| D: | The fourth letter of the English alphabet and a vocal consonant The English letter is from Latin which is from Greek which took it from Pht and th as Eng deep G tief Eng daughter G tochter Gr qygathr Skr duhitr See Guide to Pronunciation root178 179 229 |
| Dab: | A skillful hand a dabster an expert |
| Dab: | A name given to several species of flounders esp to the European species Pleuronectes limanda The American rough dab is Hippoglossoides platessoides |
| Dab: | To strike or touch gently as with a soft or moist substance to tap hence to besmear with a dabber |
| Dab: | A gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance a sudden blow or hit a peck |
| Dabb: | A large spinetailed lizard Uromastix spinipes found in Egypt Arabia and Palestine called also dhobb and dhubb |
| Dabber: | 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: | To wet by little dips or strokes to spatter to sprinkle to moisten to wet |
| Dabble: | To play in water as with the hands to paddle or splash in mud or water |
| Dabbler: | One who dabbles |
| Dabblingly: | In a dabbling manner |
| Dabchick: | A small water bird Podilymbus podiceps allied to the grebes remarkable for its quickness in diving called also dapchick dobchick dipchick didapper dobber devildiver helldiver and piedbilled grebe |
| Daboia: | A large and highly venomous Asiatic viper Daboia xanthica |
| Dabster: | One who is skilled a master of his business a proficient an adept |
| Dacapo: | 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: | A small European cyprinoid fish Leuciscus leuciscus formerly Squalius leuciscus or Leuciscus vulgaris called also dare |
| Dacelo: | a genus of Australasian kingfishers |
| dacha: | a Russian country house especially a cottage used in the summer |
| Dachshund: | One of a breed of small dogs with short crooked legs and long body called also badger dog There are two kinds the roughhaired and the smoothhaired |
| Dacian: | Of or pertaining to Dacia or the Dacians |
| Dacninae: | a natural family comprising the honeycreepers |
| dacoit: | One of a class of robbers in India and Burma Myanmar who act in gangs and are usually armed |
| dacoity: | The practice of gang robbery in India robbery committed by dacoits |
| Dacotahs: | Same as Dacotas |
| Dacron: | a brand of polyester textile fiber or the wrinkleresistant fabric prepared from it |
| Dacrycarpus: | a genus of evergreen coniferous shrubs or trees of New Zealand to Malaysia and Philippines |
| Dacrydium: | a genus of Australasian evergreen trees or shrubs |
| Dacrymyces: | the type genus of the Dacrymycetaceae consisting of fungi with a bifurcate basidium that lacks septa |
| dactyl: | A poetical foot of three sylables f5 de de one long followed by two short or one accented followed by two unaccented as L t89gm E merb6ciful so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger |
| dactylar: | Pertaining to dactyl dactylic |
| Dactylet: | A dactyl |
| Dactylic: | Pertaining to consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls as dactylic verses |
| Dactylic: | A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls as these lines are dactylics |
| dactylioglyph: | An engraver of gems for rings and other ornaments |
| dactylioglyphy: | The art or process of gem engraving |
| Dactyliography: | The art of writing or engraving upon gems |
| Dactyliology: | That branch of archology which has to do with gem engraving |
| Dactyliomancy: | Divination by means of finger rings |
| Dactylist: | A writer of dactylic verse |
| Dactylitis: | An inflammatory affection of the fingers |
| Dactylology: | The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb |
| Dactylomancy: | Dactyliomancy |
| Dactylonomy: | The art of numbering or counting by the fingers |
| Dactylopterous: | Having the inferior rays of the pectoral fins partially or entirely free as in the gurnards |
| Dactyloscopidae: | a natural family of Atlantic fishes comprising the sand stargazers |
| Dactylotheca: | The scaly covering of the toes as in birds |
| dactylozooid: | A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body with one tentacle but no mouth See Siphonophora |
| Dad: | Father a word sometimes used by children |
| Daddle: | To toddle to walk unsteadily like a child or an old man hence to do anything slowly or feebly |
| Daddock: | The rotten body of a tree |
| Daddy: | Diminutive of Dad |
| Daddylonglegs: | 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 |
| Dade: | To hold up by leading strings or by the hand as a child while he toddles |
| Dade: | To walk unsteadily as a child in leading strings or just learning to walk to move slowly |
| Dado: | That part of a pedestal included between the base and the cornice or surbase the die See Illust of Column |
