owering Branch 
of Mezereon 
( Daphne Meze- 
reutn}. 
dap 
With these and a short line I shewed to angle for 
chul) you may tiape or dap. 
I. H'riUon, Complete Angler, I. 5. 
dapaticalt (da-pat'i-kal), a. [< LL. dapaticus 
(rare), sumptuous, < L. daps, a feast.] Sump- 
tuous in cheer. Bailey. 
dapet (dap), v. i. ; pret. and pp. doped, ppr. (tap- 
ing. Same as dap. 
daphnad (daf 'nad), n. One of the Thymeleaceie. 
Lindley. 
daplmal (daf'nal), a. [< Daphne + -al.] In 
bat., of, pertaining to, or related to the daph- 
nads: as, the daplmal alliance (the daphnads 
and the laurels). See Daphne. 
Daphne (daf'ne), n. [NL., < L. daphne, < Gr. 
SaQvri, the laurel, or rather the bay-tree (in 
myth, a nymph beloved of Apollo and meta- 
morphosed into a laurel), also, later, Atyvoj, 
dial, hafyvrj, also 6ai>xvti, 6avxv6f, prob. orig. 
*6aFv?/ = (with var. term.) L. laarus, laurel: 
see Laurus, laurel.] 1. In lot., 
a genus of small erect or trail- 
ing shrubs of the natural order 
Thymeleaceie, including about 40 
species of the temperate regions 
of Europe and Asia. Some of the spe- 
cies are cultivated in gardens for their 
beauty or fragrance, others are of medici- 
nal importance, and a few are employed 
in the manufacture of hemp and paper 
from the tough stringy bark. The most 
generally known species are the daphne- 
or spurge-laurel, D. Laureola, with ever- 
green leaves and green axillary flowers ; 
the mezereon, D. Mezereum, with very fra- 
grant flowers ; the spurge-flax, D. Gnidi- 
nm; and D. Cneorum, a trailing shrub 
with a profusion of bright rose-colored 
and exquisitely fragrant flowers. The 
bark and the fruit of the mezereon and 
some other species have strongly acrid 
properties, and have been used for vari- 
ous purposes in medicine. 
2. [I. c.] A plant of this genus, 
daphnetin (daf'net-in), n. [< Daphne + -et- 
+ -in 2 .] A crystalline substance derived from 
daphnin, having the formula CoH 6 Oi + H 2 O. 
Daphnia (daf'ni-a), n. [NL., <! Gr. oafywi : see 
Daphne.] A genus of minute fresh-water cla- 
docerous entomostra- 
cous crustaceans, the 
type of the family 
Daphniida:, and repre- 
sentative of the whole 
order Daphniacea or 
Cladocera. The species 
are among the many small 
crustaceans known as iva- 
ter-Jleas. The best-known 
species is D. pulex, the 
"branch-horned" water- 
flea, which is a favorite 
microscopic object. The 
head is prolonged into a 
snout, and is provided with 
a single central compound 
eye ; it is also furnished 
with antenna; which act as 
oars, propelling it through 
the water by a series of 
short springs or jerks. 
These animals are very 
abundant in many ponds 
and ditches; and as they as- 
sume ared color in summer, 
the swarms which abound 
in stagnant water impart to it the appearance of blood. 
Daphniacea(daf-ni-a'se-a),M.p?. [NL., < Daph- 
nia + -acea.] The water-fleas as a superfam- 
ily: same as Cladocera. 
daphniaceous (daf-ni-a'shius), a. Of or per- 
taining to the Daphniacea. 
daphniad (daf'ni-ad), n. [< Daphnia + -adl.] 
One of the Daphniida! or Daphniacea; a clado- 
cerous crustacean ; a water-flea. 
daphniid (daf 'ni-id), . [< Daphnia + -id 2 .] 
Same as daphniad. 
Daphniidse (daf-ni'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Daphnia 
+ -idai.] The family of water-fleas, typified 
by the genus Daphnia. It is sometimes contermi- 
nous with the order Cladocera, and is then identical with 
Daphniacea ; hut it is usually much restricted, as one of 
about six families into which the daplmiads are divided. 
Also Daphniada, Daphnidea, Daphnidae, Daphnides, 
Daphnoides. 
daphnin (daf'nin), n. [< Daphne + -in?.] A 
glucoside found in the bark and flowers of 
plants of the genus Daphne. It forms prismatic 
transparent crystals, having a bitter taste. It has re- 
ceived the formula CisHi^Og -f 2H<>0. 
daphnioid (daf'ni-oid), a. and n. [< Daphnia 
+ -aid.] I. a. Resembling or pertaining to the 
Daphniacea ; cladocerous, as a water-flea. 
II. n. A cladocerous crustacean. 
daphnoid (daf'noid), a. Same as daphnioid. 
KIICI/C. Brit. 
Side View of Water-flea (Daph 
fiia}, one of the cladocerou; 
Branchiopoda, highly magnified 
the appendages not figured except 
ing //', antennule ; /K', mandible 
ompoun '' 
shell-ela , 
arated at st, cervical dep 
m ms, 
c, heart. 
, , 
/, compound eye ; /'', simple eye 
ell- 
t st, cervical depression 
from ms, omostegite ; Ib, labrum 
, , 
, shell-eland ; cs, cephalostegite 
sepa 
1454 
daphnomancy (daf 'no-man-si), H. [<Gr. 
the laurel-tree, + fiavrela, divination.] Sooth- 
saying by means of the laurel. 
dapifert (dap'i-fer), . [L., < daps, a feast, + 
ferre = E. bear 1 .] A court official correspond- 
ing to the steward of an ordinary household. 
Sometimes called disctheyn. 
dapper (dap'er), a. [< ME. daper, pretty, neat, 
< D. dapper, brave, valiant, = MLG. LG. dap- 
per, heavy, weighty, strong, brave, = OHG. 
tapfar, heavy, weighty, MHG. tapfer, dapfer, 
tapfcl, heavy, firm, brave, G. tapfer, brave 
(cf. Dan. and Sw. tapper, brave, prob. of D. 
or G. origin).] 1. Pretty; elegant; neat; 
trim. 
The dapper ditties that I wont devise 
To feede youthes fancie, and the flocking fry, 
Delighten much. Spenser, Shep. Cal., October. 
A spirit of dapper intellectual dandyism, of which ele- 
gant verbiage and a dainty and debilitating spiritualism 
are the outward shows and covering, infects too much of 
the popular verse. Whipple, Ess. and Rev., I. 47. 
2. Small and active ; nimble ; brisk ; lively. 
A little dapper man. Milton, Hist. Eng., v. 
On the tawny sands and shelves, 
Trip the pert faeries and the dapper elves. 
Milton, Comus, 1. 118. 
We [mankind] are dapper little busybodies, and run 
this way and that way superserviceably. 
Emerson, Civilization. 
[Now only sarcastic or contemptuous in both 
senses.] 
dapperling (dap'er-ling), n. [< dapper + dim. 
-ling 1 .] A dwarf; a little fellow. 
dapperpy (dap'er-pi), a. Of diapered and va- 
riegated woolen cloth. [Scotch.] 
O he has pou'd aff his dapperpy coat, 
The silver buttons glanced bonny. 
Annan Water (Child's Ballads, II. 188). 
dapple (dap'l), n. and a. [< ME. "dappel, *dap- 
pul (in comp. dappul-gray : see dapple-gray), 
a spot, < Icel. depill (for *dapill), a spot, a dot 
(hence depill, a dog with spots over his eyes) 
(= Norw. depel, a pool, a splash of water or 
other liquid, a puddle, mud), < dapi = Norw. 
dape = Sw. dial, depp, a pool; cf. Dan. dial. 
duppe, a hole where water collects ; MD. dobbe, 
a pit, pool, = E. dial, dub, a pool: see rf6 2 .] 
1. n. 1. A spot ; a dot ; one of a number of va- 
rious spots, as on an animal's skin or coat. 
He had ... as many eyes on his body as my gray mare 
hath dapples. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, ii. 271. 
2. A dappled horse. 
II, a. Marked with spots ; spotted ; varie- 
gated with spots of different colors or shades 
of color : as, a dapple horse. 
Some dapjtle mists still floated along the peaks of the 
hills. Scott. 
dapple (dap'l), v. t. ; pret. and pp. dappled, ppr. 
dappling. [< dapple, n.] To spot; variegate 
with spots. 
The gentle day . . . 
Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. 
Shak., Much Ado, v. 3. 
A surface dappled o'er with shadows flung 
From many a brooding cloud. Wordsworth. 
It is summer, and the flickering shadows of forest-leaves 
dapple the roof of the little porch. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 240. 
dapple-bay (dap'l-ba'), a. [< dapple + bay: 
see dapple-gray.] Of a bay color variegated by 
dapples, or spots of a different color or shade. 
dappled (dap'ld), a. [< dapple, n., + -ed 2 .] 
