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Stupid; folish; idiotic; also, delirious; insance; as, he has gone daft. Let us think no more of this daft business Sir W. Scott.

A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame. Knight.

A young unmarried woman; a gerl; a maiden. With her train of damsels she was gone, In shady walks the scorching heat to shum. Dryden. Sometimes a troop of damsels glad, . . . Goes by to towered Cameleot. Tennyson.

needle for mending holes or rents, especially in stockings. (b) (Zoöl.) Any species of dragon fly, having a long, cylindrical body, resembling a needle. These flies are harmless and without stings.

h of death and woe. Smollett. Davy Jones's Locker, the ocean, or bottom of the ocean. -- Gone to Davy Jones's Locker, dead, and buried in the sea; thrown overboard.

Deadly. [Obs.] "Deathlike dragons." Shak.

Passed away; dead; gone. The deceased, the dead person.

deep, with head declined. Thomson. And now fair Phoebus gan decline in haste His weary wagon to the western vale. Spenser.

lieved or propagated; false belief; error in belief. And fondly mourned the dear delusion gone. Prior.

A beautiful, small dragon fly of the genus Agrion.

iss Lizzy, I have no doubt, would be as demure and coquettish, as if ten winters more had gone over her head. Miss Mitford.

discover. And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. Judg. i. 23. Edmund, I think, is gone . . . to descry The strength o' the enemy. Shak. And now their way to earth they had descried. Milton.

Abandonment by God; spiritual despondency. The spiritual agonies of a soul under desertion. South.

te isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. Jer. ix. 11. And the silvery marish flowers that throng The desolate creeks and pools among. Tennyson.

A dragon fly. See Darning needle, under Darn, v. t.

Having a single, distinct, diagonal cleavage; -- said of crystals. Mohs.

An argument which presents an antagonist with two or more alternatives, but is equally conclusive against him, whichever alternative he chooses.

Same as Tetragonal. Dana.

Either one of the two forms of a dimorphous substance; as, calcite and aragonite are dimorphs.

ndependent forms of the same chemical compound, as of calcium carbonate as calcite and aragonite.