DARE, a challenge or defiance to single combat.
DARRAIN. See [Battle-array].
DART, in ancient military history, implies a small kind of lance, thrown by the hand.
DAY, in a military sense implies any time in which armies may be engaged, from the rising of one day’s sun to that of another. According to Johnson it signifies the day of contest, the contest, the battle.
DAYSMAN, an umpire of the combat was so called.
DEBANDADE. A la débandade, helter-skelter.
Se battre à la débandade, to fight in a loose, dispersed manner.
Laisser à la débandade, to leave at random, or in disorder.
DEBARK, See [Disembark].
DEBAUCHER, Fr. to debauch or entice a soldier from the service of his country. During the reign of Louis the XV. and in former reigns, it was enacted, that any person who should be convicted of having debauched or enticed a soldier from his duty should suffer death. By a late act of the British parliament it is made a capital offence to entice or seduce a soldier from any regiment in the British service.