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Coyness; disdainful behavior. [Obs.] Chaucer. In one's danger, in one's power; liable to a penalty to be inflicted by him. [Obs.] This sense is retained in the proverb, "Out of debt out of danger." Those rich man in whose debt and danger they be not. Robynson (More's Utopia). -- To do danger, to cause danger. [Obs.] Sh…

ng head." Shak. He . . . would decline even to the lowest of his family. Lady Hutchinson. Disdaining to decline, Slowly he falls, amidst triumphant cries. Byron. The ground at length became broken and declined rapidly. Sir W. Scott.

To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice; -- opposed to disdain. [Obs.] I fear my Julia would not deign my lines. Shak.

Haughty; disdainful. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Prov. i. 7. Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

Haughty; disdainful. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To disdain. [Obs.] Guyon much disdeigned so loathly sight. Spenser.

To freeze; to congeal. [Obs.] Thou hast enfrozened her disdainful breast. Spenser.

Proud; haughty; disdainful. [Obs.] Barrow. Fas"tu*ous*ness, n. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

To utter contemptious language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A sullen, angry look; a look of disdain or dislike. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

A fierce, intractable creature. I have loved this proud disdainful haggard. Shak.

The quality of being haughty; disdain; arrogance.

Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing. A woman of a haughty and imperious nature. Clarendon.

To treat disdainfully or with indignity; to contemn. [Obs.] Spenser.

intellect, etc., than another. A great person gets more by obliging his inferior than by disdaining him. South.

cter, which enables one to encounter danger and trouble with tranquility and firmness, to disdain injustice, meanness and revenge, and to act and sacrifice for noble objects.

ght forward; a proposal to be accepted or rejected; a sum offered; a bid. When offers are disdained, and love denied. Pope.

To overpower by disdain; to outface. [Obs.] Marston.

n or servants. May no penny ale them pay [i. e., satisfy]. P. Plowman. [She] pays me with disdain. Dryden.