DANDLING — DAWDLER

DANDLING — DAWDLER NWAD DANDLING.1

DANDLING, ppr. Shaking and jolting on the knee; moving about in play or for amusement, as an infant. NWAD DANDLING.1

DANDRUFF, n. A scurf which forms on the head, and comes off in small scales or particles. NWAD DANDRUFF.1

DANDY, n. In modern usage, a male of the human species, who dresses himself like a doll and who carries his character on his back. NWAD DANDY.1

DANDYISM, n. The manners and dress of a dandy. NWAD DANDYISM.1

DANE, n. A native of Denmark. NWAD DANE.1

DANEGELT, n. In England, an annual tax formerly laid on the English nation, for maintaining forces to oppose the Danes, or to furnish tribute to procure peace. It was at first one shilling, and afterwards two, for every hide of land, except such as belonged to the church. NWAD DANEGELT.1

DANEWORT, n. A plant of the genus Sambucus; a species of elder, called dwarf-elder or wall-wort. NWAD DANEWORT.1

DANGER, n. Peril; risk; hazard; exposure to injury, loss, pain or other evil. NWAD DANGER.1

Our craft is in danger to be set at nought. Acts 19:27. NWAD DANGER.2

It is easy to boast of despising death, when there is no danger. NWAD DANGER.3

DANGER, v.t. To put in hazard; to expose to loss or injury. NWAD DANGER.4

DANGERLESS, a. Free from danger; without risk. NWAD DANGERLESS.1

DANGEROUS, a. NWAD DANGEROUS.1

1. Perilous; hazardous; exposing to loss; unsafe; full of risk; as a dangerous voyage; a dangerous experiment. NWAD DANGEROUS.2

2. Creating danger; causing risk of evil; as a dangerous man; a dangerous conspiracy. NWAD DANGEROUS.3

DANGEROUSLY, adv. With danger; with risk of evil; with exposure to injury or ruin; hazardously; perilously; as, to be dangerously sick; dangerously situated. NWAD DANGEROUSLY.1

DANGEROUSNESS, n. Danger; hazard; peril; a state of being exposed to evil; as the dangerousness of condition, of disease. NWAD DANGEROUSNESS.1

DANGLE, v.i. NWAD DANGLE.1

1. To hang loose, flowing, shaking or waving; to hang and swing. NWAD DANGLE.2

He’d rather on a gibbet dangle. Hudibras. NWAD DANGLE.3

2. To hang on any one; to be a humble, officious follower; with after or about; as, to dangle about a woman; to dangle after a minister for favors. NWAD DANGLE.4

DANGLER, n. One who dangles or hangs about. NWAD DANGLER.1

DANGLING, ppr. Hanging loosely; busily or officiously adhering to. NWAD DANGLING.1

DANISH, n. The language of the Danes. NWAD DANISH.1

DANK, a. Damp; moist; humid; wet. NWAD DANK.1

DANK, n. Moisture; humidity. NWAD DANK.2

DANKISH, a. Somewhat damp. NWAD DANKISH.1

DANKISHNESS, n. Dampness; humidity. NWAD DANKISHNESS.1

DAOURITE, n. A mineral, called rubellite, resembling shorl, but differing from it in chimical characters. Its color is red of various shades. NWAD DAOURITE.1

DAP, v.i. To drop or let fall into the water; a word used by anglers. NWAD DAP.1

DAPHNATE, n. A compound of the bitter principle of the Daphne Alpina with a base. NWAD DAPHNATE.1

DAPHNIN, n. The bitter principle of the Daphne Alpina, discovered by Vauquelin. It is obtained in small crystals, hard, transparent, of a grayish color and a bitter taste. NWAD DAPHNIN.1

DAPIFER, n. One who brings meat to the table. Formerly, the title or office of the grand-master of a king’s household. It still subsists in Germany. NWAD DAPIFER.1

DAPPER, a. Active; nimble; brisk; or little and active; neat; tight; as a dapper fellow; a dapper spark. NWAD DAPPER.1

DAPPERLING, n. A dwarf; a dandiprat. NWAD DAPPERLING.1

DAPPLE, a. Marked with spots; spotted; variegated with spots of different colors or shades of color, as a dapple-bay or dapple-gray; applied to a horse or other beast. It may sometimes express streaked, but this is not its true signification. NWAD DAPPLE.1

