digital audiotape, a digitally encoded tape recording of sound; -- in contrast to the usual analog audio tape.

See Datum.

relying on observation or experiment.

an organized body of related information.

That may be dated; having a known or ascertainable date.

Formerly, a part of the Roman chancery; now, a separate office from which are sent graces or favors, cognizable in foro externo, such as appointments to benefices. The name is derived from the word datum, given or dated (with the indications of the time and place of granting the gift or favor).

An officer in the pope's court, having charge of the Dataria.

To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with from.

that can be given a date. Opposite of undatable.

marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past.

Without date; having no fixed time.

One who dates.

A white crystalline glucoside extracted from the bastard hemp (Datisca cannabina).

The dative case. See Dative, a., 1.

As a gift.

A borosilicate of lime commonly occuring in glassy,, greenish crystals.

an analgesic derived from acetanolide; also used as an antipyretic; Datril and Tylenol are trademarks of brands of acetaminophen tablets. See acetaminophen.

Something given or admitted; a fact or principle granted; that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural.

A genus of solanaceous plants, with large funnel-shaped flowers and a four-celled, capsular fruit.

Atropine; -- called also daturia and daturina.

A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or daubed; a smear.

smeared thickly; as, mud-daubed walls.

the type genus, coextensive with the family Daubentoniidae.

a natural family comprising solely the aye-aye.

One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.

The act of one who daubs; that which is daubed.

A sulphide of chromium observed in some meteoric irons.

A daubing; specious coloring; false pretenses.

Smeary; viscous; glutinous; adhesive.

The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.

The wife of one's son.

The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a daughter.

Becoming a daughter; filial.

See Dawk, v. t., to cut or gush.

A variant of Dan, a title of honor.

To overcome; to conquer.

One who daunts.

serving to discourage, dishearten, or intimidate; discouraging; disheartening. Opposite of encouraging.

Incapable of being daunted; undaunted; bold; fearless; intrepid.

resolute courageousness.

The title of the eldest son of the king of France, and heir to the crown. Since the revolution of 1830, the title has been discontinued.

The title of the wife of the dauphin.

The striped quagga, or Burchell's zebra, of South Africa (Asinus Burchellii); -- called also peechi, or peetsi.

any fern of the genus Davallia; they have scaly creeping rhizomes.

one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Araiostegia; Davallia; Davallodes; Gymnogrammitis; Humata; Leucostegia; Scyphularia; Trogostolon.

A kind of small writing table, generally somewhat ornamental, and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir.

Of or pertaining to David, the king and psalmist of Israel, or to his family.

a genus of Australasian shrubs and subshrubs having small yellow or purple flowers followed by short triangular pods.

A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship; -- called also the fish davit. Curved arms of timber or iron, projecting over a ship's side of stern, having tackle to raise or lower a boat, swing it in on deck, rig it out for lowering, etc.; -- called also boat davits.

A variety of nephelite from Vesuvius.

A rare metallic element found in platinum ore. It is a white malleable substance. Symbol Da. Atomic weight 154.

To rouse.

A dawdler.

One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.

Day.

Like a daw.

A hollow, crack, or cut, in timber.

The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.

the first light of day; dawn.

A hydrous carbonate of alumina and soda, occuring in white, bladed crustals.

a schoolchild at a boarding school who has meals at school but sleeps at home.

same as around-the-clock.

The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface.

Labor hired or performed by the day.

One who works by the day; -- usually applied to a farm laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular trade.

A net for catching small birds.

The dawn.

The morning star; the star which ushers in the day; -- usually the planet Venus, when seen before and just after sunrise.

occurring every day.

See Dyaks.

an armless couch; a seat by day and a bed by night.

A journal of accounts; a primary record book in which are recorded the debts and credits, or accounts of the day, in their order, and from which they are transferred to the journal.

a day boarder who is a boy.

The time of the first appearance of light in the morning.

A vain fancy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air; unfounded hope.

One given to daydreams.

A genus consisting mostly of tropical perennial herbs (Commelina), having ephemeral flowers.

A neuropterous insect of the genus Ephemera and related genera, of many species, and inhabiting fresh water in the larval state; the ephemeral fly; -- so called because it commonly lives but one day in the winged or adult state. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.

The light of day as opposed to the darkness of night; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or to artificial light.

A dairymaid.

A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare.

An umpire or arbiter; a mediator.

The beginning of the day, or first appearance of light; the dawn; hence, the beginning.

The time during which there is daylight, as distinguished from the night; same as day, 1; as, during the daytime.

A dairymaid.

The state of being dazed; as, he was in a daze.

stupefied; conscious but unable to think clearly; -- usually caused by a blow or other shock.

A light of dazzling brilliancy.

Dazzling flash, glare, or burst of light.

In a dazzling manner.

a database management system, a software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.

to sell or otherwise give up ownership; -- used mostly of artworks in museums.

to sell (artwork); -- used of sales of art by museums.

to deprive of energy, especially electrical energy; the door locks were de-energized and opened manually.

to reduce in intensity (a crisis or a war).

a reduction in intensity (of a crisis or a war).

an enzyme that removes the iodine radical.

to remove iodine from.

removing iodine from.

the removal of iodine atoms from organic compounds.

to remove ions from.

To read aloud each line of (a psalm or hymn) before singing it, -- usually with off.

A female deacon One of an order of women whose duties resembled those of deacons. A woman set apart for church work by a bishop. A woman chosen as a helper in church work, as among the Congregationalists.

The state of being a deacon; office of a deacon; deaconship.

See Deaconship.

The office or ministry of a deacon or deaconess.

To make inactive; to render ineffective; as, to deactivate a bomb; to deactivate a machine; to deactivate the alarm.

The act or process of deactivating.

To die; to lose life or force.

A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; -- used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called also deadman's eye.

Having a dull, faint heart; spiritless; listless.

precisely accurate and to the point; as, a dead-on feel for characterization.

Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls.

See under Dead, a.

Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.

Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.

a loafer, sponger, or swindler; especially, one who does not pay his debts. Same as Beat, n., 7.

Stillborn.

To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound.

One who, or that which, deadens or checks.