DAIN

Name Report For First Name DAIN:

First name DAIN's origin is English. DAIN means "variant of dane from denmark". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with DAIN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of dain.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with DAIN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with DAIN - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming DAIN

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES DA�N AS A WHOLE:

daina bhradain dainan daine gordain riordain houdain jordain jourdaine

NAMES RHYMING WITH DA�N (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ain) - Names That Ends with ain:

brengwain husain agravain alain mabonagrain tortain fiamain bain banain coinleain charmain dubhain etain germain ain bothain brittain broehain cain cochlain cuchulain culain deoradhain dewain dubhagain dwain efrain fain fallamhain flannagain gauvain gawain gormain husnain hussain iain jermain justain lochlain mabonaqain macbain morain narain shain thawain tremain wain zain diolmhain bheathain bharain twain thain swain brain helain ghislain romain evrain mordrain owain gille-eathain

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (in) - Names That Ends with in:

fatin yasmin camarin maolmin delbin kristin adin gin ixcatzin tepin tlazohtzin xochicotzin yoltzin zeltzin ihrin adwin akin alafin din kayin yerodin abbudin abdul-muhaimin aladdin amin mazin muhsin yasin custennin erbin pheredin taliesin txomin zadornin rivalin ashlin garvin quentin

NAMES RHYMING WITH DA�N (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (dai) - Names That Begins with dai:

dai daiana daibheid daibhidh daijon daileass dailyn daimh daimhin daimmen daire dairion daisey daishya daisi daisie daisy daithi daivini daizy

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (da) - Names That Begins with da:

da'ud dabbous dabi dabir dace dacey dacia dacian dacio dack dacy dada dae daedalus daedbot daeg daegal daegan dael daelan daelyn daelynn daemon daena daesgesage daeva daffodil dafydd dagan daganya daganyah dagen daghda dagian dagmar dagoberto dagomar dagonet daguenet dagwood dahab dahlia dahr dahwar dahy dakarai dakini dakota dakotah dakshina dal dalal dalan dalbert dale daleel dalen dalena dalene dalenna daley dalia daliah daliila dalila dalis dalit daliyah dall dallan dallas dallen dallin dallis dallon dalmar dalon dalston dalton daly

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DA�N:

First Names which starts with 'd' and ends with 'n':

dalyn dalynn daman damen dameon damian damiean damien damon dan danathon daniel-sean dann dannon danon danton danylynn daran dareen daren darien darin darleen darolyn daron darrellyn darren darrin darron darryn dartagnan darton darvin darwin darwyn darylyn daryn daveen daveon davian davidson davin davion davison davynn dawn dawson daxton daylan daylen daylin daylon dayson dayton dayveon deacon deagan deaglan deakin dean deann dearborn deasmumhan deavon declan deeann deegan deen dehaan deikun delman delmon delron delsin delton delvin delvon deman demason demogorgon demophon den deneen dennison denton deon deortun derian deron derren derrian derrin dervin dervon derwan derwin derwyn deshawn desilyn destan

English Words Rhyming DAIN

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES DA�N AS A WHOLE:

daint	noun (n.) Something of exquisite taste; a dainty.
	adjective (a.) Dainty.

daintifying

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Daintify

daintiness

noun (n.) The quality of being dainty; nicety; niceness; elegance; delicacy; deliciousness; fastidiousness; squeamishness.

daintrel

noun (n.) Adelicacy.

dainty	noun (n.) Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything.
	noun (n.) That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy.
	noun (n.) A term of fondness.
	superlative (superl.) Rare; valuable; costly.
	superlative (superl.) Delicious to the palate; toothsome.
	superlative (superl.) Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender.
	superlative (superl.) Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious.

disdaining

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disdain

disdained	adjective (a.) Disdainful.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Disdain

disdainful

adjective (a.) Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty.

disdainous

adjective (a.) Disdainful.

ordaining

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ordain

ordainable

adjective (a.) Capable of being ordained; worthy to be ordained or appointed.

ordainer

noun (n.) One who ordains.

ordainment

noun (n.) Ordination.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DA�N (According to last letters):

Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ain) - English Words That Ends with ain:

almain

noun (n.) Alt. of Alman

amain	noun (n.) With might; with full force; vigorously; violently; exceedingly.
	noun (n.) At full speed; in great haste; also, at once.
	verb (v. t.) To lower, as a sail, a yard, etc.
	verb (v. i.) To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield.

archchamberlain

noun (n.) A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England.

attain	noun (n.) Attainment.
	verb (v. t.) To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.
	verb (v. t.) To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire.
	verb (v. t.) To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.
	verb (v. t.) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.
	verb (v. t.) To overtake.
	verb (v. t.) To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.
	verb (v. i.) To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.
	verb (v. i.) To come or arrive, by an effort of mind.

