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A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of ...
Darn
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A colloquial euphemism for Damn.
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Any grass of the genus Lolium, esp. the Lolium temulentum (bearded darnel), the grains of which have been reputed poisonous. Other species, as Lolium perenne (rye grass or ray gras...
One who mends by darning.
Alt. of Darnic
Same as Dornick.
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The Egyptian sycamore (Ficus Sycamorus). See Sycamore.
The European black tern.
Alt. of Darrain
Darrain
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To fight out; to contest; to decide by combat.
Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.
Dart
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A fish; the dace. See Dace.
A kind of scab or ulceration on the skin of lambs.
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Darter
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A small fresh-water etheostomoid fish. The group includes numerous genera and species, all of them American. See Etheostomoid.
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Like a dart; rapidly.
To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly: -- frequentative of dart.
Of or pertaining to the dartos.
Like the dartos; dartoic; as, dartoid tissue.
A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneath the skin of the scrotum.
Relating to, or partaking of the nature of, the disease called tetter; herpetic.
Darwinian
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An advocate of Darwinism.
Darwinism.
The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above.
See Daze.
To become dim-sighted; to become dazed or dazzled.
Dash
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A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an...
Dashboard
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A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh, or other vehicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splas...
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Dasher
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A dashboard or splashboard.
Dashing
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Bold; spirited; showy.
Conspicuously; showily.
The character of making ostentatious or blustering parade or show.
A pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock.
Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy.
Dastard
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Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly.
To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to dastardize my courage.
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The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear.
Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage.
Dastardliness.
Base timidity; cowardliness.
See Dasewe
An instrument for testing the density of gases, consisting of a thin glass globe, which is weighed in the gas or gases, and then in an atmosphere of known density.
Dasypaedic.
Those birds whose young are covered with down when hatched.