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[E. dial. delk; ME. dalk, appar., with dim. suffix -k (cf. stale, a handle, with stalk ), dalripa the ventrals few (3). Only one species is known, named blackfish and dogfish; it reaches a length of about 8 inches, and inhabits fresh-water ponds and mud-holes in the arctic region in Siberia and Alaska. See cut under Dallia. dallop, dollop (dal'-, dol'op), n. [Origin uncertain.] 1. A tuft, bunch, or small patch of gra , grain, or weeds.-2. A patch of ground among corn that has escaped the plow. [Prov. Eng.] dally (dal'i), v.; pret. and pp. dallied, ppr. dal lying. [Early mod. E. also dallie; dal, dale, a hollow, dale: see dalel.] A hollow; dial. tallen, trifle, toy, speak childishly, has a hole; a depre ion. Brason scrapes oute of everie dalke Hem scrape. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 125. A dalk in the nekke [tr. OF. au cool triveret la fo et ]. AS. and O. E. Vocab. (ed. Wright), p. 146. not been made out.] I. in trans. 1t. To talk idly or foolishly; pa the time in idle or frivolous chat. Dalyyn or talkyn,... fabulor, confabulor, colloquor. Prompt. Parv., p. 112. They dronken and dayleden ,. thise lordes and ladyes. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight , 1. 1114. Dalke , vallis [supra in dale ]. Prompt . Parv ., p. 112. dalle (dal), n. [F., a flagstone, slab, slice; origin uncertain.] 1. A slab or large tile of stone, marble, baked clay, or the like; specifically, in vague employment or in mere idlene ; linger; decorative art, a tile of which the surface is incised or otherwise ornamented, such as the medieval sepulchral slabs set in the pavement and walls of churches.-2. pl. [ cap.] The name originally given by the French employees of the Hudson's Bay Company, and still current, to certain localities in the valley of the Mi i ippi and west as far as the Columbia, where the rivers flow with a rapid fall over broad, flat rock-surfaces. The best-known Dalles are those of the Columbia river, and this name is not only that of the locality, but also of the town (The Dalles) near which they 2. To trifle away time in any manner, as in delay. For he was not the man to dally about anything. R. D. Black more , Lorna Doone, p. 544. Mr. Lincoln dallied with his decision [on emancipation] perhaps longer than seemed needful to those on whom its awful responsibility was not to rest. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 168. 3. To play, sport, frolic, toy, as in exchanging care es; wanton. Our aiery buildeth in the cedar's top, And dallies with the wind. Shak., Rich. III., i. 3. Dallying with a brace of courtezans. Dallia (dal'i-a), n. [NL., after W. H. Dall , an American naturalist.] The typical and only der this kinde of tree. Alaskan Blackfish ( Dallia pectoral is). genus of the family Dalliidæ, containing one species, D. pectoral is, the blackfish of Alaska and Siberia, where it is an important food-fish. dalliance (dal'i-ans), n. [ In daliaunce they riden forth hir we ye. Chaucer , Friar's Tale, 1. 106. Of honest myrth latt be thy daliaunce. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 28. 2. A trifling away of time; delay; idle loitering. My busine cannot brook this dalliance . Shak., C. of E., iv. 1. 3. Play; sport; frolic; toying, as in the exchange of care es;; wantonne . Like a puff'd and reckle libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. And my fair son here, the dear pledge Of dalliance had with thee in heaven. Shak ., Rich. III., iii. 7. The Poets do faine that Jupiter dallied with Europa un Coryat , Crudities, I. 183. Bryant , Rhode Island Coal. The small waves that dallied with the sedge. II. trans. To delay; defer; put off. [Rare.] Not by the hazard of one set battle, but by dallying off the time with often skirmishes. Knolles , Hist. Turks. dal lyingly (dal'i-ing-li), adv . In a trifling or dallying manner. Wher as he doth but dalliengly perswade, they may enforce & compel. Bp . Bale , Image of the Two Churches, ii. dalmahoy (dal'ma-hoi), n. [Origin obscure.] A kind of bushy bob-wig worn by tradesmen in the eighteenth century, especially by chemists. Dalmatian (dal-ma's hi an), a. and n. [ Dal matia + -an.] I. a. Of or pertaining to Dalmatia, a crownland of the Austrian empire, on the eastern coast of the Adriatic sea. - Dalmatian cap, an old name for the tulip. - Dalmatian dog. See dog . Dalmatian pelican, the great tufted pelican, Pele can us crisp us : so called from having been first brought to notice through a specimen killed in Dalmatia in 1828. A. E. Brehm . Dalmatian regulus, the yellow browed warbler of Europe, Regulus , Regulo ides , or Phyl loscopus superciliosus . II. n. 1. An inhabitant of Dalmatia; specifically, a member of the primitive Slavic race of Dalmatia (including the Morlaks of the coast), akin to the Servians, and constituting most of the population.-2. A Dalmatian dog (which see, under dog ). Shak ., Hamlet, i. 3. dalmatic (dal-mat'ik), n. [Also dalmatic a and, as F., dalmatique ; = F. dalmatique = Sp. dal mátic a = Pg. It. dalmatic a , dalmatic a (sc. L. vest is , garment), fem. of L. Dalmatic us , Sumner , Fame and Glory. adj., Dalmatia : see def.] A loose-fitting ec Milton , P. L., ii. 819. IMG:content-2005.png:[blocks in formation] clesiastical vestment with wide sleeves, provided with an opening for the pa age of the head, divided or left partly open at the sides, and reaching to or below the knee. It is worn in the Western Church by the deacon at the celebration of the ma or holy communion and on some other occasions, and is put on over the alb. Bishops also use the dalmatic, wearing it over the tunicle and under the chasuble. The earliest records of the dalmatic as a secular garment seem to date from the latter part of the second century, at which time it is also alluded to as the "sleeved tunic of the Dalmatians (chiridota Dalmatarum)." It afterward came to be especially worn by senators and other persons of high station. The first mention of its use by a bishop is in the case of St. Cyprian, martyred A. D. 258. But one two... bent their knee to Sister Magda len, by which name they saluted her ki ed her hand, or even the hem of her dalmatique. Scott, Abbot, xiii. dalripa (dal'ri-pä), n. [ dal segno (dal sa'nyō). [It., from the sign: dal for da il, from the ( da, It is false of thy father's child; false of thy mother's son; falsest of my dalt . Scott , Fair Maid of Perth, xxix. dalt2t. An obsolete preterit of deall . Daltonian (dal-tō'ni-an), a. and n. [ atoms of the different elements have not the same weights, the combining weights of these elements expre the relation between their atomic weights. His theory regarded chemical combination as a union of different atoms in definite quantitative proportions. 1446