DA damaged, some quite disjointed and broken into To DA'MAGE. v. n. To take damage, or DA'MAGEABLE. adj. [from damage.] 2. Mischievous; pernicious. Obscene and immodest talk is offensive to the purity of God, damageable and infectious to the innocence of our neighbours, and most pernicidus to ourselves. Government of the Tongue. DA'MASCENE. n. s. [damascenus, from Damascus.] A small plum; a damson, as it is now spoken. In April follow the cherry-tree in blossom, the damascene and plum-trees in blossom, and the white thorn in leaf. Bacon. In fruits the white commonly is meaner, as in pear-plums and damascenes; and the choicest Bacon. plums are black. DA'MASK. n. s. [damasquin, Fr. damaschino, Ital. from Damascus.] 1. Linen or silk woven in a manner in vented at Damascus, by which part, by Not any weaver which his work doth boast Spenser. Wipe your shoes, for want of a clout, with a damask napkin. Swift's Rules to Servants. 2. It is used for red colour in Fairfax, from the damask rose. And for some deale perplexed was her spirit, Her damask late, now chang'd to purest white. Fairfax. To DAMASK. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To form flowers upon stuffs. 2. To variegate; to diversify. They sat recline On the soft downy bank, damask'd with flowers. Around him dance the rosy hours, Damask-roses have not been known in England above one hundred years, and now are so comBacon. mon. No gradual bloom is wanting from the bud, Nor broad carnations, nor gay spotted pinks, Nor, shower'd from ev'ry bush, the damask-rose. Thomsen. DA'MASKENING. n. s. [from damasquiner, Fr.] The art or act of adorning iron or steel, by making incisions, and filling them up with gold or silver wire: used in enriching the blades of swords, and Chambers. locks of pistols. DAME. n. s. [dame, Fr. dama, Spanish.] 1. A lady; the old title of honour to wo 2. 3. Bless you, fair dame! I am not to yoù known, Though in your state of honour I am perfect. Shakspeare Not all these lords do vex me half so much As that proud dame, the lord protector's wife. Shakspeare. Shut your mouth, dame. Shakspeare's K.Lear. Sov'reign of creatures, universal dame! Milt. It is still used in poetry for women of rank. His father Faunus ; a Laurentian dame His mother, fair Marica was her name. Dryden. Who would not repeat that bliss, And frequent sight of such a dame Buy with the hazard of his fame?: Mistress of a low family. Waller. They killed the poor cock; for, say they, if it were not for his waking our dame, she would L'Estrange. not wake us. 4. Woman in general. We've willing dames enough; there cannot be That vulture in you to devour so many As will to greatness dedicate themselves. Shaks. DAMES-VIOLET. n. s. A plant, called also Miller. queen's gillyflower. To DAMN. v. a. (damno, Latin.] 1. To doom to eternal torments in a future state. It is most necessary, that the church, by doctrine and decree, do damn and send to hell for Bacon ever those facts and opinions. 2. To procure or cause to be eternally condemned. That which he continues ignorant of, having done the utmost lying in his power that he might not be ignorant of it, shall not damu him. South's Sermons. 3. To condemn; to censure. His own impartial thought Will damn, and conscience will record the fault. Dryden 4. To hoot or hiss any publick performance; to explode. They damn themselves, nor will my muse de scend To clap with such who fools and knaves com- For the great dons of wit, You are so good a critick, that it is the 2. Pope. It gives him occasion of labouring with greater earnestness elsewhere, to entangle unwary minds with the snares of his damnable opinion. Hooker. He's a creature unprepar'd, unmeet for death; And to transport him in the mind he is Were damnable. Shakspeare. As he does not reckon every schism of a damnable nature, so he is far from closing with the new opinion of those who make it no crime. Swift. It is sometimes indecently used in a low and ludicrous sense; odious; pernicious. O thou damnable fellow! did not I pluck thee Shakspeare. by the nose for thy speeches ? DA'MNABLY. adv. [from damnable.] 1. In such a manner as to incur eternal punishment; so as to be excluded from mercy. We will propose the question, whether those who hold the fundamentals of faith may deny Christ damnably, in respect of those consequences that arise from them. South's Sermons. 