dar2 (dar)

Same as dace, 1. darapti (da-rap'ti), n. The mnemonic name given by Petrus His pan us to that mood of the third figure of syllogism in which the two premises are universal and affirmative and the conclusion is particular and affirmative. These distinctions of quantity and quality are indicated by the three vowels of the word, a-a-i. The letter p indicates that the reduction to direct reasoning is to be performed by converting by accident the minor premise, and the initial d shows that the direct mood so reached is dari i. The following is an example of a syllogism in darapti: All griffins breathe fire; but all griffins are animals; therefore, some animals breathe fire. Some logicians deny the validity of this mood. darbar, n. See durbar . A surface dappled o'er with shadows flung From many a brooding cloud. Words worth. IMG:content-2045.png:[blocks in formation] a synonym. See cut in next column. gra , the Poa cynosuroides, much venerated by the Hindus, and employed by the Brahmans in their religious ceremonies. darby (där'bi), n.; pl. darbies (-biz). [Appar. from the personal name Darby or Derby. The phrase "father Derbies bands" for handcuffs occurs in Gas coigne's "Steele Glas" (1576).] 1. pl. Handcuffs. [Slang.] Hark ye! Jem Clink will fetch you the darbies . Scott, Peveril of the Peak, xxxiii. 2. A plasterers' tool consisting of a thin strip of wood about 3 or 34 feet long and 7 inches broad, with two handles at the back, used for floating a ceiling. Brethren, under brother . Darbyites (där bi-īts), n. pl. See Plymouth darcet (därs), n. [Also darse ; darse : see dace .] An earlier form of dace . Rooche, darce , Makerelle. A golden ring that shines upon thy thumb, About thy wrist the rich Dardanium . Glad to fa' to wark that's killing, To common darguing . ult. a secondary form of ME. dasen , be stupe ployed at day-work. fied, tr. stupefy, daze: see daze .] I. in trans. 1. To be in fear; tremble with fear; be stupe- fied or dazed with fear. Specifically-2. Το R. Galloway , Poems, p. 119. lie still in fear; lurk in dread; especially, lie darger (där'ger), n. [As darg + -er1; ult. a or squat close to the ground, like a frightened contr. of day - worker .] A day-worker. [Scotch.] bird or hare; look anxiously around, as such a lurking creature. These weddid men that lye and dare , As in a forme lith a wery hare. The croon in' kie the byre drew nigh, The darger left his thrift. Border Minstrelsy, III. 357. dargie (där'gi), n. [E. dial.; origin obscure. Cf. dargie dar focal English English name of the coal-fish. dargs.] dargs (därgz), n. [Cf. dargie .] A local Scotch 3. To droop; languish. II. trans. 1. To strike with fear; terrify; name of the whiting. Now me bus, as a beggar, my bread for to thigge At doris vpon dayes, that dayres me full sore: Till I come to my kyth, can I non othir. For I have done those follies, those mad mischiefs, Would dare a woman. Beau, and Fl ., Maid's Tragedy, iv. 1. 2. To terrify and catch (larks), as by means of a mirror or a piece of red cloth, or by walk- ing round with a hawk on the fist where they are crouching, and then throwing a net over Enclos'd the bush about, and there him tooke, Like darred Larke. darel (dar), v. t.; pret. dared or durst , pp. dared , ppr. daring . [A form orig. indicative, dar , der , dear , dear , dearr (for * dears ) = OS. gi - dar = OFries. dor , dur , also by confusion thor , thur , = MLG. dar = OHG. gi - tar , MHG. tar , gi - tar = Dan. tör Sw. tör =Goth.ga - dars , I dare, an old preterit present, with new inf., ME. durren , durn (also by conformation daren , darn ), dur- ran = OS. gi - durr an = OFries. * dura , * dor a , also by confusion * thura , * thora , = MLG. doren = OHG. gi - turran = Icel. thora = Sw. töra = Dan. turde = Goth. ga - daurs an (with new weak pret- erit, E. durst, dorste (two sylla- bles), dorste (for * dors - de ) = OS. gi - dorsta = OFries. dorste , thorste = MLG. dorste = OHG. *gi-torsta, MHG. torste = Icel. thordhi = Sw. torde = Dan. turde = Goth. ga - daursta ), dare, Gr. θαρσεῖν, θαρρεῖν , be bold, dare ( θαρσίύς , θρασύς, bold), = OBulg. drŭzati , dare, = Skt. ✓ dharsh, dare. In some forms, as