DAPPLE, v.t. To spot; to variegate with spots. NWAD DAPPLE.2

The gentle day dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. Shak. NWAD DAPPLE.3

The dapples pink, and blushing rose. Prior. NWAD DAPPLE.4

DAPPLED, pp. Spotted; variegated with spots of different colors or shades of color. NWAD DAPPLED.1

DAPPLING, ppr. Variegating with spot. NWAD DAPPLING.1

DAR or DART, n. A fish found in the Severn. NWAD DAR.1

DARE, v.i. pret. durst. To have courage to any purpose; to have strength of mind or hardihood to undertake anything; to be bold enough; not to be afraid; to venture; to be adventurous. NWAD DARE.1

I dare do all that may become a man. Shak. NWAD DARE.2

Dare any of you go to law before the unjust? 1 Corinthians 6:1. NWAD DARE.3

None of his disciples durst ask him, who art thou. John 21:12. NWAD DARE.4

In this intransitive sense, dare is not generally followed by the sign to before another verb in the infinitive; though to may be used with propriety. In German, the verb is numbered among the auxiliaries. In the transitive form, it is regular; thus, NWAD DARE.5

DARE, v.t. pret. and pp. dared. To challenge; to provoke; to defy; as, to dare a man to fight. NWAD DARE.6

Time, I dare thee to discover such a youth and such a lover. Dryden. NWAD DARE.7

To dare larks, to catch them by means of a looking glass, or by keeping a bird of prey hovering aloft, which keeps them in amaze till caught; to terrify or amaze. NWAD DARE.8

DARE, Defiance; challenge. NWAD DARE.9

DARE, n. A small fish, the same as the dace. NWAD DARE.10

DARED, pp. Challenged; defied. NWAD DARED.1

DAREFUL, a. Full of defiance. NWAD DAREFUL.1

DARER, n. One who dares or defies. NWAD DARER.1

DARIC, n. A gold coin of Darius the Mede, value about 556 cents. NWAD DARIC.1

DARING, ppr. NWAD DARING.1

1. Having courage sufficient for a purpose; challenging; defying. NWAD DARING.2

2. a. Bold; courageous; intrepid; fearless; adventurous; brave; stout. NWAD DARING.3

Grieve not, O daring prince, that noble heart. Pope. NWAD DARING.4

3. Audacious; impudently bold and defying; as in heaven-daring, defying Almighty power. NWAD DARING.5

DARINGLY, adv. Boldly; courageously; fearlessly; impudently. NWAD DARINGLY.1

The principles of our holy religion are daringly attacked from the press. Anon. NWAD DARINGLY.2

