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Date (?), n. [F. date, LL. data, fr. L. datus given, p. p. of dare to give; akin to Gr. �, OSlaw. dati, Skr. dā. Cf. , Dose, , .] 1. 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.
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And bonds without a date, they say, are void. Dryden.
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2. 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.
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He at once,
Down the long series of eventful time,
So fixed the dates of being, so disposed
To every living soul of every kind
The field of motion, and the hour of rest. Akenside.
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3. Assigned end; conclusion. [R.]
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What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date. Pope.
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4. Given or assigned length of life; dyration. [Obs.]
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Good luck prolonged hath thy date. Spenser.
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Through his life's whole date. Chapman.
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Coloq. To bear date , to have the date named on the face of it; -- said of a writing.
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Date, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dating.] [Cf. F. dater. See 2d .] 1. 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.
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2. To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids.
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☞ We may say dated at or from a place.
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The letter is dated at Philadephia. G. T. Curtis.
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You will be suprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois. Addison.
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In the countries of his jornal seems to have been written; parts of it are dated from them. M. Arnold.
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Date, v. i. To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with from.
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The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms. E. Everett.
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dateable adj. that can be given a date. Opposite of undatable. [Narrower terms: dated]
Syn. -- datable.
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a concrete and dateable happening C. W. Shumaker

dated adj. 1. marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past.
Syn. -- outmoded; passé. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

2. bearing a date; as, dated and stamped documents.
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dateless, a. 1. Without date; having no fixed time.
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2. not having a social companion for an occasion; as, to be dateless for the prom.
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Date line. The hypothetical line on the surface of the earth fixed by international or general agreement as a boundary on one side of which the same day shall have a different name and date in the calendar from its name and date on the other side. Also called International Date Line.
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☞ Speaking generally, the date line coincides with the meridian 180° from Greenwich. It deflects between north latitudes 80° and 45°, so that all Asia lies to the west, all North America, including the Aleutian Islands, to the east of the line; and between south latitudes 12° and 56°, so that Chatham Island and the Tonga group lie to the west of it. A vessel crossing this line to the westward sets the date forward by one day, as from Sunday to Monday. A vessel crossing the line to the eastward sets the date back by one day, as from Monday to Sunday. Hawaii has the same day name as San Francisco; Manila, the same day name as Australia, and this is one day later than the day of Hawaii. Thus when it is Monday May 1st at San Francisco it is Tuesday may 2d at Manila.
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Dater (?), n. One who dates.
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Datiscin (?), n. (Chem.) A white crystalline glucoside extracted from the bastard hemp (Datisca cannabina).
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Dative (?), a. [L. dativus appropriate to giving, fr. dare to give. See 2d .] 1. (Gram.) Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective.
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2. (Law) (a) In one's gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office. (b) Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of an officer. (c) Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law. Burril. Bouvier.
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Coloq. Dative executor , one appointed by the judge of probate, his office answering to that of an administrator.
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Dative, n. [L. dativus.] The dative case. See , a., 1.
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Datively, adv. As a gift. [R.]
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Datolite (?), n. [From. Gr. � to divide + -lite; in allusion to the granular structure of a massive variety.] (Min.) A borosilicate of lime commonly occuring in glassy,, greenish crystals. [Written also datholite.]
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Datril n. an analgesic derived from acetanolide; also used as an antipyretic; Datril and Tylenol are trademarks of brands of acetaminophen tablets. See .
Syn. -- acetaminophen, Tylenol.
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Datum (?), n.; pl. Data (#). [L. See 2d .] 1. Something given or admitted; a fact or principle granted; that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural.
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Any writer, therefore, who . . . furnishes us with data sufficient to determine the time in which he wrote. Priestley.
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2. a single piece of information; a fact; especially a piece of information obtained by observation or experiment; -- used mostly in the plural.
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3. pl. (Math.) The quantities or relations which are assumed to be given in any problem.
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4. (Surveying) a point, line, or level surface used as a reference in measuring elevations. RHUD
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Coloq. Datum line (Surv.), the horizontal or base line, from which the heights of points are reckoned or measured, as in the plan of a railway, etc.
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Datura (?), n. [NL.; cf. Skr. dhattūra, Per. & Ar. tatūra, Tatūla.] (Bot.) A genus of solanaceous plants, with large funnel-shaped flowers and a four-celled, capsular fruit.
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☞ The commonest species are the thorn apple (D. stramonium), with a prickly capsule (see Illust. of ), white flowers and green stem, and Datura tatula, with a purplish tinge of the stem and flowers. Both are narcotic and dangerously poisonous.
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Daturine (?), n. [From .] (Chem.) Atropine; -- called also daturia and daturina.
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Daub (d�b), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Daubed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Daubing.] [OE. dauben to smear, OF. dauber to plaster, fr. L. dealbare to whitewash, plaster; de- + albare to whiten, fr. albus white, perh. also confused with W. dwb plaster, dwbio to plaster, Ir. & OGael. dob plaster. See , and cf. .] 1. To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.
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She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch. Ex. ii. 3.
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2. To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner.
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If a picture is daubed with many bright and glaring colors, the vulgar admire it is an excellent piece. I. Watts.
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A lame, imperfect piece, rudely daubed over. Dryden.
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3. To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
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So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue. Shak.
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4. To flatter excessively or glossy. [R.]
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I can safely say, however, that, without any daubing at all,
I am very sincerely your very affectionate, humble servant. Smollett.
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5. To put on without taste; to deck gaudily. [R.]
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Let him be daubed with lace. Dryden.
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Daub (d�b), v. i. To smear; to play the flatterer.
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His conscience . . . will not daub nor flatter. South.
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Daub, n. 1. A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or daubed; a smear.
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2. (Paint.) A picture coarsely executed.
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Did you . . . take a look at the grand picture? . . . 'T is a melancholy daub, my lord. Sterne.
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daubed adj. smeared thickly; as, mud-daubed walls.
Syn. -- beplastered, besmeared.
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Daubentonia n. 1. the type genus, coextensive with the family Daubentoniidae.
Syn. -- genus Daubentonia.
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Daubentoniidae n. a natural family comprising solely the .
Syn. -- family Daubentoniidae.
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Dauber (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.
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2. (Copperplate Print.) A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber.
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3. A low and gross flatterer.
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4. (Zoöl.) The mud wasp; the mud dauber.

