Part 2747

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.</def>

<blockquote>Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are <b>dangerous</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>It is <b>dangerous</b> to assert a negative. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.</def>

<blockquote>If they incline to think you <b>dangerous</b> To less than gods. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<i>Forby. Bartlett.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Hard to suit; difficult to please.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; My lord to me is hard and <b>dangerous</b>. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Reserved; not affable.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "Of his speech <i>dangerous</i>."

<i>Chaucer.</i>

-- <wordforms><wf>Dan"ger*ous*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Dan"ger*ous*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Dangle</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Dan"gle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dangled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dangling</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Akin to Dan. <ets>dangle</ets>, dial. Sw. <ets>dangla</ets>, Dan. <ets>dingle</ets>, Sw. <ets>dingla</ets>, Icel. <ets>dingla</ets>; perh. from E. <ets>ding</ets>.]</ety> <def>To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion.</def>

<blockquote>he'd rather on a gibbet <b>dangle</b> Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle. <i>Hudibras.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>From her lifted hand <b>Dangled</b> a length of ribbon. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<cs><mcol><col>To dangle about</col> &or; <col>after</col></mcol>, <cd>to hang upon importunately; to court the favor of; to beset.</cd></cs>

<blockquote>The Presbyterians, and other fanatics that <b>dangle after</b> them, are well inclined to pull down the present establishment. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dangle</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Dan"gle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To cause to dangle; to swing, as something suspended loosely; <as>as, to <ex>dangle</ex> the feet</as>.</def>

<blockquote>And the bridegroom stood <b>dangling</b> his bonnet and plume. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dangleberry</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Dan"gle*ber`ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (<spn>Gaylussacia frondosa</spn>) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called <i>blue tangle</i>, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.</def>

<h1>Dangler</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Dan"gler</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who dangles about or after others, especially after women; a trifler.</def> " <i>Danglers</i> at toilets."

<i>Burke.</i>

<h1>Daniel</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Dan"i*el</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A Hebrew prophet distinguished for sagacity and ripeness of judgment in youth; hence, a sagacious and upright judge.</def>