dandy 
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dates from 1816. After 1825 itsineaiiinggraduallychanged ; DanebrOg (dan'e-brog) n 
it ceased to mean a man ridiculous and contemptible by the Da , 'afc nat i O nal flag, a banish order of 
[Dan. Danebrog, 
his ett'eminate eccentricities, and came to be applied to 
those who were trim, neat, and careful in dressing accord- 
ing to the fashion of the day. 
E. Solly, N. and Q., 6th ser., IX. 85. 
Skobeleff, although himself a dandy who went into ac- 
tion scented like a popinjay, did not believe in "fancy" 
soldiers for his subordinates. 
Arch. Forlfen, Souvenirs of some Continents, p. 29. 
2. Something very neat or dainty. [Slang.] 
3. An accessory and diminutive appendix or 
attachment to a' machine. 
knighthood, < Dane, Dane, + ODan. brog, 
cloth.] The second in importance of the Da- 
nish orders of knighthood, originally institut- 
ed in 1219, revived in 1671, regulated by royal 
statutes in 1693 and 1808, and several times 
modified since. It now consists of four classes, be- 
sides a fifth class wearing the silver cross of the order 
without being regular members of it, the silver cross being 
awarded for some meritorious act or distinguished service. 
The order may be bestowed on foreigners. Also Danne- 
brog. 
A chamber or dandy in which the pig-iron is first placed An-^'e* fl nn /J 'fl # A \ mi, 
for preliminary heating. dane-flower (dan flou'er), n. The pasque- 
W. If. Oreeninml, Steel and Iron, p. 276. flower, Anemone Pulsatilla. 
4. In tin-plate manuf., a running-out fire for Danegeld (dan'geld), n. [ME. Danegeld, Dan- 
melting pig-iron, the stack being built upon an ffM, Danegtlt (ML. Danigeldum, Danegeldum), 
< AS. "Deneyild, -geld (cf. Dan. danegjxld), < 
Dene, Danes, + gild, geld, a payment, < gildan, 
pay, yield: see yield.'] In Eng. hist., an annual 
: being built upon an 
open framework of iron, so that the melter has 
access to his fire from all sides. = Syn. 1. Fop, 
Beau, etc. See coxriniib. 
II. a. 1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic 
of a dandy or fop ; foppish : as, dandy manners. 
2. Neat; dainty; trim; gay. [Slang.] 
tax first imposed in 991 on the decree of the 
witan in order to obtain funds for the main- 
tenance of forces to oppose the Danes, or for 
dangerous 
Some debt or other delinquency by which the writer had 
placed himself within the danger of the editors of the 
Monthly Review. .V. and Q., 7th ser., II. 123. 
2. Peril ; risk ; hazard ; exposure to injury, 
loss, pain, or other evik as, there is no danger. 
Onr craft is in danger to be set at nought. Acts xix. 27. 
I take my part 
Of danyer on the roaring sea. 
7V/I////XO/I. Sailor- Boy. 
8f. Reserve ; doubt ; hesitation ; difficulty ; re- 
sistance. 
So lat youre daunger sucred ben alyte, 
That of his deth ye be nought for to wyte. 
Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 384. 
4f. Chariness; sparingness; stint. 
With daunyer oute we al oure chaffare ; 
Greet prees at market maketh deere ware. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. .121. 
6f. Injury; harm; damage. 
We put a sting in him, 
That at his will he may do danger with. 
Skat., 3. C., ii. 1. 
He had not been seated there very long before he felt furnishing tribute to procure peace. It was con- ^f. In old forest-law, a duty paid by a tenant to 
an arm thrust under his, and a dandy little hand in a kid tinned under the Danish kings(1017-42)andlaterfor other a lord for leave to plow and SOW in the time of 
glove squeezing his arm. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, purposes. The tax was abolished by Edward the Confes- pannage or mast-feeding. Also leave-silver. 
White muslin covers for dressing-tables, with dandtj 
pink trimmings. The Century, XXVII. 819. 
dandy 2 (dan'di), n. ; pi. dandies (-diz). A small 
glass: as, a dandy of punch. [Irish.] 
dandy 3 (dan'di), H. ; pi. dandies (-diz). [< Hind. 
ddndi, a boatman, a rower, < ddnd, dand, danda, 
sor, revived by William the Conqueror, and increased in 
1084 from two shillings for every hide of land to six ; it 
finally disappeared in name in the twelfth centurjt Also 
Dancgelt. 
The ship-levy and the Danegeld were the first begin- 
nings of a national taxation. 
