Dan
(Dan) n. [OE. dan, danz, OF. danz dan, master, fr. L. dominus. See Dame.] A title of honor
equivalent to master, or sir. [Obs.]
Old Dan Geoffry, in gently spright
The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell.
Spenser.
What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land.
Thomson. Dan
(Dan), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Mining) A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
Danaide
(Da"na*ide) n. [From the mythical Danaides, who were condemned to fill with water a vessel
full of holes.] (Mach.) A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between
which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one.
Danaite
(Da"na*ite) n. [Named after J. Freeman Dana.] (Min.) A cobaltiferous variety of arsenopyrite.
Danalite
(Da"na*lite) n. [Named after James Dwight Dana.] (Min.) A mineral occuring in octahedral
crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glucinum, containing
sulphur.
Danburite
(Dan"bu*rite) n. (Min.) A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury, Conn. It is near the
topaz in form. Dana.
Dance
(Dance) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Danced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dancing.] [F. danser, fr. OHG. danson
to draw; akin to dinsan to draw, Goth. apinsan, and prob. from the same root (meaning to stretch) as
E. thin. See Thin.]
1. To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company
with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap
rhythmically.
Jack shall pipe and Gill shall dance.
Wither.
Good shepherd, what fair swain is this
Which dances with your daughter?
Shak. 2. To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about.
Then, 'tis time to dance off.
Thackeray.
More dances my rapt heart
Than when I first my wedded mistress saw.
Shak.
Shadows in the glassy waters dance.
Byron.
Where rivulets dance their wayward round.
Wordsworth. To dance on a rope, or To dance on nothing, to be hanged.
Dance
(Dance) v. t. To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about, or up and down; to dandle.
To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind.
Shak.
Thy grandsire loved thee well;
Many a time he danced thee on his knee.
Shak. To dance attendance, to come and go obsequiously; to be or remain in waiting, at the beck and call of
another, with a view to please or gain favor.
A man of his place, and so near our favor,
To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasure.
Shak.
