Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DADE – DA-GUERRE'O-TYPE
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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.]
- Various; variegated. Spenser.
- 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.]
- A loose end, as of locks of wool; called also dag-locks. Bailey.
- A leathern latchet.
DAG, v.t.
- To daggle. [Not in use.]
- 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.]
- A short sword; a poniard. Sidney.
- In fencing schools, a blunt blade of iron with a basket hilt, used for defense.
- 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.
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.