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A bawd, or a prostitute. [Obs.] Shak. Aunt Sally, a puppet head placed on a pole and having a pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it.

Adventure; hap. [Obs.] In aunters, perchance.

To venture; to dare. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A familiar name for an aunt. In the southern United States a familiar term applied to aged negro women.

Adventurous. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To daunt; to subdue; to mitigate. [Obs.] Skelton.

In a flaunting state or position. Copley.

See Alan. [Obs.] Chaucer.

With gaunt or slender legs. "An armgaunt steed." Shak.

Fully rigged, as a vessel; with all sails set; set on end or set right.

Adamant. [Obs.] Written in the table of athamaunt. Chaucer.

To vaunt; to boast. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A boaster. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Chant.

A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey. [Colloq.] He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now. Dickens.

See Chantry. [Obs.] Chaucer.

age of; to check by fear of danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten. Some presences daunt and discourage us. Glanvill.

One who daunts.

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.

To leave; to quit; to cease to haunt. Halliwell.