DANDYLING
Dan"dy*ling, n. Etym: [Dandy + .]
Defn: A little or insignificant dandy; a contemptible fop.
DANE
Dane, n. Etym: [LL. Dani: cf. AS. Dene.]
Defn: A native, or a naturalized inhabitant, of Denmark. Great Dane.
(Zoöl.) See Danish dog, under Danish.
DANEGELD; DANEGELT Dane"geld`, Dane"gelt`, n. Etym: [AS. danegeld. See Dane, and Geld, n.] (Eng. Hist.)
Defn: An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm. Wharton's Law Dict. Tomlins.
DANEWORT
Dane"wort`, n. (Bot.)
Defn: A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; — called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood.
Note: [Said to grow on spots where battles were fought against the
Danes.]
DANG
Dang,