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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Dāin'ti-ness, n. p. 331The state or condition of being dainty; nicety; delicacy; deliciousness; fastidiousness; scrupulousness. “The daintiness and niceness of our captains.” Hackluyt. More notorious for the daintiness of…Dāin'trel, n. p. 331A delicacy. [Obs.]Dāin'ty, a. p. 331Delicious to the palate; agreeable to the taste; toothsome. Dainty bits Make rich the ribs. Shak. 2. Nice; delicate; elegant in form, manner, or breeding. Those dainty limbs which nature lent For…Dāin'ty, n. p. 331That which is delicious, delicate, or nice; a delicacy. That precious nectar may the taste renew Of Eden’s dainties, by our parents lost. Beau. & Fl. 2. A term of fondness. [Obs.] Why, that’s my…Dāi'ry, n. p. 331The 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…Dāi'ry-fārm, n. p. 331A farm chiefly devoted to the making of butter and cheese, or to supplying milk to a town.Dāi'ry-house, n. p. 331A house appropriated to the management of milk.Dā'ry-māid, n. p. 331A female servant whose business is to attend to the dairy.Dā'ry-ing, n. p. 331The business of conducting a dairy.Dā'is, n. p. 331A raised floor at the upper end of the dining-hall, where the high table stood. 2. The upper table of a dining-hall, on its platform. 3. A seat with a high wainscot back, and sometimes having a…Dāʹisied, a. p. 331Full of daisies; adorned with daisies. “The daisied green.” Langhorne.Dāi'sy, n. p. 331(Bot.) A plant of the genus Bellis, of several varieties: the common daisy is the B. perennis. Loudon.Dak, n. p. 331See DAWK.Dā'ker, n. p. 331(O. Eng. & Scots Law.)Dā'kir p. 331A measure of certain commodities by number, usually ten, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs. Burrill.Dā'ker-hĕn, n. p. 331The corn-crake or land-rail.Da-koit', n. p. 331One of that class of robbers, in the East Indies, who act in gangs, not separately, but never commit murder if it is avoidable. J. D. Hooker.Da-koit'y, n. p. 331The art or practice of gang-robbery.Dāl, n. p. 331(Bot.) A sort of East Indian vetch.Dāle, n. p. 331A low place between hills; a vale or valley. Where mountains rise, umbrageous dales descend. Thomson.Dāles'man, n. p. 331One living in a dale;—a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, &c.Dāl'li-ance, n. p. 331The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; sportiveness;—used sometimes in a bad sense, as equivalent to wantonness. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too much the…Dăl'li-er, n. p. 331One who fondles; a trifler; as, a dallier with pleasant words.Dăl'lop, n. p. 331A tuft or clump. [Obs.] Tusser.Dāl'ly, v. i. p. 331To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness and trifles; to linger; to delay. We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer. Calamy. 2. To interchange…Dăl'ly, v. t. p. 332To delay; to defer; to put off; to amuse. [Rare.] Dallying off the time with often skirmishes. Knolles.Dal-măt'ie, n. p. 332See DAL-MATICA.Dal-măt'i-că, n. p. 332(Eccl.) A long white gown with sleeves, worn over the alb and stole, by deacons in the Roman Catholic church, and imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia. 2. A similar robe worn by kings in…Dăl'ri-ad, n. p. 332(Geog.) One of a tribe of people formerly inhabiting a part of Scotland.Dāl'ri-ād'ic, a. p. 332Pertaining to the Dalriads.Dal Ségno p. 332(Mus.) A direction to go back to the sign, and repeat from thence to the close.Dal-tō'ni-an, n. p. 332One afflicted with color-blindness.Dal'ton-ism, n. p. 332Inability to perceive or distinguish certain colors; color-blindness; — so called from the chemist Dalton, who had this infirmity. Nichol.Dăm, n. p. 332A female parent; — used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds. 2. A human mother; — in contempt. 