dalai lama

[Mongol Tartar dalai or tale =the ocean, and Tibetan lama priest. The priest who resembles the ocean (in vastne of mind).] Buddhist Hierarchy: The official title given to ruler who over any chair of state. *5. Any chair of state. "Sittend upon his highe deis ." Gower, iii. 148. which the chief personages sit at any meeting. hich raised platform in any hall or room, on To begin the dais: To have the seat of honor at the high table. "The march and the dees began."- Amadace , xx. Buddha quitted the earthly tenement which it had inhabited, it was believed that it transmigrated to another human body, the individual thus favored becoming in a spiritual guide worthy of complicit confidence. One of these pontiffs, at Putala Tibet in the thirteenth cent ursid i as raised by the Mogul Tartars to a position of high authority, and one of his succe ors in the sixteenth century had the title bestowed upon him by which the line of Tibetan pontiffs has since been known. Sometimes a Lama of this type is elected = kw , œ ê; ey IMG:content-1759.png:[blocks in formation] "Went wand'ring over dale and hill, In thoughtle freedom bold." IMG:content-1760.png:[blocks in formation] "Awhile he stood upon his foot; He felt the motion-took his seat; And dallied thus." 2. To exchange care es or acts of fondne . "Thay dronken and daylyeden, thise lordez and ladyez." Gawaine, 1,114. 3. To play, to sport, to frolic. "Our aery buildeth in the cedar's top, And dallies with the wind and scorns the sun." Shakesp.: Richard III., 1. 3. 4. To chat, to go ip, to pa the time in idle talk. "O my life In Egypt! O the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strife!" "If thou shouldst dally half an hour, his life, With thine and all that offer to defend him, Stand in a ured lo ." Shakesp.: King Lear, iii. 6. "King James was dallying off the day With Heron's wily dame." *dăl'-ly, a . [DALLY, v.] Idle. "A working mother makes a dally daughter." -Tricks (q. v.).] of Leper the Tailor , p. 11. "The dawning of my youth, with awe And prophecy, the Dalesman saw." IMG:content-1761.png:[blocks in formation] Dăl-mā-tian, a. & s. [Eng. Dalmati (a); -an.] A. As adj .: Of or pertaining to Dalmatia, a province of Austria on the Gulf of Venice. B. As subst.: A native or inhabitant of Dalmatia. Dalmatian dog. Zool .: A variety of dog, resembling partly the hound and partly the pointer, and kept mainly as a carriage dog. It is distinguished by the numer ous black spots on its coat. It is also called the Danish, Spotted, or Carriage dog. "Dalmatyk. Dalmatic a."- Prompt . Parv. *dalmes, s. [DAMASK.] Damask cloth. dal segno (pr. dal sān-yō), phrase . [Italian= from the sign.] Music : A direction, put at the end of a pa age, to go back to the sign & and repeat to the close. dalt, s. [Gael. dalt a .] A foster-child. "It is false of thy father's child; falser of thy mother's son; falsest of my dalt ."- Scott (in Ogilvie). *dalt, pret. of v. [DEAL, V.] "Al the lond that ther was they dalten it in two, And leeten Gamelyn the yonge withoute lond go." Chaucer: The Cokes Tale of Gamelyn, 44, 45. IMG:content-1762.png:[blocks in formation] 12. A mother. (Used of a woman in contempt.) "It is the i ue of Polixenes: Hence with it, and together with the dam Commit them to the fire!" 3. A female parent, a mother. (Used of beasts.) "A faithful nurse thou hast; the dam , that did thee year Upon the mountain-tops, no kinder could have been." Words worth: The Pet Lamb. I. Ord. Lang.: In the same sense as II. 1 and 2. II. Technically : stream, intended to obstruct or keep back the flow (1) A bank or structure acro the current of a of the water for any purpose, as to obtain sufficient head and power for driving a water-wheel, . (2) The water kept back by a mound, mole, or bank. *(3) A pond, a lake, a body of water. "Hoo stangnum, a dame."-Wright: Vol. of Vocab., p. 239. I. Lit .: To confine, keep back, or obstruct the flow of water by a dam. (Generally used with the adverbs in or up .) a weight of earth, that dams in the water, .."- Mortimer . *II. Figuratively : 1. To confine, to restrain, to keep down. "The more thou damm'st it up, the more it burns." Shakesp.: Two Gent. of Verona , ii. 7. 2. To obstruct, to hinder. "And dammed the lovely splendor of their sight." IMG:content-1763.png:[blocks in formation] damage dăm-age (age asig), s . [O. Fr. damage , domage ; Fr. dommage ; Ital. dannaggio , from Low Lat. * damn at i cum , from Lat. damnum =lo , injury.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. Any hurt, injury, mischief, or detriment done to any person or thing. to the great damage both of their fame and fortune." -Bacon. 2. The hurt, injury, mischief, or detriment suffered by any one; any lo or harm incurred. 3. The value or cost of hurt or injury done. [II.] (Generally plural.) to pay the damages which had been sustained by the war." Clarendon. 4. Retribution or reparation for hurt, injury, or detriment done or suffered. [II.] "The bishop demanded restitution of the spoils taken by the Scots, or damages for the same." - Васон . 5. The cost of anything. (Slang.) II. Law: 1. ( Sing .): Any lo or injury sustained by the fault or illegal act of another. 2. ( Pl . ): The amount in money at which any damage sustained by any person, through the act or omi ion of another, is a e ed by a jury; the pecuniary recompense for damage sustained claimed by the plaintiff, or awarded by the jury, in a civil action. "Tell me whether I may not sue her for dam ages in a court of justice?"-Add is on. For the difference between damage and injury , see INJURY; for that between damage and lo , see Lo . dăm-age (age as Ig), v. t. & i. [DAMAGE, 8.] A. Transitive: 1. Lit .: To cause damage, hurt, or injury to , to hurt, to injure, to harm. "Soon after the English fleet had refitted themselves (for they had generally been much damaged by the they appeared in sight of engagement in Solbay) they appeared in Scheveling, making up to the shore." -Burnet : Own Time, an. 1672. IMG:content-1764.png:[blocks in formation] AGE, v.]