| Ddal: | Cunningly or ingeniously formed or working skillful artistic ingenious |
| Ddalous: | Having a variously cut or incised margin said of leaves |
| Dmon: | See Demon Demonic |
| Daff: | To cast aside to put off to doff |
| Daff: | A stupid blockish fellow a numskull |
| Daff: | To act foolishly to be foolish or sportive to toy |
| Daff: | To daunt |
| Daffodil: | A plant of the genus Asphodelus |
| Daft: | Stupid foolish idiotic also delirious insane as he has gone daft |
| Daftness: | The quality of being daft |
| Dag: | A dagger a poniard |
| Dag: | A misty shower dew |
| Dag: | A loose end a dangling shred |
| Dag: | To daggle or bemire |
| Dag: | To be misty to drizzle |
| dagame: | the lemonwood tree Calycophyllum candidissimum it is a tropical American tree which is source of a tough elastic wood |
| Dagan: | the Mesopotanian god of agriculture and earth it is a counterpart of Phoenician and Philistine Dagon |
| Dagda: | in Irish legend chief god of the Tuatha De Danann father of Angus Og and Brigit |
| dagga: | a relatively nontoxic South African herb Leonotis leonurus smoked like tobacco |
| Dagger: | A short weapon used for stabbing This is the general term cf Poniard Stiletto Bowie knife Dirk Misericorde Anlace |
| Dagger: | To pierce with a dagger to stab |
| Dagger: | A timber placed diagonally in a ships frame |
| Dagges: | An ornamental cutting of the edges of garments introduced about a d 1346 according to the Chronicles of St Albans |
| Daggle: | To trail so as to wet or befoul to make wet and limp to moisten |
| Daggle: | To run go or trail ones self through water mud or slush to draggle |
| Daggletail: | Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth draggletailed |
| Daggletail: | A slovenly woman a slattern a draggletail |
| Daglock: | A dirty or clotted lock of wool on a sheep a taglock |
| Dago: | A nickname given to a person of Spanish or by extension Portuguese or Italian descent |
| Dagoba: | A domeshaped structure built over relics of Buddha or some Buddhist saint |
| Dagon: | The national god of the Philistines represented with the face and hands and upper part of a man and the tail of a fish |
| Dagon: | A slip or piece |
| Dagswain: | A coarse woolen fabric made of daglocks or the refuse of wool |
| Dagtailed: | Daggletailed having the tail clogged with daglocks |
| Daguerrean: | Pertaining to Daguerre or to his invention of the daguerreotype |
| Daguerreotype: | 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 |
| Daguerreotype: | To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process as a picture |
| Daguerreotyper: | One who takes daguerreotypes |
| Daguerreotypy: | The art or process of producing pictures by method of Daguerre |
| Dahabeah: | A Nile boat constructed on the model of a floating house having large lateen sails |
| Dahlia: | A genus of plants native to Mexico and Central America of the order Composit also any plant or flower of the genus The numerous varieties of cultivated dahlias bear conspicuous flowers which differ in color |
| Dahlin: | A variety of starch extracted from the dahlia called also inulin See Inulin |
| Dahoon: | An evergreen shrub or small tree Ilex cassine of the southern United States bearing red drupes and having soft white closegrained wood called also dahoon holly |
| daikon: | a radish of Japan Raphanus sativus longipinnatus with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked |
| Dail: | the lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland also called the Dail Eirann From its members is selected the Taoiseach or prime minister |
| Dailiness: | Daily occurence |
| Daily: | Happening or belonging to each successive day diurnal as daily labor a daily bulletin |
| Daily: | A publication which appears regularly every day as the morning dailies |
| Daily: | Every day day by day as a thing happens daily |
| Daimio: | The title of the feudal nobles of Japan |
| Daint: | Something of exquisite taste a dainty |
| Daintify: | To render dainty delicate or fastidious |
| Daintily: | In a dainty manner nicely scrupulously fastidiously deliciously prettily |
| Daintiness: | The quality of being dainty nicety niceness elegance delicacy deliciousness fastidiousness squeamishness |
| Daintrel: | Adelicacy |
| Dainty: | Value estimation the gratification or pleasure taken in anything |
| Dainty: | Rare valuable costly |
| daiquiri: | an alcoholic beverage containing rum and lime or lemon juice usually mixed with a fruit juice or fruit extract and often blended with crushed ice as a strawberry daiquiri |
| Dabra: | Any of several valuable estates of the Egyptian khedive or his family The most important are the Daira Sanieh s or Daira Saniyeh and the Daira Khassa administered by the khedives European bondholders and known collectively as the Daira or the Daira estates |
