| dasher | 1. That which dashes or agitates; as, the dasher of a churn. 2. A dashboard or splashboard. 3. One who makes an ostentatious parade. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| dashism | The character of making ostentatious or blustering parade or show. "He must fight a duel before his claim to . . . Dashism can be universally allowed." (V. Knox) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dashy | Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy. Origin: From Dash. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dastard | One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon. "You are all recreants and dashtards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility." (Shak) Origin: Prob. From Icel. Daestr exhausted. Breathless, p. P. Of daesa to groan, lose one's breath; cf. Dasask to become exhausted, and E. Daze. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dasymeter | <physics> An instrument for testing the density of gases, consisting of a thin glass globe, which is weighed in the gas or gases, and then in an atmosphere of known density. Origin: Gr. Rough, thick. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dasypaedal | <zoology> Dasypaedic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dasypaedes | <ornithology> Those birds whose young are covered with down when hatched. Origin: NL, from Gr. Hairy, shaggy +, a child. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dasypaedic | <zoology> Pertaining to the Dasypaedes; ptilopaedic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Dasyprocta | A genus of rodents of the guinea pig family, a reservoir host of Trypanosoma cruzi. Synonym: agouti. Origin: G. Dasyproktos, having hairy buttocks (05 Mar 2000) |
| dasyure | <zoology> A carnivorous marsupial quadruped of Australia, belonging to the genus Dasyurus. There are several species. Origin: Gr. Thick, shaggy + tail: cf. F. Dasyure. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dasyurine | <zoology> Pertaining to, or like, the dasyures. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |