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A title of honor equivalent to master, or sir. [Obs.] Old Dan Geoffry, in gently spright The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell. Spenser. What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land. Thomson.

A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one.

A cobaltiferous variety of arsenopyrite.

A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glicinum, containing sulphur.

A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury, Conn. It is near the topaz in form. Dana.

monly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhytmically. Jack shall pipe and Gill shall dance. Wiher. Good shepherd, what fair swain is this Which dances with your dauther Shak.

One who dances or who practices dancing. The merry dancers, beams of the northern lights when they rise and fall alternately without any considerable change of length. See Aurora borealis, under Aurora.

A female dancer. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancetté has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.

from Dance. Dancing girl, one of the women in the East Indies whose profession is to dance in the temples, or for the amusement of spectators. There are various classes of dancing girls. -- Dancing master, a teacher of dancing. -- Dancing school, a school or place where dancing is taught.

Same as Dancetté.

A well-known plant of the genus Taraxacum (T. officinale, formerly called T. Dens-leonis and Leontodos Taraxacum) bearing large, yellow, compound flowers, and deeply notched leaves.

Dandruff or scurf on the head.

A boatman; an oarsman. [India]

One of a breed of small terriers; -- called also Dandie Dinmont.

eccentric but fine character, who owns two terriers claimed to be the progenitors of the Dandie Dinmont terriers.

Made up like a dandy; having the dress or manners of a dandy; buckish.

To cause to resemble a dandy; to make dandyish.

A little fellow; -- in sport or contempt. "A dandiprat hop-thumb." Stanyhurst.

and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant. Ye shall be dandled . . . upon her knees. Is.