the ME., dare2+ (dar), n. [ dare2 , v .] A mirror for daring Fries., and Scand., there is confusion with a different preterit verb, ME. tharf , also darf , thearf , inf. thurfan , = OFries. thurf , inf. * thurva , = OHG. durfan = Icel. thurfa = Goth. thaurban , have need, which in D. durven = G. dürfen , dare, has completely displaced the form corresponding to E. dare : see darf , tharf . ] 1. To be bold enough (to do something); have courage, strength of mind, or hardihood (to undertake some action or project); not to be afraid; venture: followed by an infinitive (with or without to ) as object, or sometimes, by el- lips is, used absolutely. IMG:content-2046.png:[blocks in formation] If we live thus tamely, To be thus jaded by a piece of scarlet, Farewell nobility; let his grace go forward, And dare us with his cap, like larks. dares (dar), n. [Also written dar (ME.), dard (pron. där), and in older form dart (and in another form darse , darce, > E. dace ); all ult. identical with dart , a mi ile: see dace and dart1 .] Same as dace , 1. [Local, Eng.] dare4t, n. A Middle English form of deer . daredevil (dar'dev"l), n . and a. [ dare , v . , + obj. devil.] I. n. One who fears nothing and will attempt anything; a reckle fellow; a desperado. IMG:content-2047.png:[blocks in formation] A humorous dare - devil - the very man to suit my pur- II. a . Characteristic of or appropriate to a daredevil; reckle ; inconsiderately rash and venturesome. I doubt if Rebecca, whom we have seen piously praying for consols, would have exchanged her poverty and the dare- devil excitement and chances of her life for Osborne's money and the humdrum gloom which enveloped him. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xlii. dare devilism (dar'dev"l-izm), n . [ daredevil + -ism .] Same as daredeviltry . daredeviltry (dar'dev"l-tri), n. [ daredevil + -try , for -ry , as in deviltry .] The character or conduct of a daredevil; reckle ne ; ven- darefult (dar'fül), a . [ dare1 + -ful .] Full of defiance. We might have met them dareful , beard to beard, And beat them backward home. Shak ., Macbeth, v. 5. darer (dar'ėr), n. One who dares or defies; a challenger. Don Michael, Leon; another darer come. Fletcher, Rule a Wife, iii. 1. darft, v. See tharf . darg (därg), n. [Sc., sometimes spelled dargue , formerly dark , a contr. of dawerk , daywerk , day- wark = day - work : see day - work .] 1. A day's dantly called day's darg . IMG:content-2048.png:[blocks in formation] daring (dar'ing), n. [Verbal n. of darel , v .] Adventurous courage; intrepidity; boldne ; adventurousne . daring (dar'ing), p . a. [Ppr. of darel , v .] 1. Po e ing or springing from adventurous cou- rage; bold; fearle ; adventurous; reckle . He knew thee absolute, and full in soldier, Daring beyond all dangers. Fletcher , Bonduc a, v. 4. To this day we may discern in many parts of our fin an- cial and commercial system the marks of that vigorous in- tellect and Caring spirit. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., xx. Will tell the King I love him tho so late? Now ere he goes to the great Battle? none: Myself must tell him in that purer life, =Syn. 1. Dauntle , undaunted, heroic. daring-dot, derring-dot, n. [The word was adopted by Spenser in the erroneous spelling derring - do , which through him and his imitators has become familiar in literature from Chaucer; ME. dorryng don, duryng do , etc., a peculiar isolated compound, daring , ppr. of dorren , durren , mod. darel , + inf. don , do . The a ociated phrase to dorre do , in the last line of the first quot., consists of the inf. do depending on the inf. dorre , durre , dare, and is not, as some think, a compound verb. See dare - doing .] Daring deeds; daring action. And certaynly in storye it is founde That Troilus was nevere unto no wight, For ever, who in derring - doe were dreade, The loftie verse of hem was loved aye. It was not consonant with the honor of such a man as Bob to take a dare ; so against first one and then another aspiring hero he had fought, until at length there was none that ventured any more to "give a dare" to the victor of so many battles. E. Eggleston, The