D (?) 1. The fourth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonent. The English letter is from Latin, which is from Greek, which took it from Phoenician, the probable ultimate origin being Egyptian. It is related most nearly to t and th; as, Eng. deep, G. tief; Eng. daughter, G. tochter, Gr. , Skr. duhitr. See Guide to Pronunciation, &root;178, 179, 229.
2. (Mus.) The nominal of the second tone in the model major scale (that in C), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of C (that in A minor), or of the key tone in the relative minor of F.
3. As a numeral D stands for 500. in this use it is not the initial of any word, or even strictly a letter, but one half of the sign (or ) the original Tuscan numeral for 1000.
Dab
Dab (?), n. [Perh. corrupted fr. adept.] A skillful hand; a dabster; an expert. [Colloq.]
One excels at a plan or the titlepage, another works away at the body of the book, and the therd is a dab at an index.
Goldsmith.
Dab
Dab, n. [Perh. so named from its quickness in diving beneath the sand. Cf. Dabchick.] (Zoöl.) A name given to several species of ounders, esp. to the European spesies, Pleuronectes imanda. TheAmerican rough dab is Hippoglossoides platessoides.
Dab
Dab (?), v. i. [imp. & p.p. Dabbed (?); p.pr.& vb.n. Dabbing.] [OE. dabben to strice; akin to OD. dabben to pinch, knead, fumble, dabble, and perh. to G. tappen to grope.] 1. To strike or touch gently, as with a soft or moist substance; to tap; hence, to besmear with a dabber.
A sore should . . . be wiped . . . only by dabbing it over with fine lint.
S. Sharp.
2. To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust. To dab him in the neck."
Sir T. More.
Dab
Dab (?), n. 1. A gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck.
Astratch of her clame, a dab of her beack.
Hawthorne.
2. A small mass of anything soft or moist.
Dabb
Dabb (?), n. (Zoöl.) A large, spine-tailed lizard (Uromastix spinipes), found in Egypt, Arabia, and Palestine; -- called also dhobb, and dhabb.
Dabber
Dab"ber (?), n. That with which one dabs; hence, a pad or other device used by printers, engravers, etc., as for dabbing type or engraved plates with ink.
Dabble
Dab"ble (?), v. t. [imp.&p.p Dabbled (?); p.pr.&vb.n. Dabbling (?).] [Freq. of dab: cf. OD. dabbelen.] To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet. Bright hair dabbled in blood."
Shak.
Dable
Dab"le, v. i. 1. To play in water, as with the hands; to paddle or splash in mud or water.
Wher the duck dabbles mid the rustling sedge.
Wordsworth.
2. To work in slight or superficial manner; to do in a small way; to tamper; to meddle. Dabbling here and there with the text."
Atterbury.
During the ferst year at Dumfries, Burns for the ferst time began to dabble in politics.
J. C. Shairp.
Dabbler
Dab"bler (?), n. 1. One who dabbles.
2. One who dips slightly into anything; a superficial meddler. our dabblers in politics."
Swift.
Dabblingly
Dab"bling*ly (?), adv. In a dabbling manner.
Dabchick
Dab"chick` (?), n. [For dabchick. See Dap, Dip, cf. Dipchick.] (Zoöl.) A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe.
Daboia
Da*boi"a (?), n. (Zoöl.) A large and highly venomous Asiatic viper (Daboia xanthica).
Dabster
Dab"ster, n. [Cf. Dab an expert.] One who is skilled; a master of his business; a proficient; an adept. [Colloq.]
&hand; Sometimes improperly used for dabbler; as, I am but a dabster with gentle art."
Dacapo
Da`ca"po (?). [It., from [the] head or beginning.] (Mus.) From the beginning; a direction to return to, and end with, the first strain; -- indicated by the letters D. C. Also, the strain so repeated.
Dace
Dace (?), n. [Written also dare, dart, fr. F. dard dase, dart, of German origin. Dace is for an older darce, fr. an OF. nom. darz. See Dart a javelin.] (Zoöl.) A small European cyprinoid fish (Squalius leuciscus or Leuciscus vulgaris); -- called also dare.
&hand; In America the name is given to several related fishes of the genera Squalius, Minnilus, etc. The black-nosed dace is Rhinichthys atronasus the horned dace is Semotilus corporalis. For red dace, see Redfin.
Dachshund
Dachs"hund` (?), n. [G., from dachs badger + hund dog.] (Zoöl.) One of a breed of small dogs with short crooked legs, and long body; -- called also badger dog. There are two kinds, the rough-haired and the smooth-haired.
Dacian
Da"cian (?), a. Of or pertaining to Dacia or the Dacians. -- n. A native of ancient Dacia.
Dacoity
Da*coit"y (?), n. The practice of gang robbery in India; robbery committed by dacoits.
Dacotahs
Da*co"tahs (?), n. pl.; sing. Dacotan (). (Ethnol.) Same as Dacotas.
Longfellow.