bain

noun (n.) A bath; a bagnio.

bargain	noun (n.) An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration.
	noun (n.) An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.
	noun (n.) A purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain.
	noun (n.) The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap.
	noun (n.) To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow.
	verb (v. t.) To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.

blain	noun (n.) An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister.
	noun (n.) A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath.

boatswain	noun (n.) An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties.
	noun (n.) The jager gull.
	noun (n.) The tropic bird.

brain	noun (n.) The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.
	noun (n.) The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates.
	noun (n.) The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding.
	noun (n.) The affections; fancy; imagination.
	verb (v. t.) To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat.
	verb (v. t.) To conceive; to understand.

captain	noun (n.) A head, or chief officer
	noun (n.) The military officer who commands a company, troop, or battery, or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be employed on other service.
	noun (n.) An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the army.
	noun (n.) By courtesy, an officer actually commanding a vessel, although not having the rank of captain.
	noun (n.) The master or commanding officer of a merchant vessel.
	noun (n.) One in charge of a portion of a ship's company; as, a captain of a top, captain of a gun, etc.
	noun (n.) The foreman of a body of workmen.
	noun (n.) A person having authority over others acting in concert; as, the captain of a boat's crew; the captain of a football team.
	noun (n.) A military leader; a warrior.
	adjective (a.) Chief; superior.
	verb (v. t.) To act as captain of; to lead.

catchdrain

noun (n.) A ditch or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.

certain	noun (n.) Certainty.
	noun (n.) A certain number or quantity.
	adjective (a.) Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning.
	adjective (a.) Determined; resolved; -- used with an infinitive.
	adjective (a.) Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.
	adjective (a.) Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable.
	adjective (a.) Unfailing; infallible.
	adjective (a.) Fixed or stated; regular; determinate.
	adjective (a.) Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; -- sometimes used independenty as a noun, and meaning certain persons.
	adverb (adv.) Certainly.

chain	noun (n.) A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc.
	noun (n.) That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit.
	noun (n.) A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas.
	noun (n.) An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land.
	noun (n.) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
	noun (n.) The warp threads of a web.
	verb (v. t.) To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog.
	verb (v. t.) To keep in slavery; to enslave.
	verb (v. t.) To unite closely and strongly.
	verb (v. t.) To measure with the chain.
	verb (v. t.) To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor.

chamberlain	noun (n.) An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers.
	noun (n.) An upper servant of an inn.
	noun (n.) An officer having the direction and management of the private chambers of a nobleman or monarch; hence, in Europe, one of the high officers of a court.
	noun (n.) A treasurer or receiver of public money; as, the chamberlain of London, of North Wales, etc.

chaplain	noun (n.) An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs religious service in a chapel.
	noun (n.) A clergyman who is officially attached to the army or navy, to some public institution, or to a family or court, for the purpose of performing divine service.
	noun (n.) Any person (clergyman or layman) chosen to conduct religious exercises for a society, etc.; as, a chaplain of a Masonic or a temperance lodge.

chevrotain

noun (n.) A small ruminant of the family Tragulidae a allied to the musk deer. It inhabits Africa and the East Indies. See Kanchil.

chieftain

noun (n.) A captain, leader, or commander; a chief; the head of a troop, army, or clan.

chilblain	noun (n.) A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration.
	verb (v. t.) To produce chilblains upon.

cockswain

noun (n.) The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.

copatain

adjective (a.) Having a high crown, or a point or peak at top.

cordwain

noun (n.) A term used in the Middle Ages for Spanish leather (goatskin tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like.

coxswain

noun (n.) See Cockswain.

curtain	noun (n.) A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.
	noun (n.) That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.
	noun (n.) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
	noun (n.) A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt.
	verb (v. t.) To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.

dagswain

noun (n.) A coarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool.

demain	noun (n.) Rule; management.
	noun (n.) See Demesne.

detain	noun (n.) Detention.
	verb (v. t.) To keep back or from; to withhold.
	verb (v. t.) To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident.
	verb (v. t.) To hold or keep in custody.

digitain	noun (n.) Any one of several extracts of foxglove (Digitalis), as the "French extract," the "German extract," etc., which differ among themselves in composition and properties.
	noun (n.) A supposedly distinct vegetable principle as the essential ingredient of the extracts. It is a white, crystalline substance, and is regarded as a glucoside.

domain	noun (n.) Dominion; empire; authority.
	noun (n.) The territory over which dominion or authority is exerted; the possessions of a sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. Also used figuratively.
	noun (n.) Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne.
	noun (n.) Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership.

