Dairying Dai"ry·ing noun The business of conducting a dairy.
Dairymaid Dai"ry·maid` noun A female servant whose business is the care of the dairy.
Dairyman Dai"ry·man noun ;
plural Dairymen A man who keeps or takes care of a dairy.
Dairywoman Dai"ry·wom`an noun ;
plural Dairywomen A woman who attends to a dairy.
Dais Da"is (dā"ĭs)
noun [ Middle English
deis ,
des , table, dais, Old French
deis table, French
dais a canopy, Latin
discus a quoit, a dish (from the shape), Late Latin , table, from Greek
... a quoit, a dish. See
Dish .]
1. The high or principal table, at the end of a hall, at which the chief guests were seated; also, the chief seat at the high table. [ Obsolete]
2. A platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the chief guests. 3. A canopy over the seat of a person of dignity. [ Obsolete]
Shiply.
Daisied Dai"sied adjective Full of daisies; adorned with daisies. "The
daisied green."
Langhorne. The grass all deep and daisied .
G. Eliot.
Daisy Dai"sy (-zȳ)
noun ;
plural Daisies (-zĭz). [ Middle English
dayesye , Anglo-Saxon
dæges-eáge day's eye, daisy. See
Day , and
Eye .]
(Botany) (a) A genus of low herbs ( Bellis ), belonging to the family Compositæ. The common English and classical daisy is B. perennis , which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays. (b) The whiteweed ( Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum ), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also oxeye daisy . See Whiteweed . » The word
daisy is also used for composite plants of other genera, as
Erigeron , or fleabane.
Michaelmas daisy (Botany) ,
any plant of the genus Aster, of which there are many species. --
Oxeye daisy (Botany) ,
the whiteweed. See Daisy (b) .
Dak Dak (dak
or däk)
noun [ Hind.
dāk .]
Post; mail; also, the mail or postal arrangements; -- spelt also dawk , and dauk . [ India]
Dak boat ,
a mail boat. Percy Smith. --
Dak bungalow ,
a traveler's rest- house at the end of a dak stage. --
To travel by dak ,
to travel by relays of palanquins or other carriage, as fast as the post along a road.
Daker hen Da"ker hen` [ Perh . fr . W. crecial the daker hen; crec a sharp noise ( creg harsh, hoarse, crechian to scream) + iar hen; or confer Dutch duiken to dive, plunge.] (Zoology) The corncrake or land rail.
Daker, Dakir Da"ker, Da"kir noun [ See
Dicker .]
(O. Eng. & Scots Law) A measure of certain commodities by number, usually ten or twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs. Burrill.
Dakoit Da·koit" noun ,
Da*koit"y noun See Dacoit , Dacoity .
Dakota group Da·ko"ta group` (Geol.) A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America; -- so named from the region where the strata were first studied.
Dakotas Da·ko"tas noun pl .; sing.
Dacota (Ethnol.) An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called Sioux . [ Written also
Dacotahs .]
Dal Dal noun [ Hind.]
Split pulse, esp. of Cajanus Indicus . [ East Indies]
Dal segno Dal` se"gno [ Italian , from the sign.] (Mus.) A direction to go back to the sign ... and repeat from thence to the close. See Segno .
Dale Dale noun [ Anglo-Saxon
dæl ; akin to LG., D., Swedish , Dan., Old Saxon , & Goth.
dal , Icelandic
dalr , Old High German
tal , German
thal , and perhaps to Greek
qo`los a rotunda, Sanskrit
dhāra depth. Confer
Dell .]
1. A low place between hills; a vale or valley. Where mountaines rise, umbrageous dales descend.
Thomson. 2. A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump. Knight.
Dalesman Dales"man noun ;
plural Dalesmen One living in a dale; -- a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, etc. Macaulay.
Dalf Dalf imperfect of Delve . [ Obsolete]
Chaucer.
Dalles Dalles (dălz)
noun plural [ French
dalle a tube, gutter, trough.]
A rapid, esp. one where the channel is narrowed between rock walls. [ Northwestern U. S. & Canada]
The place below, where the compressed river wound like a silver thread among the flat black rocks, was the far-famed Dalles of the Columbia.
F. H. Balch.
Dalliance Dal"li·ance noun [ From
Dally .]
1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance
Too much the rein.
Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit,
The flattery and the strife!
Tennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination. Shak. 3. Entertaining discourse. [ Obsolete]
Chaucer.
Dallier Dal"li·er noun One who fondles; a trifler; as, dalliers with pleasant words. Asham.
Dallop Dal"lop (dăl"lŏp)
noun [ Etymol. unknown.]
A tuft or clump. [ Obsolete]
Tusser.
Dally Dal"ly (-lȳ)
intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Dallied (-lĭd);
present participle & verbal noun Dallying .] [ Middle English
dalien ,
dailien ; confer Icelandic
pylja to talk, German
dallen ,
dalen ,
dahlen , to trifle, talk nonsense, OSw.
tule a droll or funny man; or Anglo-Saxon
dol foolish, English
dull .]
1. To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle. We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer.
Calamy. We have put off God, and dallied with his grace.
Barrow. 2. To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport. Not dallying with a brace of courtesans.
Shak. Our aerie . . . dallies with the wind.
Shak.
Dally Dal"ly transitive verb To delay unnecessarily; to while away. Dallying off the time with often skirmishes.
Knolles.
Dalmania Dal·ma"ni·a noun [ From
Dalman , the geologist.]
(Paleon.) A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks.
Dalmanites Dal`ma·ni"tes noun Same as Dalmania .
Dalmatian Dal·ma"tian adjective Of or pertaining to Dalmatia. Dalmatian dog (Zoology) ,
a carriage dog, shaped like a pointer, and having black or bluish spots on a white ground; the coach dog.
Dalmatica Dal·mat"i·ca noun ,
Dal*mat"ic noun [ Late Latin
dalmatica : confer French
dalmatique .]
1. (R. C. Ch.) A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia. 2. A robe worn on state ocasions, as by English kings at their coronation.
Daltonian Dal·to"ni·an noun One afflicted with color blindness.
Daltonism Dal"ton·ism noun Inability to perceive or distinguish certain colors, esp. red; color blindness. It has various forms and degrees. So called from the chemist Dalton , who had this infirmity. Nichol.
Dam Dam (dăm)
noun [ Middle English
dame mistress, lady; also, mother, dam. See
Dame .]
1. A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother. Our sire and dam , now confined to horses, are a relic of this age (13th century) . . . . Dame is used of a hen; we now make a great difference between dame and dam .
T. Latin K. Oliphant. The dam runs lowing up and down,
Looking the way her harmless young one went.
Shak. 2. A king or crowned piece in the game of draughts.
Dam Dam noun [ Akin to OLG., D., & Danish
dam , G. & Swedish
damm , Icelandic
dammr , and Anglo-Saxon
fordemman to stop up, Goth.
Faúrdammjan .]
1. A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water. 2. (Metal.) A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace. Dam plate (Blast Furnace) ,
an iron plate in front of the dam, to strengthen it.
Dam Dam transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Dammed (dămd);
present participle & verbal noun Damming .]
1. To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up . I'll have the current in this place dammed up.
Shak. A weight of earth that dams in the water.
Mortimer. 2. To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain. The strait pass was dammed
With dead men hurt behind, and cowards.
Shak. To dam out ,
to keep out by means of a dam.
Damage Dam"age (dăm"aj; 48)
noun [ Old French
damage ,
domage , French
dommage , from assumed Late Latin
damnaticum , from Latin
damnum damage. See
Damn .]
1. Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief. He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet and drinketh damage .
Prov. xxvi. 6. Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune.
Bacon. 2. plural (Law) The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another. » In common-law actions, the jury are the proper judges of damages.
Consequential damage .
See under Consequential . --
Exemplary damages (Law) ,
damages imposed by way of example to others. - -
Nominal damages (Law) ,
those given for a violation of a right where no actual loss has accrued. --
Vindictive damages ,
those given specially for the punishment of the wrongdoer. Syn. -- Mischief; injury; harm; hurt; detriment; evil; ill. See
Mischief .
Damage Dam"age transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Damaged ;
present participle & verbal noun Damaging .] [ Confer Old French
damagier ,
domagier . See
Damage ,
noun ]
To occasion damage to the soundness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair. He . . . came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.
Clarendon.
Damage Dam"age (dăm"aj)
intransitive verb To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soundness or value; as, some colors in cloth damage in sunlight.