DARINGNESS, n. Boldness; courageousness; audaciousness. NWAD DARINGNESS.1

DARK, a. NWAD DARK.1

1. Destitute of light; obscure. A dark atmosphere is one which prevents vision. NWAD DARK.2

2. Wholly or partially black; having the quality opposite to white; as a dark color or substance. NWAD DARK.3

3. Gloomy; disheartening; having unfavorable prospects; as a dark time in political affairs. NWAD DARK.4

There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. Irving. NWAD DARK.5

4. Obscure; not easily understood or explained; as a dark passage in an author; a dark saying. NWAD DARK.6

5. Mysterious; as, the ways of Providence are often dark to human reason. NWAD DARK.7

6. Not enlightened with knowledge; destitute of learning and science; rude; ignorant; as a dark age. NWAD DARK.8

7. Not vivid; partially black. Leviticus 13:6, - NWAD DARK.9

8. Blind. NWAD DARK.10

9. Gloomy; not cheerful; as a dark temper. NWAD DARK.11

10. Obscure; concealed; secret; not understood; as a dark design. NWAD DARK.12

11. Unclean; foul. NWAD DARK.13

12. Opake. But dark and opake are not synonymous. Chalk is opake, but not dark. NWAD DARK.14

13. Keeping designs concealed. NWAD DARK.15

The dark unrelenting Tiberius. Gibbon. NWAD DARK.16

DARK, n. NWAD DARK.17

1. Darkness; obscurity; the absence of light. We say we can hear in the dark. NWAD DARK.18

Shall the wonders be known in the dark? Psalm 88:12. NWAD DARK.19

2. Obscurity; secrecy; a state unknown; as, things done in the dark. NWAD DARK.20

3. Obscurity; a state of ignorance; as, we are all in the dark. NWAD DARK.21

DARK, v.t. NWAD DARK.22

1. To make dark; to deprive of light; as, close the shutters and darken the room. NWAD DARK.23

2. To obscure; to cloud. NWAD DARK.24

His confidence seldom darkened his foresight. Bacon. NWAD DARK.25

3. To make black. NWAD DARK.26

The locusts darkened the land. Exodus 10:14, 15. NWAD DARK.27

4. To make dim; to deprive of vision. NWAD DARK.28

Let their eyes be darkened. Romans 11:10. NWAD DARK.29

5. To render gloomy; as, all joy is darkened. Isaiah 24:11. NWAD DARK.30

6. To deprive of intellectual vision; to render ignorant or stupid. NWAD DARK.31

Their foolish heart was darkened. Romans 1:21. NWAD DARK.32

Having the understanding darkened. Ephesians 4:18. NWAD DARK.33

7. To obscure; to perplex; to render less clear or intelligible. NWAD DARK.34

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Job 38:2. NWAD DARK.35

8. To render less white or clear; to tan; as, a burning sun darkens the complexion. NWAD DARK.36

9. To sully; to make foul. NWAD DARK.37

DARKEN, v.i. To grow dark or darker; also, to grow less white or clear. NWAD DARKEN.1

DARKENED, pp. Deprived of light; obscured; rendered dim; made black; made ignorant. NWAD DARKENED.1

DARKENING, ppr. Depriving of light; obscuring; making black or less white or clear; clouding. NWAD DARKENING.1

DARK-HOUSE, n. An old word for a madhouse. NWAD DARK-HOUSE.1

DARKISH, a. Dusky; somewhat dark. NWAD DARKISH.1

DARKLING, a. Being in the dark, or without light; a poetical word. NWAD DARKLING.1

DARKLY, adv. Obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly; with imperfect light, clearness or knowledge. NWAD DARKLY.1

They learn only what tradition has darkly conveyed to them. Anon. NWAD DARKLY.2

DARKNESS, n. NWAD DARKNESS.1

1. Absence of light. NWAD DARKNESS.2

And darkness was on the face of the deep. Genesis 1:2. NWAD DARKNESS.3

2. Obscurity; want of clearness or perspicuity; that quality or state which renders any thing difficult to be understood; as the darkness of counsels. NWAD DARKNESS.4

3. A state of being intellectually clouded; ignorance. NWAD DARKNESS.5

Men loved darkness rather than light. John 3:19. NWAD DARKNESS.6

4. A private place; secrecy; privacy. NWAD DARKNESS.7

What I tell in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matthew 10:27. NWAD DARKNESS.8

5. Infernal gloom; hell; as utter darkness. Matthew 22:13. NWAD DARKNESS.9

6. Great trouble and distress; calamities; perplexities. NWAD DARKNESS.10

A day of clouds and thick darkness. Joel 2:2; Isaiah 8:22. NWAD DARKNESS.11

7. Empire of Satan. NWAD DARKNESS.12

Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness. Colossians 1:13. NWAD DARKNESS.13

8. Opakeness. NWAD DARKNESS.14

Land of darkness, the grave. Job 10:21, 22. NWAD DARKNESS.15

DARKSOME, a. Dark; gloomy; obscure; as a darksome house; a darksome cloud. NWAD DARKSOME.1

DARK-WORKING, a. Working in darkness or in secrecy. NWAD DARK-WORKING.1

DARLING, a. Dearly beloved; favorite; regarded with great kindness and tenderness; as a darling child; a darling science. NWAD DARLING.1

DARLING, n. One much beloved; a favorite; as, that son was the darling of his father. NWAD DARLING.2

DARN, v.t. To mend a rent or hole, by imitating the texture of the cloth or stuff with yarn or thread and a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread. It is used particularly of stockings. NWAD DARN.1

DARN, n. A place mended by darning. NWAD DARN.2

DARNEL, n. A plant of the genus Lolium, a kind of grass; the most remarkable species are the red darnel or rye-grass, and the white darnel. NWAD DARNEL.1

DARNER, n. One who mends by darning. NWAD DARNER.1

DARNING, ppr. Mending in imitation of the original texture; sewing together; as a torn stocking, or cloth. NWAD DARNING.1

