dancy (dans i)

Same as danché. Cotgrave. danda (dan'da), n. [Skt. danda, a rod.] An East Indian long measure, equal to the English [Formerly dent fathom, or 6 feet. dandelion (dan'de-li-on), n. de - lyon, IMG:content-2026.png:[blocks in formation] of a furnace. dandering (dan'der-ing), p. a. [Sc., also written daundering, daunering, etc., ppr. of dan der1, daunder, etc.] c.) Sauntering; loitering; going about aimle ly. dandiacal (dan'di-a-kal), a. [Improp. To my own surmise, it appears as if this Dandiacal Sect were but a new modification, adapted to the new time, of that primeval superstition, self-worship. Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, p. 191. dandify (dan'di-fi), v. t.; pret. and pp. dandi fied, ppr. dandifying. [ Clive, whose prosperity offended them, and whose dan dified manners gave umbrage to these elderly apprentices. Thackeray , New comes, xviii. Eccentricity and dandified bearing. IMG:content-2027.png:[blocks in formation] Mas singer, Virgin-Martyr, ii. 1. "It is even so, my little dandie - prat -but who the devil "Do not thou care about that," said Flibbertigibbet. Scott , Kenilworth, xxvi. 2. A small silver coin formerly current in England, equal to three halfpence. 3 halfe-pence maketh 1 Dan dip rate . T. Hills , Arithmeticke (1600), 1. 13. Shall I make a French man cry O! before the fall of the leaf? not I, by the cro of this Dandyprat . Middle ton, Blurt, Master-Constable, ii. 1. Dandiprat or dodkin, so called because it is as little among other money as a dandiprat or dwarfe among other Minsheu, 1617. King Henry [VII.] is also said to have stamped a small coin called Dandy - Prats , but what sort of money this was we are not informed. Leake, Account of English Money (1793), p. 181. men.