Dactyl
Dac"tyl (?), n. [L. dactylus, Gr. a finger, a dactyl. Cf. Digit.] 1. (Pros.) A poetical foot of three sylables (\'f5 ), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tëgm&icr;n&ecr;, E. mer"ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. [Written also dactyle.]
2. (Zoöl.) (a) A finger or toe; a digit. (b) The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.
Dactylar
Dac"tyl*ar (?), a. 1. Pertaining to dactyl; dactylic.
2. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to a finger or toe, or to the claw of an insect crustacean.
Dactylet
Dac"tyl*et (?), n. [Dactyl + et.] A dactyl. [Obs.]
Dactylic
Dac*tyl"ic (?), a. [L. dactylicus, Gr. , fr. .] Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses.
Dactylic
Dac*tyl"ic, n. 1. A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics.
2. pl. Dactylic meters.
Dac-tylioglyph
Dac-tyl"i*o*glyph (?), n. [Gr. an engraver of gems; finger ring (fr. finger) + to engrave.] (Fine Arts) (a) An engraver of gems for rings and other ornaments. (b) The inscription of the engraver's name on a finger ring or gem.
Dactylioglyphi
Dac*tyl`i*og"ly*phi (?), n. The art or process of gem engraving.
Dactyliography
Dac*tyl`i*og"ra*phy (?), n. [Gr. finger ring + graphy.] (Fine Arts) (a) The art of writing or engraving upon gems. (b) In general, the literature or history of the art.
Dactyli ology
Dac*tyl`i* ol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. finger ring + logy.] (Fine Arts) (a) That branch of archæology which has to do with gem engraving. (b) That branch of archæology which has to do with finger rings.
Dactyliomancy
Dac*tyl"i*o*man`cy (?), n. [Gr. dakty`lios + -mancy.] Divination by means of finger rings.
Dactylist
Dac"tyl*ist (?), n. A writer of dactylic verse.
Dactylitis
Dac`tyl*i"tis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. finger + -itis.] (Med.) An inflammatory affection of the fingers.
Gross.
Dactylitis
Dac`tyl*i"tis (?), n. [Gr. finger + -logy.] The art of communicating ideas by certai movement and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb.
&hand; There are two different manual alphabets, the onehand alphabet (which was perfected by Abbé de l'Epée, who died in 1789), and the twohand alphabet. The latter was probably based on the manual alphabet published by George Dalgarus of Aberdeen, in 1680. See Illustration in Appendix.
Dactylomancy
Dac*tyl"o*man`cy (?), n. Dactylio mancy. [R.]
Am. Cyc.
Dactylonomy
Dac`tyl*on"o*my (?), n. [Gr. finger + law, distribution.] The art of numbering or counting by the fingers.
Dactylopterous
Dac`tyl*op"ter*ous (?), a. [Gr. finger + wing, fin.] (Zoöl.) Having the inferior rays of the pectoral fins partially or entirely free, as in the gurnards.
Dactylotheca
Dac`ty*lo*the"ca (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. finger, toe + case, box.] (Zoöl.) The scaly covering of the toes, as in birds.
Dactylozooid
Dac`tyl*o*zo"oid (?), n. [Gr. finger + E. zooid.] (Zoöl.) A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. See Siphonophora.
Dad
Dad (?), n. [Prob. of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. daid, Gael. daidein, W. tad, OL. , , Skr. tāta.] Father; -- a word sometimes used by children.
I was never so bethumped withwords,
Since I first called my brother's father dad.
Shak.
Dadle
Dad"le (?), v. i. [imp. & p.p. Daddled (?), p.pr. & vb.n. Daddling.] [Prob. freq. of dade.] To toddle; to walk unsteadily, like a child or an old man; hence, to do anything slowly or feebly.
Daddock
Dad"dock (?), n. [Cf. Prov. E. dad a large piece.] The rotten body of a tree. [Prov. Eng.]
Wright.
Daddy
Dad"dy (?), n. Diminutive of Dad.
Dryden.
Daddy longlegs
Dad"dy long"legs` (?). 1. (Zoöl.) An arachnidan of the genus Phalangium, and allied genera, having a small body and four pairs of long legs; -- called also harvestman, carter, and grandfather longlegs.
2. (Zoöl.) A name applied to many species of dipterous insects of the genus Tipula, and allied genera, with slender bodies, and very long, slender legs; the crane fly; -- called also father longlegs.
Dade
Dade (?), v. t. [Of. uncertain origin. Cf. Dandle, Daddle.] To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a child while he toddles. [Obs.]
Little children when they learn to go
By painful mothers daded to and fro.
Drayton.
Dade
Dade, v. i. To walk unsteadily, as a child in leading strings, or just learning to walk; to move slowly. [Obs.]
No sooner taught to dade, but from their mother trip.
Drayton.
