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[A corruption of dengue (q. v.).] dandy-fever, s. The same as DENGUE (q. v.). †dăn-dỹ-ish, a. [Eng. dandy; -ish.] Like a dandy; having the marners or habits of a dandy. dăn-dỹ-işm, s. [Eng. dandy; -ism.] Foppish ? ne ; the manners of a dandy. *dăn-dỹ-īze, v . i . & t . [Eng. dandy; -ize.] A. In trans.: To act like a dandy; to acquire the habits of a dandy. [See ex. under DANDIACAL.] B. Trans.: To form like a dandy; to dandify. đăn-dỹ-ling, s. [Eng. dandy , and dim in. suff. -ling.] A little or insignificant dandy. Dāne, s. [Low Lat. Dani , contr. for Dacini .] A IMG:content-1789.png:[blocks in formation] , œ = = IMG:content-1790.png:[blocks in formation] legal arrangements introduced by the Danemand retained when the expulsion of those invaders left the Saxons free, if they pleased, to return in all re- more in 878 A. D. It extended from the east coast to a line which ran from the Thames a little below London to Chester on the Dee. dāne-wõrt, s. [Eng. Dane , and wort (q. v.).] Bot .: The Dwarf Elder, Sambucus ebulus . [DANE- IMG:content-1791.png:[blocks in formation] Than Rychard Talbot can hym pray To ser we hym of thre Cours of Were, And he thaim grawntyt but dawngere." "That winding leads through pits of death, or else Instructs him how to take the dangerous ford." Thomson: Autumn, 1,160, 1,161. 3. Producing, or likely to produce, danger or risk. "No, Cæsar shall not: danger knows full well That Cæsar is more dangerous than he." IMG:content-1792.png:[blocks in formation] who go in search of unknown countries put them- selves in the way of undergoing perils both by sea and land." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) 1. Ord. Lang.: A signal made by one person to another to warn him of danger close at hand. danger-signal "Wild horses and cattle do not, I believe, make any IMG:content-1793.png:[blocks in formation] phore extended horizontally by day and a red light at night, to indicate to the engineer of any train that there is an obstruction or obstacle involving danger ahead of him, and to warn him to stop his train. *dān-ger, v. t. [DANGER, 8.] To place in a pos i- tion of danger, to endanger. whose quality, going on,,, Shakesp.: Antony and Cleopatra, i. 2. *dān-gered, a. [Eng. danger; -ed.] Placed in a position of danger; endangered. "With more care our dangered fields defend." Bp . Hall : Satires , v. 3. *dān-ger-field, s. [So called from one Danger- field, a dramatic bully of the seventeenth century, whose sword and habit of feigning to draw it had dān-ger-lě , a. [Eng. danger; -le .] Free from danger or risk; without danger. "Burrough did therein, not dangerle preuaile." Warner: Albion's Eng ., bk. xi., c. 67. dān-ger-oŭs, *daungerous, *daungerouse, a . [O. Fr. & Fr. dangereux .] 1. Niggardly, parsimonious, sparing. "My wages ben full streyt and eke ful smale, My lord to me is hard and daungerous." Chaucer: C. T. , 7,008, 7,009, IMG:content-1794.png:[blocks in formation] Dan i elite The Book of Daniel: Scripture Canon : One of the most important prophetic books of the Old Testament, honored by quotations on the part of our Lord (Matt. xxiv. 15; Mark xiii. 14); containing one of the most remarkable Me ianic prophecies existing (Dan. ix. 24-27) [ Seventy Weeks ], and in symbolic language, and to a certain extent in subject, resembling the New Testament Apocalypse, to which it stands in a certain relation. Daniel commences in Hebrew, which goes on to chapter ii., and the middle of verse 4, then Aramean takes its place to the end of chapter vii., after which Hebrew is resumed, continuing to the end of the book. Gesenius places the Hebrew of Daniel in the same cla with that of Esther, Ecclesiastes, 1st Chronicles, and Jonah. He deems it somewhat purer than that of Ezra, Nehemiah, Zechariah and Malachi. The Aramean is not like that of the "Targums," Translations or Paraphrases, about the commencement of the Christian era, but like that of Ezra. Startling as it may appear, there are what look uncommonly like four Greek words writ ten in Hebrew (Dan. iii. 