3. A crowned man in the game of draughts.Dăm, n. p. 332A mole, bank, or mound of earth, or any wall, or a frame of wood, designed to obstruct the flow of water.Dăm, v. t. p. 332To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; — often used with in or up. 2. To shut up; to restrain. The strait pass was dammed With dead men…Dăm'ağe, n. p. 332Any permanent injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; injury; harm. Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of…Dăm'age, v. t. p. 332To occasion damage to the soundness, goodness, or value of; to inflict injury upon; to hurt; to injure; to impair. He . . . came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he…Dăm'age, v. i. p. 332To suffer damage; to be injured or impaired in soundness or value.Dăm'age-a-ble, a. p. 332Capable of being injured or impaired; susceptible of damage. 2. Hurtful; pernicious. [Rare.] It may appear that it be not damageable to your royal majesty. Hackluyt.Dăm'age-feăs'ant, a. p. 332(Law.) Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle. Blackstone.Dăm'ar, n. p. 332See DAMMAR.Dăm'as-çēne, n. p. 332(Geog.) A portion of the country of Syria, of which Damascus was the capital. 2. A particular kind of plum; — usually called damson. See DAMSON.Dām'ask, a. p. 332Pertaining to, or originating at, the city of Damascus; resembling the products or manufactures of Damascus. 2. Having the color of the damask-rose. While dreaming on your damask cheek The dewy…Dām'ask, n. p. 332A kind of stuff with raised figures in various patterns, as flowers, &c., woven in the loom. It was originally made at Damascus, and was composed of rich silk: it is now made of silk intermingled…Dăm'ask, v. t. p. 332To decorate with ornamental figures, as silk or other stuff with raised flowers, &c., or steel with devices; hence, to adorn; to embellish; to variegate. Mingled metal damasked o'er with gold.…Dăm'ask-en or Dăm'ask-een, v. t. p. 332To decorate, as iron, steel, &c., with designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, &c.; to damask. Damask-eening is partly mosaic work, partly…Dăm'ask-ĭn, n. p. 332A certain kind of saber; — so called from the manufacture of Damascus.Da-măs'sel, n. p. 332A kind of linen manufactured in Flanders; — so called because woven in flowers and figures imitating those of damask.Dăm'as-sīn, n. p. 332A kind of damask with gold and silver flowers woven in the warp and woof. Ure.Dāme, n. p. 332A mistress; a woman in authority; especially, a lady in rank or culture. Then shall the priest be as the people, the master as the servant, the dame like the maid. Bible, 1551. Not all these lords do…Dāme’s-vī’o-let or Dāme’wort, n. p. 332(Bot.) A cruciferous plant of the genus Hesperis (H. matronalis), remarkable for fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; — called also rocket. London.Dā'mi-an-ist, n. p. 332(Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Damianes, patriarch of Alexandria in the sixth century, who made a distinction between the divine essence and the persons of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. In other…Dām'mar or Dām'ma-rā, n. p. 332A resinous substance obtained from certain trees indigenous to the East Indies, especially the Dammara and Dammar-pine, and used for making varnish and like purposes.Dăm'mā-rā or Dăm'mar-pine, n. p. 332(Bot.) A large tree of the order Coniferæ, indigenous to the East Indies, and of two species, Dammara orientalis and D. australis. London.Dămn, v. t. p. 332To condemn; to decide to be wrong or worthy of punishment; to adjudge to punishment or death; to censure; to sentence. He shall not live; look! with a spot I damn him. Shak. 2. (Theol.) To condemn to…Dăm'na-bĭl'ĭ-ty, n. p. 332The state or quality of deserving condemnation; damnableness.Dăm'na-ble, a. p. 332Worthy of, or liable to, damnation. He is a creature unprepared, unmeet for death, And to transport him in the mind he is, Were damnable. Shak. 2. Odious; detestable, or pernicious. [Low.] Begin…Dăm'na-ble-ness, n. p. 332The state or quality of deserving damnation.Dām'na-bly, adv. p. 332In a manner to incur severe censure, condemnation, or punishment. 2. Odiously; detestably; excessively. [Low.]