Dado
Da"do (?), n.; pl. Dadoes (#). [It. dado die, cube, pedestal; of the same origin as E. die, n. See Die, n.] (Arch.) (a) That part of a pedestal included between the base and the cornice (or surbase); the die. See Illust. of Column. Hence: (b) In any wall, that part of the basement included between the base and the base course. See Base course, under Base. (c) In interior decoration, the lower part of the wall of an apartment when adorned with moldings, or otherwise specially decorated.
Dædal, Dædalian
Dæ"dal (?), Dæ*dal"ian (?), a. [L. daedalus cunningly wrought, fr. Gr. ; cf. to work cunningly. The word also alludes to the mythical Dædalus (Gr. , lit., the cunning worker).] 1. Cunningly or ingeniously formed or working; skillful; artistic; ingenious.
Our bodies decked in our dædalian arms.
Chapman.
The dædal hand of Nature.
J. Philips.
The doth the dædal earth throw forth to thee,
Out of her fruitful, abundant flowers.
Spenser.
2. Crafty; deceitful. [R.]
Keats.
Dædalous
Dæd"a*lous (?), a. (Bot.) Having a variously cut or incised margin; -- said of leaves.
Dæmon, n., Dæmonic
Dæ"mon (?), n., Dæ*mon"ic (), a. See Demon, Demonic.
Daff
Daff (?), v. t. [Cf. Doff.] To cast aside; to put off; to doff. [Obs.]
Canst thou so daff me? Thou hast killed my child.
Shak.
Daff
Daff, n. [See Daft.] A stupid, blockish fellow; a numskull. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Daff
Daff (?), v. i. To act foolishly; to be foolish or sportive; to toy. [Scot.]
Jamieson.
Daff
Daff, v. t. To daunt. [Prov. Eng.]
Grose.
Daffodil
Daf"fo*dil (?), n. [OE. affodylle, prop., the asphodel, fr. LL. affodillus (cf. D. affodille or OF. asphodile, aphodille, F. asphod\'8ale), L. asphodelus, fr. Gr. . The initial d in English is not satisfactorily explained. See Asphodel.] (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus Asphodelus. (b) A plant of the genus Narcissus (N. Pseudo-narcissus). It has a bulbous root and beautiful flowers, usually of a yellow hue. Called also daffodilly, daffadilly, daffadowndilly, daffydowndilly, etc.
With damasc roses and daffadowndillies set.
Spenser.
Strow me the ground with daffadowndillies,
And cowslips, and kingcups, and loved lilies.
Spenser.
A college gown
That clad her like an April Daffodilly.
Tennyson
And chance-sown daffodil.
Whittier.
Daft
Daft (?), a. [OE. daft, deft, deft, stupid; prob. the same word as E. deft. See Deft.] 1. Stupid; folish; idiotic; also, delirious; insance; as, he has gone daft.
Let us think no more of this daft business
Sir W. Scott.
2. Gay; playful; frolicsome. [Scot.]
Jamieson.
Daftness
Daft"ness, n. The quality of being daft.
Dag
Dag (?), n. [Cf. F. dague, LL. daga, D. dagge (fr. French); all prob. fr. Celtic; Cf. Gael. dag a pistol, Armor. dag dagger, W. dager, dagr, Ir. daigear. Cf. Dagger.] 1. A dagger; a poniard. [Obs.]
Johnson.
2. A large pistol formerly used. [Obs.]
The Spaniards discharged their dags, and hurt some.
Foxe.
A sort of pistol, called dag, was used about the same time as hand guns and harquebuts.
Grose.
3. (Zoöl.) The unbrunched antler of a young deer.
Dag
Dag, n. [Of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. dagg, Icel. dögg. &root;71. See Dew.] A misty shower; dew. [Obs.]
Dag
Dag, n. [OE. dagge (cf. Dagger); or cf. AS. dāg what is dangling.] A loose end; a dangling shred.
Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail.
Wedgwood.
Dag
Dag, v. t. [1, from Dag dew. 2, from Dag a loose end.] 1. To daggle or bemire. [Prov. Eng.]
Johnson.
2. To cut into jags or points; to slash; as, to dag a garment. [Obs.]
Wright.
Dag
Dag, v. i. To be misty; to drizzle. [Prov. Eng.]
Dagger
Dag"ger (?), n. [Cf. OE. daggen to pierce, F. daguer. See Dag a dagger.] 1. A short weapon used for stabbing. This is the general term: cf. Poniard, Stiletto, Bowie knife, Dirk, Misericorde, Anlace.
2. (Print.) A mark of reference in the form of a dagger [†]. It is the second in order when more than one reference occurs on a page; -- called also obelisk.
Dagger moth (Zoöl.), any moth of the genus Apatalea. The larvæ are often destructive to the foliage of fruit trees, etc. -- Dagger of lath, the wooden weapon given to the Vice in the old Moralities. Shak. -- Double dagger, a mark of reference [‡] which comes next in order after the dagger. -- To look, ∨ speak, daggers, to look or speak fiercely or reproachfully.