| Dairy: | The place room or house where milk is kept and converted into butter or cheese |
| Dairying: | The business of conducting a dairy |
| Dairymaid: | A female servant whose business is the care of the dairy |
| Dairyman: | A man who keeps or takes care of a dairy |
| Dairywoman: | A woman who attends to a dairy |
| Dais: | 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 |
| Daisied: | Full of daisies adorned with daisies |
| Daisy: | A genus of low herbs Bellis belonging to the family Composit The common English and classical daisy is Bellis perennis which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays |
| daisybush: | any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers with white or purple or blue rays |
| Dak: | Post mail also the mail or postal arrangements spelt also dawk and dauk |
| Daker: | 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 |
| Dakerhen: | The corncrake or land rail |
| Dakoit: | See Dacoit Dacoity |
| Dakotagroup: | 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: | An extensive race or stock of Indians including many tribes mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River also in part called Sioux |
| Dal: | Split pulse esp of Cajanus Indicus |
| Dalbergia: | a large genus of tropical trees having pinnate leaves and paniculate flowers and cultivated commercially for their dramatically grained and colored timbers |
| Dale: | A low place between hills a vale or valley |
| Dalea: | a genus of plants including the indigo bush |
| Dalesman: | One living in a dale a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England Norway etc |
| daleth: | the fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet |
| Dalf: | imp of Delve |
| Dalles: | A rapid esp one where the channel is narrowed between rock walls |
| Dalliance: | The act of dallying trifling or fondling interchange of caresses wanton play |
| Dallier: | One who fondles a trifler as dalliers with pleasant words |
| dallisgrass: | a tall tufted perennial tropical American grass Paspalum dilatatum naturalized as pasture and forage grass in the southern US |
| Dallop: | A tuft or clump |
| Dally: | To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures or in idleness to fool away time to delay unnecessarily to tarry to trifle |
| Dally: | To delay unnecessarily to while away |
| Dalmania: | A genus of trilobites of many species common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks |
| Dalmanites: | Same as Dalmania |
| Dalmatian: | Of or pertaining to Dalmatia |
| Dalmatica: | 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 |
| dalo: | a herb of the Pacific islands Colocasia esculenta grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves |
| Dalsegno: | A direction to go back to the sign Segno |
| Dalton: | John Dalton scientist born 1766 died 1844 |
| dalton: | a unit of mass approximately 166 x 1024 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 |
| Daltonian: | One afflicted with color blindness |
| Daltonism: | 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 |
| Dam: | A female parent used of beasts especially of quadrupeds sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother |
| Dam: | 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 |
| Dam: | 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 |
| Dama: | a genus of deer including the Eurasian fallow deer Dama dama |
| Damage: | Injury or harm to person property or reputation an inflicted loss of value detriment hurt mischief |
| Damage: | To occasion damage to the soundness goodness or value of to hurt to injure to impair |
| Damage: | To receive damage or harm to be injured or impaired in soundness or value as some colors in cloth damage in sunlight |
| Damageable: | Capable of being injured or impaired liable to or susceptible of damage as a damageable cargo |
| damaged: | changed so as to reduce value function or other desirable trait usually not used of persons Opposite of undamaged |
| Damagefeasant: | Doing injury trespassing as cattle |
| damages: | a sum of money paid in compensation for an injury or wrong |
| damaging: | causing harm or injury as damaging to career and reputation |
| Damaliscus: | a genus of African antelopes including the sassaby Damaliscus lunatus |
| Daman: | 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 |
| Damar: | See Dammar |
| Damara: | 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 |
| Damascene: | Of or relating to Damascus |
| Damascene: | A kind of plum now called damson See Damson |
| Damascene: | Same as Damask or Damaskeen v t |
| damascened: | decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different especially precious metals of metallic objects as a damascened sword |