Spotted ; variegated with spots of different 
colors or shades. 
Dappled Flanders mares. 
Pope, Epistle to Miss Blount, 1. 50. 
The sky-lark shakes his dappled wing. 
J. Jt. Drake, Culprit Fay, p. 62. 
dapple-gray (dap'1-gra'), a. [< ME. dapple-, 
dappul-gray, < *dappel, "dappul, a spot (see 
dapple), + gray.] Of a gray color variegated 
by spots of a different color or shade. 
His steede was al dappel-gray. 
Chaticer, Sir Thopas, 1. 173. 
Daption (dap'ti-on), n. [NL. (Stephens, 1825) ; 
also written Danthim, and Daptes; < Gr. dd- 
7rn?f, an eater, < t&meiv, devour.] A notable 
genus of petrels, of the family ProceHariida; 
and section (Estrelatece. They have the bill com- 
paratively dilated, with a wide and partly naked interra- 
mal space, oblique sulci on the edge of the upper mandi- 
ble, a small weak unguis, and long nasal tubes ; a short, 
rounded tail; and plumage spotted on the upper parts 
with black and white. They are birds of moderate size. 
The type and only species is D. capense, the damier, Cape 
pigeon, or pintado petrel. Calopetes (Sundevall, 187S) is 
a synonym. See cut in next column. 
Dardanian 
Cape Pigeon (Daptiott capense). 
Daptrius (dap'tri-us), n. [NL. (Vieillot, 1816), 
< Gr. 6cnrT/>ta, fern, to ooirr^f, an eater: see Dap- 
tion.] A genus of South American hawks, the 
type of which is D. ater. They have circular nos- 
trils with a central tubercle ; the plumage of the adult 
South American Hawk (Daptrius ater}. 
is black with a white basal bar on the tail ; the produced 
cere and naked sides of the head are reddish. The length 
of the adult is about 16 inches. 
dar 1 !, v. t. An obsolete form of dare 1 . 
dar 2 (dar), n. Same as dace, 1. 
darapti (da-rap'ti), n. The mnemonic name 
given by Petrus Hispanus to that mood of the 
third figure of syllogism in which the two prem- 
ises are universal and affirmative and the con- 
clusion is particular and affirmative. These dis- 
tinctions of quantity and quality are indicated by the 
three vowels of the word, a-a-t. The letter p indicates 
that the reduction to direct reasoning is to be pel-formed 
by converting by accident the minor premise, and the 
initial d shows that the direct mood so reached is darii. 
The following is an example of a syllogism in darapti : All 
griffins breathe fire ; but all griffins are animals ; there- 
fore, some animals breathe fire. Some logicians deny the 
validity of this mood. 
darbar, . See durbar. 
darblia (dar'ba), n. [Skt. darbha.] A coarse 
grass, the Poa'cynosuroides, much venerated by 
the Hindus, and employed by the Brahmans in 
their religious ceremonies. 
darby (dar'bi), n. ; pi. darbies (-biz). [Appar. 
from the personal name Darby or Derby. The 
phrase " father Derbies bands" for handcuffs 
occurs in Gascoigne's " Steele Glas" (1576).] 
1. pi. Handcuffs. [Slang.] 
Hark ye ! Jem Clink will fetch you the darbies. 
Scott, Peveril of the Peak, xxxiii. 
2. A plasterers' tool consisting of a thin strip 
of wood about 3 or 3 feet long and 7 inches 
broad, with two handles at the back, used for 
floating a ceiling. 
Darbyites (dar'bi-its), . pi. See Plymouth 
Brethren, under brother. 
darcet (dars), . [Also darse; < ME. darce, 
darse : see dace.] An earlier form of dace. 
Rooche, dare?, Makerelle. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 156. 
Dardan (dar'dan), a. and n. [< L. Dardaints, 
adj., < Dardanus, Gr. AdpAavor, : see def.] I. a. 
Pertaining or relating to Dardanus or Dardania, 
an ancient city near the later Troy in Asia Mi- 
nor, or to its people, the Dardani, named from a 
mythical founder, Dardanus, ancestor of Priam, 
king of Troy; hence, in poetical use, Trojan. 
II. n. An inhabitant of Dardanus or Darda- 
nia ; poetically, a Trojan. 
Dardanian (dar-da'ni-an), a. and n. [< L. Dar- 
danius = Dardanus: see Dardan.] Same as 
Dardan. 