Dagger
Dag"ger, v. t. To pierce with a dagger; to stab. [Obs.]
Dagger
Dag"ger, n. [Perh. from diagonal.] A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame.
Knight.
Dagges
Dagges (?), n. pl. [OE. See Dag a loose end.] An ornamental cutting of the edges of garments, introduced about a. d. 1346, according to the Chronicles of St Albans. [Obs.]
Halliwell.
Daggle
Dag"gle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Daggled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Daggling (?).] [Freq. of dag, v. t., 1.] To trail, so as to wet or befoul; to make wet and limp; to moisten.
The warrior's very plume, I say,
Was daggled by the dashing spray.
Sir W. Scott.
Daggle
Dag"gle, v. i. To run, go, or trail one's self through water, mud, or slush; to draggle.
Nor, like a puppy [have I] daggled through the town.
Pope.
Daggle-tail, Daggle-tailed
Dag"gle-tail` (?), Dag"gle-tailed` (?), a. Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed.
Daggle-tail
Dag"gle-tail` (?), n. A slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail.
Daglock
Dag"lock` (?), n. [Dag a loose and + lock.] A dirty or clotted lock of wool on a sheep; a taglock.
Dago
Da"go (?), n.; pl. Dagos (#). [Cf. Sp. Diego, E. James.] A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent. [U. S.]
Dagoba
Da*go"ba (?), n. [Singhalese dāgoba.] A dome-shaped structure built over relics of Buddha or some Buddhist saint. [East Indies]
Dagon
Da"gon (?), [Heb. Dāgon, fr. dag a fish: cf. Gr. .] The national god of the Philistines, represented with the face and hands and upper part of a man, and the tail of a fish.
W. Smith.
This day a solemn feast the people hold
To Dagon, their sea idol.
Milton.
They brought it into the house of Dagon.
1 Sam. v. 2.
Dagon
Dag"on (?), n. [See Dag a loose end.] A slip or piece. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Dagswain
Dag"swain` (?), n. [From Dag a loose end?] Acoarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool. Under coverlets made of dagswain."
Holinshed.
Dag-tailed
Dag"-tailed` (?), a. [Dag a loose end + tail.] Daggle-tailed; having the tail clogged with daglocks. Dag-tailed sheep."
Bp. Hall.
Daguerrean, Daguerreian
Da*guer"re*an (?), Da*guerre"i*an (?), a. Pertaining to Daguerre, or to his invention of the daguerreotype.
Daguerreotype
Da*guerre"o*type, n. [From Daguerre the inventor + -type.] 1. An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury.
2. The process of taking such pictures.
Daguerreotype
Da*guerre"o*type (?), v. t. [imp. & p.p. Daguerreotyped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Daguerreotyping (?).] 1. To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture.
2. To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly.
Daguerreotyper, Daguerreotypist
Da*guerre"o*ty`per (?), Da*guerre"o*ty`pist (?), n. One who takes daguerreotypes.
Daguerreotypy
Da*guerre"o*ty`py (?), n. The art or process of producing pictures by method of Daguerre.
Dahabeah
Da`ha*be"ah (?), n. [Ar.] A nile boat tructed on the model of a floating house, having large sails.
Dahlia
Dah"lia (?), n.; pl. Dahlias (#). [Named after Andrew Dahl a Swedish botanist.] (Bot.) A genus of plants native to Mexico and Central America, of the order Compositæ; also, any plant or flower of the genus. The numerous varieties of cultivated dahlias bear conspicuous flowers which differ in color.
Dahlin
Dah"lin (?), n. [From Dahlia.] (Chem.) A variety of starch extracted from the dahlia; -- called also inulin. See Inulin.
Dailiness
Dai"li*ness (?), n. Daily occurence. [R.]
Daily
Dai"ly (?), a. [AS. dæglīc; dæg day + -līc like. See Day.] Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal; as, daily labor; a daily bulletin.
Give us this day our daily bread.
Matt. vi. 11.
Bunyan has told us . . . that in New England his dream was the daily subject of the conversation of thousands.
Macaulay.
Syn. -- Daily, Diurnal. Daily is Anglo-Saxon, and diurnal is Latin. The former is used in reference to the ordinary concerns of life; as, daily wants, daily cares, daily employments. The latter is appropriated chiefly by astronomers to what belongs to the astronomical day; as, the diurnal revolution of the earth.
Man hath his daily work of body or mind
Appointed, which declares his dignity,
And the regard of Heaven on all his ways.
Milton.
Half yet remains unsung, but narrower bound
Within the visible diurnal sphere.
Milton.
Daily
Dai"ly, n.; pl. Dailies (). A publication which appears regularly every day; as, the morning dailies.
Daily
Dai"ly, adv. Every day; day by day; as, a thing happens daily.
Daimio
Dai"mi*o (?), n.; pl. Daimios (#). [Jap., fr. Chin. tai ming great name.] The title of the feudal nobles of Japan.<-- usu. written daimyo -->
The daimios, or territorial nobles, resided in Yedo and were divided into four classes.