| Damascus: | A city of Syria |
| Damascussteel: | See Damask steel under Damask |
| Damask: | Damask silk silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like |
| Damask: | Pertaining to or originating at the city of Damascus resembling the products or manufactures of Damascus |
| Damask: | 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 bdwaterb8 as metal See Damaskeen |
| Damaskeen: | To decorate as iron steel etc with a peculiar marking or bdwaterb8 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 |
| Damaskin: | A sword of Damask steel |
| Damass: | Woven like damask |
| Damassin: | A kind of modified damask or brocade |
| Dambonite: | A white crystalline sugary substance obtained from an African caoutchouc |
| Dambose: | A crystalline variety of fruit sugar obtained from dambonite |
| Dame: | A mistress of a family who is a lady a woman in authority especially a lady |
| Damewort: | A cruciferrous plant Hesperis matronalis remarkable for its fragrance especially toward the close of the day called also rocket and dames violet |
| Damiana: | A Mexican drug used as an aphrodisiac |
| Damianist: | A follower of Damian patriarch of Alexandria in the 6th century who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity |
| Dammar: | 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 |
| Dammara: | A large tree of the order Conifer indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia called also Agathis There are several species |
| Damn: | To condemn to declare guilty to doom to adjudge to punishment to sentence to censure |
| Damn: | To invoke damnation to curse |
| Damnability: | The quality of being damnable damnableness |
| Damnable: | Liable to damnation deserving or for which one deserves to be damned of a damning nature |
| Damnableness: | The state or quality of deserving damnation execrableness |
| Damnably: | In a manner to incur severe censure condemnation or punishment |
| Damnation: | The state of being damned condemnation openly expressed disapprobation |
| Damnatory: | Dooming to damnation condemnatory |
| Damned: | Sentenced to punishment in a future state condemned consigned to perdition |
| Damnific: | Procuring or causing loss mischievous injurious |
| Damnification: | That which causes damage or loss |
| Damnify: | To cause loss or damage to to injure to impair |
| Damning: | That damns damnable as damning evidence of guilt |
| Damningness: | Tendency to bring damnation |
| damnum: | Harm detriment either to character or property |
| Damosel: | See Damsel |
| Damourite: | A kind of Muscovite or potash mica containing water |
| Damp: | Moisture humidity fog fogginess vapor |
| Damp: | Being in a state between dry and wet moderately wet moist humid |
| Damp: | To render damp to moisten to make humid or moderately wet to dampen as to damp cloth |
| Dampen: | To make damp or moist to make slightly wet |
| Dampen: | To become damp to deaden |
| dampening: | the act or process of making something slightly wet |
| damper: | That which damps or checks |
| Dampish: | Moderately damp or moist |
| Dampne: | To damn |
| Dampness: | Moderate humidity moisture fogginess moistness |
| Dampoff: | To decay and perish through excessive moisture |
| Dampy: | Somewhat damp |
| Damsel: | A young person either male or female of noble or gentle extraction as Damsel Pepin Damsel Richard Prince of Wales |
| damselfish: | small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs |
| damselfly: | a slender nonstinging insect similar to but smaller than the dragonfly but having wings folded when at rest |
| Damson: | A small oval plum of a blue color the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica called also damask plum |
| Dan: | A title of honor equivalent to master or sir |
| Dan: | A small truck or sledge used in coal mines |
| Danaidae: | a small natural family of usually tropical butterflies including the monarch butterflies |
| Danaide: | 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 |
| Danaite: | A cobaltiferous variety of arsenopyrite |
| Danalite: | A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals also massive of a reddish color It is a silicate of iron zinc manganese and glucinum containing sulphur |
| Danaus: | the type genus of the Danaidae including the monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus |
| Danburite: | A borosilicate of lime first found at Danbury Conn It is near the topaz in form |
| Dance: | To move with measured steps or to a musical accompaniment to go through either alone or in company with others with a regulated succession of movements commonly to the sound of music to trip or leap rhythmically |
| Dance: | To cause to dance or move nimbly or merrily about or up and down to dandle |