J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 389. 
an oar, a staff, stick, < Skt. danda, a staff, Danelaget, '< Same as Danelaw. 
stick, rod; cf. Gr. 6ev6pov, a tree.] 1. A boat- Danelaw (dan'la), n. [Also Danelagh, Dane- 
man of the Ganges. [Anglo-Indian.] Also lage, etc -> after ME. or ML. transcriptions of 
spelled dandle and dandee. 2. A conveyance the AS.; AS. Dena lagu, law of the Danes: 
used in India, consisting of a strong cloth slung Dena, gen. of Dene, the Danes ; lagu, law.] 1. 
like a hammock to a bamboo staff, and carried The body of laws in force in that part of England 
by two or more men. The traveler can either which was settled in the ninth century by the 
sit side wise or He on his back. Yule and Bur- Danes, at first as an independent body. 2. The 
fifteen counties of England, extending from the 
Tees to the Thames, and from Watflng street 
to the German ocean, formerly occupied by the 
Danes, and in which Danish law was enforced. 
mil. 
The Ranee came out to meet us on a dandy or ray, with 
his vakeel and a small following. 
W. H. Russell, Diary in India, II. 201. 
dandy 4 (dan'di), n. ; pi. dandies (-diz). [Ori- 
gin obscure.] Xaut., a vessel rigged as a sloop, 
and having also a jigger-mast. 
dandy 5 (dan'di), n. ; pi. dandies (-diz). [Ori- 
gin obscure.] Same as dandy-roller. 
dandy 6 , . See dengue. 
dandy-brush (dan'di-brush), n. A hard whale- 
bone-bristle brush. E. H. Knight. 
Lincolnshire passed permanently into the hands of the 
Danes about 877, and was included within the boundary 
of the Danelage of Danish jurisdiction as settled by the 
treaty of 878. Encuc. Brit., XIV. 656. 
lannage or mast-feeding. 
In danger Of, liable to . exposed to. 
Whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause 
shall be in danger of the judgment. Mat. v. 22. 
He that is but half a philosopher is in danger of being 
an atheist. Bp. Attertrury, Sermons, I. v. 
To make danger oft, to be afraid of; hesitate about. 
I made danger of it awhile at first. 
Maitland, Reformation, p. 17. 
= Syn. 2. Danger, Peril, Jeopardy, insecurity. Danger 
is the generic word, and is freely used for exposure of 
all degrees of seriousness : as, to be in danger of catch- 
ing cold or of being killed. Peril represents a serious 
matter, a great and imminent danger. Jeopardy is less 
common ; it has essentially the same meaning as peril. 
See risk, n. 
The danger now is, not that men may believe too much, 
but that they may believe too little, jr. A. Rev., XL. 317. 
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of 
the sword of the wilderness. Lam. v. 9. 
A man may be buoyed up by the afilation of liis wild 
desires to brave any imaginable peril. 
G. H. Lewes, Spanish Drama, ii. 
Why stand we in jeopardy every hour? 1 Cor. xv. 30. 
.,.., . . We are not to wait till great public mischiefs come, 
daneq (da nek), . [Ar.] An Arabian weight, till the Government is overthrown, or liberty itself put 
one Sixth of a derham. In the second century of the fa jeopardy. D. Webster, Speech, Senate, May 7th, 1834. 
ng. 
dandy-COCk (dan'di-kok), n. A bantam cock. d . a nesblOOd (danz blud), n. A name applied 
[Local, Eng.] m England to three very different plants, in 
- . 'f ","" % B In tr y. and the dangert (dan'jer), r. t. [< danger, n.] To put 
was nine tenths of that. See derha.n. in EMl ; expose to loss or injury ; endanger. 
connection with the legend that they sprang 
Like a dandy ; of dandy appearance. 
A smart dandyish landlord. 
dandyism (dan'di-izm), n. [< dandyl + -ism; 
hence F. dandi/sme.] The manners and dress 
of a dandy; foppishness. 
I had a touch of dandyism in my minority. 
Who, high in name and power, 
Higher than both in blood and life, stands up 
For the main soldier ; whose quality, going on, 
The sides o' the world may danger. 
Shak., A. andC., i. 2. 
If you refuse these graces, you may pull 
Perils on him you seem to tender so, 
And danger your own safety. 
plant Eryngium campestre. . Beau - and Fl - < ? >- Faithful Friends, ii. i 
danewort (dan'wert), . The popular name of dangerful (dan'jer-ful), a. [< danger + -fill, 1.] 
Carlyle. Sambticus Ebulus, the dwarf elder of Europe. Full of danger ; dangerous; perilous. [Rare.] 
See danesblood. Lion, Scorpion, Bear, and Bull, 
The juice of the root of danewort doth make the hair 
Macke. Gerarde, Herball, p. 1426. 
dang 1 (dang). Preterit of ding. [Scotch.] 