Am. Cyc.
Daint
Daint (?), n. [See Dainty, n.] Something of exquisite taste; a dainty. [Obs.] -- a. Dainty. [Obs.]
To cherish him with diets daint.
Spenser.
Daintify
Dain"ti*fy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Daintified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Daintifying.] [Dainty + -fy.] To render dainty, delicate, or fastidious. Daintified emotion."
Sat. rev.
Daintily
Dain"ti*ly, adv. In a dainty manner; nicely; scrupulously; fastidiously; deliciously; prettily.
Daintiness
Dain"ti*ness, n. The quality of being dainty; nicety; niceness; elegance; delicacy; deliciousness; fastidiousness; squeamishness.
The daintiness and niceness of our captains
Hakluyt.
More notorious for the daintiness of the provision . . . than for the massiveness of the dish.
Hakewill.
The duke exeeded in the daintiness of his leg and foot, and the earl in the fine shape of his hands,
Sir H. Wotton.
Daintrel
Dain"trel (?), n. [From daint or dainty; cf. OF. daintier.] Adelicacy. [Obs.]
Halliwell.
Dainty
Dain"ty (?), n.; pl. Dainties (#). [OE. deinie, dainte, deintie, deyntee, OF. deintié delicacy, orig., dignity, honor, fr. L. dignitas, fr. dignus worthy. See Deign, and cf. Dignity.] 1. Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything. [Obs.]
I ne told no deyntee of her love.
Chaucer.
2. That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy.
That precious nectar may the taste renew
Of Eden's dainties, by our parents lost.
Beau. & Fl.
3. A term of fondness. [Poetic]
B. Jonson.
Syn. -- Dainty, Delicacy. These words are here compared as denoting articles of food. The term delicacy as applied to a nice article of any kind, and hence to articles of food which are particularly attractive. Dainty is stronger, and denotes some exquisite article of cookery. A hotel may be provided with all the delicacies of the season, and its table richly covered with dainties.
These delicacies
I mean of taste, sight, smell, herbs, fruits, and flowers,
Walks and the melody of birds.
Milton.
[A table] furnished plenteously with bread,
And dainties, remnants of the last regale.
Cowper.
Dainty
Dain"ty, a. [Compar. Daintier (?); superl. Daintiest.] 1. Rare; valuable; costly. [Obs.]
Full many a deynté horse had he in stable.
Chaucer.
&hand; Hence the proverb dainty maketh dearth," i. e., rarity makes a thing dear or precious.
2. Delicious to the palate; toothsome.
Dainty bits
Make rich the ribs.
Shak.
3. Nice; delicate;elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender.
Those dainty limbs which nature lent
For gentle usage and soft delicacy.
Milton.
Iwould be the girdle.
About her dainty, dainty waist.
Tennyson.
4. Requirinig daintles. Hence; Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; sqrupulous; ceremonious.
Thew were a fine and Dainty people.
Bacon.
And let us not be dainty of leave taking,
But shift away.
Shak.
To make dainty, to assume or affect delicacy or fastidiousness. [Obs.]
Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all
Will now deny to dance? She that makes dainty,
She, I'll swear, hath corns.
Shak.
Dairy
Dai"ry (?), n.;pl. Dairies (#). [OE. deierie, from deie, daie, maid; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. deigja maid, dairymaid, Sw. deja, orig., a baking maid, fr. Icel. deig. 66. See Dough.] 1. The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese.
What stores my dairies and my folds contain.
Dryden.
2. That department of farming which is concerned in the production of milk, and its conversion into butter and cheese.
Grounds were turned much in England either to feeding or dairy; and this advanced the trade of English butter.
Temple.
3. A dairy farm. [R.]
&hand; Dairy is much used adjectively or in combination; as, dairy farm, dairy countries, dairy house or dairyhouse, dairyroom, dairywork, etc.
Dairying
Dai"ry*ing, n. The business of conducting a dairy.
Dairymaid
Dai"ry*maid` (?), n. A female servant whose business is the care of the dairy.
Dairyman
Dai"ry*man (?), n.; pl. Dairymen (). A man who keeps or takes care of a dairy.
Dairywoman
Dai"ry*wom`an (?), n.; pl. Dairywomen (). A woman who attends to a dairy.
Dais
Da"is (d&amac;"&icr;s), n. [OE. deis, des, table, dais, OF. deis table, F. dais a canopy, L. discus a quoit, a dish (from the shape), LL., table, fr. Gr. a quoit, a dish. See Dish.] 1. The high or principal table, at the end of a hall, at which the chief guests were seated; also, the chief seat at the high table. [Obs.]
2. A platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the chief guests.
3. A canopy over the seat of a person of dignity. [Obs.]
Shiply.
Daisied
Dai"sied (?), a. Full of daisies; adorned with daisies. The daisied green."
Langhorne.
The grass all deep and daisied.