5, 7, 10, 15). The Jewish Church received the Book of Daniel as canonical. They placed it, however, not among the other prophets, but among the "Kethubim (Holy Writings), the Hagiographa of the Greeks, between Esther and Ezra. The early Christian Church regarded it as inspired, and received it with much veneration, as the immense majority of Christians in every church do to the present day. The date of its composition has been the subject of much controversy, and its settlement in one direction or another has a bearing on more than chronology. Porphyry, who in the third century wrote a work in fifteen books against Christianity, devoted the whole of the twelfth one against Daniel. He maintained that it was written, not by Daniel in Babylonian or Persian times, but by a Jew of Palestine in the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, "and that Daniel did not so much predict future events as narrate past ones." What doubtle operated with him to produce this view was the fact that the prophecies of Daniel, and especially ch. xi., are very specific to the time of Antiochus Epiphanes (B. C. 175-164), then they become vague, and remain so for the whole period intervening between that king and Me ianic times. The English deist, Collins, in the early part of the eighteenth century, took the same view. Subsequently on the continent Corrodi, Eichhorn, Bertholdt, Gesenius, Bleek, De Wette, Lücke, and others followed in the same direction, many of them impugning the correctne of the narrative. More recently advocates for the late date of Daniel have not been wanting, within the Christian Church, the noble Dr. Arnold of Rugby, England, leading the way. Heng stenberg and others on the continent, with the Rev. Dr. Pusey, Mr. Bosanquet, ., have been the able defenders of the older view. Mr. Bosanquet, it should be mentioned, has a scheme of chronology of his own, by which he places the final destruction of Jerusalem by Darius, whom he believes to have been the well-known Darius Hystaspis, in B. C. 492, in place of B. C. 538, i. e., forty-six years lower than the common view, and reduces the whole range of dates connected with the Jewish monarchy twenty-five years. He also makes two Cyruses, and believes that the conqueror of Babylon was the son, and not the father of Cambyses. For the apocryphal additions to the Book of Daniel see BEL AND THE DRAGON, also SUSANNA. Dăn-i-el-ite, s. & a . [Proper name Daniel , and suff. -ite .] A. As subst.: A member of an order founded in 1876 by a life-long abstainer and vegetarian, T. W. Richardson, to bring about the general adoption of a non-animal diet. The name is derived from the refusal of the prophet to partake of the "king's meat." (Dan. i. 8-16.) B. As adj .: Of or belonging to the Daniel i tes. Daniell, proper name. [From John Frederick Daniell, F. R. S., who received the Copley medal from the Royal Society, England, in for this invention; he died in 1845.] Daniell's battery, s. The double-fluid battery invented by Daniell. It consists of a jar of gla or earthenware, in which fits a plate of copper, bent into cylindrical form. Within the copper is a porous cup containing the zinc. The liquids used are a saturated solution of sulphate of copper in the outer cell, and of sulphuric acid in the inner cell or porous cup. To the copper a perforated shell or jacket is often attached for holding crystals of sulphate of copper, so that the solution may be kept at the point of saturation. [GALVANIC BATDaniell's cell, s. Same as DANIELL'S BATTERY. A hygrometer in Daniell's hygrometer, s . which a gla bulb containing a thermometer TERY.] placed in ether is cooled by evaporation till dew deposited. is 1270 Daniell's pyrometer, s . A pyrometer for measuring very high temperatures by the expansion of a metallic rod. Dān'-Ish, a. . [Eng. Dan (e); -ish.] A. As adj .: Of or pertaining to Denmark or the Danes. "Hard i can ute thus dead, the English, rejoicing at this unexpected riddance from the Danish yoke, sent over to Elfred."-Milton: Hist. Eng ., vi. B. As subst. The language of the Danes.