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 Damner. To damne, condemne, giue iudgement against, adiudge vnto death.

Damoiseau. as Damoisel; and as Damoiselet; also, a neat fellow, spruce yonker, effeminate youth. Damoisel: m. A young gentleman professing Armes, and not yet knighted.  Damoisel d'un tel lieu. The Lord of such a place (an ancient forme of speech.)

Damoiselet: m. ette: f. Gentlewoman-like; or, waiting on a Gentlewoman.  Teinct damoiselet. An effeminate complexion; a face of hue more womanlie then manlike.

Damoiselette: f. A little Gentlewoman; a Gentlewoman of meane estate, or of low degree.

Damoiselle: f. A Gentlewoman; any one, vnder the degree of a Ladie, that weares, or may weare, a Veluet hood.  Damoiselle d'attour. The Gentlewoman, or waiting woman that vses to dresse, and make readie, her Ladie, or Mistresse.  Mes damoiselles. The title, and stile of the French Kings younger brothers daughters.

Damp chevalier. Thou sir Knight; or, as, Dam. Damyon. The name of a certaine apple, that yeelds very cleere Cydar.

Danché. Indented; or (as in termes of blazon) dancy.

Dandin: m. A meacocke, noddie, ninnie; a hoydon, sot, lobcocke; one that knows not how to looke, and gapes at euery thing he knowes not.

Dandiner. To goe gaping ilfauoredly, looking vnsteaddily; to gape, and looke, like an Asse, Noddie, Ninnie.

Dandrilles: f. Hangars, Dantrils; Looke Dendrille. Danger: m. Danger, perill, ieopardie, hazard.  Les dangers des bois. The amerciaments, and confiscations adiudged vnto the King by the Officers of woods, and forrests.  Droict de tiers, & danger. A third and tenth (as of xxx pound xiij) payed vnto the King out of the price of euery Woodsale made in the woods and forrests of his, or other lords demaynes (especially within Normandie) wherein he hath those rights.  Fief de danger. Looke Fief. Il y a danger que. It is to be feared least.  A grand danger grand courage: Prov. Great courage is in greatest dangers tryed; or as in Courage. Il n'est danger que de vilain: ¶Pro. A clowne (inraged) is most dangerous.

Dangereusement. Dangerously, perilously, with much ieopardie, with great hazard.

Dangereux: m. euse: f. Daungerous, perilous, ieopardous, full of hazard.  Sergens dangereux. Certaine Officers, that leuied, vnto the Kings vse, les dangers des bois, & le droict de tiers & danger, vntill the yeare 1563, when they were cassed by Charles the ninth.

Dans. as Dedans. In, within.

Danse: f. A daunce, or dauncing. La Danse des crapaux. as in Crapaud. Danse du loup la queuë entre les jambes. Lecherie. Danse Macabré. Death; (a daunce wherein there is no respect of age, degree, worth, or dignitie.) Danse Trevisanne. Lecherie. Elle sçait assez de la vielle danse. She knowes well enough what belongs to the Game; she hath bin a hackster, a twigger, a good one, in her time. De la panse vient la danse: Pro. Men are the mer-*
 * riest when their bellies are fullest; or, when the bellie is full the breech would be figging; (for by this Danse is any lustfull, or sensuall, motion vnderstood.)

Dansé. Daunced; hopped, skipped.

Dansement. A dauncing; hopping, skipping; a motion directed by time, and harmonie.

Danser: m. To daunce; also, to hop, skip, or leape (for ioy.)  Danser en bille. To daunce very liuely.  Danser la grue. To hop, leape, skip, daunce often; or but vpon one leg.  Il ne sçait sur quel pied danser. Hee is at his wits end, he knowes not what in the earth to doe.  Amour apprend les asnes à danser: Pro. Loue makes the cokes turne courtier.  Chascun n'est pas aise que danse: Prov. Euerie one is not merrie that daunces; of such a one wee say, his heart is not so light as his heeles.

Danseresse: f. A woman dauncer.

Danserie: f. A dauncing, &c; as Dansement. Danseur: m. A dauncer, hopper, skipper.  Iamais danseur ne fut bon clerc: Prov. Neuer was dauncer good scholler.

Danspied. The hollow part of the sole of the foot.

Dante. A certaine hard-skind Indian beast, resembling a Mule.

Daphnomantie. Diuination by a Lawrell, or Bay tree.

Dapifer. The great Master, or Steward of the Kings house; (tearmed so in old time.)

Darceau. A certaine fish; as Derceau. Dard: m. A Dart, a Iaueline, a Gleaue; also, a kind of ash-coloured serpent, which from high trees throweth it selfe at passengers; also, a Dace, or Dare fish.

Dardanaire: m. A Regrator, Ingrater, or Ingrosser; one that buyes, and hoords vp corne, or other prouision, with a purpose to sell it againe when tis growne deere.

Dardanier. as Dardanaire. Darde: f. A play, wherein boyes hauing layed a heape of points vnder a stone, and made a circle about them, dart at them with a rod, and win as many as they driue out of that circle; (Our boyes laying their points in a heape of dust, and throwing at them with a stone, call that play of theirs, Dust-point.)

Dardé: m. ée: f. Darted; flung, hurled, cast, throwne, as a dart; also, hit, hurt, strucken, wounded with a dart.

Darder. To dart; to fling, hurle, cast, or throw a dart; also, to hit, wound, pierce, or hurt with a dart.

Darderesse: f. A woman that casteth a dart.

Darde-tonnere. Thunder-hurling, thunder-shooting.

Dardeur: m. A darter, or thrower of a dart.

Dardiller. To shake, or wauer, like a dart cast with violence.

Dardoises fourmis. Beasts among the Dardes (in the North part of India) coloured like cats, and as big as Egyptian wolues; they dig gold oare, as Moles earth, and keepe it carefully, till creeping, in extreame heat, into caues, they are cousened thereof by the countrey people.

Dare. A huge big bellie; also, Dole.

Darioles: f. Small pasties filled with flesh, hearbes, and spices, mingled, and minced together.

Dariolette: f. A bawd, or carrier of loue-messages.

Darne: m. A slice; a broad, and thin peece, or partition of.

Dartre: f. A Tettar, or Ring-worme.