{ Daubery (?), or Daubry (?) }, n. A daubing; specious coloring; false pretenses.
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She works by charms, by spells, by the figure, and such daubery as this is. Shak.
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Daubing, n. 1. The act of one who daubs; that which is daubed.
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2. A rough coat of mortar put upon a wall to give it the appearance of stone; rough-cast.
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3. In currying, a mixture of fish oil and tallow worked into leather; -- called also dubbing. Knight.
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Daubreelite (?), n. [From Daubrée, a French mineralogist.] (Min.) A sulphide of chromium observed in some meteoric irons.
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Dauby (?), a. Smeary; viscous; glutinous; adhesive. “Dauby wax.”
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Daughter (?), n.; pl. Daughters (#); obs. pl. Daughtren (#). [OE. doughter, doghter, dohter, AS. dohtor, dohter; akin to OS. dohtar, D. dochter, G. tochter, Icel. dōttir, Sw. dotter, Dan. dotter, datter, Goth. daúhtar,, OSlav. dŭshti, Russ. doche, Lith. duktē, Gr. qygathr, Zend. dughdhar, Skr. duhitṛ; possibly originally, the milker, cf. Skr. duh to milk. √68, 245.] 1. The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.
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2. A female descendant; a woman.
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This woman, being a daughter of Abraham. Luke xiii. 16.
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Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughter of the land. Gen. xxxiv. 1.
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3. A son's wife; a daughter-in-law.
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And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters. Ruth. i. 11.
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4. A term of address indicating parental interest.
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Daughter, be of good comfort. Matt. ix. 22.
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Coloq. Daughter cell (Biol.), one of the cells formed by cell division. See Cell division, under .
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Daughter-in-law (?), n.; pl. Daughters-in-law. The wife of one's son.
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Daughterliness (?), n. The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a daughter.
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Daughterly, a. Becoming a daughter; filial.
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Sir Thomas liked her natural and dear daughterly affection towards him. Cavendish.
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Dauk (?), v. t. See , v. t., to cut or gush.
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Daun (?), n. A variant of Dan, a title of honor. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Daunt (d�nt; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Daunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Daunting.] [OF. danter, F. dompter to tame, subdue, fr. L. domitare, v. intens. of domare to tame. See .] 1. To overcome; to conquer. [Obs.]
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2. To repress or subdue the courage of; to check by fear of danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten.
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Some presences daunt and discourage us. Glanvill.

Syn. -- To dismay; appall. See .
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Daunter (?), n. One who daunts.
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daunting adj. serving to discourage, dishearten, or intimidate; discouraging; disheartening. Opposite of encouraging.
Syn. -- intimidating.
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dauntless, a. Incapable of being daunted; undaunted; bold; fearless; intrepid.
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Dauntless he rose, and to the fight returned. Dryden.

-- Dauntlessly, adv. -- Dauntlessness, n.
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dauntlessness n. resolute courageousness.
Syn. -- intrepidity.
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Dauphin (?), n. [F. dauphin, prop., a dolphin, from L. delphinus. See . The name was given, for some reason unexplained, to Guigo, count of Vienne, in the 12th century, and was borne by succeeding counts of Vienne. In 1349, Dauphiny was bequeathed to Philippe de Valois, king of France, on condition that the heir of the crown should always hold the title of Dauphin de Viennois.] The title of the eldest son of the king of France, and heir to the crown. Since the revolution of 1830, the title has been discontinued.

