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Dandyish
() Like a dandy.
Dandyism
() The manners and dress of a dandy; foppishness.
Dandyise
() To make, or to act, like a dandy; to dandify.
Dandyling
() A little or insignificant dandy; a contemptible fop.
Dane
() A native, or a naturalized inhabitant, of Denmark.
Danegeld
() Alt. of Danegelt
Danegelt
() An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm.
Danewort
() A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood. [Said to grow on spots where battles were fought against the Danes.]
Dang
() imp. of Ding.
Dang
() To dash.
Danger
() Authority; jurisdiction; control.
Danger
() Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty.
Danger
() Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.
Danger
() Difficulty; sparingness.
Danger
() Coyness; disdainful behavior.
Danger
() To endanger.
Dangerful
() Full of danger; dangerous.
Dangerless
() Free from danger.
Dangerous
() Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
Dangerous
() Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
Dangerous
() In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
Dangerous
() Hard to suit; difficult to please.
Dangerous
() Reserved; not affable.
Dangled
() of Dangle
Dangling
() of Dangle
Dangle
() To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion.
Dangle
() To cause to dangle; to swing, as something suspended loosely; as, to dangle the feet.
Dangleberry
() A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.
Dangler
() One who dangles about or after others, especially after women; a trifler.
Daniel
() A Hebrew prophet distinguished for sagacity and ripeness of judgment in youth; hence, a sagacious and upright judge.
Danish
() Belonging to the Danes, or to their language or country.
Danish
() The language of the Danes.
Danite
() A descendant of Dan; an Israelite of the tribe of Dan.
Danite
() One of a secret association of Mormons, bound by an oath to obey the heads of the church in all things.
Dank
() Damp; moist; humid; wet.
Dank
() Moisture; humidity; water.
Dank
() A small silver coin current in Persia.
Dankish
() Somewhat dank.
Dannebrog
() The ancient battle standard of Denmark, bearing figures of cross and crown.
Danseuse
() A professional female dancer; a woman who dances at a public exhibition as in a ballet.
Dansk
() Danish.
Dansker
() A Dane.
Dantean
() Relating to, emanating from or resembling, the poet Dante or his writings.
Dantesque
() Dantelike; Dantean.
Danubian
() Pertaining to, or bordering on, the river Danube.
Dap
() To drop the bait gently on the surface of the water.
Dapatical
() Sumptuous in cheer.
Daphne
() A genus of diminutive Shrubs, mostly evergreen, and with fragrant blossoms.
Daphne
() A nymph of Diana, fabled to have been changed into a laurel tree.
Daphnetin
() A colorless crystalline substance, C9H6O4, extracted from daphnin.