daric, darick

[Gr. dareikos, prob. from Darius, king of Persia, either, as Hero dot us states, Darius Hystaspis, or, in the opinion of some, an earlier monarch.] Numis.: A gold coin current in Persia, Asia Minor, . It was of the value of about $5.29, and weighed about 130 gr. On the obverse is the figure of a crowned archer kneeling with a bow and long javelin, on the reverse a rude indentation. There is no inscription. Darics are mentioned in Xenophon's Anabasis , so they would be in circulation about 400 B. C. They are also mentioned under the name of adarkonim in some of the later Old Testament books, viz., in 1 Chron. xxix. 7 and Ezra viii. 27. "He repaired at the length unto Cimon, and brought him home to his own door two bowls, the one full of dar icks of gold, and the other full of daricks of silver, which be pieces of money so called, because that the name of Darius was written upon them."-North: Plutarch, p. 415. dar-1-1, s . (A word of no etymology.] Logic: An arbitrary name for a mode of syllogisms in the first figure, in which the Middle Term is made the subject of the Major and the predicate of the Minor premise. By this mode we arrive at a Particular Conclusion from a Universal and a Particular premise, e. g ., (A) All men are mortal. (I.) John is a man. (L.) Therefore John is mortal. [LOGIC, SYLLOGISM.] där-ing (1), pr. par., a. & 8. [DARE (1), v.] A. As pr. par.: In senses corresponding to those of the verb. IMG:content-1802.png:[blocks in formation] *C. As adv.: In the dark, without light. "I see no more in you Shakesp.: As You Like It, iii. 5. Crabb thus discriminates between dark , ob- scure, dim , and mysterious : "Darkne expre es more than obscurity : the former denotes the total privation of the latter only the diminution bright. Darkne may be used either in the natural of light. Dark is opposed to light: obscure to or moral sense; obscurity only in the moral sense; in this case the former conveys a more unfavorable idea than the latter; darkne serves to cover that which ought not to be hidden; obscurity intercepts our view of that which we would wish to see; the former is the consequence of design; the latter of neglect or accident: the letter sent by the conspir at or in the gunpowder plot to his friend was dark ; all pa ages in ancient writers which allude to cir- cum stances no longer known must nece arily be obscure; a corner may be said to be dark or obscure , but the former is used literally and the latter fig- uratively: the owl is obliged, from the weakne of its visual organs, to seek the darkest corners in the daytime; men of distorted minds often seek obscure corners, only from disappointed ambition. Dim expre es a degree of darkne , but it is employed more in relation to the person seeing than to the object seen. The eyes are said to grow dim , or the things are but dimly seen. Mysterious denotes a sight dim . The light is said to be dim , by which species of the dark , in relation to the actions of men; where a veil is intentionally thrown over any object so as to render it as incomprehensible as that which is sacred. Dark is an epithet taken always different sense. We are told in the Sacred Writings in the bad sense, but mysterious is always in an in- their deeds are evil. Whatever, therefore, is dark that men love darkne rather than light, because evil; but things may be mysterious in the events of in the ways of men is naturally presumed to be human life, without the expre intention of an in- dividual to render them so. The speeches of an 3. Of a brownish color. (Opposed to fair.) "Their complexion is rather darker than that of the a a in and conspirator will be dark : any intricate Otaheiteans."-Cook: Third Voyage , bk. v., ch. iii. 4. Opaque. (Opposed to transparent.) 5. Shaded, gloomy. *8. Reticent, secret, not open. "The dark unrelenting Tiberius IMG:content-1803.png:[blocks in formation] affair which involves the characters and conduct of men may be mysterious." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) Dark is used largely in composition with the names of colors, to expre the deepne of shade of the color: as dark - blue , dark - brown , dark - gray , dark- red, . Obvious compounds are: Dark -browed, dark - colored , dark - haired , dark - skinned . dark-box, s. A closed chamber in which an electric light is placed, in order that experiments may be deprived of all light except the beams i u- ing at the lens. ( Knight .) dark-chamber, 8. [CAMERA OBSCURA.] dark-eyed, a. 1. Lit .: Having dark or black eyes. *2. Fig .: Dark. "Slow the dark - fringed eyelids fall, Curtaining each azure ball." *dark-land, s. An allegorical expre ion for the country of ignorance. ( Bunyan : Pilgrim's Prog- re .) dark-lantern, s. A lantern having a circular IMG:content-1804.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1805.png:[blocks in formation] [PLATE-HOLDER.] Photography : The holder for the sensitized plate. den, concealed. dark-veiled, a. Closely or darkly veiled; hid- not openly. dark-working, a. Working or acting secretly; "Dark-working sorcerers, that change the mind." Shakesp.: Comedy of Errors, i. 2. [A. S. dearcian .] *dark, *darke, *derke, *derken, *dirk, v . t. & i. IMG:content-1806.png:[blocks in formation] "Such was his wisdom, that his confidence did seldom Bacon . darken his foresight, especially in things near hand."