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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: danse du ventre - darjeeling</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="danseduventre"> danse du ventre,<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) belly dance. </DL> <A NAME="dansemacabre"> danse macabre,<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) the dance of death. Ex. Much of the imaginative art and literature of our time is preoccupied by the theme of the danse macabre (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists). </DL> <A NAME="danseur"> danseur, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a male dancer, especially in a ballet. </DL> <A NAME="danseurnoble"> danseur noble, pl. danseurs nobles.<DL COMPACT><DD> a male ballet dancer of noble appearance and manners. Ex. There are male performers who have the dash and elevation of danseurs nobles (New York Times). </DL> <A NAME="danseuse"> danseuse, noun, pl. -seuses.<DL COMPACT><DD> a female dancer, especially in a ballet. Ex. The assemblage ... incorporates some of the handsomest danseuses of the season (New Yorker). </DL> <A NAME="dantean"> Dantean, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. of or having to do with Dante or his writings. <DD> 2. =Dantesque. <DD>noun a student or admirer of Dante. </DL> <A NAME="dantesque"> Dantesque, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like Dante or his style; elevated; solemn; somber. Ex. ... a Dantesque catalogue of the psychological and physical tortures of a company of men and women trapped in Warsaw's sewers during the abortive 1944 uprising against the Nazis (Time). </DL> <A NAME="dantonesque"> Dantonesque, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, like, or in the manner of Danton; bold and audacious. Ex. In addition to his Dantonesque boldness in meeting the foe, he had the constructive mind which is rare in a man of action (Atlantic). </DL> <A NAME="dantonist"> Dantonist, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a follower of Danton. </DL> <A NAME="danubian"> Danubian, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the Danube or the people living near the Danube. </DL> <A NAME="danza"> danza, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a formal dance of the Middle Ages, danced in couples or singly. </DL> <A NAME="dao"> dao, noun, pl. daos. =dah (2).</DL> <A NAME="dap"> dap, verb, dapped, dapping.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.i. 1. to fish by letting the bait dip and bob lightly on the water. <DD> 2. to dip lightly or suddenly into water. <DD> 3. to rebound; bounce. <DD>v.t. 1. to bounce; skip. <DD> 2. to cut a notch in for joining: to dap timber. </DL> <A NAME="daphne"> daphne, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. any one of a group of small, ornamental, European and Asiatic shrubs with very fragrant, pink or purplish flowers, such as the mezereum. <DD> 2. the laurel. </DL> <A NAME="daphne"> Daphne, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Legend.) a nymph pursued by Apollo, from whom she was saved by being changed into a laurel tree. </DL> <A NAME="daphnephoria"> Daphnephoria, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an ancient Greek festival, a kind of Maypole ceremony, held in Thebes. </DL> <A NAME="daphnia"> daphnia, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a tiny freshwater crustacean often having a bivalve shell covering its transparent body except for the head and two sets of antennae, and moving by jerking the second set of large antennae; water flea. </DL> <A NAME="daphnis"> Daphnis, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Mythology.) a minor Greek pastoral god, regarded as the inventor of bucolic poetry. </DL> <A NAME="daphnisandchloe"> Daphnis and Chloe,<DL COMPACT><DD> two lovers in a Greek pastoral romance of about the 300's or 400's A.D. They are regarded as the model of typical, unsophisticated lovers. </DL> <A NAME="dapper"> dapper, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. neat; trim; spruce. Ex. The dandy is very dapper about his fine clothes. (SYN) smart, natty. <DD> 2. small and active. Ex. Trip the pert faeries and the dapper elves (Milton). (SYN) brisk, nimble. adv. dapperly. noun dapperness. </DL> <A NAME="dapperling"> dapperling, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a little, dapper fellow. </DL> <A NAME="dapping"> dapping, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a method of fishing in which the bait dips and bobs lightly on the water. </DL> <A NAME="dapple"> dapple, adjective, verb, -pled, -pling, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. marked with spots; spotted. Ex. a dapple horse. (SYN) pied, variegated. <DD>v.t., v.i. to mark or become marked with spots. Ex. The bleach dappled the dark cloth (v.t.). The dark cloth dappled in the bleach solution (v.i.). <DD>noun 1. a spotted appearance