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To make familiar; to accustom. [Obs.] Gray.

person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank. J. A. H. Murray.

scourage; to demoralize; as, the death of his friend cut him up terribly. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

A fore tooth; an incisor. Ray.

One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves. Gray.

Having the inferior rays of the pectoral fins partially or entirely free, as in the gurnards.

ddles. [Obs.] Little children when they learn to go By painful mothers daded to and fro. Drayton.

e wet and limp; to moisten. The warrior's very plume, I say, Was daggled by the dashing spray. Sir W. Scott.

n English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays.

Somewhat damp. [Obs.] Drayton.

leasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about. Then, 'tis time to dance off. Thackeray. More dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw. Shak. Shadows in the glassy waters dance. Byron. Where rivulets dance their wayward round. Wordsworth. To dance on a rope, or To dance on nothing, to be hang…

One of the spots on a dappled animal. He has . . . as many eyes on his body as my gray mare hath dapples. Sir P. Sidney.

because they could not. Macaulay. Who dared to sully her sweet love with suspicion. Thackeray. The tie of party was stronger than the tie of blood, because a partisan was more ready to dare without asking why. Jowett (Thu

To grow dark; to show indistinctly. Thackeray.

ecoming dark or gloomy; frowing. His honest brows darkling as he looked towards me. Thackeray.

ains of which have been reputed poisonous. Other species, as Lolium perenne (rye grass or ray grass), and its variety L. Italicum (Italian rye grass), are highly esteemed for pasture and for making hay.

To make ready to fight; to array. [Obs.] Darrain your battle, for they are at hand. Shak.

A screen at the bow af a steam launch to keep off the spray; -- called also sprayboard.

dawdle over a dish of tea with me. Johnson. We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall. Thackeray.

erie; a castle in the air; unfounded hope. Mrs. Lambert's little daydream was over. Thackeray.