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To drop the bait gently on the surface of the water. To catch a club by dapping with a grasshoper. Walton.

Sumptuous in cheer. [Obs.] Bailey.

A genus of diminutive Shrubs, mostly evergreen, and with fragrant blossoms.

A colorless crystalline substance, C9H6O4, extracted from daphnin.

A genus of the genus Daphnia.

A dark green bitter resin extracted from the mezereon (Daphne mezereum) and regarded as the essential principle of the plant. [R.]

Divination by means of the laurel.

One who brings meat to the table; hence, in some countries, the official title of the grand master or steward of the king's or a nobleman's household.

pearance; lively. He wondered how so many provinces could be held in subjection by such a dapper little man. Milton. The dapper ditties that I wont devise. Spenser. Sharp-nosed, dapper steam yachts. Julian Hawthorne.

A dwarf; a dandiprat. [r.]

One of the spots on a dappled animal. He has . . . as many eyes on his body as my gray mare hath dapples. Sir P. Sidney.

Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse. Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks. Sir W. Scott.

use; -- sometimes followed by to or for. For nature, always in the right, To your decays adapts my sight. Swift. Appeals adapted to his [man's] whole nature. Angus. Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy persons. Macaulay.

The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. "General adaptability for every purpose." Farrar.

Capable of being adapted.

The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine.

Adaptive. Stubbs.

The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.

One who adapts.

Adaptation. Cheyne.