Graysons, x. dare2+ (dar), v. [ darra , trem- ble, shiver, Dan. dirre , tremble, quiver, vibrate, = LG. bedaren , become still, = D. be- They [the tenants] are subject also to a darg (or day's work) for every acre. Statist. Acc . of Scot ., VIII. 602. Hence-2. A certain task of work, whether more or le than the measure of a day. He never wrought a good dark , that went grumbling about. Kelly , Scotch Proverbs, p. 143. daring-gla t (dar'ing-glas), n. A mirror used for daring larks. Bp . Gauden. daring-hardyt (dar'ing-härdi), a . Foolhardy; audacious. On pain of death, no person be so bold Or daring - hardy as to touch the lists. Shak., Rich. II., i. 3. daringly daringly (dar'ing-li), adv. 1. With boldne or audacity; boldly; courageously; fearle ly. Your brother, fired with succe , Too daringly upon the foe did pre . Lord Halifax , On Prince of Denmark's Marriage. 2. Defiantly. Some of the great principles of religion are every day openly and daringly attacked from the pre . Bp. Atterbury. daringne (dar'ing-nes), n. Boldne ; courageousne ; audaciousne . The greatne and daringne of our crimes. dark1 (därk), a. and n. 1456 The age wherein he [Homer] liv'd was dark; but he Could not want sight who taught the world to see. Sir J. Denham , Progre of Learning. There are dark regions of the earth where we do not expect to find a righteous man. Bibliotheca Sacra , XLIII. 430. 11. Morally black; atrocious; wicked; sinister. Fit ve el, fittest imp of fraud, in whom To enter, and his dark suggestions hide. Shame from our hearts Unworthy arts, Milton , P. L., ix. 90. darkle A British dark-apostrophe (därk'a-postrō-fē), n. See apostrophe1 , 2. dark-arches (därk'är "chez), n. noctuid moth, Hadena mono glyph a . darkemon, n. Same as a dark on . darken (där'kn), v . [ dark1 + -en1. Cf. dark1 , v.] I. in trans. 1. To grow dark or darker. Some little of this marvel he too saw, Returning o'er the plain that then began To darken under Camelot. Tennyson, Holy Grail. The autumnal evening darkens round. Bp. Atterbury, Works, IV. iv. a. and n., And aftre the i maken the nyght so derk that no man may see no thing. Mandeville , Travels, p. 237. 2. Not radiating or reflecting light; wholly or partially black or gray in appearance; having the quality opposite to light or white: as, a dark object; a dark color. The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon. Milton , S. A., 1. 86. Lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Byron, Childe Harold, iii. 92. A dusky barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern. Tennyson, Morte d'Arthur. 3. Not fair: applied to the complexion: as, the dark -skinned races. And round about the keel with faces pale, Dark faces pale against that rosy flame, The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters came. Tennyson, Lotos-Eaters. Differing only as sisters may differ, as when one is of lighter and another of darker complexion. Gladstone, quoted in S. Dowell's Taxes in England, II. 343. The fraud designed, the purpose dark . Whittier, Eve of Election. Dark ages. See age . - Dark days, specifically, days on mists that artificial lights have to be used for one or more days continuously, and day seems literally turned into night. Such a day was May 19th, 1780, in New England; and others of le extent were August 9th, 1732, and October 21st, 1816. The most remarkable case on record is the dry fog of 1783, when the sun was obscured by a bluish haze for many days in the summer, throughout Europe, northern Africa, and to some extent in Asia and North America. - Dark heat, the heat due to the invisible ultra-red heat-rays of the spectrum. See spectrum . Dark horse. See horse . Dark moon. See moon. Dark room, in photog ., a room from which all actinic rays of light have been excluded, used in the proce es connected with the sensitizing of plates for exposure, for placing the plates in and taking them from the plate-holders or dark slides in which they are transported and exposed in the camera, and for the development of the picture after exposure. It is most e ential in all photographic proce es to employ what is termed a dark room. This dark room is not without light, but its light is of a quality such as in no way affects the plate. Spon , Encyc. Manuf., p. 1536. To keep dark, to be quiet, silent, or secret concerning a matter. II. n. 1. The absence of light; darkne . Till the derke was don, & the day sprange, And the sun in his sercle set vppo lofte. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6062. I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark. Thoreau , Walden, p. 142. Morn broaden'd on the borders of the dark . Tennyson, Fair Women. So I wilt in the wod and the wilde holt is, ffer fro my feres, and no freike herde, Till I drogh to a derke, and the dere lost. 4. Lacking in light or brightne ; shaded; 2. A dark place. obscure: as, a dark day; the dark rece es of a forest. Hence-5. Characterized by or produ- cing gloom; dreary; cheerle : as, a dark time in the affairs of the country. So dark a mind within me dwells. Tennyson, Maud, xv. There is, in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which.. beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. Irving , Sketch-Book, p. 39. Alone, in that dark sorrow, hour after hour crept by. Whittier, Cas sandra South wick. 6. Threatening; frowning; gloomy; morose: as, a dark scowl. All men of dark tempers, according to their degree of melancholy or enthusiasm, may find convents fitted to their humours. Add is on , Travels in Italy. So all in wrath he got to horse and went; While Arthur to the banquet, dark in mood, Past, thinking "Is it Lance lot who hath come?" Tennyson, Lance lot and Elaine. 7. Obscure; not easily perceived or understood; difficult to interpret or explain: as, a dark saying; a dark pa age in an author. What may seem dark at the first will afterward be found more plain. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, i. 1. What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word? Shak ., L. L. L., v. 2. Wise philosophers hold all writings to be fruitful in the proportion they are dark . Swift , Tale of a Tub, x. Hence-8. Concealed; secret; mysterious; inscrutable as, keep it dark . Day, mark'd as with some hideous crime, When the dark hand struck down thro' time, And can cell'd nature's best. Tennyson, In Memoriam, lxxii. Precisely what is to be the manner and measure of our knowledge, in this fuller and more glorious revelation of the future, is not clear to us now, for that is one of the dark things, or mysteries, of our present state. Bushnell , Sermons for New Life, p. 159. 9t. Blind; sightle . I, dark in light, exposed To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong. Milton , S. A., 1. 75. Dr. Heylin (author of ye Geography) preach'd at ye Abbey. He was, I think, at this time quite darke , and so had ben for some yeares. Evelyn, Diary, March 29, 1661. Thou wretched daughter of a dark old man, Conduct my weary steps. Dryden and Lee , Edipus. 10. Unenlightened, either mentally or spiritually; characterized by backwardne in learning, art, science, or religion; destitute of knowledge or culture; ignorant; uninstructed; rude; uncivilized: as, the dark places of the earth; the dark ages. How many waste places are left as darke as Galile of the Gentiles, sitting in the region and shadow of death; without preaching Minister, without light! Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2361. It is not the shallow mystery of those small darks which are enclosed by caves and crumbling dungeons; it is the unfathomable mystery of the sunlight and the sun. S. Lanier, The English Novel, p. 47. 3. A dark hue; a dark spot or part. Some darks had been discovered. Shirley. With the small touches, efface the edges, reinforce the darks , and work the whole delicately together. Ruskin, Elements of Drawing, p. 61. 4. A state of concealment; secrecy: as, things done in the dark . I am in the dark to all the world, and my nearest friends behold me but in a cloud. Sir T. Browne , Religio Medici, ii. 4. 5. An obscured or unenlightened state or condition; obscurity; a state of ignorance: as, I am still in the dark regarding his intentions. While men are in the dark they will be always quarrel ling. Stilling fleet, Sermons, I. iii. As to its [the city of Quinam's] distance from the Sea, its bigne , strength, riches, ., I am yet in the dark. Dampier, Voyages, II. 1. 