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The point or horn of the crescent moon or other crescent-shaped luminary.

t substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck. Astratch of her clame, a dab of her beack. Hawthorne.

Full of daisies; adorned with daisies. "The daisied green." Langhorne. The grass all deep and daisied. G. Eliot.

dapper ditties that I wont devise. Spenser. Sharp-nosed, dapper steam yachts. Julian Hawthorne.

With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look. Looking darkly at the clerguman. Hawthorne.

Conspicuously; showily. [Colloq.] A dashingly dressed gentleman. Hawthorne.

lt with him" on the sin of rejecting the aid which Providence so manifestly held out. Hawthorne. Return . . . and I will deal well with thee. Gen. xxxii. 9.

A crescent with the horns directed towards the sinister. Cussans.

Very; with a tendency to darkness of color. The deeply red juice of buckthorn berries. Boyle.

Deprived of glory; dishonored. [Obs.] "With thorns degloried." G. Fletcher.

The horny covering of the end of the bill of birds.

the country of Devon, England. Those of pure blood have a deep red color. The small, longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen.

One of a group of extinct reptiles having the jaws armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon, supporting also a pair of powerful tusks. Their remains are found in triassic strata of South Africa and India.

abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse. It grew to be a widely diffused opinion. Hawthorne. -- Dif*fus"ed*ly, adv. -- Dif*fus"ed*ness, n.

tion. A strong dilemma in a desperate case! To act with infamy, or quit the place. Swift. Horns of a dilemma, alternatives, each of which is equally difficult of encountering.

An igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. It includes part of what was called greenstone.

he embrace disconcerted the daughter-in-law somewhat, as the caresses of old gentlemen unshorn and perfumed with tobacco might well do. Thackeray.

chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle. They heighten distempers to diseases. Suckling.

ce of low resort. [Slang] The music halls and dives in the lower part of the city. J. Hawthorne.

and iron. "A rich gown of velvet, and a ruff done up with the famous yellow starch." Hawthorne. -- To do way, to put away; to lay aside. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- To do with, to dispose of; to make use of; to employ; -- usually preceded by what. "Men are many times brought to that extremity, that were it not for God they w…