The age wherein he liv'd was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to Denham.

see.

7. Gloomy; not cheerful.

All men of dark tempers, according to their degree of melancholy or enthusiasm, may find convents fitted to their humours. Addison. DARK. n. s.

1. Darkness; obscurity; want of light.
Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes;
Nor heav'n peep thro' the blanket of the dark,
To cry, hold, hold! Shakspeare's Macbeth.
Cloud and ever-during dark
Surrounds me! from the chearful ways of men
Cut off.
Milton.

Whereas seeing requires light, and a free medium, and a right line to the objects, we can hear in the dark immured, and by curve lines. Holder.

2. Obscurity; condition of one unknown. Ail he says of himself is, that he is an obscure person; one, I suppose he means, that is in the dark. Atterbury.

3.

Want of knowledge.

Till we ourselves perceive by our own understandings, we are as much in the dark, and as void of knowledge, as before.

Locke.

To

To DARK. v. a. [from the noun.] darken; to obscure. Obsolete. Fair, when that cloud of pride, which oft doth dark

Her goodly light, with smiles she drives away.
Spenser.

To DA'RKEN. v. a. [from dark.]
1. To make dark; to deprive of light.
Black with surrounding forests then it stood,
That hung above, and darken'd all the flood.

Addison. Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write.

2. To cloud; to perplex.

Pope.

Such was his wisdom, that his confidence did - seldom darken his foresight, especially in things near hand. Bacon.

3. To foul; to sully.

The lusts and passions of men do sully and darken their minds, even by a natural influence. Tillotson.

To DA'RKEN. v. n. To grow dark. DARKLING. [a participle, as it seems, from darkle, which yet I have never found; or perhaps a kind of diminutive from dark, as young, youngling.] Being in the dark; being without light: a word merely poetical.

O, wilt thou darkling leave me? Do not so. Shakspeare. Darkling stands The varying shore o' th' world. Shakspeare.

The wakeful bird

Sings darkling, and, in shadiest covert hid,
Milton.
Tunes her nocturnal note.
Darkling they mourn their fate; whom Circe's
pow'r,

With words and wicked herbs, from human kind Had alter'd, and in brutal shapes confin'd. Dryd. DARKLY. adv. [from dark.] In a situation void of light; obscurely; blindly; gloomily; uncertainly.

For well you know, and can record alone, What fame to future times conveys but darkly down. Dryden.

DARKNESS. 7. s. [from dark.]

1. Absence of light.

Darkness was upon the face of the deep.
Genti

I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death. J. 2. Opakeness; want of transparency. 3. Obscurity; want of perspicuity; di ficulthess to the understanding.

4. Infernal gloom; wickedness.

The instruments of darkness tell us truths; Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence. Shakspear 5. State of being intellectually clouded; ignorance; uncertainty.

6.

All the light truth has, or can have, is from the clearness and validity of those proofs upon which it is received; to talk of any other light in the understanding, is to put ourselves in the dark, or in the power of the prince of darkısı. Lock

The empire of Satan, or the devil. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. Colossian DARKSOME. adj. [from dark.] Gloomy; obscure; not well enlightened; not luminous.

He brought him thro' a darksome narrow pass To a broad gate.

Spenser

Spenser And her fair eyes, like stars that dimmed were With darksome cloud, now shew their goodly beams. You must not look to have an image in any thing lightsome; for even a face in iron, red-hot, will not be seen, the light confounding the small differences of lightsome and darksome which shew the figure. Bacon

A darksome cloud of locusts, swarming down. Must eat, and on the ground leave nothing green. Miltan

He, here with us to be,

Forsook the courts of everlasting day, And chose with us a darksome house of mortal clay. Milton. Mistaken blessing, which old age they call, "T is a long, nasty, darksome hospital. Dryin The darksome pines, that, o'er yon rocks re

clin'd,

Wave high, and murmur to the hollow wind.

Pepe DARLING, adj. [deopling, Saxon; diminutive of dear.] Favourite; dear; beloved; regarded with great kindness and tenderness.