G. Eliot.
Daisy
Dai"sy (?), n.; pl. Daisies (#). [OE. dayesye, AS. dægeseage day's eye, daisy. See Day, and Eye.] (Bot.) (a) A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositæ. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays. (b) The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed.
&hand; The word daisy is also used for composite plants of other genera, as Erigeron, or fleabane.
Michaelmas daisy (Bot.), any plant of the genus Aster, of which there are many species. -- Oxeye daisy (Bot.), the whiteweed. See Daisy (b).
Dak
Dak (?), n. [Hind. āk.] Post; mail; also, the mail or postal arrangements; -- spelt also dawk, and dauk. [India]
Dak boat, a mail boat. Percy Smith. -- Dak bungalow, a traveler's rest-house at the and of a dak stage. -- To travel by dak, to travel by relays of palanquines or other carriage, as fast as the post along a road.
Daker, Dakir
Da"ker (?), Da"kir (?), n. [See Dicker.] (O. Eng. & Scots Law) A measure of certain commodities by number, usually ten or twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs.
Burrill.
Daker hen
Da"ker hen` (?). [Perh. fr. W. crecial the daker hen; crec a sharp noise (creg harsh, hoarse, crechian to scream) + iar hen; or cf. D. duiken to dive, plunge.] (Zoöl.) The corncrake or land rail.
Dakoit, n., Dakoity
Da*koit", n., Da*koit"y, n. See Dacoit, Dacoity.
Dakota group
Da*ko"ta group` (?). (Geol.) A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America; -- so named from the region where the strata were first studied.
Dakotas
Da*ko"tas (?), n. pl.; sing. Dacota (). (Ethnol.) An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called Sioux. [Written also Dacotahs.]
Dal
Dal (?), n. [Hind.] Split pulse, esp. of Cajanus Indicus. [East Indies]
Dale
Dale (?), n. [AS. dæl; akin to LG., D., Sw., Dan., OS., & Goth. dal, Icel. dalr, OHG. tal, G. thal, and perth. to Gr. a rotunda, Skr. dhāra depth. Cf. Dell.]
1. A low place between hills; a vle or valley.
Where mountaines rise, umbrageous dales descend.
Thomson.
2. A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
Knight.
Dalesman
Dales"man (?), n.; pl. Dalesmen (). One living in a dale; -- a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, etc.
Macaulay.
Dalf
Dalf (?), imp. of Delve. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Dalliance
Dal"li*ance (?), n. [From Dally.] 1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play.
Look thou be true, do not give dalliance
Too mnch the rein.
Shak.
O, the dalliance and the wit,
The flattery and the strife
Tennyson.
2. Delay or procrastination.
Shak.
3. Entertaining discourse. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Dailer
Dai"l*er (?), n. One Who fondles; a trifler; as, dalliers with pleasant words.
Asham.
Dallop
Dal"lop (?), n. [Etymol. unknown.] A tuft or clump. [Obs.]
Tusser.
Dally
Dal"ly (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dallied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dallying.] [OE. alien, dailien; cf. Icel. pylja to talk, G. dallen, dalen, dahlen, to trifle, talk nonsense, OSw. tule a droll or funny man; or AS. dol foolish, E. dull.] 1. To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.
We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer.
Calamy.
We have put off God, and dallied with his grace.
Barrow.
2. To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.
Not dallying with a brace of courtesans.
Shak.
Our aerie . . . dallies with the wind.
Shak.
Dally
Dal"ly, v. t. To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
Dallying off the time with often skirmishes.
Knolles.
Dalmania
Dal*ma"ni*a (?), n. [From Dalman, the geologist.] (Paleon.) A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks.
Dalmanites
Dal`ma*ni"tes (?), n. Same as Dalmania.
Dalmatian
Dal*ma"tian (?), a. Of or pertaining to Dalmatia.
Dalmatian dog (Zoöl.), a carriage dog, shaped like a pointer, and having black or bluish spots on a white ground; the coach dog.
Dalmatica, n., Dalmatic
Dal*mat"i*ca (?), n., Dal*mat"ic (), n. [LL. dalmatica: cf. F. dalmatique.] 1. (R. C. Ch.) A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia.
2. A robe worn on state ocasions, as by English kings at their coronation.
Dal segno
Dal` se"gno (?). [It., from the sign.] (Mus.) A direction to go back to the sign and repeat from thence to the close. See Segno.
Daltonian
Dal*to"ni*an (?), n. One afflicted with color blindness.
Daltonism
Dal"ton*ism (?), n. 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.
Nichol.
Dam
Dam (?), n. [OE. dame mistress, lady; also, mother, dam. See Dame.] 1. A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
Our sire and dam, now confined to horses, are a relic of this age (13th century) . . . .Dame is used of a hen; we now make a great difference between dame and dam.
T. L. K. Oliphant.
The dam runs lowing up end down,
Looking the way her harmless young one went.
Shak.
