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Show DA T'he gods, to curfe Pamela with her pray'rg Gave the gilt coach and dappled Flanders malrjcs Crlevé not, O daring prince, that noble Keatt Pope ope )7/ A filh found in the Severn Bailyy. Dart is the fame wit Dar Dart. Dace Da'rincLY. adv. [from daring.] Boldly courageouily ; fearlefsly ; impudently outrageouily Some of the great principles of religion are every day openty and daringly attacked from the prefs 9o DARE. @. » pret. I durjt; the preterite I dared belongs to the altive dare - part. I have dared. [oeappan, Saxon derren, Dutch.] To have. courage fo any purpofe ; not to be afraid; to ad venture ; to be adventurous Dareft thou be as goo ‘Why, Hal, thou knoweft, as thou art but a man I dare; but, as thou art a prince, I fear thee Shake[peare ' U Shakefpeare ‘Who dares do more, is none They are both hanged; and fo would this be : Eki Shak i he durft fteal any thing adventuroufly Neither of them was of that temper as to dar b any dangerou nefs DARK. adj. [beonc, Saxon. 1. Not light ; wanting light The father bore it with undaunted foul Like one who durft his deftiny controul, Dryden Deliberate and well-weighed courage knows bot %9 be cautious and to dare, as occafion offers Dryden m) Uy We dare not build much upon fuch a notion o Watts do&rine, till it be very fully examined %o Dark @.a pret. I dared, not I durfl To challenge; to defy I never in my lif Did hear a challenge urg'd more modeftly Unlefs a brother fhould a brother dar Shakefp To gentle exercife and proof of arms Here fhe ftands Talke but poffeflion of her with a touch 1 dare thee but to breathe upon my love. Shakefp He had many days come half feas over; an fometimes paffing further, came and lay at th anouth of the harbour, daring them to fight. Knolles Mafters of the arts of policy thought that the sighteven defyand dare Providence to the face South Al cold, but in her breaft, I will defpife And dare all heat but that in Celia's eyes Rofcommon Time! I dare thee to difcove Such a youth, and fuch a lover Dryden Prefumptuous wretch ! with mortal art to dar Immortal power, and brave the thunderer. Granwv ¥, Dare Larks. To catch them by mean of a looking-glafs, or by keeping a bir of prey hovering aloft, which keeps the in amaze till caught ; to amaze Shrimp are dipped up in fhallow water wit little round nets not much unlike that whic i wfed for darirg larks Carew As larks lie dar'd to fhun the hobby's flight Dryden Dare. n /. [from the verb.] Defiance challenge Sextus Pompeiu Hath given the dare to Cefar, and command The empire of the fea Shakefpeare Dare 2. /. Afmall fith, the fame wit dace Leucifcus Da'rEFUL. adj. [dare and fu/l. defiance : not in ufe W migh hav me the dareful Full o bear t beard And beat them backward home Shakefpeare Da'rinc. adj. [from dare.] Bold; adventurous; fearlefs; courageous; intrepid ; brave ; tiout - The laft Georgick has many metaphors, bu not {o daring as this; for human paffions may b more naturally afcribed to a bee than to an inanisnate plant Addifon The fong too daring, and the theme too great Prior Waller No want of day, nor think it dark 2. Not of a fhowy or vivid colour If the plague be fomewhat dark, and the plagu fpread not in the fkin, the prieft fhall pronounc Lewviticus him clean In Mufcovy the generality of the people ar more incline dar to hav tha coloured hai Boyle flaxen 3. Blind; without the enjoyment of light ‘Thou wretched daughter of a dark old man Condu& my weary fteps. Drydenand Lee's Oedipus 4 Opake ; not tranfparent : as, lead 1s - dark body 5. Obfcure ; not perfpicuous 6. Not enlightened by knowledge; ignorant The age, wherein he 1iv'd, was dark; but h Could not want fight, who taught the world to fee Denbam 7. Gloomy ; not cheerful All men of dark tempers, according to thei degree of melancholy or enthufiafm, may fin convents fitted to their humours. Addifon on Italy Dark. 2. / 1. Darknefs; obfcurity; want of light Come, thick night And pall thee in the dunneft fmoke of hell That my keen knife fee not the wound it makes Nor heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark To cry, hold, hold Shakefpeare's Macbeth Cloud and ever-during dar Surrounds me ! from the