Part 2733

<i>Asham.</i>

<h1>Dallop</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Dal"lop</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Etymol. unknown.]</ety> <def>A tuft or clump.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Tusser.</i>

<h1>Dally</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Dal"ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dallied</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dallying</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets><?/alien</ets>, <ets>dailien</ets>; cf. Icel. <ets>pylja</ets> to talk, G. <ets>dallen</ets>, <ets>dalen</ets>, <ets>dahlen</ets>, to trifle, talk nonsense, OSw. <ets>tule</ets> a droll or funny man; or AS. <ets>dol</ets> foolish, E. <ets>dull</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.</def>

<blockquote>We have trifled too long already; it is madness to <b>dally</b> any longer. <i>Calamy.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>We have put off God, and <b>dallied</b> with his grace. <i>Barrow.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.</def>

<blockquote>Not <b>dallying</b> with a brace of courtesans. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Our aerie . . . <b>dallies</b> with the wind. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dally</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Dal"ly</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To delay unnecessarily; to while away.</def>

<blockquote><b>Dallying</b> off the time with often skirmishes. <i>Knolles.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dalmania</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Dal*ma"ni*a</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <ets>Dalman</ets>, the geologist.]</ety> <fld>(Paleon.)</fld> <def>A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks.</def>

<h1>Dalmanites</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Dal`ma*ni"tes</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Dalmania</er>.</def>

<h1>Dalmatian</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Dal*ma"tian</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to Dalmatia.</def>

<cs><col>Dalmatian dog</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a carriage dog, shaped like a pointer, and having black or bluish spots on a white ground; the coach dog.</cd></cs>

<mhw><h1>Dalmatica, n., Dalmatic</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Dal*mat"i*ca</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>, <hw>Dal*mat"ic</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt></mhw> <ety>[LL. <ets>dalmatica</ets>: cf. F. <ets>dalmatique</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(R. C. Ch.)</fld> <def>A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A robe worn on state ocasions, as by English kings at their coronation.</def>

<h1>Dal segno</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Dal` se"gno</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[It., from the sign.]</ety> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>A direction to go back to the sign <?/ and repeat from thence to the close. See <er>Segno</er>.</def>

<h1>Daltonian</h1> <Xpage=364>

<hw>Dal*to"ni*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One afflicted with color blindness.</def>