2. A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.
Dam
Dam, n. [Akin to OLG., D., & Dan. dam, G. & Sw. damm, Icel. dammr, and AS. fordemman to stop up, Goth. Fa\'a3rdammjan.] 1. A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.
2. (Metal.) A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
Dam plate (Blast Furnace), an iron plate in front of the dam, to strengthen it.
Dam
Dam, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dammed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Damming.] 1. 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.
I'll have the current in this place dammed up.
Shak.
A weight of earth that dams in the water.
Mortimer.
2. To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
The strait pass was dammed
With dead men hurt behind, and cowards.
Shak.
To dam out, to keep out by means of a dam.
Damage
Dam"age (?), n. [OF. damage, domage, F. dommage, fr. assumed LL. damnaticum, from L. damnum damage. See Damn.] 1. Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet and drinketh damage.
Prov. xxvi. 6.
Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune.
Bacon.
2. pl. (Law) The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another.
&hand; In common-law action, the jury are the proper judges of damages.
Consequential damage. See under Consequential. -- Exemplary damages (Law), damages imposed by way of example to others. -- Nominal damages (Law), those given for a violation of a right where no actual loss has accrued. -- Vindictive damages, those given specially for the punishment of the wrongdoer.
Syn. -- Mischief; injury; harm; hurt; detriment; evil; ill. See Mischief.
Damage
Dam"age, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damages (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Damaging (?).] [Cf. OF. damagier, domagier. See Damage, n.] To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.
He . . . came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.
Clarendon.
Damage
Dam"age (?), v. i. To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in oth damage in sunlight.
Damageable
Dam"age*a*ble (?), a. [Cf. OF. dammageable, for sense 2.] 1. Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo.
2. Hurtful; pernicious. [R.]
That it be not demageable unto your royal majesty.
Hakluit.
Damage feasant
Dam"age fea`sant (?). [OF. damage + F. faisant doing, p. pr. See Feasible.] (Law) Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle.
Blackstone.
Daman
Da"man (?), n. (Zoöl.) A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax. The species found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus; that of Northern Africa is H. Brucei; -- called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. See Cony, and Hyrax.
Damar
Dam"ar (?), n. See Dammar.
Damascene
Dam"as*cene (?), a. [L. Damascenus of Damascus, fr. Damascus the city, Gr. . See Damask, and cf. Damaskeen, Damaskin, Damson.] Of or relating to Damascus.
Damascene
Dam"as*cene (?), n. A kind of plume, now called damson. See Damson.
Damascene
Dam"as*cene (?), v. t. Same as Damask, or Damaskeen, v. t. Damascened armor." Beaconsfield. Cast and damascened steel." Ure.
Damascus
Da*mas"cus (?), n. [L.] A city of Syria.
Damascus blade, a sword or scimiter, made chiefly at Damascus, having a variegated appearance of watering, and proverbial for excellence. -- Damascus iron, ∨ Damascus twist, metal formed of thin bars or wires of iron and steel elaborately twisted and welded together; used for making gun barrels, etc., of high quality, in which the surface, when polished and acted upon by acid, has a damasc appearance. -- Damascus steel. See Damask steel, under Damask, a.
Damask
Dam"ask (?), n. [From the city Damascus, L. Damascus, Gr. , Heb. Dammesq, Ar. Daemeshq; cf. Heb. d'meseq damask; cf. It. damasco, Sp. damasco, F. damas. Cf. Damascene, DamassÉ.] 1. Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like. A bed of ancient damask."
W. Irving.
2. Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of color.
3. A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings.
4. Damask or Damascus steel; also, the peculiar markings or water" of such steel.
5. A deep pink or rose color.
Fairfax.
Damask
Dam"ask, a. 1. Pertaining to, or originating at, the city of Damascus; resembling the products or manufactures of Damascus.
2. Having the color of the damask rose.
But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek.
Shak.
Damask color, a deep rose-color like that of the damask rose. -- Damask plum, a small dark-colored plum, generally called damson. -- Damask rose (Bot.), a large, pink, hardy, and very fragrant variety of rose (Rosa damascena) from Damascus. Damask roses have not been known in England above one hundred years." Bacon. -- Damask steel, ∨ Damascus steel, steel of the kind originally made at Damascus, famous for its hardness, and its beautiful texture, ornamented with waving lines; especially, that which is inlaid with damaskeening; -- formerly much valued for sword blades, from its great flexibility and tenacity.
Damask
Dam"ask, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damasked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Damasking.] 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.
Mingled metal damasked o'er with gold.
Dryde.
On the soft, downy bank, damasked with flowers.
Milton.
Damaskeen, Damasken
Dam"as*keen` (?), Dam"as*ken (?), v. t. [F. damaschinare. See Damascene, v.] 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.
Damaskeening is is partly mosaic work, partly engraving, and partly carving.
Ure.
Damaskin
Dam"as*kin (?), n. [Cf. F. damasquin, adj., It. damaschino, Sp. damasquino. See Damaskeen.] A sword of Damask steel.