DARNING, n. The act of mending, as a hole in a garment. NWAD DARNING.2

DARRAIN, v.t. To prepare, or to order; or to try; to endeavor; to prove; to apply to the contest. NWAD DARRAIN.1

But for thou art a worthy gentil knight, and wilnest to darraine hire by bataille. NWAD DARRAIN.2

DART, n. [Gr., a spear or lance. See also Dar.] NWAD DART.1

1. A pointed missile weapon to be thrown by the hand; a short lance. NWAD DART.2

2. Any missile weapon; that which pierces and wounds. NWAD DART.3

And from about her shot darts of desire. NWAD DART.4

DART, v.t. NWAD DART.5

1. To throw a pointed instrument with a sudden thrust; as, to dart a javelin. NWAD DART.6

2. To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send; to emit; to shoot; applied to small objects, which pass with velocity; as, the sun darts his beams on the earth. NWAD DART.7

Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart. Pope. NWAD DART.8

DART, v.i. NWAD DART.9

1. To fly or shoot, as a dart; to fly rapidly. NWAD DART.10

2. To spring and run with velocity; to start suddenly and run; as, the deer darted from the thicket. NWAD DART.11

DARTED, pp. Thrown or hurled as a pointed instrument; sent with velocity. NWAD DARTED.1

DARTER, n. One who throws a dart. NWAD DARTER.1

DARTING, ppr. Throwing, as a dart; hurling darts; flying rapidly. NWAD DARTING.1

DASH, v.t. NWAD DASH.1

1. To strike suddenly or violently, whether throwing or falling; as, to dash one stone against another. NWAD DASH.2

Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. Matthew 4:6. NWAD DASH.3

2. To strike and bruise or break; to break by collision; but usually with the words, in pieces. NWAD DASH.4

Thou shalt dash them in pieces, as a potter’s vessel. Psalm 2:9. NWAD DASH.5

3. To throw water suddenly, in separate portions; as, to dash water on the head. NWAD DASH.6

4. To bespatter; to sprinkle; as, to dash a garment. NWAD DASH.7

5. To strike and break or disperse. NWAD DASH.8

At once the brushing oars and brazen prow dash up the sandy waves, and ope the depth below. Dryden. NWAD DASH.9

6. To mix and reduce or adulterate by throwing in another substance; as, to dash wine with water; the story is dashed with fables. NWAD DASH.10

7. To form or sketch out in haste, carelessly. NWAD DASH.11

8. To erase at a stroke; to strike out to blot out or obliterate; as, to dash out a line or word. NWAD DASH.12

9. To break; to destroy; to frustrate; as, to dash all their schemes and hopes. NWAD DASH.13

10. To confound; to confuse; to put to shame; to abash; to depress by shame or fear; as, he was dashed at the appearance of the judge. NWAD DASH.14

Dash the proud gamester in his gilded car. Pope. NWAD DASH.15

DASH, v.i. NWAD DASH.16

1. To strike, break, scatter and fly off; as, agitate water and it will dash over the sides of a vessel; the waves dashed over the side of the ship. NWAD DASH.17

2. To rush, strike and break or scatter; as, the waters dash down the precipice. NWAD DASH.18

3. To rush with violence, and break through; as, he dashed into the enemy’s ranks; or he dashed through thick and thin. NWAD DASH.19

DASH, n. NWAD DASH.20

1. Collision; a violent striking of two bodies; as the dash of clouds. NWAD DASH.21

2. Infusion; admixture; something thrown into another substance; as, the wine has a dash of water. NWAD DASH.22

Innocence, with a dash of folly. Addison. NWAD DASH.23

3. Admixture; as, red with a dash of purple. NWAD DASH.24

4. a rushing, or onset with violence; as, to make a dash upon the enemy. NWAD DASH.25

5. A sudden stroke; a blow; an act. NWAD DASH.26

She takes upon her bravely at first dash. Shak. NWAD DASH.27

6. A flourish; blustering parade; as, the young fop made a dash. NWAD DASH.28

7. A mark or line in writing or printing, noting a break or stop in the sentence; as in Virgil, quos ego-: or a pause; or the division of the sentence. NWAD DASH.29

DASHED, pp. Struck violently; driven against; bruised, broken or scattered by collision; besprinkled; mixed or adulterated; erased, blotted out; broken; cast down; confounded; abashed. NWAD DASHED.1

