Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DADE, v.t.

To hold up by leading strings. [Little used.] Drayton.

DA'DO, n. [Ital. a die.]

The plain part of a column between the base and the cornice; the die. Dict. Or cubical base of a column. Thomson.

DAE'DAL, a. [DÆ'DAL. L. Dædalus, Gr. Δαιδαλος, an ingenious artist.]

1. Various; variegated. Spenser.
2. Skillful.

DAE-DA'LI-AN, a. [DÆ-DA'LI-AN. See DEDALIAN.]

DAFF, or DAFFE, n. [Ice. dauf, allied to deaf.]

A stupid blockish fellow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

DAFF, v.t.¹

To daunt. [Local.] Grose.

DAFF, v.t.²

To toss aside; to put off. [See Doff.] Shak.

DAF'FO-DIL, n. [D. affodille; G. doppelte narcisse, double narcissus; It. asfodillo; Fr. asphodele; L. asphodelus; Gr. ασφοδελος.]

A plant of the genus Narcissus, of several species. These have a bulbous root, and beautiful flowers of various colors, white, yellow and purple. Encyc.

DAG, n.¹ [Fr. dague, from thrusting.]

A dagger; a hand-gun; a pistol. [Not in use.] Burton.

DAG, n.²

Dew. [Not in use.]

DAG, n.³ [Sax. dag.]

1. A loose end, as of locks of wool; called also dag-locks. Bailey.
2. A leathern latchet.

DAG, v.t.

1. To daggle. [Not in use.]
2. To cut into slips. [Obs.] Chaucer.

DAG'GER, n. [Fr. dague; D. dagge; Arm. dager; Sp. daga; Port. adaga; It. daga; Ir. daigear. In G. and D. degen is a sword.]

1. A short sword; a poniard. Sidney.
2. In fencing schools, a blunt blade of iron with a basket hilt, used for defense.
3. With printers, an obelisk, or obelus, a mark of reference in the form of a dagger; thus †.

DAG'GER, v.t.

To pierce with a dagger; to stab.

DAG'GERS-DRAW-ING, n.

The act of drawing daggers; approach to open attack or to violence; a quarrel. – Swift.

DAG'GLE, v.i.

To run through mud and water.

DAG'GLE, v.t. [probably from dag, dew, or its root.]

To trail in mud or wet grass; to befoul; to dirty, as the lower end of a garment.

DAG'GLED, pp.

Dipped or trailed in mud or foul water; befouled.

DAG'GLE-TAIL, a.

Having the lower ends of garments defiled with mud.

DAG'GLING, ppr.

Drawing along in mud or foul water.

DAG'-LOCK, n. [dag, dew, and lock.]

A lock of wool on a sheep that hangs and drags in the wet. Grose.

DAG'-SWAIN, n. [dag, a shred.]

A kind of carpet. – Harrison.

DAG'-TAIL-ED, a.

The same as daggle-tail; trailed in mud.

DA-GUERRE'O-LITE, n. [dager'rolite; Gr. λιθος, a stone.]

A steatitic calcarious stone or substance, consisting of steatite and carbonate of lime, which is used for polishing metals and giving them a beautiful luster.

DA-GUERRE'O-TYPE, n. [dager'rotype; from Daguerre, the discoverer.]

A method of fixing images of objects by the camera obscura. A copper sheet, plated with silver, well cleaned with diluted nitric acid, or polished, is exposed to the vapor of iodine, which forms a very thin coating. This sheet is placed in the camera obscura, in which it remains eight or ten minutes; it is then taken out and exposed to the vapor of mercury; then heated to 167° Fahrenheit, and the images appear as by enchantment.