"T is not for a generous prince to countenance oppression and injustice, even in his most darling favourites. L'Estrang Have a care, lest some beloved notion, or some darling science, too far prevail over your mind. Watts.

DARLING, n. s. A favourite; one much beloved.

Young Ferdinand they suppose is drown'd, And his and my lov'd darling. Shakspeart. In Thames, the ocean's darling, England's

pride,

The pleasing emblem of his reign does glide.

She became the darling of the princess.

To DARN. v. a. [of uncertain original.] To mend holes by imitating the texture of the stuff.

Will she thy lipen wash, or hosen dara? Gay. He spent every day ten hours in his closet, in darning his stockings, which he performed to admiration.

Swift,

D'AS

ing in the fields.

He was met ev'n now

Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow

In our sustaining corn.

Shakspeare.

Want ye corn for bread? 'T was full of darnel; do you like the taste? Shakspeare.. No fruitful crop the sickly fields return; But oats and darnel choak the rising corn. Dryd. 5 DA'RRAIN. v. a. [This word is by Junius referred to dare: it seems to me more probably deducible from arranger la battaile.]

To prepare for battle; to range troops

for battle.

The town-boys parted in twain, the one side calling themselves Pompeians, the other Casarians; and then darraining a kind of battle, but without arms, the Cæsarians got the over-hand. Carew's Survey of Cornwall. Comes Warwick, backing of the duke of York:

Darrain your battle; for they are at hand.

Shakspeare.

To apply to the fight: of single combatants.

Spenser.

Therewith they 'gan to hurlen greedily, Redoubted battle ready to darraine. ART. n. ́s. [dard, French.]

A missile weapon thrown by the band;

a small lance.

Here one is wounded or slain with a piece of a rock or flint; there another with a dart, arPeacham. Tow, or lance,

O'erwhelm'd with darts which from afar they fling,

The weapons round his hollow temples ring.

Dryden. [In poetry.] Any missile weapon." - DART. v. a. [from the noun.] To throw offensively,

He whets his tusks, and turns, and dares the war;

Th' invaders dart their jav'lins from afar. Dryd. To throw; to emit: as, the sun darts his beams on the earth.

Pan came, and ask'd what magick caus'd my smart ;

Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart. Pope. DART, V. n.

To fly as a dart.

To let fly with hostile intention.

Now, darting Parthia, art thou struck. Shaks. ■ DASH. v. a. [The etymology of this word, in any of its senses, is very doubtful.]

To throw or strike any thing suddenly against something.

If you dash a stone against a stone in the botKom of the water, it maketh a sound.

Bacon.

does

A man that cuts himself, and tears his own Aesh, and dashes his head against the stones, mot act so unreasonably as the wicked man.

This tempest,

Tickel.

Whacum, bred to dash and draw,

Not wine, but more unwholesome law. Hudib. I take care to dash the character with such particular circumstances as may prevent ill-naAddison. tured applications.

Several revealed truths are dashed and adulterated with a mixture of fables and human inSpectator. ventions.

To form or sketch in haste, carelesly.
Never was dash'd out, at one lucky hit,
A fool so just a copy of a wit.!

Poper

Pope. 9. To confound; to make ashamed suddenly; to surprise with shame or fear; to depress; to suppress. His tongue

Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse ap

1. To fly off the surface by a violent motion.

If the vessel be suddenly stopt in its motion, the liquor continues its motion, and dashes over Cheyne. the sides of the vessel.

2. To fly in flashes with a loud noise. On each hand the gushing waters play, And down the fough cascade, all dashing, fall

homson.

3. To rush through water, so as to make it'fly:TM

Doeg, tho' without knowing how or why.

2. Infusion; something worse mingled in a small proportion.

Addison.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity, as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly. 3. A mark in writing; a line, to note a pause, or omission. He is afraid of letters and characters, of notes and dashes, which, set together, do signify nothing. Brown's Vulgar Errours.

