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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



49 words match “DANE”

SUPRAMUNDANE a.
Being or situated above the world or above our system; celestial.
TRANSPADANE a.
de of the river Po with reference to Rome, that is, on the north side; -- opposed to cispadane.
ULTRAMUNDANE a.
Being beyond the world, or beyond the limits of our system. Boyle.
ANGLO- n.
rn in America, or the United States. Anglo-Danish, a. Of or pertaining to the English and Danes, or to the Danes who settled in England. Anglo-Indian, a. Of or pertaining to the English in India, or to the English and East Indian peoples or languages. -- n. One of the Anglo-Indian race born or resident in the East Ind…
COHABITANT n.
One who dwells with another, or in the same place or country. No small number of the Danes became peaceable cohabitants with the Saxons in England. Sir W. Raleigh.
CREATURIZE v.
To make like a creature; to degrade [Obs.] Degrade and creaturize that mundane soul. Cudworth.
DANISH a. 2 definitions
Belonging to the Danes, or to their language or country. -- n.
DANSKER n.
A Dane. [Obs.] Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris. Shak.
ELDERWORT n.
Danewort.
ESCUTCHEON n.
That part of a vessel's stern on which her name is written. R. H. Dane, Jr.
GRAM a.
Angry. [Obs.] Havelok, the Dane.
HELLESPONT n.
A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles. It connects the Ægean Sea and the sea of Marmora.
HOCKDAY n.
A holiday commemorating the expulsion of the Danes, formerly observed on the second Tuesday after Easter; -- called also hocktide. [Eng.] [Written also hokeday.]
INTERMUNDIAN a.
Intermundane. [Obs.]
JAMDANI n.
A silk fabric, with a woven pattern of sprigs of flowers. [Written also jamdanee.] Balfour (Cyc. of India).
LIMBO; LIMBUS n.
An extramundane region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the judgment. As far from help as Limbo is from bliss. Shak. A Limbo large and broad, since called The Paradise of fools. Milton.
MALDANIAN n.
Any species of marine annelids of the genus Maldane, or family Maldanidæ. They have a slender, round body, and make tubes in the sand or mud.
SEA WITHWIND n.
(Bot.) A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus Soldanella) growing on the seacoast of Europe.
SPITE v.
To be angry at; to hate. [Obs.] The Danes, then . . . pagans, spited places of religion. Fuller.
SUBSOLARY a.
Being under the sun; hence, terrestrial; earthly; mundane. [R.]
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