drain	noun (n.) The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country.
	noun (n.) That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.
	noun (n.) The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains.
	verb (v. t.) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
	verb (v. t.) To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie.
	verb (v. t.) To filter.
	verb (v. i.) To flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off.
	verb (v. i.) To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain.

elain

noun (n.) Same as Olein.

entertain	noun (n.) Entertainment.
	verb (v. t.) To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep.
	verb (v. t.) To give hospitable reception and maintenance to; to receive at one's board, or into one's house; to receive as a guest.
	verb (v. t.) To engage the attention of agreeably; to amuse with that which makes the time pass pleasantly; to divert; as, to entertain friends with conversation, etc.
	verb (v. t.) To give reception to; to receive, in general; to receive and take into consideration; to admit, treat, or make use of; as, to entertain a proposal.
	verb (v. t.) To meet or encounter, as an enemy.
	verb (v. t.) To keep, hold, or maintain in the mind with favor; to keep in the mind; to harbor; to cherish; as, to entertain sentiments.
	verb (v. t.) To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.
	verb (v. i.) To receive, or provide entertainment for, guests; as, he entertains generously.

epictetain

adjective (a.) Pertaining to Epictetus, the Roman Stoic philosopher, whose conception of life was to be passionless under whatever circumstances.

explain	adjective (a.) To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.
	adjective (a.) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible.
	verb (v. i.) To give an explanation.

fain	adjective (a.) Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.
	adjective (a.) Satisfied; contented; also, constrained.
	adverb (adv.) With joy; gladly; -- with wold.
	verb (v. t. & i.) To be glad ; to wish or desire.

filigrain

noun (n.) Alt. of Filigrane

forebrain

noun (n.) The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. See Brain.

fountain	noun (n.) A spring of water issuing from the earth.
	noun (n.) An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament.
	noun (n.) A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc.
	noun (n.) The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source.

fusain	noun (n.) Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement.
	noun (n.) A drawing made with it. See Charcoal, n. 2, and Charcoal drawing, under Charcoal.

gain	noun (n.) A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
	noun (n.) To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living.
	noun (n.) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition; as, to gain a battle; to gain a case at law; to gain a prize.
	noun (n.) To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.
	noun (n.) To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor.
	noun (n.) To get, incur, or receive, as loss, harm, or damage.
	adjective (a.) Convenient; suitable; direct; near; handy; dexterous; easy; profitable; cheap; respectable.
	verb (v. t.) That which is gained, obtained, or acquired, as increase, profit, advantage, or benefit; -- opposed to loss.
	verb (v. t.) The obtaining or amassing of profit or valuable possessions; acquisition; accumulation.
	verb (v. i.) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress; as, the sick man gains daily.

gainpain

noun (n.) Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.

germain

adjective (a.) See Germane.

grain	noun (v. & n.) See Groan.
	noun (n.) A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food.
	noun (n.) The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; -- used collectively.
	noun (n.) Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.; hence, any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of gunpowder, of pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc.
	noun (n.) The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See Gram.
	noun (n.) A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
	noun (n.) The composite particles of any substance; that arrangement of the particles of any body which determines its comparative roughness or hardness; texture; as, marble, sugar, sandstone, etc., of fine grain.
	noun (n.) The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc.
	noun (n.) The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material.
	noun (n.) The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
	noun (n.) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.
	noun (n.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a., 4.
	noun (n.) To yield fruit.
	noun (n.) To form grains, or to assume a granular ferm, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
	noun (n.) A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
	noun (n.) A tine, prong, or fork.
	noun (n.) One the branches of a valley or of a river.
	noun (n.) An iron first speak or harpoon, having four or more barbed points.
	noun (n.) A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
	noun (n.) A thin piece of metal, used in a mold to steady a core.
	adjective (a.) Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
	adjective (a.) A sort of spice, the grain of paradise.
	verb (v. t.) To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.
	verb (v. t.) To form (powder, sugar, etc.) into grains.
	verb (v. t.) To take the hair off (skins); to soften and raise the grain of (leather, etc.).

grosgrain

adjective (a.) Of a coarse texture; -- applied to silk with a heavy thread running crosswise.

hindbrain

noun (n.) The posterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the epencephalon and metencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the epencephalon only.

hogchain

noun (n.) A chain or tie rod, in a boat or barge, to prevent the vessel from hogging.

incertain

noun (n.) Uncertain; doubtful; unsteady.

ingrain	noun (n.) An ingrain fabric, as a carpet.
	adjective (a.) Dyed with grain, or kermes.
	adjective (a.) Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.
	verb (v. t.) To dye with or in grain or kermes.
	verb (v. t.) To dye in the grain, or before manufacture.
	verb (v. t.) To work into the natural texture or into the mental or moral constitution of; to stain; to saturate; to imbue; to infix deeply.

interbrain

noun (n.) See Thalamencephalon.

