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  • English Word Danegeld Definition Alt. of Danegelt
  • English Word Danegelt Definition 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.
  • English Word Danewort Definition A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood. [Said to grow on spots where battles were fought against the Danes.]
  • English Word Dang Definition of Ding
  • English Word Dang Definition imp. of Ding.
  • English Word Dang Definition To dash.
  • English Word Danger Definition Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty.
  • English Word Danger Definition To endanger.
  • English Word Danger Definition Difficulty; sparingness.
  • English Word Danger Definition Authority; jurisdiction; control.
  • English Word Danger Definition Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.
  • English Word Danger Definition Coyness; disdainful behavior.
  • English Word Dangerful Definition Full of danger; dangerous.
  • English Word Dangerless Definition Free from danger.
  • English Word Dangerous Definition Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
  • English Word Dangerous Definition Reserved; not affable.
  • English Word Dangerous Definition Hard to suit; difficult to please.
  • English Word Dangerous Definition Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
  • English Word Dangerous Definition In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
  • English Word Dangle Definition To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion.
  • English Word Dangle Definition To cause to dangle; to swing, as something suspended loosely; as, to dangle the feet.
  • English Word Dangleberry Definition A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.
  • English Word Dangled Definition of Dangle
  • English Word Dangler Definition One who dangles about or after others, especially after women; a trifler.
  • English Word Dangling Definition of Dangle
  • English Word Daniel Definition A Hebrew prophet distinguished for sagacity and ripeness of judgment in youth; hence, a sagacious and upright judge.
  • English Word Danish Definition Belonging to the Danes, or to their language or country.
  • English Word Danish Definition The language of the Danes.
  • English Word Danite Definition One of a secret association of Mormons, bound by an oath to obey the heads of the church in all things.
  • English Word Danite Definition A descendant of Dan; an Israelite of the tribe of Dan.