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Incapable of being daunted; undaunted; bold; fearless; intrepid. Dauntless he rose, and to the fight returned. Dryden. -- Daunt"less*ly, adv. -- Daunt"less*ness, n.

se delay to; to put off. [Obs.] He demands a fee, And then demurs me with a vain delay. Quarles.

are a fool granted; therefore your issues, being foolish, do not derogate. Shak. Would Charles X. derogate from his ancestors Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line Hazlitt.

of this Babel of dialects there suddenly appeared a standard English language. Earle. [Charles V.] could address his subjects from every quarter in their native dialect. Prescott.

To totter, as a child in walking. [Obs.] Quarles.

ear; popularly so called from their arrangement in the form of a dipper; -- called also Charles's Wain. See Ursa Major, under Ursa.

Releasing from obligation. "Disobligatory power." Charles I.

Free from dread; fearless; intrepid; dauntless; as, dreadless heart. "The dreadless angel." Milton.

A fearless person.

To excuse for nonappearance in court. "I 'll not essoin thee." Quarles.

r from some right or privilege; esp., one of the anti-popish politicians of the time of Charles

Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. [Obs.] Farquhar.

A fearless person.

To make happy; to felicitate. [Obs.] Quarles.

Fresh from the forge; bright; quite new; brand-new. Charles reade. Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current. Shak.

A flirt. [Obs.] Quarles.

To address respectfully with the term forsooth. [Obs.] The captain of the "Charles" had forsoothed her, though he knew her well enough and she him. Pepys.

The coöperative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common.

Free from fright; fearless. [Obs.]

A jest or scoff; a trick or deception. [Obs.] Where's the Bastard's braves, and Charles his gleeks Shak.