darwish

See dervish. Dascillidæ (da-sil'i-dē), n. pl. [NL., 1459 Dash the proud gamester in his gilded car. Pope , Imit. of Horace, II. i. 107. To dash in, to paint or write rapidly: as, to dash in the color or the details. To dash off, to form or sketch out hastily; write with great rapidity: as, to dash off an article for a newspaper. - To dash out. (a) To knock out by dashing against something: as, to dash out one's brains against a wall. (b) To erase at a stroke; strike out; blot out or obliterate: as, to dash out a line or a word. (c) To strike out or form at a blow; produce suddenly. Never was dash'd out , at one lucky hit, A fool so just a copy of a wit; So like, that critics said, and courtiers swore, A wit it was, and called the phantom More. Pope , Dunciad, ii. 47. =Syn. Dash, Smash, Shatter, Shiver, Crush, Mash. That which is dashed does not nece arily go to pieces: if it is broken, the fact is commonly expre ed. That which is smashed, shattered, or shivered dashed to pieces sud ide.] A family of serricorn pentamer-mashed is his piece mad lus + -idæ.] ous beetles, typified by the genus Dascillus. They have the ventral segments free, the first of which is not elongate; the head not constricted behind; the eyes granulated; the mesothoracic epimer a reaching the coxæ, of which the front pair is transverse and the hind pair sulcate for reception of the femora; and the tarsi 5-jointed. Same as Cyphonidœ.