2. It is indecently used in a ludicrous sense; odiously; hatefully. The more sweets they bestowed upon them, the more damnably their conserves stunk. Dennis. DAMNATION. n. s. [from damn.] Exclusion from divine mercy; condemnation to eternal punishment. He that hath been affrighted with the fears of hell, or remembers how often he hath been spared from an horrible damnation, will not be ready to strangle his brother for a trifle. Taylor. Now mince the sin, And mollify damnation with a phrase: Of horrid hell can come a devil more damn'd Dare not When now he saw himself so freshly rear, As if late fight had nought him damnified, He was dismay'd, and 'gan his fate to fear. Fairy Queen. DAʼMNINGNESS. n. s. [from damning.] Tendency to procure damnation. He may vow never to return to those sins which he hath had such experience of, for the emptiness and damningness of them, and so think himself a complete penitent. Hammond. DAMP. adj. [dampe, Dutch.] 1. Moist inclining to wet; not completely dry; foggy. She said no more: the trembling Trojans hear, O'erspread with a damp sweat and holy fear. 2. Dejected; sunk; depressed. Dryden. All these and more came flocking: but with looks Downcast and damp; yet such wherein appear'd Obscure some glimpse of joy. Milton. 2. A rift there was, which from the mountain's Convey'd a glimmering and malignant light; The heat of the sun, in the hotter seasons, penetrating the exterior parts of the earth, excites those mineral exhalations in subterraneous caverns, which are called damps: these seldom happen but in the summer-time; when, the bat ter the weather is, the more frequent are the damps. Woodward. 3. Dejection; depression of spirit; cloud of the mind. Adam, by this from the cold sudden damp Recov'ring, and his scatter'd spirits return'd, To Michael thus his humble words address'd. Milten. His name struck every where so great a damp, As Archimedes through the Roman camp. Roscommon. Ev'n now, while thus I stand blest in thy pre sence, A secret damp of grief comes o'er my thoughts An eternal state he knows and confesses that he has made no provision for, that he is undone for ever: a prospect enough to cast a damp over his sprightliest hours. Rogers This commendable resentment against me strikes a damp upon that spirit in all ranks and corporations of men. Swift, To DAMP. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To wet; to moisten; to make humid. 2. To depress; to deject; to chill; to dull. The very loss of one pleasure is enough to damp the relish of another. L'Estrang Dread of death hangs over the mere natural man, and, like the hand-writing on the wall, damps all his jollity. Atterbury. It would be enough to damp their warmth in such pursuits, if they could once reflect, that in such course they will be sure to run upon the Swift very rock they mean to avoid. 3. To weaken; to abate; to hebetate; to discourage. 4. A soft body dampeth the sound much more than a hard. Usury dulls and damps all industries, improve ments, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring, if it were not for this slug. Bac Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing Depress'd. Milten. DA'MPISHNESS. n. s. [from damp.] Tea dency to wetness; fogginess; mois ture. It hath been used by some with great success to make their walls thick; and to put a lay of chalk between the bricks, to take away all Bages dampishness. DA'MPNESS. H.S. [from damp.] Moisture; fogginess. Dryden. Gey. The clowns are whoremasters, and the damsels with child. DAMSON. n. s. [corruptly from damascene.] A small black plum. See DA MASCENE.. My wife desir'd some damsons, Dan Chaucer, well of English undefil'd. This signor Junio's giant dwarf, dan Cupid. Shakspeare. Prior. Dick, if this story pleaseth thee, Pray thank dan Pope, who told it me. To, DANCE. v. n. [danser, Fr. dançar, Span. as some think from tanza, Árabick, a dance; as Junius, who loves to derive from Greek, thinks, from dóvnaç.] To move in measure; to move with steps correspondent to the sound of instruments. What say you to young Mr. Fenton? He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes Shakspeare. To DANCE Attendance. v. n. To wait with suppleness and obsequiousness. verses. Men are sooner weary to dance attendance at the gates of foreign lords, than to tarry the good leisure of their own magistrates. Raleigh's Essays. It upbraids you, To let your father's friend, for three long months, Thus dance attendance for a word of audience. Dryden. TO DANCE. v. a. To make to dance; to Thy grandsire lov'd thee well; Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart, In pestilences, the malignity of the infecting Our dance of custom, sound about the oak But you perhaps expect a modish feast, Musicians and dancers! take some truce He, perfect dancer! climbs the rope, Prior Nature, I thought, perform'd too mean a part, Forming her movements to the rules of art; And, vex'd, I found that the musician's hand Had o'er the dancer's mind too great command. Prior. DA'NCINGMASTER. n. s. [dance and master.] One who teaches the art of dancing. The apes were taught their apes tricks by a L'Estrange. dancingmaster. The legs of a dancingmaster, and the fingers of a musician, fall, as