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An obsolete form of day. daichy (dā'chi), a. A Scotch form of doughy. daidlel (da'dl), r. i.; pret. and pp. daidled, ppr. daidling. [Sc., Sc., appar. a form of daddle: see daddlel, dawdle.] To be slow in motion or action; dawdle. daidle (da'dl), v. t.; pret. and pp. daidled, ppr. daidling. [Sc., a form of * daddle, a variation of daggle.] To draggle; bemire. daidlie (da'dli), n. Same as daddle1. daidling (da'dling), p. a. [Sc.] Feeble; mean spirited; pusillanimous. He's but a coward body, after a'; he's but a daidling coward body. Scott , Old Mortality, iv. daigh (dāch), n. A Scotch form of dough . daighine (dā'chi-nes), n . A Scotch form of doughine . daighy (dā'chi), a. A Scotch form of doughy. daiker1 (dā'kėr), v. See dacker. daiker2 (dā'kėr), v. t. [Origin obscure; perhaps another use of daiker1 = dacker, daker, q. v. Otherwise referred to F. décorer, decorate: see decorate.] To arrange in an orderly manner: with out. If she binna as dink and as lady-like a corse as ye ever looked upon, say Madge Mack it trick's skill has failed her in daikering out a dead dame's flesh. Blackwood's Mag ., Sept., 1820, p. 652. daiker3 (dā'ker), n . Same as dicker1 . dailine (dā'li-nes), n. [ daily + -ne .] The character of being daily or of happening every day; daily occurrence. [Rare.] IMG:content-1996.jpg:[blocks in formation] He seems a mighty delicate gentleman; looks to be painted, and is all daint if i cation in manner, speech and Mme. D'Arblay , Diary, 327. daily (dā'li), a. and n. [Early mod. E. dailie, dayly, daylie, IMG:content-1997.png:[graphic] = + -ful.] Dainty; costly. There is no lust so deinteful . lich, G. täglich täglich = Icel. dagligr = Sw. Dan. daglig ), daily, newspaper. Give us this day our daily bread. Mat. vi. 11. Swiftly his daily Journey he goes, And treads his annual with a statelier Pace. make dainty; weaken by over-refinement. [Rare.] My father charges me to give you his kindest love, and not to daintify his affection into respects or compliments. Mme. D'Arblay, Diary, I. 414. Cowley, The Mistre , Love and Life. daint i hood (dān'ti-hud), n . [ dainty + -hood . ] II. n.; pl. dailies (-liz). A newspaper or other periodical published each day, or each day except Sunday: in distinction from one published semi-weekly, weekly, or at longer intervals. See journal , semi- weekly , weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual , as nouns. Publishers of country weeklies used to fish with considerable anxiety in a shallow sea for matter sufficient to fill their sheets, while dailies only dreamed of an exis tence in the larger cities. S. Bowles , in Merriam, I. 98. daily (dā'li), adv. [= D. dagelijks = MLG. dagelikes, dageliken = OHG. tagalīhhin, MHG. tegelichen, G. täglich = Icel. dagliga = Sw.dag ligen = Dan. daglig, adv.; from the adj.] Every day; day by day. He continued to offer his advice daily, and had the mortification to find it daily rejected. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., vi. daimen (dā'men), a . Rare; occasional. [Scotch.] A daimen icker [ear of grain] in a thrave 'S a sma' request. Burns , To a Mouse. daimio (dī'myō), n. [Chino-Jap., dai , great, + mio , name.] The title of the chief feudal barons or territorial nobles of Japan, va als of the mikado: distinguished from the shomio ('little name'), the title given to the hatamoto, or va als of the shogun. See shogun . Though exercising independent authority in their own domains, the daimios acknowledged the mikado as the legitimate ruler of the whole country. During the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1868) the daimios gradually became subject to the shoguns, who compelled them to live in Yedo, with their families and a certain number of their retainers, for six months of every year, and on their departure for their own provinces to leave their families as hostages. The number of daimios differed at different times, according to the fortunes of war and the caprice of the shoguns. Just before the abolition of the shogunate there were 255, arranged in five cla es, with incomes ranging from 10,000 to 1,027,000 koku of rice per annum. In 1871 the daimios surrendered their lands and privileges to the mikado, who granted pensions proportioned to their respective revenues, and relieved them of the support of the samurai, their military retainers. These pensions have since been commuted into active bonds, redeemable by government within thirty years from date of i ue. The title has been abolished, and that of kuwazoku bestowed upon court and territorial nobles alike. See kuwazoku. daimon (di'mon), n. [A direct transliteration of Gr. δαίμων: see dæmon, demon.] Same as demon. daimon i an, daimonography, etc. Same as de monian, etc. dain1t, v. t. [See deign, and cf. dain2, disdain, dainty.] An obsolete spelling of deign. dain2+, v. t. [By apheresis from disdain, q. v.] To disdain. dain2t, n. [By apheresis from disdain , q.v.] 1. Disdain.-2. Noisome effluvia; stink. [Prov. Eng.] From dainty beds of downe to bed of strawe ful fayne; From bowres of heavenly he we to dennes of daine . Mir. for Mags. dain3t, v. t. [By apheresis from ordain .] To ordain. The mighty gods did daine For Philomele, that thoughe hir tong were cutte, Yet should she sing a pleasant note son me times. IMG:content-1998.png:[blocks in formation] Daintine . [Rare.] daintily (dan'ti-li), adv. [ From head to foot clad daintily . William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 75. (b) Fastidiously; delicately; with nice regard to what is pleasing, especially to the palate: as, to eat daintily. (c) Ceremoniously; with nice or weak caution; weakly. I do not wish to treat friendships daintily , but with roughest courage. Emerson , Friendship. daintine (dan'ti-nes), n . [ dainty , a., + -ne .] The character or quality of being dainty. (a) Elegance; neatne ; the exhibition or po e ion of delicate beauty or of exquisite taste or skill. The duke exceeded in the daintine of his leg and foot. Sir H. Wotton . There is to me A daintine about these early flowers, That touches me like poetry. IMG:content-1999.png:[graphic][merged small][merged small][merged small] More notorious for the daintine of the provision than for the ma ivene of the dish. Hake will , Apology. He [the trout] may justly contend with all fresh-water fish, as the Mullet may with all sea fish, for precedency and daintine of taste. I. Walton , Complete Angler, p. 7. (c) Nicety as regards matters of behavior and decorum; ceremoniousne ; fastidiousne in conduct; hence, sensitivene ; softne ; effeminacy; weakne of character. The daint in e e and nicene e of our captaines. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 250. The people, saith Malmsbury, learnt of the outlandish Saxons rudene , of the Flemish daintine and softne . Milton, Hist. Eng., v. daintith (dan'tith), n. A Scotch and obsolete English form of dainty . IMG:content-2000.jpg:[blocks in formation] daintlyt (dant'li), adv. [ As on the which full daintly would he fare. Sackville, Ind. to Mir. for Mags. daintrelt (dān'trel), n. [Also daintrell; Long after deintrelles hard to be come by. Bullinger, Sermons, p. 249.