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A sign. See Al segno, and Dal segno.

n their heads, with jewels richly set, Each lady wore a radiant coronet. Dryden. Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms. Wordsworth.

ry where sheep range and graze. -- Sheep's beard (Bot.), a cichoraceous herb (Urospermum Dalechampii) of Southern Europe; -- so called from the conspicuous pappus of the achenes. -- Sheep's bit (Bot.), a European herb (Jasione montana) having much the appearance of scabious. -- Sheep pox (Med.), a contagious disease…

A leguminous tree (Dalbergia Sissoo) of the northern parts of India; also, the dark brown compact and durable timber obtained from it. It is used in shipbuilding and for gun carriages, railway ties, etc.

Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton.

Partaking of, or of the nature of, the crime or suicide. -- Su"i*ci`dal*ly, adv.

and not by weight. Hooker. And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthornn in the dale. Milton. In packing, they keep a just tale of the number. Carew.

That which woven; a woven fabric; a web. Milton. Others, apart far in the grassy dale, Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave. Thomson.

Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime. Milton. To dally thus with death is no fit toy. Spenser.

A stammering or stuttering. [Obs.] Dalgarno.

A short, close-fitting vestment worn by bishops under the dalmatic, and by subdeacons.

A suborder of soft-rayed fresh-water fishes of which the blackfish of Alaska (Dallia pectoralis) is the type.