Part 2751

<hw>Dar*da"ni*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a. & n.</tt><ety>[From L. <ets>Dardania</ets>, poetic name of Troy.]</ety> <def>Trojan.</def>

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<hw>Dare</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp.</tt> <er>Durst</er> <tt>(?)</tt> or <er>Dared</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>; <tt>p. p.</tt> <er>Dared</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Daring</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>I dar</ets>, <ets>dear</ets>, I dare, imp. <ets>dorste</ets>, <ets>durste</ets>, AS. <ets>ic dear</ets> I dare, imp. <ets>dorste</ets>. inf. <ets>durran</ets>; akin to OS. <ets>gidar</ets>, <ets>gidorsta</ets>, <ets>gidurran</ets>, OHG. <ets>tar</ets>, <ets>torsta</ets>, <ets>turran</ets>, Goth. <ets>gadar</ets>, <ets>gada\'a3rsta</ets>, Gr. <ets><grk>tharsei^n</grk></ets>, <ets><grk>tharrei^n</grk></ets>, to be bold, <ets><grk>tharsy`s</grk></ets> bold, Skr. <ets>Dhrsh</ets> to be bold. &root;70.]</ety> <def>To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.</def>

<blockquote>I <b>dare</b> do all that may become a man; Who <b>dares</b> do more is none. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Why then did not the ministers use their new law? Bacause they <b>durst</b> not, because they could not. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Who <b>dared</b> to sully her sweet love with suspicion. <i>Thackeray.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The tie of party was stronger than the tie of blood, because a partisan was more ready to <b>dare</b> without asking why. <i>Jowett (Thu<?/yd.).</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; The present tense, <i>I dare</i>, is really an old past tense, so that the third person is <i>he dare</i>, but the form <i>he dares</i> is now often used, and will probably displace the obsolescent <i>he dare</i>, through grammatically as incorrect as <i>he shalls</i> or <i>he cans</i>.</note>

<i>Skeat.</i>

<blockquote>The pore <b>dar</b> plede (the poor man <b>dare</b> plead). <i>P. Plowman.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>You know one <b>dare</b> not discover you. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The fellow <b>dares</b> nopt deceide me. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Here boldly spread thy hands, no venom'd weed <b>Dares</b> blister them, no slimly snail <b>dare</b> creep. <i>Beau. & Fl.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; Formerly <i>durst</i> was also used as the present. Sometimes the old form <i>dare</i> is found for <i>durst</i> or <i>dared</i>.</note>

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<hw>Dare</hw>, <tt>v. y.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dared</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Daring</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake.</def>

<blockquote>What high concentration of steady feeling makes men <b>dare</b> every thing and do anything? <i>Bagehot.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>To wrest it from barbarism, to <b>dare</b> its solitudes. <i>The Century.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To challenge; to provoke; to defy.</def>

<blockquote>Time, I <b>dare</b> thee to discover Such a youth and such a lover. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Dare</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>It lends a luster . . . A large <b>dare</b> to our great enterprise. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Defiance; challenge.</def>

<blockquote>Childish, unworthy <b>dares</b> Are not enought to part our powers. <i>Chapman.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Sextus Pompeius Hath given the <b>dare</b> to C\'91sar. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Dare</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>darien</ets>, to lie hidden, be timid.]</ety> <def>To lurk; to lie hid.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>