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o put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle. [Obs.] Captains do so dandle their doings, and dally in the service, as it they would not have the enemy subdued. Spenser.

Full of danger; dangerous. [Obs.] -- Dan"ger*ful*ly, adv. [Obs.] Udall.

he end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene . . . to see the sepulcher. Matt. xxviii. 1.

One who makes known or proclaims; that which exhibits. Udall.

Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc. Decoration Day, a day, May 30, appointed for decorating with flowers the graves of the Union soldiers and sailors, who fell in the…

To lead forth or out. [Obs.] A people deducted out of the city of Philippos. Udall.

To cast down. [Obs. or Archaic] Christ dejected himself even unto the hells. Udall. Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look. Fuller.

A small, retired valley; a ravine. In dells and dales, concealed from human sight. Tickell.

id in reference to both praise and blame. [Obs.] If I have demerited any love or thanks. Udall. Executed as a traitor . . . as he well demerited. State Trials (1645).

A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. [Written also demi.] He was elected into Magdalen College as a demy; a term by which that society denominates those elsewhere called "scholars," young men who partake of the founder's benefaction, and succeed in their order to vacant fellowships. Johnson.

A coin; the Anglicized form of denarius. Udall.

ormerly by of. The truth of God's word dependeth not of the truth of the congregation. Tyndale. The conclusion . . . that our happiness depends little on political institutions, and much on the temper and regulation of our own minds. Macaulay. Heaven forming each on other to depend. Pope.

Twenty doctors expound one text twenty ways, as children make descant upon plain song. Tyndale. She [the nightingale] all night long her amorous descant sung. Milton.

A deserted condition. [R.] "The desertness of the country." Udall.

ossess. [R.] The desirefulness of our minds much augmenteth and increaseth our pleasure. Udall.

To destine, design, or choose. [Obs.] "That name that God . . . did destinate." Udall.

To detest. [Obs.] Udall.

An engraver of dies for stamping coins, medals, etc.

To sound with a din; a ding. The gay viol dinning in the dale. A. Seward.

A narrow dale; a small dell; a small, secluded, and embowered valley.