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Dashpot
() A pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock.
Dashy
() Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy.
Dastard
() One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon.
Dastard
() Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly.
Dastard
() To dastardize.
Dastardized
() of Dastardize
Dastardizing
() of Dastardize
Dastardize
() To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to dastardize my courage.
Dastardliness
() The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear.
Dastardly
() Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage.
Dastardness
() Dastardliness.
Dastardy
() Base timidity; cowardliness.
Daswe
() See Dasewe
Dasymeter
() 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.
Dasypaedal
() Dasypaedic.
Dasypaedes
() Those birds whose young are covered with down when hatched.
Dasypaedic
() Pertaining to the Dasypaedes; ptilopaedic.
Dasyure
() A carnivorous marsupial quadruped of Australia, belonging to the genus Dasyurus. There are several species.
Dasyurine
() Pertaining to, or like, the dasyures.
Data
() See Datum.
Datable
() That may be dated; having a known or ascertainable date.
Dataria
() Formerly, a part of the Roman chancery; now, a separate office from which are sent graces or favors, cognizable in foro externo, such as appointments to benefices. The name is derived from the word datum, given or dated (with the indications of the time and place of granting the gift or favor).
Datary
() An officer in the pope's court, having charge of the Dataria.
Datary
() The office or employment of a datary.
Date
() The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.
Date
() That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made; as, the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin. etc.
Date
() The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as, the date of a battle.
Date
() Assigned end; conclusion.
Date
() Given or assigned length of life; dyration.
Dated
() of Date
Dating
() of Date
Date
() To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter.
Date
() To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids.
Date
() To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with from.
Dateless
() Without date; having no fixed time.
Dater
() One who dates.
Datiscin
() A white crystalline glucoside extracted from the bastard hemp (Datisca cannabina).
Dative
() Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective.
Dative
() In one's gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office.
Dative
() Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of an officer.
Dative
() Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law.
Dative
() The dative case. See Dative, a., 1.
Datively
() As a gift.
Datolite
() A borosilicate of lime commonly occuring in glassy,, greenish crystals.
Data
() of Datum
Datum
() Something given or admitted; a fact or principle granted; that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Datum
() The quantities or relations which are assumed to be given in any problem.
Datura
() A genus of solanaceous plants, with large funnel-shaped flowers and a four-celled, capsular fruit.
Daturine
() Atropine; -- called also daturia and daturina.
Daubed
() of Daub