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ances 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 hanged.

ach end. -- Dandy roller, a roller sieve used in machines for making paper, to press out water from the pulp, and set the paper.

Moisture; humidity; water. [Obs.]

To drop the bait gently on the surface of the water. To catch a club by dapping with a grasshoper. Walton.

The snakebird, a water bird of the genus Plotus; -- so called because it darts out its long, snakelike neck at its prey. See Snakebird.

ily; -- often used with against. If you dash a stone against a stone in the botton of the water, it maketh a sound. Bacon.

A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh, or other vechicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard.

us insect of the genus Ephemera and related genera, of many species, and inhabiting fresh water in the larval state; the ephemeral fly; -- so called because it commonly lives but one day in the winged or adult state. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.

iles. -- Dead wall (Arch.), a blank wall unbroken by windows or other openings. -- Dead water (Naut.), the eddy water closing in under a ship's stern when sailing. -- Dead weight. (a) A heavy or oppressive burden. Dryden. (b) (Shipping) A ship's lading, when it consists of heavy goods; or, the heaviest part of a shi…

A strong shutter, made to fit open ports and keep out water in a storm.

The parts of a ship above the water when she is laden.

A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other débris.

ding surface; a sloping place. Commodious declivities and channels for the passage of the waters. Derham.

To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of.

The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues. In decoction . . . it either purgeth at the top or settleth at the bottom. Bacon.

which is measured upward); far to the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea. The water where the brook is deep. Shak.

To become deeper; as, the water deepens at every cast of the lead; the plot deepens. His blood-red tresses deepening in the sun. Byron.

A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, fro

To deprive of water; to render free from water; as, to dehydrate alcohol.

The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.