7. We are in the dark respecting the office of the large viscus called the spleen. Huxley and Youmans, Physiol., § 156. Dark of the moon. See moon. [ IMG:content-2049.png:[blocks in formation] Than without candle may go dark to bed. Shak., As you Like it, iii. 5. dark1t (därk), v . [ darken , derken , deorcian , in comp. * a - deorcian (Somner), make dark, deorc , dark: see dark1 , a.] I. in trans. 1. To grow or become dark; darken. The sonne darked & withdrewe his lyght. Joseph of Arimathie (E. E. T. S.), p. 40. 2. To remain in the dark; lurk; lie hidden or concealed. And ther she syt and darketh wonder stille. Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 816. All day the bestes darked in here den stille. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), L. 2723. with age. II. trans. 1. To deprive of light; make dark or darker: as, to darken a room by closing the shutters. They [the locusts] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skewer to write. Pope , Imit. of Horace, II. i. 97. Returned to London, she [Mrs. Browning] began the life which she continued for so many years, confined to one large and commodious, but darkened chamber. Pen Portraits of Literary Women, II. 101. 2. To obscure or shut out the light of. It blows also sometimes very hard from the south west; and when these winds are high, it raises the sand in such a manner that it darkens the sun, and one cannot see the distance of a quarter of a mile. Pococke , Description of the East, I. 195. Mr. Bucket came out again, exhorting the others to be vigilant, darkened his lantern, and once more took his seat. Dickens, Bleak House, lvii. 3. To render le white or clear; impart a darker hue to: as, exposure to the sun darkens the complexion. A picture of his little cousin, truthfully painted, her face, darkened by the sun, contrasting strongly with the clear white of her dre , veil, and garland. St. Nicholas , XV. 10. 4. To obscure or cloud the meaning or intelligence of; perplex; render vague or uncertain. Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without Job xxxviii. 2. knowledge? Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion. Ford, Lover's Melancholy, iii. 3. Such was his wisdom, that his confidence did seldom darken his foresight, especially in things near hand. Bacon, Hist. Hen. VII. 5. To render gloomy; sadden. All joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. Isa. xxiv. 11. Calvin, whose life was darkened by disease, had a morbid and gloomy element in his theology. J. F. Clarke, Self-Culture, p. 54. 6. To deprive of vision; strike with blindne . Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Rom. xi. 10. Hence-7. To deprive of intellectual or spiritual light; sink in darkne or ignorance. Their foolish heart was darkened . IMG:content-2050.png:[blocks in formation] To darken one's door, to enter one's house or room as a visitor: generally or always with an implication that the visit is unwelcome. Oh, pity me then, when, day by day, The stout fiend darkens my parlor door . Whittier, Demon of the Study. darkener (där'kn-ér), n. One who or that which darkens. He [Sumner] was no darkener of counsel by words without knowledge. N. A. Rev. , CXXVI. 23. darkey, n. See darky . darkfult (därk'fül), a. [ME. derkful ; dark1 , n., + -ful, 1.] Full of darkne . All thy body shall be darkful . Wyclif , Luke xi. 34. [ME. deorkhede , derkhede , durc hede ; dark1 + -head .] Darkne . Al o tide of the dai we were in durchede , Fair when that cloud of pride, which oft doth dark Her goodly light, with smiles she drives away. Spenser . Pagan Poets that audaciously Haue sought to dark the ever Memory Of Gods gree at works. IMG:content-2051.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2052.png:[blocks in formation] Do nations float darkling down the stream of the ages,. swaying with every wind, and ignorant whither they are drifting? Bancroft, Hist. Const., II. 3. IMG:content-2053.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Dark; obscure; gloomy. IMG:content-2054.png:[blocks in formation]