Damage feasant Dam"age fea`sant [ Old French damage + French faisant doing, present participle See Feasible .] (Law) Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle. Blackstone.
Damageable Dam"age·a·ble adjective [ Confer Old French
damageable , French
dommageable for sense 2.]
1. Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo. 2. Hurtful; pernicious. [ R.]
That it be not damageable unto your royal majesty.
Hakluyt.
Daman Da"man (dä"mȧn)
noun (Zoology) A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax . The species found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus ; that of Northern Africa is H. Brucei ; -- called also ashkoko , dassy , and rock rabbit . See Cony , and Hyrax .
Damar Dam"ar noun See Dammar .
Damara Da·ma"ra noun [ The name is supposed to be from Hottentot
dama vanquished.]
A native of Damaraland, German Southwest Africa. The Damaras include an important and warlike Bantu tribe, and the Hill Damaras , who are Hottentots and mixed breeds hostile to the Bantus.
Damascene Dam"as·cene (dăm"
a s*sēn)
adjective [ Latin
Damascenus of Damascus, from
Damascus the city, Greek
Damasko`s . See
Damask , and confer
Damaskeen ,
Damaskin ,
Damson .]
Of or relating to Damascus.
Damascene Dam"as·cene (dăm"
a s*sēn)
noun A kind of plum, now called damson . See Damson .
Damascene Dam`as·cene" (dăm`
a s*sēn")
transitive verb Same as Damask , or Damaskeen , transitive verb "
Damascened armor."
Beaconsfield. "Cast and
damascened steel."
Ure.
Damascus Da·mas"cus noun [ Latin ]
A city of Syria. Damascus blade ,
a sword or scimiter, made chiefly at Damascus, having a variegated appearance of watering, and proverbial for excellence. --
Damascus iron ,
or Damascus twist ,
metal formed of thin bars or wires of iron and steel elaborately twisted and welded together; used for making gun barrels, etc., of high quality, in which the surface, when polished and acted upon by acid, has a damask appearance. --
Damascus steel .
See Damask steel , under Damask , adjective
Damascus steel Da·mas"cus steel See Damask steel , under Damask .
Damask Dam"ask (dăm"
a sk)
noun [ From the city
Damascus , Latin
Damascus , Greek
Damasko`s , Hebrew
Dammesq , Arabic
Daemeshq ; confer Hebrew
d'meseq damask; confer Italian
damasco , Spanish
damasco , French
damas . Confer
Damascene ,
DamassÉ .]
1. Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like. "A bed of ancient
damask ."
W. Irving. 2. Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of color. 3. A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings. 4. Damask or Damascus steel; also, the peculiar markings or "water" of such steel. 5. A deep pink or rose color. Fairfax.
Damask Dam"ask adjective 1. Pertaining to, or originating at, the city of Damascus; resembling the products or manufactures of Damascus. 2. Having the color of the damask rose. But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek.
Shak. Damask color ,
a deep rose-color like that of the damask rose. --
Damask plum ,
a small dark-colored plum, generally called damson . --
Damask rose (Botany) ,
a large, pink, hardy, and very fragrant variety of rose ( Rosa damascena ) from Damascus. "
Damask roses have not been known in England above one hundred years."
Bacon. --
Damask steel , or
Damascus steel ,
steel of the kind originally made at Damascus, famous for its hardness, and its beautiful texture, ornamented with waving lines; especially, that which is inlaid with damaskeening; -- formerly much valued for sword blades, from its great flexibility and tenacity.
Damask Dam"ask transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Damasked ;
present participle & verbal noun Damasking .]
To decorate in a way peculiar to Damascus or attributed to Damascus; particularly: (a) with flowers and rich designs, as silk; (b) with inlaid lines of gold, etc., or with a peculiar marking or "water," as metal. See Damaskeen . Mingled metal damasked o'er with gold.
Dryde.... On the soft, downy bank, damasked with flowers.
Milton.
Damaskeen, Damasken Dam"as·keen`, Dam"as·ken transitive verb [ French
damaschinare . See
Damascene ,
v. ]
To decorate, as iron, steel, etc., with a peculiar marking or "water" produced in the process of manufacture, or with designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask. Damaskeening is is partly mosaic work, partly engraving, and partly carving.
Ure.
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