DAGGLED
DAG'GLED, participle passive Dipped or trailed in mud or foul water; befouled.
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DAGGLING
DAG'GLING, participle present tense Drawing along in mud or foul water.DAG'-SWAIN, noun A kind of carpet.DAG'-TAILED, adjective The same as daggle-tail; trailed in mud.
DAILY
DA'ILY, adjective Happening or being every day; done day by day; bestowed or enjoyed every day; as daily labor; a daily allowance.Give us this day our daily bread. [Lord's Praye...
DAINTILY
DA'INTILY, adverb1. Nicely; elegantly; as a hat daintily made.2. Nicely; fastidiously; with nice regard to what is well tasted; as, to eat daintily3. Deliciously; as, to fare da...
DAINTINESS
DA'INTINESS, noun1. Delicacy; softness; elegance; nicety; as the daintiness of the limbs.2. Delicacy; deliciousness; applied to food; as the daintiness of provisions.3. Nicety i...
DAINTY
DA'INTY, adjective1. Nice; pleasing to the palate; of exquisite taste; delicious; as dainty food.2. Delicate; of acute sensibility; nice in selecting what is tender and good; sq...
DAIRY
DA'IRY, noun1. Milk, and all that concerns it, on a farm; or the business of managing milk, and of making butter and cheese. The whole establishment respecting milk, in a family...
DAIRYHOUSE
DA'IRYHOUSE, or DAIRYROOM, noun A house or room appropriated to the management of milk.
DAIRYMAID
DA'IRYMAID, noun A female servant whose business is to manage milk.
DAISIED
DA'ISIED, adjective Full of daisies; adorned with daisies.
DAISY
DA'ISY, noun A plant of the genus Bellis, of several varieties. The blue daisy belongs to the genus Globularia, as does the globe daisy; the greater or ox-eye daisy belongs to t...
DAKER-HEN
DA'KER-HEN, noun A fowl of the gallinaceous kind, somewhat like a patridge or quail. The corn-crake or land-rail, a bird of the grallic order of Linne.
DAKIR
DA'KIR, noun In English statutes, ten hides, or the twentieth part of a last of hides.
DALE
DALE, noun A low place between hills; a vale or valley.
DALLIANCE
DAL'LIANCE, noun1. Literally, delay; a lingering; appropriately, acts of fondness; interchange of caresses; toying, as males and females; as youthful dalliance2. Conjugal embrac...
DALLIER
DAL'LIER, noun One who fondles; a trifler; as a dallier with pleasant words.
DALLING
DAL'LING, participle present tense Delaying; procrastinating; trifling; wasting time in idle amusement; toying; fondling.
DALLY
DAL'LY, verb intransitive1. Literally, to delay; to linger; to wait. Hence.2. To trifle; to lose time in idleness and trifles; to amuse one's self with idle play.It is madness t...
DAM
DAM, noun1. A female parent; used of beasts, particularly of quadrupeds.2. A human mother, in contempt.3. A crowned man in the game of draughts.DAM, noun A mole, bank or mound o...
DAMAGE
DAM'AGE, noun [This word seems to be allied to the Greek, a fine or mulet.]1. Any hurt, injury or harm to one's estate; any loss of property sustained; any hinderance to the inc...
DAMAGE-FEASANT
DAMAGE-FEASANT, adjective Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle.
DAMAGEABLE
DAM'AGEABLE, adjective1. That may be injured or impaired; susceptible of damage; as damageable goods.2. Hurtful; pernicious.
DAMAGED
DAM'AGED, participle passive Hurt; impaired; injured.
DAMAGING
DAM'AGING, participle present tense Injuring; impairing.
DAMASCENE
DAM'ASCENE, noun1. A particular kind of plum, now pronounced damson, which see.2. It may be locally applied to other species of plums.
DAMASK
DAM'ASK, noun1. A silk stuff, having some parts raised above the ground, representing flowers and other figures; originally from Damascus.2. A kind of wrought linen, made in Fla...
DAMASK-PLUM
DAM'ASK-PLUM, noun A small black plum.