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Show DA DA DA e p H n x S c l a [ j a L ' D Da'inry, n / delica delica o nic n Someth 1 l n u e f r v o y d ing ever tafte t exquif o in fomet cy n i i o q d e e don From daily trouble, and continued grief Prior Every day A wor Ceale, man of woman born! to hopcfirchef adv ceitful meat very often A man with who years together Bacen is no region on earth {o daintily watered with fuch great navigable rivers of Epick Poems. i2. Th Tha an woma 5. Ceremonioufnefs ; fcrupulofity DA'INTY. adj. [derived by Skizzer fro dain, an old French word for delicate which yet I cannot find in dictionaries. 1. Pleafing to the palate ; of exquifit And knowing not what 's good, yet find the ill Dawies frugal an Bacon foms My houfey within the city I richly furnifhed with plate and gold Bafons and ewers to lave her dainty handse Shak Why fhould ye be fo cruel to yourfelr And to thofe dafnfy limbs, which nature len Milton 8. Nice; affeCtedly fine : in contempt - Your dainty fpeakers have the curf Lo plead bad caufes down to woife the eart her primrofe an DALE Lrie an t hills T homfon Fairy Queen Before the downfall of the fairy ftate This dale, a pleafing region, not unbleft This dale poilefs'd they, and had &ill poffefs'd Tickell He ficals along the loncly dale Thomfe Spring one' felf with idle play ; to lof in trifles; to procraftinate idly tim Take up thy mafter If thou fhouldft da/ly half an hour, his life With thine, and all that offer to defend him Stand in affured lofs Shakefpeare's King Lear Upon his arms, with courage bol Cried out, 'tis now no time to da/ly The enemy begin to rally Hudibras We haye trifled too" long already: it is madnefs to dally any longer, when our fouls are a ftake Calamy's Sermons One hundred thoufand pounds muit be raifed for there is no dallying with hunger Savift He is not lolling on a leved love bed But on his knees at meditatio Not dallying with a brace of courtezans But meditating with two deep divines. Shakefpeare 3. To {port; to play to frolick She her airie buildeth in the cedar's top And dallies with the wind, and fcorns the fun Shakcfpeare wherein he dal/ied with them judgment worthy of God fhall feel Wifdom, xii. 26 To Da'LLY. w. a: To put off5 to delay to amafe till a proper opportunity Long toft with ftorms, and beat withbitter winds High over hills, and.low adown the dale vale trifle. 1. To trifle; to play the fool ; to amuf re&tion A low place betwee a wood, and meafur'd man t They that would. not be reformed by that cor a vale ; a valley She wand'red man Dutch 4. To delay /. [daki, Gothick; dal, Dutc German. [dollen ton; to fondle Addifon The daify, primrofe, violet «@. 2. Toexchange carefles; to play the wan their blofdays-eyes DA'LLY He left his cur, and laying hol Miller ing to a lock of hay 4. Elegant-; tenderly, languifhingly, o effeminately beautiful eye Fair-handed Spring unbofoms every grace Shakefpeare's Macbeth For_gentle ufage and foft delicacy 7 behold him Hoawel Now hawthorns bloffom, now the daifies {pring Now leaves the trees, and flow'rs adorn the ground Pope This will find thee picking of daifies, or fmefil Will now deny to dance ? She that makes dainty Shakefp. Romeo and Fauliets I'll fwear hath corns Leave ftanding in da/lops till time ye do bim‘:!_ Tuffer fervant whofe bufinefs 1s to ma As he paffed; the woods put fort ‘Which of you al But fhift away Da'rror. n /. [of unknown etymology. A tuft, or clump : not in ufe Of barley the fineft and greeneft ye find ‘When daifies pied, and violets blue And lady fmocks all over white And cuckoo buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows much bedight. Shakefpeare For ev'n the eass of fuch as haye no fkil Perceive a difcord, and conceive offenc Therefore to horf And letus not be dainty of leave-taking are exceedin Bacon obtufe cones "This is the floweft, yet the daintieft fenfe 3. Scrupulous ; ceremonious ground wher the foot-ftalk The flowers are radiated ; an the heads, after the petals are fallen off, refembl 2. Delicate ; of acute fenfibility ; nice {queamifh; foft; luxurious ; tender a. /. [from dally.] A trifler The daily dalliers: with pleafant words, wit {miling countenances, ang with wagers purpofe to be loft before they were purpofed to be made Afcban It hath a perennial root : the ftalks are naked and. never branch out: the cup of the flower i fcaly and fimple, divided into many fegments t Higher concoction is required for fweetnefs, o pleafure of