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hard to please; fastidious; sqrupulous; ceremonious. Thew were a fine and Dainty people. Bacon. And let us not be dainty of leave taking, But shift away. Shak. To make dainty, to assume or affect delicacy or fastidiousness. [Obs.] Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all Will now deny to dance She that makes dainty, She…

ant of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune. Bacon.

na) from Damascus. "Damask roses have not been known in England above one hundred years." Bacon. -- Damask steel, or Damascus steel, steel of the kind originally made at Damascus, famous for its hardness, and its beautiful texture, ornamented with waving lines; especially, that which is inlaid with damaskeening; -- fo…

ements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug. Bacon. How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word! Sir J. Lubbock. The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of the soldiers. Macaulay.

or intelligible. Such was his wisdom that his confidence did seldom darkenhis foresight. Bacon. Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge Job. xxxviii. 2.

ainst. If you dash a stone against a stone in the botton of the water, it maketh a sound. Bacon.

ed by light; to be confused by excess of brightness. An overlight maketh the eyes dazzle. Bacon. I dare not trust these eyes; They dance in mists, and dazzle with surprise. Dryden.

ose life or force. [Obs.] So iron, as soon as it is out of the fire, deadeth straightway. Bacon.

raiseth his own credit with both, by pretending greater interest than he hath in either. Bacon.

Fondness; preciousness; love; tenderness. The dearness of friendship. Bacon.

Murder; murderous character. Not to suffer a man of death to live. Bacon.

y. [R.] He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers, is the decay of the whole age. Bacon.

rders, and set therein fine flowers, but thin and sparingly, lest they deceive the trees. Bacon.

m excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline. "The declination of monarchy." Bacon. Summer . . . is not looked on as a time Of declination or decay. Waller.

t its virtues. In decoction . . . it either purgeth at the top or settleth at the bottom. Bacon.

Anything decompounded. Decomposites of three metals or more. Bacon.

The wane of the moon. Bacon.

tensely; as, deeply skilled in ethics. He had deeply offended both his nobles and people. Bacon. He sighed deeply in his spirit. Mark viii. 12.

roy; to make null. [Obs.] [Profane scoffing] doth . . . deface the reverence of religion. Bacon. For all his power was utterly defaste [defaced]. Spenser.

That which mars or disfigures. Bacon.