Byron, Diary, 1821. dangH (dang), v. t. [Var. of ding.] To beat ; 
look down on Drudgism ; throw ; dash force 
rhaps the hour of trial, when it will be practically 
hich ought to look down, and which up, is not so T "l 8ne > o'ereoine with anguish, shame, and rage, 
><"">"' Carlijle, Sartor Resartus, p. 198. Danned down to hell her loathsome carriage. ,., 
dandyize (dan'di-iz), ,. ; pret. and pp. danOy- . M " rl " m (< "" CA<y "" a " ) ' Her a " d J ~ nder - dangerless (dan'jer-les), a. [< danger + -tow.] 
i:ea, ppr. danduizmg. [< dandy 1 + -ize.~\ I. dang- 1 (dang), v. t. A minced form of damn in Without danger or risk. [Rare.] 
"'n S 'JrTi k h ada K dy; dandi |y-, its profane use. Also ding, ^dinged. Hi s vertue is excellent in the danger^ Academic of 
ins. 10 be or become a dandy; act Dang thy bits ! Here, Sylvie ! Sylvie ' Plato, but mine shewethfoorth her honourable face, in the 
like a dandy. [Rare m both uses.] Mrs. Oaskell, Sylvia's Lovers v hattailesof Marathon, Pharsalia, Poitiers, and Aginconrt. 
dandyling (dan'di-ling), . [< dawfy 1 + dim. danser rdRTi'iprl M r^ MF /?/> , ^,.. Sir P. Sidney, Apol tor Poetrie. 
dan^v ] r.^ 6 M 1 ' ^ ri %<r & < OF &?&& ^ 9 t U dongfj n S- dangerous (dan' jer-us), a. [< ME. dangerous, 
?Sn?~??t ( dan d V ); \ [< *?& (uncer - V", absolute power, responsible an hority d , an !><s, < OF. dangeros, dangerom, dongerout, 
+ note.\ A document issued bv the cus- m~1 v * A^L >_ ;,"..:.."_ . "" '} danaereus, doniereus. F. damqentia, < danger, 
Involving or ex- 
hazardous ; un- 
but perhaps the hour 
seen wh 
And other things' less dangerful. ' 
T. Ward, England's Reformation, p. 172. 
dangerfully (dan'jer-ful-i), adv. In a manner 
to expose to danger ; dangerously. [Rare.] 
There were certain Jewes present standing by, whose 
solles ye spirite oj Satan did more dauHiiierfully'\H>aaeiae 
then that same vncleane spirite had possessed the body 
of this man. J. Udall, On Luke xi. 
delivery-note. 
dandy prat, . 
dandy-: 
mail 
See daiidiprat. 
nium, right of ownership" paramount" owne'r- 8afe ' ful1 of ^ sk : ? s '- a llat '3 ero " li voyage ; a daii- 
ship, eminent domain (> E. domain q. v.) < L S""' 01 '* experiment; m a dangerous condition. 
j . i_-.j _ ] iinve infection from the ilmiiirrnn* year ! 
Shak., Venus and Adonis, I. 508. 
It is dangerom to asset a negative. Macavlini. 
r- dominus, 
demesne, 
see domain, dominion, 
domino. Similar pho- 
the web of paper-pulD is nassed i rf i """ ' < m >" e , aonano. Similar pho- 
compactitandTaFnitpLtrilvofwater Vh ? n ^^ 6 ^T tak ^ n place iu d "^ em 
rtre?offt8Bdler^b;,o^.rittto^^ir^ (= ^jo, q.y), from the same source.] 1. . , 
sired pattern or water-mark in the paper E U Kniijht ^ ower i junsdiction ; domain; hence, abilitv to disposition or tendency : as, a dangerous man ; 
mulct or injure : as, to come within his danger. a dangerous illness. 
2. Liable to inflict injury or harm ; baneful in 
Dane (dan), . [< ME. Dane (after ML. Dani [Obsolete or archaic.] 
etc. ), Dene < AS. Dene, pi. , = D. Deen = G. Dane', 
rtc., = Icel. Damr, pi., = Dan. Dane, pi. Daner, 
also Dan-sk = Sw. Dan-sk ; first in LL. Dani, pi : 
ult origin unknown.] A native or an inhabitant 
Denmark, a kingdom of northern Europe. 
I am more an antique Roman than a Dane. 
Shak., Hamlet, v. 2. 
Xiircisns was a bachelere 
That Love had caught in hisdauii^ere. 
Rom. of the Rose, 1. 1470. 
Ye cannot dispute except ye have a man in your own 
danger, to do him bodily harm. 
Tt/ndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1860), p. 186. 
You stand within his danger, do you not ? 
Shak., M. of V.,!v. 1. 
What's my offence ? what have these years committed, 
That may be dangtrom to the Duke or state? 
Beau, and Fl., Woman-Hater, v. 5. 
You are not safe whilst I live ; I am daniierout, 
Troubled extremely, even to mischief. Junius, 
An enemy to all good men. Fletelirr. r.i.mluca, v. 4. 
3. In danger, as from illness; in a perilous 
condition: as, he is not dangerous. [Colloq., 
and now only vulgar.] 