chearful ways of me Cut oft Milton Whereas feeing requires light, and & free medium, and a right line to the objeéts; we can hea in the dark immured, and by curve lines. -~ Holder 2. Obfcurity; condition of one unknown All he fays of himfelf is, that he is an obfcur perfon; one, I fuppofe he means, thatisin th dark Aiterbury 3. Want of knowledge by our own under ftandings, we are as much in the dark, and as voi of knowledge, as before 70 Dark @ a. [from the noun. darken ; to obfcure Fair when that clou Locke T obfolete of pride, which oft dot dar Her goodly light, with fmiles the drives away Spenfer 70 DA'RKEN. @, a. [from dark. 1. Tomake dark; to deprive of light Bacon 3. To foul; to fully Th darke lufts and paffions o their minds men d fully an even by a natural influence Tillotfor 7o Da'rkEN. w. 2. To grow dark Da'rkring. [a participle, as it feems from darkle, which yet I have neve found; or perhaps a kind of diminutiv from dark, as young, youngling. Bein O, wilt thou darkling leave me Add!fan Whether the darken'd room to mufe invite Or whiten'd wall provoke the fkew'r to write Pope 2. To cloud ; to perplex that his confidenc do not fo Shakefpeare Darkling ftand The varying fhore o' th' world Shakefpeare The wakeful bir Sings darkling, and, in fhadieft covert hid Tunes her noéturnal note Milton Darkling they mour their fate, whom Circe' pow'r With words and wicked herbs, from human kin Had alter'd, and in brutal fhapes confin'd. Dryd Da'rkry gdv [from dart. Ina fitua tion void of light ; obfcurely ; blindly gloomily; uncertainly For well you know, and can record alone Wha fame to future times conveys but darkl Dryden DarknEess, n /. [from dark. 1. Abfence of light Darknefs was upon the face of the deep. Genzfis I go whence I thall not return, even to the lan of darknefs and the fhadow of death Fob 2. Opakenefs ; want of tranfparency 3. Obfcurity; want of perfpicuity; diffi cultnefs to the underftanding 4. Infernal gloom ; wickednefs The inftruments of darknefs tell us truths Win us with honeft trifles, to betray u In deepeft confequence Shake[pears 5. State of being intelleGtually clouded ignorance; uncertainty All the light truth has, or can have, is.fro the clearnefs and validity of thofe proofs upo which it is received; to talk of any other ligh in the underftanding, is to put ourfelves in th dark, or in the power of the prince of darknefs " - Lacke 6. The empire of Satan, or the Devil Who hath delivered us from the power of darknefs, and tranflated us into the kingdom of hi Coloffians dear Son Da'rksomE adj. [from dark.] Gloomy obfcure ; not well enlightened ; not lu minous He brought him thro' a dafkfome narrow paf To a broad gate Spenfer And her fair eyes, like ftars that dimmed wer With darkfome cloud, now fthew their goodly beams Spenfer You muft not look to have an image in an thing lightfome; for even a facein iron, red-hot will not be feen, the light confounding the fmal differences of lightfome and darkfome, which fhe the figure Bacon A darkfome cloud of locufts, fivarming down Muft eat, and on the ground leave nothing green Miltoss He, here with us to be Forfook the courts of everlafting day Black with furrounding forefts then it ftood That hung above, and darken'd all the flood Such wag hiswifdom near hand down What may feem dark at the firft, will afterwards be found more plain Hooker Mean time we fhall exprefs our darker purpofe Shakefpeare Till we ourfelves perceiv clean.sh data import.tsv out README feldom darken his forefight, efpecially in thing in the dark ; being without light word merely poetical Fleance, his fon, who keeps him company Shak Muft embrace the fate of that dark hour While we converfe with her, we mar Haywood fact Hualifax DA'RINGNESS. # /. [from daring.] Bold 1 dare do all that may become a ma W ??" as thy word now Your brother, fird with his fuccefs Too daringly upon the foe did prefs Atterbury D AZ di And chofe with us a darkfome houfe of mortal clay Milron Miftaken bleffing, which old age they call *Tis a long, nafty, darkfome hofpital Dryden The darkfome pines, that o'er yon rocks reclin'd Wave high, and murmur to the hollow wind. Pope Da'rLING tiv adj. [beonling of dear. Favourite 3-0 Sax. diminu dear; beloved |