dabster (dabster)

[ a bungler. [Colloq. and rare.] The work of some hired dabster in all the misinformation that can be extorted from the statistics of national wealth and progre . N. A. Rev. , CXXVI. 160. dabuht, n. [Appar. repr. Ar. dhab , a hyena.] An old name of the mandrill, Papio maim on . The second kinde of hyena, called papio or dabuh . dacnidine Asiatic, but most inhabit the Australian, Papuan, and Oceanic regions. Leading genera are Dacelo, Halcyon, Tany siptera, and Ceyx. dacey (da'si), n. The usual name in Bengal, and in seric i cultural works, of a race of silkworms of which there are eight annual generations. The silkworm yielding eight crops is found in Bengal, and is there called dacey . L. P. Brockett , Silk-weaving, p. 13. da chiesa (dä kiā'sä). [It.: da , de , of, from; sa , ecclesia , ἐκκλησία , church: see ecclesia .] In music , for the church; in church style. Topsel (1658). om; chiesa , A small wash, done dab-wash (dab'wosh), n . after the regular family wash. [Prov. Eng.] That great room itself was sure to have clothes hanging to dry at the fire, whatever day of the week it was; some one of the large irregular family having had what was called in the district a dab - wash of a few articles forgotten on the regular day. Mrs. Gaskell , Sylvia's Lovers, vi. da capella (dä ka-pel'lä). [It.: da, L. de , of, from; capella , a chapel: see chapel , n.] In music , a direction to play a piece or pa age in church style-that is, with solemnity; in a = stately manner. da capo (dä käpō). [It., from the beginning: da, L. de, of, from; capo,