or condition. <DD> 2. an animal with a spotted or mottled skin or coat, especially a horse. (SYN) piebald. </DL> <A NAME="dappled"> dappled, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> spotted; mottled. </DL> <A NAME="dapplegray"> dapple-gray, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> gray with spots of darker gray. </DL> <A NAME="dapplegray"> dapple gray,<DL COMPACT><DD> a dapple-gray horse or other animal. </DL> <A NAME="dar"> D.A.R. or DAR (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> Daughters of the American Revolution, a society of women who are descended from Americans who fought in the Revolutionary War. </DL> <A NAME="darb"> darb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) an excellent or admirable person or thing. Ex. The children ... are three little darbs (Time). </DL> <A NAME="darby"> darby, noun, pl. -bies.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a plasterer's tool for leveling a surface of plaster. <DD> 2. (Slang.) a handcuff. </DL> <A NAME="darbyandjoan"> Darby and Joan,<DL COMPACT><DD> the typical old married couple, contented and devoted to each other. </DL> <A NAME="darcy"> darcy, noun, pl. -cys.<DL COMPACT><DD> a measure of the permeability of a porous medium. Ex. Permeability is commonly measured in darcys and millidarcys (thousandth of a darcy). Even the tavern loafers of an oil town now speak enthusiastically of a permeability of 500 millidarcys (Gilluly, Waters, and Woodford). </DL> <A NAME="dard"> Dard, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. any one of an Indo-Aryan people living in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent. <DD> 2. a group of related Indic languages spoken by this people, including Kashmiri; Dardic. </DL> <A NAME="dardan"> Dardan, adjective, noun. =Trojan.</DL> <A NAME="dardania"> Dardania, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> legendary Troy. </DL> <A NAME="dardanian"> Dardanian, adjective, noun. =Trojan.</DL> <A NAME="dardanus"> Dardanus, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Legend.) a son of Zeus, the mythical ancestor of the Trojans. </DL> <A NAME="dardic"> Dardic, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the Indic languages of the Dards. </DL> <A NAME="dare"> dare (1), verb, dared or (Archaic) durst, dared, daring, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.i. to have courage; be bold; be bold enough. Ex. You wouldn't dare! The will to do, the soul to dare (Scott). <DD>v.t. 1. to have courage to try; be bold enough for; not be afraid of. Ex. The explorer dared the dangers of the icy north. She dared contradict the teacher. <DD> 2. to meet and resist; face and defy. Ex. to dare the power of a dictator. I saw and felt London at last ... I dared the perils of the crossings (Charlotte Bronte). (SYN) brave. <DD> 3. to challenge. Ex. I dare you to jump the puddle. <DD>noun 1. a challenge. Ex. I took his dare to jump. <DD> 2. (Obsolete.) daring; boldness. noun darer. </DL> <A NAME="dare"> dare (2), transitive verb, dared, daring.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (Dialect.) to terrify; daunt. <DD> 2. (Obsolete.) to daze; fascinate. </DL> <A NAME="daredevil"> daredevil, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a reckless person. <DD>adj. recklessly daring. Ex. The speeder's daredevil driving caused an accident. This was not the first time he had shown daredevil tendencies (Harper's). </DL> <A NAME="daredevilry"> daredevilry, noun, pl. -ries. =daredeviltry.</DL> <A NAME="daredeviltry"> daredeviltry, noun, pl. -tries.<DL COMPACT><DD> reckless daring. Ex. There was the usual thrilling, high-altitude daredeviltry, including an act on a weird upside-down unicycle (Wall Street Journal). </DL> <A NAME="dareful"> dareful, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> full of daring. </DL> <A NAME="daresay"> daresay, transitive verb, intransitive verb,<DL COMPACT><DD> or dare say, to venture to say; assume as probable; presume. Ex. I daresay his success was due to his hard work. I daresay you have thought me very neglectful (Jane Carlyle). (SYN) believe. </DL> <A NAME="darg"> darg or dargue, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) <DD> 1. a day's work. <DD> 2. a set task. </DL> <A NAME="daric"> daric, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an ancient Persian gold coin. </DL> <A NAME="daring"> daring, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun boldness; courage to take risks. Ex. The old soldier proudly recalled the daring of his youth. <DD>adj. bold; fearless; courageous. Ex. Saving the dog from the burning building was a daring act. (SYN) audacious, intrepid, rash, venturesome. adv. daringly. noun daringness. </DL> <A NAME="darjeeling"> Darjeeling, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a kind of fine India tea having a delicate flavor, grown chiefly in the Himalayan mountains. </DL> <A HREF="dark.dic">NEXT</A>