it were, naturally, without thought or pains, into regular and admirable moLocke on Understanding. s. [dance and school.] The school where the art of dancing is taught. tions. DANCINGSCHOOL. n. They bid us to the English dancingschools, And teach lavoltas high, and swift courantos; Saying our grace is only in our heels. Shaksp. A certain Egyptian king endowed a dancingschool for the institution of apes of quality. L'Estrange DANDELION. n. s. [dent de lion, French.] The name of a plant. It agrees, in all respects, with the hawkweed; but only in its having a single naked stalk, with Miller. the top. one flower upon For cowslips sweet, let dandelions spread; For Blouzelinda, blithsome maid, is dead! Gay's Pastorals. DAʼNDIPRAT. n. s. [dandin, French.] A little fellow; an urchin: a word used sometimes in fondness, sometimes in contempt. To DA'NDLE. v. a. [dandelev, Dutch.] 1. To shake a child on the knee, or in the hands, to please and quiet him. Then shall ye suck, and shall be born upon her Isaiah. sides, and be dandled upon her knees. Thy little brethren, which, like fairy sprights, Oft skipt into our chamber those sweet nights; And, kiss'd and dandled on thy father's knee, Were brib'd next day to tell what they did see. Courts are but superficial schools Donne. Bucon Sporting the lion ramp'd, and in his paw Dandled the kid. Milton. Motion occasions sleep; as we find by the common use of rocking froward children in cradles, or dandling them in their nurses arms. Temple. To fondle; to treat like a child. Their child shall be advanc'd, And be received for the emperor's heir; And let the emperor dandle him for his own. Shakspeare. They have put me in a silk gown, and a gaudy fool's cap; I am ashamed to be dandled thus, and cannot look in the glass without blushing, to see myself turned into such a little pretty master. Addison. 3. To delay; to procrastinate; to protract by trifles: not in use. Captains do so dandle their doings, and dally in the service, as if they would not have the enemy subdued. Spenser. DA'NDLER. n. 5. [from dandle.] He that dandles or fondles children. DANDRUFF. H. s. [often written dendriff, from tan, the itch, and drop, sordid, filthy.] Scabs in the head; scurf at the roots of the hair. DA'NEWORT. n. s. A species of elder; called also dwarf-elder, or wall-wort. DANGER. n. s. [danger, Fr. of uncertain derivation. Skinner derives it from damnum, Menage from angaria, Min. shew from dar, death, to which Juius seems inclined.] Risk; hazard; peril. They that sail on the sea tell of the danger. Ecclus. Our craft is in danger to be set at nought. Acts. He hath writ this to feel my affection to your honour, and to no other pretence of danger. Shakspeare. More danger now from man alone we find, Than from the rocks, the billows, and the wind. Waller. Pompey's son stands up For the main soldier; whose quality going on, The sides o' th' world may danger. Shakspeare. DA'NGERLESS. adj. [from danger.] Without hazard; without risk; exempt from danger. He shewed no less magnanimity in dangerless despising, than others in dangerous affecting, the multiplying of kingdoms. Sidney. DANGEROUS. adj. [from danger.] Hazar dous; perilous; full of danger. A man of an ill tongue is dangerous in his city. Ecclus. All men counsel me to take away thy life, likely to bring forth nothing but dangerous and wicked effects. Sidney. Already, we have conquer'd half the war, And the less dangerous part is left behind. Dryd. DANGEROUSLY. adv. [from dangerous.] Hazardously; perilously; with danger. But for your son, believe it, oh believe it, Most dang rously you have with him prevail'd, If not most mortal to him. Shakspeare's Coriol. A sort of naughty persons Have practis'd dangerously against your state, Dealing with witches and with conjurers. Shaks. It is just with God to permit those, which think they stand so surely, to fall most dangerously. Hammond on Fundamentals, Plutarch says, Telesilla, a noble lady, bei dangerously sick, was advised to apply her mind to poetry. Peacham if it were so, which but to think were pride, My constant love would dangerously be tried. Dryden. DANGEROUSNESS. n. s. [from dangerous.} Danger; hazard; peril. I shall not need to mind you of judging of the dangerousness of diseases, by the nobleness of the part affected. Bayle To DANGLE. v. n. [from hang, accord ing to Skinner; as hang, bangle, dangle.] 1. To hang loose and quivering. Go, bind thou up yon dangling apricocks Shakspeare He'd rather on a gibbet dangle, Than miss his dear delight to wrangle. Hull Codrus had but one bed; so short to boot, That his short wife's short legs hung dangling Dryden. out. With dangling hands he strokes th' imperial robe, But have you not with thought beheld The sword hang dangling o'er the shield? Prier. 