.
the act or process of making something slightly wet.
That which damps or checks; A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air. A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.
Moderately damp or moist.
To damn.
Moderate humidity; moisture; fogginess; moistness.
Somewhat damp.
A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales.
small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs.
a slender nonstinging insect similar to but smaller than the dragonfly but having wings folded when at rest.
A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum.
A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
a small natural family of usually tropical butterflies, including the monarch butterflies.
A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one.
A cobaltiferous variety of arsenopyrite.
A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glucinum, containing sulphur.
the type genus of the Danaidae, including the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus.
A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury, Conn. It is near the topaz in form.
The leaping, tripping, or measured stepping of one who dances; an amusement, in which the movements of the persons are regulated by art, in figures and in accord with music.
One who dances or who practices dancing.
A female dancer.
Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancett/ has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.
from Dance.
Same as Dancett/.
A well-known plant of the genus Taraxacum (Taraxacum officinale, formerly called Taraxacum Dens-leonis and Leontodos Taraxacum) bearing large, yellow, compound flowers, and deeply notched leaves.
To wander about; to saunter; to talk incoherently.
A boatman; an oarsman.
One of a breed of small terriers; -- called also Dandie Dinmont.
In Scott's /Guy Mannering/, a Border farmer of eccentric but fine character, who owns two terriers claimed to be the progenitors of the Dandie Dinmont terriers.
Made up like a dandy; having the dress or manners of a dandy; buckish.
To cause to resemble a dandy; to make dandyish.
A little fellow; -- in sport or contempt.
To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant.
One who dandles or fondles.
See Dandruff.
A scurf which forms on the head, and comes off in small scales or particles.
One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb.
A bantam fowl.
Like a dandy.
The manners and dress of a dandy; foppishness.
To make, or to act, like a dandy; to dandify.
A little or insignificant dandy; a contemptible fop.
A native, or a naturalized inhabitant, of Denmark.
An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm.
A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood. [Said to grow on spots where battles were fought against the Danes.]
To dash.
To endanger.
Full of danger; dangerous.
Free from danger.
Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
To cause to dangle; to swing, as something suspended loosely; as, to dangle the feet.
A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.
One who dangles about or after others, especially after women; a trifler.
A Hebrew prophet distinguished for sagacity and ripeness of judgment in youth; hence, a sagacious and upright judge.
Belonging to the Danes, or to their language or country. The language of the Danes.
A descendant of Dan; an Israelite of the tribe of Dan.
A small silver coin current in Persia.
Somewhat dank.
The ancient battle standard of Denmark, bearing figures of cross and crown.
A professional female dancer; a woman who dances at a public exhibition as in a ballet.
Danish.
A Dane.
Relating to, emanating from or resembling, the poet Dante or his writings.
Dantelike; Dantean.
Pertaining to, or bordering on, the river Danube.
To drop the bait gently on the surface of the water.
Sumptuous in cheer.
A genus of diminutive Shrubs, mostly evergreen, and with fragrant blossoms.
A colorless crystalline substance, C9H6O4, extracted from daphnin.
A genus of the genus Daphnia.
A dark green bitter resin extracted from the mezereon (Daphne mezereum) and regarded as the essential principle of the plant. A white, crystalline, bitter substance, regarded as a glucoside, and extracted from Daphne mezereum and Daphne alpina.
Divination by means of the laurel.
One who brings meat to the table; hence, in some countries, the official title of the grand master or steward of the king's or a nobleman's household.
Little and active; spruce; trim; smart; neat in dress or appearance; lively.
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