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A cuirass or breastplate. [Obs.] Spenser.

A cuirass. [Obs.] Spenser.

To have a custom. [Obs.] On a bridge he custometh to fight. Spenser.

oun the finest orator." Addison (c) To lessen; to retrench; to curtail; as, to cut down expenses. (d) (Naut.) To raze; as, to cut down a frigate into a sloop. -- To cut the knot or the Gordian knot, to dispose of a difficulty summarily; to solve it by prompt, arbitrary action, rather than by skill or patience. -- To…

ps. The doth the dædal earth throw forth to thee, Out of her fruitful, abundant flowers. Spenser.

adilly, daffadowndilly, daffydowndilly, etc. With damasc roses and daffadowndillies set. Spenser. Strow me the ground with daffadowndillies, And cowslips, and kingcups, and loved lilies. Spenser. A college gown That clad her like an April Daffodilly. Tennyson And chance-sown daffodil. Whittier.

Every day; day by day; as, a thing happens daily.

Dainty. [Obs.] To cherish him with diets daint. Spenser.

The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another.

or sir. [Obs.] Old Dan Geoffry, in gently spright The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell. Spenser. What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land. Thomson.

dle their doings, and dally in the service, as it they would not have the enemy subdued. Spenser.

n subjection by such a dapper little man. Milton. The dapper ditties that I wont devise. Spenser. Sharp-nosed, dapper steam yachts. Julian Hawthorne.

He brought him through a darksome narrow pass To a broad gate, all built of beaten gold. Spenser.

Given or assigned length of life; dyration. [Obs.] Good luck prolonged hath thy date. Spenser. Through his life's whole date. Chapman. To bear date, to have the date named on the face of it; -- said of a writing.

cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb. While flashing beams do daze his feeble eyen. Spenser. Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world. Sir H. Taylor. He comes out of the room in a dazed state, that is an odd though a sufficient substitute for interest. Dickens.

Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive. The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear. Shak.

A darling. [Obs.] Spenser.

n strife or combat; to fight. [Obs.] Chaucer. Well could he tourney and in lists debate. Spenser.

Full of contention; contentious; quarrelsome. [Obs.] Spenser.

od appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant. Was never prince so meek and debonair. Spenser.