DASHING, ppr. NWAD DASHING.1

1. Driving and striking against; striking suddenly or violently; breaking or scattering by collision; infusing; mixing; confounding; blotting out; rushing. NWAD DASHING.2

2. a. Rushing; driving; blustering; as a dashing fellow. NWAD DASHING.3

3. a. Precipitate; rushing carelessly on. NWAD DASHING.4

DASTARD, n. A coward; a poltroon; one who meanly shrinks from danger. NWAD DASTARD.1

DASTARD, a. Cowardly; meanly shrinking from danger. NWAD DASTARD.2

Curse on their dastard souls. Addison. NWAD DASTARD.3

DASTARD, v.t. To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit. NWAD DASTARD.4

DASTARDIZE, v.t. To make cowardly. NWAD DASTARDIZE.1

DASTARDLINESS, n. Cowardliness. NWAD DASTARDLINESS.1

DASTARDLY, Cowardly; meanly timid; base; sneaking. NWAD DASTARDLY.1

DASTARDNESS, n. Cowardliness; mean timorousness. NWAD DASTARDNESS.1

DASTARDY, n. Cowardliness; base timidity. NWAD DASTARDY.1

DATA, n. plu. Things given, or admitted; quantities, principles or facts given, known, or admitted, by which to find things or results unknown. NWAD DATA.1

DATARY, n. NWAD DATARY.1

1. An officer of the chancery of Rome, who affixes the datum Roma to the pope’s bulls. NWAD DATARY.2

2. The employment of a datary. NWAD DATARY.3

DATE, n. NWAD DATE.1

1. That addition to a writing which specifies the year, month and day when it was given or executed. In letters, it notes the time when they are written or sent; in deeds, contracts, wills and other papers, it specifies the time of execution, and usually the time from which they are to take effect and operate on the rights of persons. To the date is usually added the name of the place where a writing is executed, and this is sometimes included in the term date. NWAD DATE.2

2. The time when any event happened, when any thing was transacted, or when any thing is to be done; as the date of a battle; the date of Cesar’s arrival in Britain. NWAD DATE.3

3. End; conclusion. NWAD DATE.4

What time would spare, from steel receives its date. Pope. NWAD DATE.5

4. Duration; continuance; as, ages of endless date. NWAD DATE.6

DATE, v.t. NWAD DATE.7

1. To write or note the time when a letter is written, or a writing executed; to express, in an instrument, the year, month and day of its execution, and usually the place; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter. NWAD DATE.8

2. To note or fix the time of an event or transaction. Historians date the fulfillment of a prophecy at different periods. NWAD DATE.9

3. To note the time when something begins; as, to date a disease or calamity from a certain cause. NWAD DATE.10

DATE, v.i. NWAD DATE.11

1. To reckon. NWAD DATE.12

2. To begin; to have origin. NWAD DATE.13

The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms. E. Everett. NWAD DATE.14

DATE, n. The fruit of the great palm-tree, or date-tree, the Phoenix dactylifera. This fruit is somewhat in the shape of an acorn, composed of a thin light glossy membrane, somewhat pellucid and yellowish, containing a soft pulpy fruit, firm and sweet, esculent and wholesome, and in this is inclosed a hard kernel. NWAD DATE.15

DATE-TREE, n. The tree that bears dates; the great palm-tree. NWAD DATE-TREE.1

DATED, pp. Having the time of writing or execution specified; having the time of happening noted. NWAD DATED.1

DATELESS, a. Having no date; having no fixed term. NWAD DATELESS.1

DATER, n. One that dates. NWAD DATER.1

DATING, ppr. Expressing the time of writing or of executing a paper or instrument; noting the time of happening, or originating. NWAD DATING.1

DATIVE, a. In grammar, the epithet of the case of nouns, which usually follows verbs that express giving, or some act directed to am object. Thus, datur tibi, it is given to you; missum est illi, it was sent to him; fecit mihi, he made or did to or for me; loquebatur illis, he spoke to them. It also follows other words expressing something to be given to a person or for his benefit; as, utilis vobis, useful to you. In English, this relation is expressed by to or for. NWAD DATIVE.1

Dative Executor, in law, one appointed by the judge of probate; an administrator. NWAD DATIVE.2