| Dance: | 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 |
| Dancer: | One who dances or who practices dancing |
| Danceress: | A female dancer |
| Dancett: | Deeply indented having large teeth thus a fess dancett has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon |
| Dancing: | from Dance |
| Dancy: | Same as Dancett |
| Dandelion: | A wellknown plant of the genus Taraxacum Taraxacum officinale formerly called Taraxacum Densleonis and Leontodos Taraxacum bearing large yellow compound flowers and deeply notched leaves |
| Dander: | Dandruff or scurf on the head |
| Dander: | To wander about to saunter to talk incoherently |
| Dandi: | A boatman an oarsman |
| Dandie: | One of a breed of small terriers called also Dandie Dinmont |
| DandieDinmont: | In Scotts bdGuy Manneringb8 a Border farmer of eccentric but fine character who owns two terriers claimed to be the progenitors of the Dandie Dinmont terriers |
| Dandified: | Made up like a dandy having the dress or manners of a dandy buckish |
| Dandify: | To cause to resemble a dandy to make dandyish |
| Dandiprat: | A little fellow in sport or contempt |
| Dandle: | To move up and down on ones knee or in ones arms in affectionate play as an infant |
| Dandler: | One who dandles or fondles |
| Dandriff: | See Dandruff |
| Dandruff: | A scurf which forms on the head and comes off in small scales or particles |
| Dandy: | One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress a fop a coxcomb |
| Dandycock: | A bantam fowl |
| Dandyish: | Like a dandy |
| Dandyism: | The manners and dress of a dandy foppishness |
| Dandyize: | To make or to act like a dandy to dandify |
| Dandyling: | A little or insignificant dandy a contemptible fop |
| Dane: | A native or a naturalized inhabitant of Denmark |
| Danegeld: | 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 |
| Danewort: | A fetid European species of elder Sambucus Ebulus dwarf elder wallwort elderwort called also Daneweed Danes weed and Danesblood Said to grow on spots where battles were fought against the Danes |
| Dang: | imp of Ding |
| Dang: | To dash |
| Danger: | Authority jurisdiction control |
| Danger: | To endanger |
| Dangerful: | Full of danger dangerous |
| Dangerless: | Free from danger |
| Dangerous: | Attended or beset with danger full of risk perilous hazardous unsafe |
| Dangle: | To hang loosely or with a swinging or jerking motion |
| Dangle: | To cause to dangle to swing as something suspended loosely as to dangle the feet |
| Dangleberry: | 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 |
| Dangler: | One who dangles about or after others especially after women a trifler |
| Daniel: | A Hebrew prophet distinguished for sagacity and ripeness of judgment in youth hence a sagacious and upright judge |
| Danish: | Belonging to the Danes or to their language or country |
| Danite: | A descendant of Dan an Israelite of the tribe of Dan |
| Dank: | Damp moist humid wet |
| Dank: | Moisture humidity water |
| Dank: | A small silver coin current in Persia |
| Dankish: | Somewhat dank |
| Dannebrog: | The ancient battle standard of Denmark bearing figures of cross and crown |
| Danseuse: | A professional female dancer a woman who dances at a public exhibition as in a ballet |
| Dansk: | Danish |
| Dansker: | A Dane |
| Dantean: | Relating to emanating from or resembling the poet Dante or his writings |
| Dantesque: | Dantelike Dantean |
| Danubian: | Pertaining to or bordering on the river Danube |
| Dap: | To drop the bait gently on the surface of the water |
| Dapatical: | Sumptuous in cheer |
| Daphne: | A genus of diminutive Shrubs mostly evergreen and with fragrant blossoms |
| Daphnetin: | A colorless crystalline substance C9H6O4 extracted from daphnin |
| Daphnia: | A genus of the genus Daphnia |
| Daphnin: | A dark green bitter resin extracted from the mezereon Daphne mezereum and regarded as the essential principle of the plant |
| Daphnomancy: | Divination by means of the laurel |
| Dapifer: | One who brings meat to the table hence in some countries the official title of the grand master or steward of the kings or a noblemans household |
| Dapper: | Little and active spruce trim smart neat in dress or appearance lively |
| Dapperling: | A dwarf a dandiprat |
| Dapple: | One of the spots on a dappled animal |
| Dapple: | Marked with spots of different shades of color spotted variegated as a dapple horse |
| Dapple: | To variegate with spots to spot |
| Darbies: | Manacles handcuffs |
| Darby: | A plasterers float having two handles used in smoothing ceilings etc |
| Darbyite: | One of the Plymouth Brethren or of a sect among them so called from John N Darby one of the leaders of the Brethren |
