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Show DA D A The honourableft part of talk is to give the oc cafion and again to moderate an pafs to fome what elfe; for thena man leads the dasce Bacon : But you perhaps expe@ a modith feaft With am'rous fongs and wanton dances grac'd Dryden Da'NcEer. . /i [from dauce. practifes the art of dancing One tha Shakefpeare Muficians and dancers! take fome truc With thefe your pleafing labours; for great uf As much wearinefs as perfe@ion brings Donne The earl was fo far from being a good dancer that he was no graceful goer Wotton It is a ufual pra@ice for our funambulours, o dancers on the rope, to attempt fomewhat like t flying Wilkins He, perfet dancer! climbs the rope And balances your fear and hope 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 mufician' by trifles: not in ufe han Had o'er the dancer's mind too great command Prior DA'NcINGMASTER. #. /. [dance and ma/ do fo dandle their doings, and dall Captain in the fervice, as if they would not have the enem fubdued Spenfer Da'NpLER, 7. /. [from dandle.] He tha dandles or fondles children Da'NDRUFF. 2. /. [often written dendriff from zan, th He at Philippi kep His {word e'en like a dancer, while I ftroo The lean and wrinkled Caflius 3. To delay ; to procraftinate ; to protrac filthy. itch an bpop fordid Scabs in the head; {curf at th roots of the hair Da'weworT. z. /. A fpecies of elder called alfo dwarf-elder, or wallwort DA'NGER. . /. [danger, Fr. of uncertai derivation. Skinner derives it from damnum fro feem peril Menage from angaria, Minfbe 04y@-, death, to which Funiu inclined. Rifque hazard They that fail on the fea, tell of the danger Ecclys. xliiie 24 Our craft is in danger to be fet at nought AbTsy X 2 He hath writ this to feel my affettion to you But have you not with théfight behel The fword hang dangling o'er the fhield Soith Prior z. To hang upon any one;; to be an hup ble, ufelefs, harmlefs follower The prefbyterians dangle after them an other fanaticks thy are well inclined t pull o s.z:-' thebprefent eftablifhment Da'~GLER. # /. [from dangle.] A m{: that hangs about women only to waft time A dangler is of neither fex Ralph DANK. adj. [from tancken, Germ. Shiz ner.] Damp ; humid ; moift; wet He her the maiden fleeping foun On the dank and dirty ground Shakefpearz Yet oft they qui The dank, and rifing on fiff pinions tou The mid aereal {ky Miltor Through each thickety dank or dry Like a black mift, low creeping, he held o His midnight fearch Milton Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire ‘Where fhall we fometimes meet, and by the fir One who teaches the art of danc Help wafte a fullen day . The apes were taught their apes tricks by a dancwmgmafler L'Eftrange More danger now from man alone we find Than from the rocks, the billows, and the wind Waller Where grows the willow and the ofier dant The legs of a dancingmafter a mufician fall a and the fingers o it were, naturally withou thought or pains, into regular and admirable motions Locke on Underfanding 7o Da'NGER. @. a. [from the noun,] T put in hazard; to endanger Pompey's fon ftands u For the main foldier; whofe quality going on The fides o' th' world may danger Shakefpeare Da'wcinescuoor. # f [ dancing an Jchool. The {fchool where the art of | Da'NGERLESS. adj. [from danger.] Withdancing is tanght out hazard; without rifque ; exemp They bid us to the Englith dancing[chools from danger And teach lavoltas high, and fwift courantos Saying ouf grace is only in our heels. Shakefpeare A certain Egyptian king endowed a dancing Jehool for the inftitution of apes of quality L' Efirange Danverr'on. n /. [dent de lion, French. The name ofa plant 1t agrees in all refpes with the hawkweed, bu enly in its having a fingle naked ftalk, with on flower upon the top Miller For cowflips fweet, let dandelions {pread For Blouzelinda, blithfome maid, is dead Gay's Paftorals -Da'Np1eRAT 2.[ [dandin, French.] little fellow; an urchin: a word ufe {fometimes in fondnefs, fometimes i contempt 70 DA'NDLE. @. a. [dandelen, Dutch. 