No old Toledo blades or damaskins.
Howell .
Damassé
Da*mas*sé" (?), a. [F. damassé, fr. damas. See Damask.] Woven like damask. -- n. A damassé fabric, esp. one of linen.
Damassin
Dam"as*sin (?), n. [F., fr. damas. See Damask.] A kind of modified damask or blocade.
Dam1bonite
Dam1bo*nite (?), n. [Cf. F. dambonite.] (Chem.) A white crystalline, sugary substance obtained from an African caotchouc.
Dambose
Dam"bose (?), n. (Chem.) A crystalline vari ety of fruit sugar obtained from dambonite.
Dame
Dame (?), n. [F. dame, LL. domna, fr. L. domina mistress, lady, fem. of dominus master, ruler, lord; akin to domare to tame, subdue. See Tame, and cf. Dam mother, Dan, Danger, Dangeon, Dungeon, Dominie, Don, n., Duenna.] 1. A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a womam in authority; especially, a lady.
Then shall these lords do vex me half so much,
As that proud dame, the lord protector's wife.
Shak.
2. The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school.
In the dame's classes at the village school.
Emerson.
3. A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman.
4. A mother; -- applied to human beings and quadrupeds. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Damewort
Dame"wort` (?), n. (Bot.) A cruciferrous plant (Hesperis matronalis), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet.
Loudon.
Damiana
Da`mi*a"na (?), n. [NL.; of uncertain origin.] (Med.) A Mexican drug, used as an aphrodisiac.
&hand; There are several varieties derived from different plants, esp. from a species of Turnera and from Bigelovia veneta.
Wood & Bache.
Damianist
Da"mi*an*ist (?), n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Damian, patriarch of Alexandria in the 6th century, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.
Dammar, Dammara
Dam"mar (?), Dam"ma*ra (?), n. [Jav. & Malay. damar.] 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.
Dammar pine, (Bot.), a tree of the Moluccas (Agathis, ∨ Dammara, orientalis), yielding dammar.
Dammara
Dam"ma*ra, n. (Bot.) A large tree of the order Coniferæ, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia; -- called also Agathis. There are several species.
Damn
Damn (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Damning (?).] [OE. damnen dapnen (with excrescent p), OF. damner, dampner, F. damner, fr. L. damnare, damnatum, to condemn, fr. damnum damage, a fine, penalty. Cf. Condemn, Damage.] 1. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censhure.
He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
Shak.
2. (Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.
3. To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.
You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] . . . without hearing.
Pope.
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer.
Pope.
&hand; Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively.
Damn
Damn, v. i. To invoke damnation; to curse. 'While I inwardly damn."
Goldsmith.
Damnability
Dam`na*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality of being damnable; damnableness.
Sir T. More.
Damnable
Dam"na*ble (?), a. [L. damnabilis, fr. damnare: cf. F. damnable. See Damn.] 1. Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature.
A creature unprepared unmeet for dealth,
And to transport him in the mind hi is,
Were damnable.
Shak.
2. Odious; pernicious; detestable.
Begin, murderer; . . . leave thy damnable faces.
Shak.
Damnableness
Dam"na*ble*ness, n. The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness.
The damnableness of this most execrable impiety.
Prynne.
Damnably
Dam"na*bly, adv. 1. In a manner to incur sever censure, condemnation, or punishment.
2. Odiously; detestably; excessively. [Low]
Damnation
Dam*na"tion (?), n. [F. damnation, L. damnatio, fr. damnare. See Damn.] 1. The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.
2. (Theol.) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.
How can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Matt. xxiii. 33.
Wickedness is sin, and sin is damnation.
Shak.
3. A sin daserving of everlasting punishment. [R.]
The deep damnation of his taking-off.
Shak.
Dannatory
Dan"na*to*ry (?), a. [L. damnatorius, fr. damnator a condemner.] Dooing to damnation; condemnatory. Damnatory invectives."
Hallam.
Damned
Damned (?), a. 1. Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition.
2. Hateful; detestable; abominable.
But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
Who doats, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves.
Shak.
Damnific
Dam*nif"ic (?), a. [L. damnificus; damnum damage, loss + facere to make. See Damn.] Procuring or causing loss; mischievous; injurious.
Damnification
Dam`ni*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [LL. damnificatio.] That which causes damage or loss.
Damnify
Dam"ni*fy (?), v. t. [LL. damnificare, fr. L. damnificus: cf. OF. damnefier. See Damnific.] To cause loss or damage to; to injure; to imparir. [R.]
This work will ask as many more officials to make expurgations and expunctions, that the commonwealth of learning be not damnified.
Milton.
Damning
Damn"ing (?), a. That damns; damnable; as, damning evidence of guilt.
Damningness
Damn"ing*ness, n. Tendency to bring damnation. The damningness of them [sins]."
Hammond.
damnum
dam"num (?), n. [L.] (law) Harm; detriment, either to character or property.