In modern wit, all printed trash is Set off with numerous breaks and dashes. Swift. 4. Sudden stroke; blow; act: ludicrous. Stand back, you lords, and give us leave awhile. She takes upon her bravely at first dash.

Could the declining of this fate, O friend,
Our date to immortality extend?
Then raise,

From the conflagrant mass, purg'd and refni,
New heav'ns, new earth, ages of endless daft,
Founded in righteousness.
[from dactylus.] The fruit of the date-

Milin

Hold, take these keys, and fetch more pics

Dryden.

Dastard and drunkard, mean and insolent; Tongue-valiant hero, vaunter of thy might, In threats the foremost, but the last in fight.

Dryden. Bug-bear thoughts, in the minds of children, make them dastards, and afraid of the shadow of Locke.

darkness ever after.

Curse on their dastard souls, they stand astonish'd! Addison. To DA'STARD. v. a. To terrify; 'to intimidate; to deject with cowardice; to dispirit.

I'm weary of this flesh which holds us here, And dastards manly souls with hope and fear. Dryden. To DA'STARDISE. v. a. [from dastard.] To intimidate; to deject with cowardice; to dispirit; to depress; to terrify; to make an habitual coward.

He had such things to urge against our marriage, As, now declar'd, would blunt my sword in battle,

And dastardise my courage. Dryden. DA'STARDLY. adj. [from dastard.] Cowardly; mean; timorous.

Brawl and clamour is so arrant a mark of a dastardly wretch, that he does as good as call himself so that uses it. L'Estrange. DA'STARDY. n. s. [from dastard.] Cowardliness; timorousness. DA'TARY. n. s. [datarius.] An officer of the chancery of Rome, through whose hands benefices pass. Dist.

nurse

-They call for dates and quinces in the pastry. Shaksport. DATE-TREE. n. 3. See PALM, of which it is a species.

TO DATE. v. a. [from the noun.] T› note with the time at which any thing is written or done.

'Tis all one in respect of eternal duration yet behind, whether we begin the world so many millions of ages ago, or date from the late arad about six thousand years.

To all their dated backs he turns you round These Aldus printed, those Du Sueil has bound.

DA'TELESS. adj. [from date] Without any fixed term.

The fly-slow hours shall not determinate The dateless limit of thy dear exile. Shakapan DA'TIVE. adj. [dativus, Latin.] 1. [In grammar.] The epithet of the case that signifies the person to when any thing is given.

2. [In law. Those are termed datira executors, who are appointed such by the judge's decree; as administrators with us here in England. To DAUB. v. a. [dabben, Dut. dasben French.]

1. To smear with something adhesive. She took for him an ark of bulrudes, daubed it with slime and with pitch.

2. To paint coarsely.

Hasty daubing will but spoil the picture, and make it so unnatural as must want false light set it off.

They snatched out of his hands a lame the fect piece, rudely daubed over with too late r flection.

If a picture is daubed with many bright glaring colours, the vulgar admire it as a cellent piece.

3. To cover with something specious gross, something that disguises what it lies upon.

So smooth he daub'd his vice with show d virtue,

He liv'd from all attainder of suspect. Sh

4. To lay on any thing gaudily or ostentatiously.

Since princes will have such things, it is better they should be graced with elegancy, than daubed with cost. Bacon. Let him be daub'd with lace, live high, and whore ; Sometimes be lousy, but be never poor. Dryden. 5. To flatter grossly.

Let every one, therefore, attend the sentence of his conscience; for, he may be sure, it will not daub nor flatter. South.

To DAUB. v. n. To play the hypocrite: this sense is not in use.

A sign-post dauber would disdain to paint The one-eyed hero on his elephant. The treacherous tapster, Thomas, Hangs a new angel two doors from us, As fine as dauber's hands can make it. 3. A low flatterer. DA'UBRY. n. s. [from daub.] An old word for any thing artful.

Dryden.

Swift.