3, To thake a child on the knee, or i the hands, to pleafe and quiet him _~"Then fhall ye fuck, and fhall be born upon he fides, and be dandled upon ber knees Ifaiah Thy little brethren, which, like fairy fprights Oft {kip into our chamber thofe fweet nights #And, kifs'd and dandled on thy father's knee "Were brib'd next day to tell what they did fee Donne Courts are but fuperficial {fchool To dandle fools Bacon Sporting the lion ramp'd, and in his pa Dandled the kid Milton Motion cccafions fleep, as we find by the comsnon ufe of rocking froward children in cradles, o dandling them in their nurfes arms Temple :z. To fondle to treat like a child Their child fhall be advanc'd And be received for the emperor's heir And let the emperor dandle him for his own. Shak They have put me in a filk gown, and a gaud clean.sh data import.tsv out README fool's cap; I am afhamed to be dandled thus, an <annot look in the glafs without bluthing, to fe - mylelf turned into fuch a little pretty mafter Addifon's Guardian He fhewed no lefs magnanimity in dangerlef defpifing, than others in dangerous affefting, th multiplying of kingdoms Sidney Da'xGEROUS. adj. [from danger.] Hazardous ; perilous ; full of danger A man of an ill tongue is dangerous in his city Ecclus. ix All men counfel me to take away thy life, likely to bring forth nothing but dangerous and wicke effelts Sidney Already we have conquer'd half the war And the lefs dangerous part is left behind. Dryden Da'~NGEROUSLY. adv. [from dangerous. Hazardouily; perilouily ; with danger But for your fon, believe it, oh believe it Moft dang'roufly you have with him prevail'd If not moft mortal to him Shakefp. Coriolanus A fort of naughty perfon Have practis'd dangeroufly againft your ftate Dealing with witches and with conjurors Shakefpeare It is juft with God to permit thofe, whic think they ftand fo furely, to fall moft dangeroufly Hammond on Fundamentals Plutarch fays, Telefilla, a noble lady, bein dangeroufly fick, was advifed to apply her mind t poetrys Peacham If it wer fo, which but to think were pride My conftant love would dangeroufly be tried. Dryd DA'NGEROUSNESS. z /. [from dangerous. Danger; hazard; peril I {hall not need to mind you of judging of th dangeroufnefs of difeafes, by the noblenefs of th Boyle part affeéted 7o DA'NGLE. @. #. [from bang, according to Skinner 5 as, hang, hangle, dangle. To hang loofe and quivering Go, bind thou up yon dangling apricocks. Shak He'd rather on a gibbet dang/e Than mifs his dear delight to wrangle. Hudibras LCodrus had but one bed ; fo fhert, to boog That his thost wife's fhort legs bung dargling out Dryden o And with a cuckold's air commands thgegl:‘b:,% honour, and to no other pretence of danger Shakefpeare Zer. ing With dangling hands he ftrokes th* imperla Mileon By the rufhy-fringed bank My fliding chariot ftays Milte Me, in my vow' Pitture, the facred wall declares t' have hun My dank and drooping weed To the ftern god of fea Milton To wath the fkins of beafts and fowlsherewith would keep them from growing dank in moif weather Da'~ki1sH. adj Grew Somewhat dank They bound me, bore me thence And in a dark and dankifb vault at hom " There left me Shakefpeare 7% Dap. v. # [corrupted from 4ip.] T let fall gently into the water: a word I believe, only ufed by anglers I have taught him how to catch a chub, b Waiton dapping with a grafshopper Dara'ricar. adj. [from dapaticus, Lat. Bailgy Sumptuous in cheer DA'PPER. adj. [dapper, Dutch.] Litdl bulk., It 1 lively withou and aétive ufually fpoken in contempt And on the tawny fands and fhelves Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves. Milto A pert dapper fpark of a magpye fancie th birds would never be governed till himfelf fhould L'Effrange fit at the helm da;:jbe(.] 7 /. [fro Da'prERLING Ainfworth dwarf ; a dandiprat DA'PPLE. adj. [from apple ; as pommelé. Marke wit variou colours ; varie gated ; ftreaked ; imbricated: 1t1s ufe chiefly of animals My country neighbours do not find it impoffibl to think of a lame hotfe, till they have run over all beings that are, and then pitchon dapple. Locke 7, Da'ppLE @. 2. [from the adjective. colours To ftreak ; to vary; to diverfify wit But under him a grey fteed did he wield Whofe fides with dappled circles were endight Spenfer The gentle da Dapples the drowfy eaft with fpots of grey Hfirfe that are dapple tur white fquirrels turn grifly The lark begins his flight From his watch-tower in the_: {kies Sbflf an Bagen o l M es ri t d w d l p d Till th f r n h u b a n p l p d Th Deck my charming Chloe's hair Th |