DATOLITE or DATHOLITE, n. The siliceous borate of lime, a mineral of two subspecies, the common and the botryoidal. The common is of a white color, of various shades, and greenish gray. It occurs in granular distinct concretions, and crystalized. The botryiodal occurs in mammillary concretions, or in botryiodal masses, white and earthy. It is named from its want of transparency. NWAD DATOLITE.1

DATUM, n. Something given or admitted. NWAD DATUM.1

DATURA, n. A vegeto-alkali obtained from Datura stramonium. NWAD DATURA.1

DAUB, v.t. NWAD DAUB.1

1. To smear with soft adhesive matter; to plaster; to cover with mud, slime, or other soft substance. NWAD DAUB.2

She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch. Exodus 2:3. NWAD DAUB.3

2. To paint coarsely. NWAD DAUB.4

If a picture is daubed with many bright colors, the vulgar admire it. Watts. NWAD DAUB.5

3. To cover with something gross or specious; to disguise with an artificial covering. NWAD DAUB.6

So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue. Shak. NWAD DAUB.7

4. To lay or put on without taste; to deck awkwardly or ostentatiously, or to load with affected finery. NWAD DAUB.8

Let him be daubed with lace- Dryden. NWAD DAUB.9

5. To flatter grossly. NWAD DAUB.10

Conscience will not daub nor flatter. South. NWAD DAUB.11

DAUB, v.i. To practice gross flattery; to play the hypocrite. NWAD DAUB.12

DAUBED, pp. Smeared with soft adhesive matter; plastered; painted coarsely; disguised; loaded with ill chosen finery. NWAD DAUBED.1

DAUBER, n. One who daubs; a coarse painter; a low and gross flatterer. NWAD DAUBER.1

DAUBING, ppr. Plastering; painting coarsely; disguising clumsily; decking ostentatiously; flattering grossly. NWAD DAUBING.1

DAUBING, n. Plastering; coarse painting; gross flattery. NWAD DAUBING.2

DAUBRY or DAUBERY, n, A daubing; any thing artful. NWAD DAUBRY.1

DAUBY, a. Viscous; glutinous; slimy; adhesive. NWAD DAUBY.1

DAUGHTER, n, NWAD DAUGHTER.1

1. The female offspring of a man or woman; a female child of any age. NWAD DAUGHTER.2

2. A daughter in law; a son’s wife. Ruth 3:16. NWAD DAUGHTER.3

3. A woman; plu. female inhabitants. NWAD DAUGHTER.4

Dinah went out to see the daughters of the land. Genesis 34:1. NWAD DAUGHTER.5

4. A female descendant; lineage of females. Luke 1:5. NWAD DAUGHTER.6

5. The female penitent of a confessor. NWAD DAUGHTER.7

This word is used in scripture for the inhabitants of a city or country, male and female. Isaiah 16:2; Matthew 21:5. Also as a term of affection or kindness. NWAD DAUGHTER.8

Daughter, be of good comfort. Matthew 9:22. NWAD DAUGHTER.9

DAUGHTERLINESS, n. NWAD DAUGHTERLINESS.1

1. The state of a daughter. NWAD DAUGHTERLINESS.2

2. The conduct becoming a daughter. NWAD DAUGHTERLINESS.3

DAUGHTERLY, a. Becoming a daughter; dutiful. NWAD DAUGHTERLY.1

DAUNT, v.t. To repress or subdue courage; to intimidate; to dishearten; to check by fear of danger. It expresses less than fright and terrify. NWAD DAUNT.1

Some presences daunt and discourage us. NWAD DAUNT.2

DAUNTED, pp. Checked by fear; intimidated. NWAD DAUNTED.1

DAUNTING, ppr. Repressing courage; intimidating; disheartening. NWAD DAUNTING.1

DAUNTLESS, a. Bold; fearless; intrepid; not timid; not discouraged; as a dauntless hero; a dauntless spirit. NWAD DAUNTLESS.1

DAUNTLESSNESS, n. Fearlessness; intrepidity. NWAD DAUNTLESSNESS.1

DAUPHIN, n. The eldest son of the king of France, and presumptive heir of the crown. NWAD DAUPHIN.1

DAUPHINESS, n. The wife or lady of the dauphin. NWAD DAUPHINESS.1

DAVINA, n. A new Vesuvian mineral of a hexahedral form and laminar texture; so called in honor of Sir H. Davy. NWAD DAVINA.1

DAVIT, n. A beam 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; an operation called fishing the anchor. NWAD DAVIT.1