Part 2764

<hw>Dat"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who dates.</def>

<h1>Datiscin</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Da*tis"cin</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A white crystalline glucoside extracted from the bastard hemp (<spn>Datisca cannabina</spn>).</def>

<h1>Dative</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Da"tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>dativus</ets> appropriate to giving, fr. <ets>dare</ets> to give. See 2d <er>Date</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Gram.)</fld> <def>Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by <i>to</i> or <i>for</i> with the objective.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>In one's gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of an officer.</def> <sd>(c)</sd> <def>Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law.</def>

<i>Burril. Bouvier.</i>

<cs><col>Dative executor</col>, <cd>one appointed by the judge of probate, his office answering to that of an administrator.</cd></cs>

<h1>Dative</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Da"tive</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>dativus</ets>.]</ety> <def>The dative case. See <er>Dative</er>, <tt>a.</tt>, <p><b>1.</b></def>

<h1>Datively</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Da"tive*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>As a gift.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Datolite</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Dat"o*lite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From. Gr. <ets><?/</ets> to divide + <ets>-lite</ets>; in allusion to the granular structure of a massive variety.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A borosilicate of lime commonly occuring in glassy,, greenish crystals.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>datholite</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Datum</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Da"tum</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Data</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. See 2d <er>Date</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Something given or admitted; a fact or principle granted; that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural.</def>

<blockquote>Any writer, therefore, who . . . furnishes us with <b>data</b> sufficient to determine the time in which he wrote. <i>Priestley.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <fld>(Math.)</fld> <def>The quantities or relations which are assumed to be given in any problem.</def>

<cs><col>Datum line</col> <fld>(Surv.)</fld>, <cd>the horizontal or base line, from which the heights of points are reckoned or measured, as in the plan of a railway, etc.</cd></cs>

<h1>Datura</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Da*tu"ra</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL.; cf. Skr. <ets>dhatt<?/ra</ets>, Per. & Ar. <ets>tat<?/ra</ets>, <ets>Tat<?/la</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A genus of solanaceous plants, with large funnel-shaped flowers and a four-celled, capsular fruit.</def>

<note>&hand; The commonest species are the thorn apple (<spn>D. stramonium</spn>), with a prickly capsule (see <i>Illust</i>. of <er>capsule</er>), white flowers and green stem, and <spn>D. tatula</spn>, with a purplish tinge of the stem and flowers. Both are narcotic and dangerously poisonous.</note>

<h1>Daturine</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Da*tu"rine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Datura</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>Atropine; -- called also <altname>daturia</altname> and <altname>daturina</altname>.</def>

<h1>Daub</h1> <Xpage=370>

<hw>Daub</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Daubed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Daubing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>dauben</ets> to smear, OF. <ets>dauber</ets> to plaster, fr. L. <ets>dealbare</ets> to whitewash, plaster; <ets>de-</ets> + <ets>albare</ets> to whiten, fr. <ets>albus</ets> white, perh. also confused with W. <ets>dwb</ets> plaster, <ets>dwbio</ets> to plaster, Ir. & OGael. <ets>dob</ets> plaster. See <er>Alb</er>, and cf. <er>Dealbate</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.</def>

<blockquote>She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and <b>daubed</b> it with slime and with pitch. <i>Ex. ii. 3.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner.</def>