- 3. To foul, to sully, to disgrace. "Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthle song, Darkening thy power to lend base subjects light?" Shakesp.: Sonnets, 100. 4. To make gloomy or cheerle . "What cloud soeuer hath darkened my present lot."- Speed: The Romans, bk. vi., ch. vi., § 15. dark-ened, pa.par.ora. [DARKEN, v .] that which darkens. ( Lit. & fig .) dark-en-er, s . [Eng.darken; -er.] One who or “. it is pernicious evil, the darkener of man's founder of truth."-B. Jonson: Discoveries. life, the disturber of his reason, and common con. dark-en-ing, pr . par ., a. & s. [DARKEN, ".] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj .: (See the IMG:content-1807.png:[blocks in formation] "And down the darkling precipice Are dash'd into the deep aby ." "So out went the candle, and we were left darkling ."- dark-lins, adv . [DARKLING.] In the dark. "An' to the kiln she goes then, An' darklins graip it for the banks." IMG:content-1808.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small] 1273 IMG:content-1809.jpg:[blocks in formation] "Dauid, Godes owune deorling ."-Ancren Riwle. "Come, and see my ship, my darling !" Long fellow: Musician's Tale. *2. Fig . ( Script .): The life. yehidathi ) from the power of the dog."- Psalms xxii. 20. "Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling (Hebrew The parallelism of the Hebrew poetry shows that darling here means life. kindne and tenderne ; favorite. B. As adj .: Dearly beloved; regarded with great "Great Æsyetes was the hero's sire; His spouse, Hippodamè, divinely fair, Anchises' eldest hope and darling care." Pope: Homer's Iliad , xiii. 538-40. *dar-ling-ne , s . [Eng. darling; -ne .] The quality or state of being greatly beloved; dearne , great affection. (Browning: Aristoph . Apol ., p. 39.) dar-ling-to-ni-a, s. [Named after Dr. Darling- ton, an American botanist.] Bot. A genus of pitcher-plants, belonging to the order Sarraceniacem (Sarraceniads). The Darling- tonia californica grows in the northern part of Cal- ifornia, chiefly in the district around Mount Shasta. It is found in boggy places, on the slopes of mount- ains. It entraps insects, which are attracted to the curious pitcher or hood at the extremity of the tubular leaves; and, once inside, are prevented by sect remains. The larva of a small moth, Xanthop- tera semicrocea , preys on the plant, and that of a dipterous insect, Sarcophaga sarraceniæ , feeds on the dead insects which it incloses. ( Horticultural Records, No. 15, June, 1877, p. 81.) darn (1), *dern (1), v. t . & i. [Wel. darnio = to piece, darn =a piece; O. Fr. darne =slice, a piece. IMG:content-1810.jpg:[blocks in formation] "Their courage quailed and they began to dern ." Hudson: Judith, p. 31. darn, s. [DARN, v .] A hole, rent, or piece mended by darning. "There's not a dern nook, or cove, or corri, in the whole country that he's not acquainted with."-Scott: Waver ley, ch. xviii. darned, pa . par . or a. [DARN, v .] dar-nel, *der-nel, *der-nell, s. [Etym. doubt ful; prob. connected with O. Fr. darne stupefied, ( Skeat )] Bot. The popu- lar name for Loli- um tenulentum , which some sup- pose to be the Infelix lolium of Virgil and the zi- zania or tares of Scripture. It was believed by the ancients to be poisonous and narcotic. It is common in corn- fields. It has culms one to two feet high, seer, a superintendent. ( Anglo -Indian da-rō-gāh, s . [Mahratta, ., dăroga .] An over- IMG:content-1811.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] 3. To set out in order of battle, to range. "Darraign your battle, for they are at hand." "Therewith they'gan to hurlen greedily, Redoubted battle ready to darraine ." IMG:content-1812.png:[graphic] 12. To throw as a dart, to cast hostilely. "He whets his tusks, and turns, and dares the war; "Forth from his head his forked tongue he throws, Darting it full against a kitten's nose." Cowper : Colubriad . dar'-trous, a . [Eng. dartr (e); -ous.] Of or per- taining to dartre; herpetic. Dar-win'-i-an, a . & s . [From the proper name Darwin , and Eng. adj. suff. -ian .] [DARWIN ISM.] A. As adj .: Pertaining or relating to Charles Darwin or his biological views. "The second reason is a somewhat Darwin i an one. There seems to exist among words, even as among living beings, a struggle for existence, terminating in the 'sur- vival of the fittest." "-Beames: Comp. Gram. Aryan Lang. IMG:content-1813.