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To clear from a bay. Sherburne.

energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify. Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed. Josh. i. 9. What words be these What fears do you dismay Fairfax.

A state of being dismayed; dejection of courage; dispiritedness.

Terrifying. Spenser.

ad wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread. The northern wind his wings did broad display. Spenser.

With wings expanded; -- said of a bird of pray, esp. an eagle.

One who, or that which, displays.

of Disarray. [Obs.] Holland.

One of the dog days. Dogday cicada (Zoöl.), a large American cicada (C. pruinosa), which trills loudly in midsummer.

almanac makers between the early part of July and the early part of September; canicular days; -- so called in reference to the rising in ancient times of the Dog Star (Sirius) with the sun. Popularly, the sultry, close part of the summer.

A day of judgment. See Doomsday. [Obs.] Domesday Book, the ancient record of the survey of most of the lands of England, made by order of William the Conqueror, about 1086. It consists of two volumes, a large folio and a quarto, and gives the proprietors' tenures, arable land, woodland, etc. [Written also Doomsday Book…

In Canada, a legal holiday, July lst, being the anniversary of the proclamation of the formation of the Dominion in 1867.

A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death. "My body's doomsday." Shak.

The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.

ouai, A. D. 1609-10. Various revised editions have since been published. [Written also Doway Bible. Called also the Rheims and Douay version.]

A kind of sledge or sled. Halliwell. Dray cart, a dray. -- Dray horse, a heavy, strong horse used in drawing a dray.

Use of a dray.

A man who attends a dray.

A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle. Cowell. Burrill.