Same as Dancett/.
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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.
A dwarf; a dandiprat.
To variegate with spots; to spot.
Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse.
The administrative capital city of Tanzania. Population (2000) = 1,360,850.
Manacles; handcuffs.
A plasterer's float, having two handles; -- used in smoothing ceilings, etc.
One of the Plymouth Brethren, or of a sect among them; -- so called from John N. Darby, one of the leaders of the Brethren.
the strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European from Asian Turkey.
Trojan.
A small fish; the dace.
A reckless fellow. Also used adjectively; as, dare-devil excitement.
Reckless mischief; the action of a dare-devil.
Full of daring or of defiance; adventurous.
One who dares or defies.
A day's work; also, a fixed amount of work, whether more or less than that of a day.
A gold coin of ancient Persia, weighing usually a little more than 128 grains, and bearing on one side the figure of an archer. A silver coin of about 86 grains, having the figure of an archer, and hence, in modern times, called a daric.
Bold; fearless; adventurous; as, daring spirits.
A crustade.
To darken; to obscure.
of a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky.
of a color similar to that of wood or earth.
similar to the color of fresh grass.
same as brunet; as, a dark-haired beauty.
same as colored.
To grow or darker.
overtaken by night or darkness.
One who, or that which, darkens.
Twilight; gloaming.
Full of darkness.
a black person; an African-American; -- an older term now considered offensive.
Somewhat dark; dusky.
To grow dark; to show indistinctly.
Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing.
With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly.
The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.
Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless.
a negro; an African-American; -- an older term now considered offensive.
Dearly beloved; regarded with especial kindness and tenderness; favorite.
A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves.
a genus consisting of one species.
A colloquial euphemism for Damn.
an intensifying expletive; a eupehmism for damned; as, for no darned reason at all.
Any grass of the genus Lolium, esp. the Lolium temulentum (bearded darnel), the grains of which have been reputed poisonous. Other species, as Lolium perenne (rye grass or ray grass), and its variety Lolium Italicum (Italian rye grass), are highly esteemed for pasture and for making hay.
One who mends by darning.
Same as Dornick.
The Egyptian sycamore (Ficus Sycamorus). See Sycamore.
The European black tern.
To make ready to fight; to array.
Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.
To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart.
a circular board of wood or cork used as the target in the game of darts. It may have any of several patterns on it, such as concentric circles, or a central circle with rays.
A kind of scab or ulceration on the skin of lambs.
One who darts, or who throw darts; that which darts.
Like a dart; rapidly.
To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly: -- frequentative of dart.
Of or pertaining to the dartos.
Like the dartos; dartoic; as, dartoid tissue.
A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneath the skin of the scrotum.
Relating to, or partaking of the nature of, the disease called tetter; herpetic.
The capital city of Brunei. Population (2000) = 52,300.
An advocate of Darwinism.
Darwinism.
The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above.
See Daze.
To become dim-sighted; to become dazed or dazzled.
Violent striking together of two bodies; collision; crash.
a mechanical damping device containing a piston that moves in a fluid-filled chamber to serve as a pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock.
A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh, or other vehicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard.
A tropical aroid (of the genus Caladium, syn. Colocasia) having an edible farinaceous root. It is related to the taro and to the tanier, but is much superior to it in quality and is as easily cooked as the potato. It is a staple food plant of the tropics, being prepared like potatoes, and has been introduced into the Southern United States.
That which dashes or agitates; as, the dasher of a churn.
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