| dan | a participle (usually at the beginning of a sentence) apparently modifying a word other than the word intended: e.g., `flying across the country' in `flying across the country the Rockies came into view' |
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| dan | a wise and upright judge |
| dan | (Old Testament) a youth who was taken into the court of Nebuchadnezzar and given divine protection when thrown into a den of lions (6th century BC) |
| dan | Swiss physicist who contributed to hydrodynamics and mathematical physics (1700-1782) |
| dan | an American pioneer and guide and explorer (1734-1820) |
| dan | United States sculptor who created the seated marble figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. (1850-1931) |
| dan | English writer remembered particularly for his novel about Robinson Crusoe (1660-1731) |
| dan | United States anthropologist who was the first to attempt a systematic classification of Native American languages (1837-1899) |
| dan | United States architect who designed the first important skyscraper with a skeleton (1846-1912) |
| dan | English phonetician (1881-1967) |
| dan | soldier in the American Revolutionary War who defeated the British in the Battle of Cowpens, South Carolina (1736-1802) |
| dan | Nicaraguan statesman (born in 1945) |