| Dardanelles: | the strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European from Asian Turkey |
| Dardanian: | Trojan |
| Dare: | To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose to be bold or venturesome not to be afraid to venture |
| Dare: | To have courage for to attempt courageously to venture to do or to undertake |
| Dare: | The quality of daring venturesomeness boldness dash |
| Dare: | To lurk to lie hid |
| Dare: | To terrify to daunt |
| Dare: | A small fish the dace |
| Daredevil: | A reckless fellow Also used adjectively as daredevil excitement |
| Daredeviltry: | Reckless mischief the action of a daredevil |
| Dareful: | Full of daring or of defiance adventurous |
| Darer: | One who dares or defies |
| Darg: | A days work also a fixed amount of work whether more or less than that of a day |
| Daric: | A gold coin of ancient Persia weighing usually a little more than 128 grains and bearing on one side the figure of an archer |
| Daring: | Boldness fearlessness adventurousness also a daring act |
| Daring: | Bold fearless adventurous as daring spirits |
| Dariole: | A crustade |
| Dark: | Destitute or partially destitute of light not receiving reflecting or radiating light wholly or partially black or of some deep shade of color not lightcolored as a dark room a dark day dark cloth dark paint a dark complexion |
| Dark: | Absence of light darkness obscurity a place where there is little or no light |
| Dark: | To darken to obscure |
| darkblue: | of a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky |
| darkbrown: | of a color similar to that of wood or earth |
| Darken: | To make dark or black to deprive of light to obscure as a darkened room |
| Darken: | To grow or darker |
| darkened: | overtaken by night or darkness |
| Darkener: | One who or that which darkens |
| Darkening: | Twilight gloaming |
| Darkful: | Full of darkness |
| darkgreen: | similar to the color of fresh grass |
| darkhaired: | same as brunet as a darkhaired beauty |
| darkie: | a black person an AfricanAmerican an older term now considered offensive |
| Darkish: | Somewhat dark dusky |
| Darkle: | To grow dark to show indistinctly |
| Darkling: | In the dark |
| Darkling: | Becoming dark or gloomy frowing |
| Darkly: | With imperfect light clearness or knowledge obscurely dimly blindly uncertainly |
| Darkness: | The absence of light blackness obscurity gloom |
| darkskinned: | same as colored |
| Darksome: | Dark gloomy obscure shaded cheerless |
| darky: | a negro an AfricanAmerican an older term now considered offensive |
| darling: | One dearly beloved a favorite |
| darling: | Dearly beloved regarded with especial kindness and tenderness favorite |
| Darlingtonia: | 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 |
| Darmera: | a genus consisting of one species |
| Darn: | To mend as a rent or hole with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle to sew together with yarn or thread |
| Darn: | A place mended by darning |
| Darn: | A colloquial euphemism for Damn |
| darned: | an intensifying expletive a eupehmism for damned as for no darned reason at all |
| darnel: | 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 |
| Darner: | One who mends by darning |
| Darnex: | Same as Dornick |
| Daroo: | The Egyptian sycamore Ficus Sycamorus See Sycamore |
| Darr: | The European black tern |
| Darraign: | To make ready to fight to array |
| Darrein: | Last as darrein continuance the last continuance |
| Dart: | A pointed missile weapon intended to be thrown by the hand a short lance a javelin hence any sharppointed missile weapon as an arrow |
| Dart: | To throw with a sudden effort or thrust as a dart or other missile weapon to hurl or launch |
| Dart: | To fly or pass swiftly as a dart |
| Dartars: | A kind of scab or ulceration on the skin of lambs |
| dartboard: | 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 |
| Darter: | One who darts or who throw darts that which darts |
| Dartingly: | Like a dart rapidly |
| Dartle: | To pierce or shoot through to dart repeatedly frequentative of dart |
| Dartoic: | Of or pertaining to the dartos |
| Dartoid: | Like the dartos dartoic as dartoid tissue |
| Dartos: | A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneath the skin of the scrotum |
| Dartrous: | Relating to or partaking of the nature of the disease called tetter herpetic |
| Darwinian: | Pertaining to Darwin as the Darwinian theory a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements |
| Darwinian: | An advocate of Darwinism |
| Darwinianism: | Darwinism |
| Darwinism: | The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin See above |
| Dase: | See Daze |
| Dasewe: | To become dimsighted to become dazed or dazzled |
