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Split pulse, esp. of Cajanus Indicus. [East Indies]

A direction to go back to the sign Segno.

A low place between hills; a vle or valley. Where mountaines rise, umbrageous dales descend. Thomson.

One living in a dale; -- a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, etc. Macaulay.

imp. of Delve. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A rapid, esp. one where the channel is narrowed between rock walls. [Northwestern U. S. & Canada]

The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson.

One Who fondles; a trifler; as, dalliers with pleasant words. Asham.

A tuft or clump. [Obs.] Tusser.

ay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle. We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer. Calamy. We have put off God, and dallied with his grace. Barrow.

A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks.

Same as Dalmania.

Of or pertaining to Dalmatia. Dalmatian dog (Zoöl.), a carriage dog, shaped like a pointer, and having black or bluish spots on a white ground; the coach dog.

y deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia.

One afflicted with color blindness.

, esp. red; color blindness. It has various forms and degrees. So called from the chemist Dalton, who had this infirmity. Nichol.

A religious devotee or dervish in Persia.

Pertaining to acnodes.

Glandlike; glandular.

The quality of being à la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness. [R.] Southey.