{ Dauphiness (?), or Dauphine (?) }, n. The title of the wife of the dauphin.
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Dauw (?), n. [D.] (Zoöl.) The striped quagga, or Burchell's zebra, of South Africa (Asinus Burchellii); -- called also peechi, or peetsi.
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davallia n. any fern of the genus Davallia; they have scaly creeping rhizomes.
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Davalliaceae n. one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Araiostegia; Davallia; Davallodes; Gymnogrammitis; Humata; Leucostegia; Scyphularia; Trogostolon.
Syn. -- family Davalliaceae.
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Davenport (?), n. [From the name of the original maker. Encyc. Dict.] A kind of small writing table, generally somewhat ornamental, and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir.
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A much battered davenport in one of the windows, at which sat a lady writing. A. B. Edwards.
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Davidic (?), a. Of or pertaining to David, the king and psalmist of Israel, or to his family.
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Daviesia n. a genus of Australasian shrubs and subshrubs having small yellow or purple flowers followed by short triangular pods.
Syn. -- genus Daviesia.
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Davit (?), n. [Cf. F. davier forceps, davit, cooper's instrument, G. david davit; all probably from the proper name David.] (Naut.) (a) A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship; -- called also the fish davit. (b) pl. Curved arms of timber or iron, projecting over a ship's side of stern, having tackle to raise or lower a boat, swing it in on deck, rig it out for lowering, etc.; -- called also boat davits. Totten.
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Davy Jones (?). The spirit of the sea; sea devil; -- a term used by sailors.
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This same Davy Jones, according to the mythology of sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is seen in various shapes warning the devoted wretch of death and woe. Smollett.
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Coloq. Davy Jones's Locker , the ocean, or bottom of the ocean. -- Coloq. Gone to Davy Jones's Locker , dead, and buried in the sea; thrown overboard.
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Davy lamp (?). See Safety lamp, under .
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Davyne (?), n. [See .] (Min.) A variety of nephelite from Vesuvius.
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Davyum (?), n. [Named after Sir Humphry Davy, the English chemist.] (Chem.) A rare metallic element found in platinum ore. It is a white malleable substance. Symbol Da. Atomic weight 154.
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Daw (d�), n. [OE. dawe; akin to OHG. tāha, MHG. tāhe, tāhele, G. dohle. Cf. .] (Zoöl.) A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw.
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The loud daw, his throat
displaying, draws
The whole assembly of his fellow daws. Waller.
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☞ The daw was reckoned as a silly bird, and a daw meant a simpleton. See in Shakespeare: -- “Then thou dwellest with daws too.” (Coriolanus iv. 5, 1. 47.) Skeat.
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Daw, v. i. [OE. dawen. See .] To dawn. [Obs.] See Dawn. Drayton.
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Daw, v. t. [Contr. fr. .] 1. To rouse. [Obs.]
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2. To daunt; to terrify. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
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Dawdle (d�d'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dawdled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dawdling (?).] [Cf. .] To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.
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Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me. Johnson.
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We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall. Thackeray.
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Dawdle, v. t. To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.
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Dawdle, n. A dawdler. Colman & Carrick.
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Dawdler (?), n. One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.
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Dawe (?), n. [See .] Day. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Dawish (?), a. Like a daw.
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Dawk (d�k), n. See .
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Dawk, v. t. [Prov. E. dauk to cut or pierce with a jerk; cf. OE. dalk a dimple. Cf. Ir. tolch, tollachd, tolladh, a hole, crevice, toll to bore, pierce, W. tyllu.] To cut or mark with an incision; to gash. Moxon.
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Dawk, n. A hollow, crack, or cut, in timber. Moxon.
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Dawn (d�n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dawned (d�nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Dawning.] [OE. dawnen, dawen, dagen, daien, AS. dagian to become day, to dawn, fr. dæg day; akin to D. dagen, G. tagen, Icel. daga, Dan. dages, Sw. dagas. See . √71.] 1. To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.
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In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene . . . to see the sepulcher. Matt. xxviii. 1.
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2. To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand. “In dawning youth.” Dryden.
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When life awakes, and dawns at every line. Pope.
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Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid. Heber,
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Dawn, n. 1. The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.
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And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve. Thomson.
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No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon,
No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day. Hood.
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2. First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise. “The dawn of time.” Thomson.
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These tender circumstances diffuse a dawn of serenity over the soul. Pope.
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dawning n. the first light of day; dawn.
Syn. -- dawn, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow.
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Dawsonite (?), n. [Named after J. W. Dawson of Montreal.] (Min.) A hydrous carbonate of alumina and soda, occuring in white, bladed crustals.
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Day (dā), n. [OE. day, dai, dei, AS. dæg; akin to OS., D., Dan., & Sw. dag, G. tag, Icel. dagr, Goth. dags; cf. Skr. dah (for dhagh ?) to burn. √69. Cf. .] 1. The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine; -- also called daytime.
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2. The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day, below.
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3. Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work.
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4. A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.
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A man who was great among the Hellenes of his day. Jowett (Thucyd. )
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If my debtors do not keep their day, . . .
I must with patience all the terms attend. Dryden.
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5. (Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of contest, some anniversary, etc.
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The field of Agincourt,
Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus. Shak.
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His name struck fear, his conduct won the day. Roscommon.
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☞ Day is much used in self-explaining compounds; as, daybreak, daylight, workday, etc.
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