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A dandy roller. See below. Dandy brush, a yard whalebone brush. -- Dandy fever. See Dengue. -- Dandy line, a kind of fishing line to which are attached several crosspieces of whalebone which carry a hook at each end. -- Dandy roller, a roller sieve used in machines for making paper, to press out water from the pulp,…

Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty. [Obs.] See In one's danger, below. You stand within his danger, do you not Shak. Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in dangerof this statute. Robynson (More's Utopia).

t is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day, below.

Growing in pairs, each of which is at right angles to the next pair above or below; as, decussated leaves or branches.

Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, which is measured upward); far to the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea. The water where the brook is deep. Shak.

At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply.

it of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the things, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.

To live in, or as in, a den. The sluggish salvages that den below. G. Fletcher.

That number placed below the line in vulgar fractions which shows into how many parts the integer or unit is divided.

A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions.

sion (Astron.), the degree or arc of the equator which descends, with a celestial object, below the horizon of an oblique sphere. -- Right descension, the degree or arc of the equator which descends below the horizon of a right sphere at the same time with the object. [Obs.]

e downward place. [R.] And from the extremest upward of thy head, To the descent and dust below thy foot. Shak.

us, surnamed Pius For many good and great deserts to Rome. Shak. His reputation falls far below his desert. A. Hamilton.

One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints.

Below the average size; very small; little.

Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.

See Syndicalism, below.

The rate of interest charged in discounting. At a discount, below par, or below the nominal value; hence, colloquially, out of favor; poorly esteemed; depreciated. -- Bank discount, a sum equal to the interest at a given rate on the principal (face) of a bill or note from the time of discounting until it become due.…

A permanent fender around a heavy boat just below the gunwale. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

(Arch.), a floor in which binding joists support flooring joists above and ceiling joists below. See Illust. of Double-framed floor. -- Double flower. See Double, a., 4. -- Double-framed floor (Arch.), a double floor having girders into which the binding joists are framed. -- Double fugue (Mus.), a fugue on two subj…