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1814.png:[blocks in formation] 1781; the Zoonomia , or Laws of Organic Life , given to the world in 1796; and the Phytologia , or Philos- ophy of Agriculture and Gardening , sent forth in 1800. The son of Dr. Erasmus Darwin was an emi nent physician practicing at Shrews bury, England, in which town Mr. Charles Darwin was born, in Feb- ruary, 1809. He was educated at Shrews bury, Edin- burgh, and Cambridge. He first became known through going (without salary) as naturalist with a tail, the foot prehensile, the habits arboreal, the the Beagle surveying ship of war, which, between birthplace some warm forest-clad land. December, 1831, and December, circumnavi- Darwin ism was and is, to a certain extent, mis- gated the globe. In 1839 he married his cousin, understood by the general public. When first it Mi Emma Wedgwood, and had ultimately a family was broached it was held as teaching, among other of five sons and two daughters. Between 1842 and views, that- 1846 he published three important works, one of "A very tall pig, with a very long nose, which that on Coral-reefs-revolutionized the Puts forth a proboscis quite down to his toes, views till then held on the formation of the Pacific Islands. On November 24, 1859, he gave to Here the transformation is in the lifetime of one the world the first edition of his immortal work on animal. Mr. Darwin's transformations demand for the Origin of Species ; on January 7,1860, the sec their accomplishment vastly extended geological ond appeared. The one we quote, printed in 1882, ages, and at the end of them the pig does not become is stated to be the sixth edition, with additions and the elephant. He held that at a remote point of by corrections to 1872. The work has been translated gone geological time an animal, which was neither a into most, if not all, civilized languages. In 1871 pignor an elephant, but had the characteristics.com Mr. Darwin, in his Descent of Man , extended the mon to both, existed. It gave rise to more specialized human race. His last great work, one announcing the pigcame at last from an ancestor not so special- views advanced in the Origin of Species to the forms; the same proce took place with them till great discoveries in connection with the earthworm, ized as iemand the elephant from another. It is was called The Formation of Vegetable Mould. difficult, if not impo ible, to harmonize Darwin ism When the Origin of Species and the Descent of Man with the views regarding creation entertained by were sent forth, many replies were published by the great majority of the people; with Theism it men who deemed his views completely any controversy. With regard has not nece arily any contro believes that it may have been originally breathed by the Creator God, but a Creator, is recognized. may have been origins onere Thus not merely a April 19, 1882, his merits were acknowledged on all ton of biology, while even those who could not sides. Admirers considered him the Sir Isaac New a ent to his views believed that Westminster appealing for contributions to a memorial in his honor two of the most prominent names are those of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.] Biol , Hist ., & c .: The views, especially regarding the origin of species and the descent of man, ex- pre ed in detail and advocated with much earnest- ne , but with perfect scientific candor, by Mr. IMG:content-1815.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1816.png:[blocks in formation] Just before the publication of Mr. Darwin's first great work on the subject, the vast majority of family Dascillide. naturalists believed that each species, whether of animals of plants, was a It might be improved by cultivation, or might help to originate a "hybrid" between it and another species, in which case the hybrid was sterile, but it was deemed quite a canon of natural science that IMG:content-1817.png:[blocks in formation] it could undergo no farther change. Mr. Darwin followed a small but distinguished school of nat- uralists in setting wholly aside this canon, and accepting instead of it the transmutation of in pieces. "My star that dartles the red and the blue." [Gr. dartos flayed, and eidos = species. [TRANSMUTATION.] Mr. Darwin's views form, appearance.] dartoid-ti ue, s . Anat .: The structure of the dartos, intermediate between muscle and elastic fibrous ti ue as to how species originated, arrived at in depend- ently about the same time by Mr. Alfred Ru el Wallace, and foreshadowed by Aristotle, Matthews, the adverb out .) and others, may be embodied in the following postu- lates or propositions IMG:content-1818.png:[blocks in formation] this tempest, Dashing the garment of this peace, aboded The sudden breach on't." Shakesp.: Henry VIII ., 1. 1. 2. To place or put hastily or carele ly. *3. To mingle, mix, or adulterate with some in- ferior admixture. 1. Printing and writing : A short line (-) occur ring in a sentence to mark a significant pause of more moment than that indicated by a comma. Also used to indicate a consecutive series; as, John xiv. 1-8. Also used as a "ditto" mark. The em dash is the length of the "em" of its fount; the en-dash one-half the former. The double-dash has the length of two em's. [Ем.] "Strange! how the frequent interjected dash Quickens a market and helps off the trash." Cowper: Charity , 521, 522. 2. Vehicle: Formerly splash -board. A board or fender erected on the forepart of the bed, and stand- ( Knight .) IMG:content-1819.