Dampening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dampen
Dampen (v. t.) To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.
Dampen (v. t.) To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen.
Dampen (v. i.) To become damp; to deaden.
Damper (n.) That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air. (b) A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.
Dampish (a.) Moderately damp or moist.
Dampne (v. t.) To damn.
Dampness (n.) Moderate humidity; moisture; fogginess; moistness.
Damp off () To decay and perish through excessive moisture.
Dampy (a.) Somewhat damp.
Dampy (a.) Dejected; gloomy; sorrowful.
Damsel (n.) A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales.
Damsel (n.) A young unmarried woman; a girl; a maiden.
Damsel (n.) An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hopper.
Damson (n.) A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum.
Dan (n.) A title of honor equivalent to master, or sir.
Dan (n.) A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
Danaide (n.) A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one.
Danaite (n.) A cobaltiferous variety of arsenopyrite.
Danalite (n.) A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glucinum, containing sulphur.
Danburite (n.) A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury, Conn. It is near the topaz in form.
Danced (imp. & p. p.) of Dance
Dancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dance
Dance (v. i.) To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhythmically.
Dance (v. i.) To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about.
Dance (v. t.) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about, or up and down; to dandle.
Dance (v. i.) The leaping, tripping, or measured stepping of one who dances; an amusement, in which the movements of the persons are regulated by art, in figures and in accord with music.
Dance (v. i.) A tune by which dancing is regulated, as the minuet, the waltz, the cotillon, etc.
Dancer (n.) One who dances or who practices dancing.
Danceress (n.) A female dancer.
Dancette (a.) Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancette has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.
Dancing (p. a. & vb. n.) from Dance.
Dancy (a.) Same as Dancette.
Dandelion (n.) A well-known plant of the genus Taraxacum (T. officinale, formerly called T. Dens-leonis and Leontodos Taraxacum) bearing large, yellow, compound flowers, and deeply notched leaves.
Dander (n.) Dandruff or scurf on the head.
Dander (n.) Anger or vexation; rage.
Dander (v. i.) To wander about; to saunter; to talk incoherently.
Dandi (n.) A boatman; an oarsman.
Dandie (n.) One of a breed of small terriers; -- called also Dandie Dinmont.
Dandified (a.) Made up like a dandy; having the dress or manners of a dandy; buckish.
Dandified (imp. & p. p.) of Dandify
Dandifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dandify
Dandify (v. t.) To cause to resemble a dandy; to make dandyish.
Dandiprat (n.) A little fellow; -- in sport or contempt.
Dandiprat (n.) A small coin.
Dandled (imp. & p. p.) of Dandle
Dandling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dandle
Dandle (v. t.) To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant.
Dandle (v. t.) To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet.
Dandle (v. t.) To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle.
Dandler (n.) One who dandles or fondles.
Dandriff (n.) See Dandruff.
Dandruff (n.) A scurf which forms on the head, and comes off in small or particles.
Dandies (pl. ) of Dandy
Dandy (n.) One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb.
Dandy (n.) A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set.
Dandy (n.) A small sail carried at or near the stern of small boats; -- called also jigger, and mizzen.
Dandy (n.) A dandy roller. See below.
Dandy-cock (n. fem.) Alt. of Dandy-hen
Dandy-hen (n. fem.) A bantam fowl.
Dandyish (a.) Like a dandy.
Dandyism (n.) The manners and dress of a dandy; foppishness.
Dandyise (v. t. & i.) To make, or to act, like a dandy; to dandify.
Dandyling (n.) A little or insignificant dandy; a contemptible fop.
Dane (n.) A native, or a naturalized inhabitant, of Denmark.
Danegeld (n.) Alt. of Danegelt
Danegelt (n.) An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm.
Danewort (n.) A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood. [Said to grow on spots where battles were fought against the Danes.]
Dang () imp. of Ding.
Dang (v. t.) To dash.
Danger (n.) Authority; jurisdiction; control.
Danger (n.) Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty.
Danger (n.) Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.
Danger (n.) Difficulty; sparingness.
Danger (n.) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
Danger (v. t.) To endanger.
Dangerful (a.) Full of danger; dangerous.
Dangerless (a.) Free from danger.
Dangerous (a.) Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
Dangerous (a.) Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
Dangerous (a.) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
Dangerous (a.) Hard to suit; difficult to please.
Dangerous (a.) Reserved; not affable.
Dangled (imp. & p. p.) of Dangle
Dangling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dangle
Dangle (v. i.) To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion.
Dangle (v. t.) To cause to dangle; to swing, as something suspended loosely; as, to dangle the feet.
Dangleberry (n.) A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.
Dangler (n.) One who dangles about or after others, especially after women; a trifler.
Daniel (n.) A Hebrew prophet distinguished for sagacity and ripeness of judgment in youth; hence, a sagacious and upright judge.
Danish (a.) Belonging to the Danes, or to their language or country.
Danish (n.) The language of the Danes.
Danite (n.) A descendant of Dan; an Israelite of the tribe of Dan.
Danite (n.) One of a secret association of Mormons, bound by an oath to obey the heads of the church in all things.
Dank (a.) Damp; moist; humid; wet.
Dank (n.) Moisture; humidity; water.
Dank (n.) A small silver coin current in Persia.
Dankish (a.) Somewhat dank.
Dannebrog (n.) The ancient battle standard of Denmark, bearing figures of cross and crown.
Danseuse (n.) A professional female dancer; a woman who dances at a public exhibition as in a ballet.