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Chapman.
The daedal hand of Nature.
J. Philips.
The doth the daedal earth throw forth to thee, Out of her fruitful, abundant flowers.
Spenser.
Daff , v. t. To cast aside; to put off; to doff.
Canst thou so daff me? Thou hast killed my child.
Shak.
Daff, n. A stupid, blockish fellow; a numskull. Chaucer.
Daff , v. i. To act foolishly; to be foolish or sportive; to toy. Jamieson.
Daff, v. t. To daunt. Grose.
With damask roses and daffadillies set.
Spenser.
Strow me the ground with daffadowndillies, And cowslips, and kingcups, and loved lilies.
Spenser.
A college gown That clad her like an April daffodilly.
Tennyson
And chance-sown daffodil.
Whittier.
Daft , a. 1. Stupid; foolish; idiotic; also, delirious; insane; as, he has gone daft.
Let us think no more of this daft business
Sir W. Scott.
Daft"ness, n. The quality of being daft.
Dag , n. 1. A dagger; a poniard. Johnson.
The Spaniards discharged their dags, and hurt some.
Foxe.
A sort of pistol, called dag, was used about the same time as hand guns and harquebuts.
Grose.
Dag, n. A misty shower; dew.
Dag, n. A loose end; a dangling shred.
Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail.
Wedgwood.
Dag, v. t. 1. To daggle or bemire. Johnson.
Dag, v. i. To be misty; to drizzle.
Dag"ger , n. 1. A short weapon used for stabbing. This is the general term: cf. Poniard, Stiletto, Bowie knife, Dirk, Misericorde, Anlace.
Dagger moth , any moth of the genus Apatalea. The larvae are often destructive to the foliage of fruit trees, etc. -- Dagger of lath, the wooden weapon given to the Vice in the old Moralities. Shak. -- Double dagger, a mark of reference which comes next in order after the dagger. -- To look, or speak, daggers, to look or speak fiercely or reproachfully.
Dag"ger, v. t. To pierce with a dagger; to stab.
Dag"ger, n. A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame. Knight.
Dagges , n. pl. An ornamental cutting of the edges of garments, introduced about a. d. 1346, according to the Chronicles of St Albans. Halliwell.
Dag"gle , v. t. To trail, so as to wet or befoul; to make wet and limp; to moisten.
The warrior's very plume, I say, Was daggled by the dashing spray.
Sir W. Scott.
Dag"gle, v. i. To run, go, or trail one's self through water, mud, or slush; to draggle.
Nor, like a puppy daggled through the town.
Pope.
a. Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle- tailed.
Dag"gle-tail` , n. A slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail.
Dag"lock` , n. A dirty or clotted lock of wool on a sheep; a taglock.
Da"go , n.; pl. Dagos . A nickname given to a person of Spanish descent.
Da"gon , The national god of the Philistines, represented with the face and hands and upper part of a man, and the tail of a fish. W. Smith.
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