2. To hang upon any one; to be an humble, useless, harmless follower. The presbyterians, and other fanaticks that dangle after them, are well inclined to pull down the present establishment. Swift, DANGLER. n. s. [from dangle.] A man that hangs about women only to waste time. A dangler is of neither sex. Ralph. DANK. adj. [from tuncken, Germ. Skinner.] Damp; humid; moist; wet. He her the maiden sleeping found On the dank and dirty ground. Yet oft they quit The dank; and, rising on stiff pinions, tour The mid aereal sky. Shakspear Milton. Through each thicket, dank or dry, Like a black mist, low creeping, he held on His midnight search. Milton. Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day? Milion By the rushy-fringed bank, Where grows the willow and the osier dank, My sliding chariot stays. Milton Me, in my vow'd Picture, the sacred wall declares t' have hung My denk and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea. Milton To wash the skins of beasts and fowls here with, would keep them from growing dank in moist weather. Grew DA'NKISH. adj. Somewhat dank. I have taught him how to catch a chub, by dapping with a grasshopper. Walton. DAPA'TICAL. adj. [from dapaticus, Lat.] Sumptuous in cheer. Bailey DA'PPER. adj. [dapper, Dutch.] Little and active; lively without bulk. It is usually spoken in contempt. And on the tawny sands and shelves, Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves, Mill DAPPLE. adj. [from apple; as pommelé.] Marked with various colours; variegated; streaked; imbricated: it is used chiefly of animals. My country neighbours do not find it impossible to think of a lame horse, till they have fun over all beings that are, and then pitch on Dapple. Locke. To ĎA'PPLE. v. a. [from the adjective.] To streak; to vary; to diversify with colours. But under him a grey steed did he weild, The gentle day The lark begins his flight, From his watch-tower in the skies, Deck my charming Chloe's hair. Milton. Prier. The gods, to curse Pamela with her pray'rs, Gave the gilt coach and dappled Flanders mares. Pope. DAR. n. s. A fish found in the Severn. DART. Bailey. Dart is the same with Dace. To DARE. v. n. pret. I durst: the preterit I dared belongs to the active dare; part. I have dared. [deaɲɲan, Saxon; derren, Dutch.] To have courage for any purpose; not to be afraid; to adventure; to be adventurous. Darest thou be as good as thy word now ?Why, Hal, thou knowest, as thou art but a man, I dare; but, as thou art a prince, I fear thee. Shakspeare. I dare do all that may become a man; The father bore it with undaunted soul, Like one who durst his destiny controul. Dryd. Deliberate and well-weighed courage knows both to be cautious and to dare, as occasion ofDryden. fers. We dare not build much upon such a notion or doctrine, till it be very fully examined. Watts. To DARE. V. a. pret. I dared, not I durst. To challenge; to defy. I never in my life Did hear a challenge urg'd more modestly, Take but possession of her with a touch; Masters of the arts of policy thought that they might even defy and dare Providence to the face. South. All cold, but in her breast, I will despise; And dare all beat but that in Celia's eyes. Ross. Time! I dare thee to discover Dryden. To DARE Larks. To catch them by amaze. Shrimps are dipped up in shallow water with little round nets, not much unlike that which is Carew used for daring larks. As larks lie dar'd to shun the hobby's flight. DARE. n. s. [from the verb.] Sextus Pompeius Dryden. Hath given the dare to Cesar, and commands DARE. n. s. [leuciscus.] A small fish, the DA'REFUL. adj. [dare and full.] Full of defiance. Not in use. We might have met them dareful, beard to beard, And beat them backward home. Shakspears, DA'RING. adj. [from dare.] Bold; adventurous; fearless; courageous; intrepid; brave; stout. The last Georgick has many metaphors, but not so daring as this; for human passions may be more naturally ascribed to a bee than to an Addison inanimate plant. The song too daring, and the theme too great. Grieve not, O daring prince! that noble heart. Pope. DA'RINGLY. adv. [from daring.] Boldly; courageously; fearlesly; impudently; outrageously. Some of the great principles of religion are every day openly and daringly attacked from the Atterbury. press. Your brother, fir'd with his success, In Muscovy the generality of the people are more inclined to have dark coloured hair than Boyle. flaxen. 3. Blind; without the enjoyment of light. Thou wretched daughter of a dark old man, Conduct my weary steps! Dryd. and Lee's Oedip, 4. Opake; not transparent: as, lead is a dark body. 5. 6. Obscure; not perspicuous. What may seem dark at the first, will after Hooker. wards be found more plain. Mean time we shall express our darker purs pose. Not enlightened by knowledge; igno rant. |