Chapter Dangle to Darken of D by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

in dress or appearance; 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.

Dapperling
(Dap"per*ling) n. A dwarf; a dandiprat. [r.]

Dapple
(Dap"ple) n. [Cf. Icel. depill a spot, a dot, a dog with spots over the eyes, dapi a pool, and E. dimple.] 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.

Dapple
(Dap"ple Dap"pled) , a. 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.

The word is used in composition to denote that some color is variegated or marked with spots; as, dapple- bay; dapple-gray.

His steed was all dapple-gray.

Chaucer.

O, swiftly can speed my dapple-gray steed.

Sir W. Scott.

Dapple
(Dap"ple), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dappled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dappling.] To variegate with spots; to spot.

The gentle day, . . .
Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray.

Shak.

The dappled pink and blushing rose.

Prior.

Darbies
(Dar"bies) n. pl. Manacles; handcuffs. [Cant]

Jem Clink will fetch you the darbies.

Sir W. Scott.

In "The Steel Glass" by Gascoigne, printed in 1576, occurs the line "To binde such babes in father Derbies bands."

Darby
(Dar"by) n. A plasterer's float, having two handles; — used in smoothing ceilings, etc.

Darbyite
(Dar"by*ite) n. One of the Plymouth Brethren, or of a sect among them; — so called from John N. Darby, one of the leaders of the Brethren.

Dardanian
(Dar*da"ni*an) a. & n.[From L. Dardania, poetic name of Troy.] Trojan.

Dare
(Dare) v. i. [imp. Durst or Dared ; p. p. Dared; p. pr. & vb. n. Daring.] [OE. I dar, dear, I dare, imp. dorste, durste, AS. ic dear I dare, imp. dorste. inf. durran; akin to OS. gidar, gidorsta, gidurran, OHG. tar, torsta, turran, Goth. gadar, gadaúrsta, Gr. tharsei^n, tharrei^n, to be bold, tharsy`s