tafte, and therefore all your daint Buacon plumbs are alittle dry Shakefpeare a fondler Dryden Da‘1sy. . [. [ omzgereage, day' Chaucer.] A {pring flower tafte ; delicious They were a fine and dainty people yet elegant, though not military Da‘Lrier The pooreft of the fex have fill an itc To know their fortunes, equal to the rich The dairymaid enquires if the fhall tak The trufty taylor, and the cook forfake Dryden Come up quickly, or we fhall conclude tha thou art in love with one of Sir Roger's dairymaids Addifon Wotton difcourfed without any daintinefs Your breach of promife nage the milk hat clay, Vitruviu the coarfe and country fairy DaA"1rYMAID. n. /. [dairy and maid.] Th Hakewillon Providence and lime And 1, to blame, have held him here too long.=- ~-Good lord, you ufe this da/liance to excuf where they feed more upon bread and fleth. Bacon 4. Squeamifhnefs ; faftidioufnefs fand 3. Delay; procraftination Eoth wind and tide ftay for this gentleman Children, in dairy countries, dowax more tall tha Wotton Thou claim'{t me for thy fire And my fair fon here fhow'ft me, the dear pledg Of dalliance had with thee in heav'n Milton You have no more wort Dairies, being well houfewived commodious It was more notorious for the daintinfs of th provifion which he ferved in it, than for the mafiiO 3. Pafturage; milk farm milch cattle are kept The duke "exceeded in the daintingfs of his leg and foot, and the earl in the fine fhape of hi nefs of the difh Milton place where milk is manufattured She in pens his flocks will fold And then produce her dairy ftore nicety 3. Delicacy; delicioufnefs That bower not myftick, where the fapient kin Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian fpoufe That doth haunt the hearth or dairy. Ben Fonfon ‘What ftores my dairies and my folds contain A thoufand lambs that wander on the plain. Dryd What fhould yet thy palate pleafe Daintinefs and fofter eafe Ben Fonfon Sleeked limbs and fineft blood hands In hafte came ruthing forth from inner bow'r Fairy Queen Temple Englith butter 3. Nicely ; ceremoniouily ; {crupuloufly 4. Squeamifhly; faftidioufly Da'INTINESS. 7 /i [from dainty. 1. Delicacy; foftnefs 2, Elegance Where he with his Duefia dalliance found Grounds were turned much in England eithe to feeding or dairy ; and this advanced the trade o Howel's Pocal Forefi Thofe young fuitors had been accuftomed to no- Broge's V The giant, felf-difrnayed with the found DA'IRY. #. /. [from dey, an old word fo milk. Mr. Lye. 1. The occupation or art of making various kinds of food from milk of the world, half {o ftately and daintily as candlz thing but to fleep well, and:fair daintily . Conjugal converfation There is a fortune comin Towards you, dainty, that will take thee thus Ben SFonfon And fet thee aloft Truth is a naked and open day-light, that dot not fhew the matks and mummeries and triumph Ther Dryden Why, that's my dainty; 1 fhall mifs thee Shake Tempeft But yet thou fhalt have freedom DA INTILY. adv. [from dainty. 1. Elegantly; delicately 2. Delicioufly ; pleafantly Wanted ; nor youthful dalliance, as befeem Fair couple link'd in happy nuptial league Alone as they Milton T'l] head my people Then think of dalliance when the danger's o'er My warlike {pirits work now another way And my foul 's tun'd to trampets Dryden 2. A word of fondnefs formerly in ufe daily io Dryden light a grea Bacon a is give The fhepherd {wains, with fure abundance bleft Pope On the fat flock and rural dainties feaft Fairy Qucen 1 converfed almof breedeth in meal, of the fhape of She then produc'd her dairy ftore And unbought dainties of the poor " Let that man with better fenfe advife That of the world leaft part to us is read And daily how through hardy enterpriz Many great regions are difcovered Look thou be true: do not give dallianc T'oo much the rein : the firongeft oaths are fira To th' fire i' th' blood Shakefpeare's Tempeft Nor gentle purpofe, nor endearing {miles Prowerbs, xxiii. 3 large white maggot, whic dainty to nightingales [from dally. nefs Shak # 1. Interchange of carefles; acts of fond Be not defirous of his dainties; for they are de Much are we bound to heave In daily thanks, that gave us fuch a prince Da'1Ly Da'Lriance He fet down to perform fervice, not by th hazard of one fet: battle, but by da/lying off th time with often fkirmifhes Dawm Knolles's Hiffory 2. /. [from dame, which formerl fignified mother Had Ner never bee an emperour, [bulde never bis dame bav e flaine, Ghaucer 1. Th |