She works by charms, by spells; and such daulry as this is beyond our clement. Shaksp. DA'UBY. adj. [from daub.] Viscous; glutinous; adhesive.

Net in vain th' industrious kind, With dauby wax and flow'rs the chinks have lin'd Dryden. Some the gall'd ropes with dauby marling bind, Or sear-cloth masts with strong tarpawling coats. Dryden. DAUGHTER. n. s. [daubtar, Gothick; dohten, Saxon; dotter, Runick; dobter, German, dochter, Dutch.]

. The female offspring of a man or wo

man.

Your wives, your daughters, Your matrons, and your maids, could not fill up The cistern of my lust. Shakspeare.

Now Aurora, daughter of the dawn, With rosy lustre purpled o'er the lawn. Pope. A daughter in law, or son's wife. A woman.

Jacob went out to see the daughters of the and. Genesis.

[In poetry.] Any descendant. The female penitent of a confessor. Are you at leisure, holy father, now; Or shall I come to you at evening mass?-My leisure serves me, pensive daughter, now. Shakspeare. DAUNT. v. a. [domter, Fr. domitare, Lat.] To discourage; to fright; to intimidate.

Fairfax, whose name in arms thro' Europe rings,

And fills all mouths with envy or with praise,
And all her jealous monarchs with amaze,
And rumours loud, which daunt remotest kings.

Milton.

Where the rude ax, with heaved stroke,
Vas never heard the nymphs to daunt,
Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt. Milt.
VOL. I.

Some presences daunt and discourage us, when others raise us to a brisk assurance. Glanville.

DAUNTLESS. adj. [from daunt.] Fearless; not dejected; not discouraged. Grow great by your example, and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution. Shakspeare. Dauntless he rose, and to the fight return'd: With shame his glowing checks, his eyes with fury burn'd. Dryden's Virgil. He, not by wants or woes oppress'd, Stems the bold torrent with a dauntless breast. Dryden. The utmost weight of affliction from ministerial power and popular hatred, were almost worth bearing, for the glory of such a dauntless conduct as he has shewn under it. Pope. Da'UNTLESSNESS. n. s. [from dauntless.] Fearlessness.

DAW. n. s. [menedulu. It is supposed by Skinner so named from his note; by Junius to be corrupted from dawl; the German tul, and dol in the Bavarian dialect, having the same signification.] A bird.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve, For daws to peck at. Shakspeare's Othello.. If death do quench us quite, we have great

wrong,

That dares, and trees, and rocks should last sɔ long, When we must in

an instant pass to nought.

Duries. The loud daru, his throat displaying, draws The whole assembly of his fellow dares. Waller. DAWK. n. s. A cant word among the workmen for a hollow, rupture, or incision, in their stuff.

Observe if any hollow or darks be in the

length. Moxon. ToDAWK. v. a. To mark with an incis on.

Should they apply that side of the tool the edge lies on, the swift coming about of the work would, where a small irregularity of stuff should happen, jobb the edge into the stuff, and so To DAWN. v. n. [supposed by the etydaruk it. Moxon mologists to have been originally to dayen, or advance towards day.] 1. To grow luminous; to begin to grow light.

I have been troubled in my sleep this night; But darning day new comfort hath inspir'd. Shakspeare.

As it began to dazun towards the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene to see the se pulchre. Matthew.

All night I slept, oblivious of my pain; Aurora din'd and Phabus shin'd in vain. Pope. 2. To glimmer obscurely.

3.

A Romanist, from the very first dawning of any notions in his understanding, hath this principle constantly inculcated, that he must believe as the church. Locke.

To begin, yet faintly; to give some promises of lustre or eminence.

While we behold such dauntless worth appear In daruning youth, and souls so void of fear." Dryden.

Thy hand strikes out some free design, When life awakes and dawns at every line. Pope. DAWN. n. s. [from the verb.]

1. The time between the first appearance of light and the sun's rise, reckoned from the time that the sun comes within eighteen degrees of the horizon. 3 D