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1820.png:[blocks in formation] (2) A line drawn through the duple time-sign, implying a division either of measurement or of pace. (3) A short stroke (1) placed above note or chords, directing that they are to be played staccato . (4) In harpsichord music, a dash pa ing between two bars, called a slur or coulé. ( Stainer & Bar- rett .) (1) At a dash : At one movement, at once. "And whan he perceyueth that Scriptures wyl not ayde hym in approuynge of hys bablynges, he heapeth me in, an whole halfe leafe at a dash , out of Saynt Augustyne." -Bale: Apology , fol. 37. (2) At first dash : From the first, at once. "She takes upon her bravely at first dash."-Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt . 1. , 1. 2. "Hark, hark, the waters fall; And, with a murmuring sound, Dash, dash, upon the ground, To gentle slumbers call." Bleaching : A wheel with compartments revolving partially in a cistern, to wash and rinse calico in the piece, by alternately dipping it in the water and then dashing it from side to side of the compart- ments as the wheel rotates. dashed, *dasht, pa . par . or a. [DASH, v.] dăsh'-er, s. [Eng.dash; -er.] II. Vehicles: A dash-board (q. v.). dăsh'-ing, pr . par ., a. & s. [DASH, v.] A. As pr. par.: In senses corresponding to those of the verb. IMG:content-1821.png:[blocks in formation] "Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!" IMG:content-1822.png:[blocks in formation] "Permitted by our dastard nobles, who Have all forsook me, IMG:content-1823.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1824.jpg:[ocr errors] 1. The formula appended to a letter, deed, ., to denote the year, month, and day when such letter or deed was signed or executed. "My father's promise ties me not to time; And bonds without a date , they say, are void." And my reliances on his fracted dates Have smit my credit."- Shakesp .: Timon, ii. 1. *3. Duration, continuance; time generally. "Could the declining of this fate, O friend, Our date to immortality extend?" 4. The period of time during which any person or thing is in existence. *5. An end or conclusion. "What time would spare, from steel receives its date : And monuments, like men, submit to fate." For the difference between date and time , see *date-broke, a. Not met or provided for on the appointed day. "How goes the world, that I am thus encounter'd With clamorous demands of date - broke bonds?" Shakesp.: Timon of Athens, ii. 2. date (2), s . & a. [O. Fr. date ; Fr. datte ; Dan. daddel ; Dut. dadel ; Ger. dattel ; Prov. datil , dactil ; Sp. datil ; Port. datile ; Ital. dattero , all from Lat. dactylus a date; Gr. daktylos =a finger, from the shape of the fruit.] IMG:content-1825.png:[blocks in formation] ., and the juice is used for the manufacture of arrack. An analogous species, P. sylvestris , is the most common palm in the interior of India; from its juice a drink called by the natives toddy is made. There are other species. B. As adj .: Pertaining to the date, resembling the date. [A.] date-coffee, s. A kind of coffee prepared by roasting and grinding the fruit of the date-palm. It was first made under Henley's [English] patent in 1880. date-palm, s. The tree described under A. date-plum, s . dāte, v. t . & i. [DATE (1), s.] A. Transitive : 2. To fix or note the time of anything. *3. To give rise to, to originate. IMG:content-1826.png:[blocks in formation] dā'-těd, pa . par . or a . [DATE, v.] †dāte-le , a. [Eng. date , and le .] Of giving welcome to the first of May By dances round its trunk." IMG:content-1827.png:[graphic] IMG:content-1828.jpg:[blocks in formation] "And still, when the merry date - season is burning, And calls to the palm-groves the young and the old." Moore: Fire Worshipers. IMG:content-1829.jpg:[blocks in formation] datisi alcoholic solution yields colorle silky needles of datiscin; these are only sparingly soluble in cold water, easily soluble in alcohol. It melts at 180°. Boiled with dilute sulphuric acid it yields dat is- cet in and sugar. IMG:content-1830.png:[blocks in formation] (1) That may be given away or parted with at pleasure. (2) Removable at pleasure; holding an office during pleasure. (3) Applied to executors who are appointed as such by a court, as distinguished from such as are appointed by a testator in his will. "We haif given our full power to our saids Commi aries of Edinburgh, to give datives , and constitute sik persons as they, be the avi of our Lords of the said Se ioun, or ane certain nowmer of them as sall be appoint it to that effect (sall judge proper to be) executors-datives to the guids and geir of the persons decei and." -Act Sedt ., July 24, 1564. B. As substantive : 1. Scots Law: A power legally granted to one to act as executor of a latter will, when it is not confirmed by the proper heirs of the testator. He to whom this power is granted is called the executor dative. 2. Gram.: That case of a noun or pronoun which usually follows verbs or other words expre ive of giving, handing, or pa ing over.