| Dash: | To throw with violence or haste to cause to strike violently or hastily often used with against |
| Dash: | To rush with violence to move impetuously to strike violently as the waves dash upon rocks |
| Dash: | Violent striking together of two bodies collision crash |
| Dashboard: | 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 |
| Dasheen: | 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 |
| dasher: | That which dashes or agitates as the dasher of a churn |
| Dashing: | Bold spirited showy |
| Dashingly: | Conspicuously showily |
| Dashism: | The character of making ostentatious or blustering parade or show |
| dashpot: | a mechanical damping device containing a piston that moves in a fluidfilled 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 |
| Dashy: | Calculated to arrest attention ostentatiously fashionable showy |
| Dastard: | One who meanly shrinks from danger an arrant coward a poltroon |
| Dastard: | Meanly shrinking from danger cowardly dastardly |
| Dastard: | To dastardize |
| Dastardize: | To make cowardly to intimidate to dispirit as to dastardize my courage |
| Dastardliness: | The quality of being dastardly cowardice base fear |
| Dastardly: | Meanly timid cowardly base as a dastardly outrage |
| Dastardness: | Dastardliness |
| Dastardy: | Base timidity cowardliness |
| Daswe: | See Dasewe |
| Dasymeter: | An instrument for testing the density of gases consisting of a thin glass globe which is weighed in the gas or gases and then in an atmosphere of known density |
| Dasypdal: | Dasypdic |
| Dasypdes: | Those birds whose young are covered with down when hatched |
| Dasypdic: | Pertaining to the Dasypdes ptilopdic |
| Dasyproctidae: | a natural family including the agoutis and pacas |
| Dasypus: | the type genus of the Dasypodidae |
| Dasyuridae: | a natural family including the dasyures native cats pouched mice banded anteaters and Tasmanian devils |
| dasyure: | A carnivorous catlike marsupial quadruped of Australia belonging to the genus Dasyurus called also native cat There are several species |
| Dasyurine: | Pertaining to or like the dasyures |
| Dasyurus: | the type genus of the family Dasyuridae native cats |
| DAT: | digital audiotape a digitally encoded tape recording of sound in contrast to the usual analog audio tape |
| Data: | See Datum |
| database: | an organized body of related information |
| databased: | relying on observation or experiment |
| datable: | That may be dated having a known or ascertainable date |
| Dataria: | 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 |
| Datary: | An officer in the popes court having charge of the Dataria |
| Date: | The fruit of the date palm also the date palm itself |
| Date: | That addition to a writing inscription coin etc which specifies the time as day month and year when the writing or inscription was given or executed or made as the date of a letter of a will of a deed of a coin etc |
| Date: | To note the time of writing or executing to express in an instrument the time of its execution as to date a letter a bond a deed or a charter |
| Date: | To have beginning to begin to be dated or reckoned with from |
| dateable: | that can be given a date Opposite of undatable |
| dated: | marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past |
| dateless: | Without date having no fixed time |
| Dateline: | The hypothetical line on the surface of the earth fixed by international or general agreement as a boundary on one side of which the same day shall have a different name and date in the calendar from its name and date on the other side Also called International Date Line |
| Dater: | One who dates |
| Datiscin: | A white crystalline glucoside extracted from the bastard hemp Datisca cannabina |
| Dative: | Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective |
| Dative: | The dative case See Dative a 1 |
| Datively: | As a gift |
| Datolite: | A borosilicate of lime commonly occuring in glassy greenish crystals |
| Datril: | an analgesic derived from acetanolide also used as an antipyretic Datril and Tylenol are trademarks of brands of acetaminophen tablets See acetaminophen |
| Datum: | Something given or admitted a fact or principle granted that upon which an inference or an argument is based used chiefly in the plural |
| Datura: | A genus of solanaceous plants with large funnelshaped flowers and a fourcelled capsular fruit |
| Daturine: | Atropine called also daturia and daturina |
| Daub: | To smear with soft adhesive matter as pitch slime mud etc to plaster to bedaub to besmear |
| Daub: | To smear to play the flatterer |
| Daub: | A viscous sticky application a spot smeared or daubed a smear |
| daubed: | smeared thickly as muddaubed walls |
| Daubentonia: | the type genus coextensive with the family Daubentoniidae |
