Dictionary: DAN'DLING – DA'OURITE

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DAN'DLING, ppr.

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

DAN-DRUF, n. [Qu. Sax. tan, a scab, tetter, and drof, sordid; or Fr. teigne, Arm. tign, or taign.]

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

DAN'DY, n. [Fr. dandin, a ninny, a silly fellow.]

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

DAN'DY-ISH, a.

Like a dandy.

DAN'DY-ISM, n.

The manners and dress of a dandy.

DANE, n.

A native of Denmark.

DANE'GELT, n. [Dane and gelt, geld, money.]

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 afterward two, for every hide of land, except such as belonged to the church. Encyc.

DANE'WORT, n.

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

DAN'GER, n. [Fr. Arm. Scot. danger; Norm. daungerous, dubious. This word in Scottish, according to Jamieson, signifies peril, power, or dominion, doubt, hesitation. In Chaucer, it signifies peril, and coyness, sparingness or custody. In old English laws, it denotes a payment in money by forest tenants, to their lord, for permission to plow and sow in the time of pannage or mast-feeding. The primary sense is not obvious. Spenser has the following couplet. Valiant he should be as fire, / Showing danger more than ire.]

Peril; risk; hazard; exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil. It is easy to boast of despising death, when there is no danger. Our craft is in danger to be set at naught. – Acts xix.

DAN'GER, v.t.

To put in hazard; to expose to loss or injury. – Shak. But rarely used. [See Endanger, which is generally used.]

DAN'GER-LESS, a.

Free from danger; without risk. [Little used.] Sidney.

DAN'GER-OUS, a.

  1. Perilous; hazardous; exposing to loss; unsafe; full of risk; as, a dangerous voyage; a dangerous experiment.
  2. Creating danger; causing risk of evil; as, a dangerous man; a dangerous conspiracy.

DAN'GER-OUS-LY, adv.

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

DAN'GER-OUS-NESS, n.

Danger; hazard; peril; a state of being exposed to evil; as, the dangerousness of condition, or disease.

DAN'GLE, v.i. [Dan. dingler, to swing to and fro. Qu. dandle, or Ch. Syr. תקל.]

  1. To hang loose, flowing, shaking or waving; to hang and swing. He'd rather on a gibbet dangle. Hudibras.
  2. To hang on anyone; to be a humble, officious follower; with after or about; as, to dangle about a woman; to dangle after a minister for favors.

DAN'GLER, n.

One who dangles or hangs about.

DAN'GLING, ppr.

Hanging loosely; busily or officiously adhering to.

DAN'ISH, a.

Belonging to the Danes or Denmark.

DAN'ISH, n.

The language of the Danes.

DANK, a. [Qu. G. tunken, to dip.]

Damp; moist; humid; wet.

DANK, n.

Moisture; humidity. Milton. Shak.

DANK'ISH, a.

Somewhat damp.

DANK'ISH-NESS, n.

Dampness; humidity.

DAN-U'BI-AN, a.

Pertaining to the Danube.

DA'OURITE, n.

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