| Daubentoniidae: | a natural family comprising solely the ayeaye |
| Dauber: | One who or that which daubs especially a coarse unskillful painter |
| Daubery: | A daubing specious coloring false pretenses |
| Daubing: | The act of one who daubs that which is daubed |
| Daubreelite: | A sulphide of chromium observed in some meteoric irons |
| Dauby: | Smeary viscous glutinous adhesive |
| Daughter: | The female offspring of the human species a female child of any age applied also to the lower animals |
| Daughterinlaw: | The wife of ones son |
| Daughterliness: | The state of a daughter or the conduct becoming a daughter |
| Daughterly: | Becoming a daughter filial |
| Dauk: | See Dawk v t to cut or gush |
| Daun: | A variant of Dan a title of honor |
| Daunt: | To overcome to conquer |
| Daunter: | One who daunts |
| daunting: | serving to discourage dishearten or intimidate discouraging disheartening Opposite of encouraging |
| dauntless: | Incapable of being daunted undaunted bold fearless intrepid |
| dauntlessness: | resolute courageousness |
| Dauphin: | 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 |
| Dauphiness: | The title of the wife of the dauphin |
| Dauw: | The striped quagga or Burchells zebra of South Africa Asinus Burchellii called also peechi or peetsi |
| davallia: | any fern of the genus Davallia they have scaly creeping rhizomes |
| Davalliaceae: | 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 |
| Davenport: | A kind of small writing table generally somewhat ornamental and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir |
| Davidic: | Of or pertaining to David the king and psalmist of Israel or to his family |
| Daviesia: | a genus of Australasian shrubs and subshrubs having small yellow or purple flowers followed by short triangular pods |
| Davit: | 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 |
| DavyJones: | The spirit of the sea sea devil a term used by sailors |
| Davylamp: | See Safety lamp under Lamp |
| Davyne: | A variety of nephelite from Vesuvius |
| Davyum: | A rare metallic element found in platinum ore It is a white malleable substance Symbol Da Atomic weight 154 |
| Daw: | A European bird of the Crow family Corvus monedula often nesting in church towers and ruins a jackdaw |
| Daw: | To dawn |
| Daw: | To rouse |
| Dawdle: | To waste time in trifling employment to trifle to saunter |
| Dawdle: | To waste by trifling as to dawdle away a whole morning |
| Dawdle: | A dawdler |
| Dawdler: | One who wastes time in trifling employments an idler a trifler |
| Dawe: | Day |
| Dawish: | Like a daw |
| Dawk: | See Dak |
| Dawk: | To cut or mark with an incision to gash |
| Dawk: | A hollow crack or cut in timber |
| Dawn: | To begin to grow light in the morning to grow light to break or begin to appear as the day dawns the morning dawns |
| Dawn: | The break of day the first appearance of light in the morning show of approaching sunrise |
| dawning: | the first light of day dawn |
| Dawsonite: | A hydrous carbonate of alumina and soda occuring in white bladed crustals |
| Day: | The time of light or interval between one night and the next the time between sunrise and sunset or from dawn to darkness hence the light sunshine also called daytime |
| Dayaks: | See Dyaks |
| dayandnight: | same as aroundtheclock |
| daybed: | an armless couch a seat by day and a bed by night |
| dayboarder: | a schoolchild at a boarding school who has meals at school but sleeps at home |
| Daybook: | 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 |
| dayboy: | a day boarder who is a boy |
| Daybreak: | The time of the first appearance of light in the morning |
| Daycoal: | The upper stratum of coal as nearest the light or surface |
| Daydream: | A vain fancy speculation a reverie a castle in the air unfounded hope |
| Daydreamer: | One given to daydreams |
| Dayflower: | A genus consisting mostly of tropical perennial herbs Commelina having ephemeral flowers |
| Dayfly: | 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 |
| Daylabor: | Labor hired or performed by the day |
| Daylaborer: | One who works by the day usually applied to a farm laborer or to a workman who does not work at any particular trade |
| Daylight: | 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 |
| daylily: | any plant of a genus of plants Hemerocallis closely resembling true lilies but having tuberous rootstocks instead of bulbs The common species have long narrow leaves and either yellow or tawnyorange flowers which often bloom for only one day |
| Daymaid: | A dairymaid |
| Daymare: | A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare |
| Daynet: | A net for catching small birds |
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