jain

noun (n.) Alt. of Jaina

kain

noun (n.) Poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to his landlord.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DA�N (According to first letters):

Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (dai) - Words That Begins with dai:

dailiness

noun (n.) Daily occurence.

daily	noun (n.) A publication which appears regularly every day; as, the morning dailies.
	adjective (a.) Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal; as, daily labor; a daily bulletin.
	adverb (adv.) Every day; day by day; as, a thing happens daily.

daimio

noun (n.) The title of the feudal nobles of Japan.

dairy	noun (n.) The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese.
	noun (n.) That department of farming which is concerned in the production of milk, and its conversion into butter and cheese.
	noun (n.) A dairy farm.

dairying

noun (n.) The business of conducting a dairy.

dairymaid

noun (n.) A female servant whose business is the care of the dairy.

dairyman

noun (n.) A man who keeps or takes care of a dairy.

dairywoman

noun (n.) A woman who attends to a dairy.

dais	noun (n.) The high or principal table, at the end of a hall, at which the chief guests were seated; also, the chief seat at the high table.
	noun (n.) A platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the chief guests.
	noun (n.) A canopy over the seat of a person of dignity.

daisied

adjective (a.) Full of daisies; adorned with daisies.

daisy	noun (n.) A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositae. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays.
	noun (n.) The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed.

daira

noun (n.) Any of several valuable estates of the Egyptian khedive or his family. The most important are the Da"i*ra Sa"ni*eh (/), or Sa"ni*yeh, and the Da"i*ra Khas"sa, administered by the khedive's European bondholders, and known collectively as the Daira, or the Daira estates.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DA�N:

English Words which starts with 'd' and ends with 'n':

dacian	noun (n.) A native of ancient Dacia.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Dacia or the Dacians.

daedalian	adjective (a.) Cunningly or ingeniously formed or working; skillful; artistic; ingenious.
	adjective (a.) Crafty; deceitful.

daemon

adjective (a.) Alt. of Daemonic

dagon	noun (n.) A slip or piece.
	() The national god of the Philistines, represented with the face and hands and upper part of a man, and the tail of a fish.

daguerrean

adjective (a.) Alt. of Daguerreian

daguerreian

adjective (a.) Pertaining to Daguerre, or to his invention of the daguerreotype.

dahlin

noun (n.) A variety of starch extracted from the dahlia; -- called also inulin. See Inulin.

dalesman

noun (n.) One living in a dale; -- a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, etc.

dalmatian

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Dalmatia.

daltonian

noun (n.) One afflicted with color blindness.

daman

noun (n.) A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax. The species found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus; that of Northern Africa is H. Brucei; -- called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. See Cony, and Hyrax.

damaskin

noun (n.) A sword of Damask steel.

damassin

noun (n.) A kind of modified damask or brocade.

damnation	noun (n.) The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.
	noun (n.) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.
	noun (n.) A sin deserving of everlasting punishment.

damnification

noun (n.) That which causes damage or loss.

damson

noun (n.) A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum.

dan	noun (n.) A title of honor equivalent to master, or sir.
	noun (n.) A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.

dandelion

noun (n.) A well-known plant of the genus Taraxacum (T. officinale, formerly called T. Dens-leonis and Leontodos Taraxacum) bearing large, yellow, compound flowers, and deeply notched leaves.

dantean

adjective (a.) Relating to, emanating from or resembling, the poet Dante or his writings.

danubian

adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or bordering on, the river Danube.

daphnetin

noun (n.) A colorless crystalline substance, C9H6O4, extracted from daphnin.

daphnin	noun (n.) A dark green bitter resin extracted from the mezereon (Daphne mezereum) and regarded as the essential principle of the plant.
	noun (n.) A white, crystalline, bitter substance, regarded as a glucoside, and extracted from Daphne mezereum and D. alpina.

dardanian

noun (a. & n.) Trojan.

darken	adjective (a.) To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room.
	adjective (a.) To render dim; to deprive of vision.
	adjective (a.) To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
	adjective (a.) To cast a gloom upon.
	adjective (a.) To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.
	verb (v. i.) To grow or darker.

darn	noun (n.) A place mended by darning.
	verb (v. t.) To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.
	verb (v. t.) A colloquial euphemism for Damn.

darrein

adjective (a.) Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.

darwinian	noun (n.) An advocate of Darwinism.
	adjective (a.) Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements.

datiscin

noun (n.) A white crystalline glucoside extracted from the bastard hemp (Datisca cannabina).

daun

noun (n.) A variant of Dan, a title of honor.

dauphin

noun (n.) The title of the eldest son of the king of France, and heir to the crown. Since the revolution of 1830, the title has been discontinued.

dawn	noun (n.) The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.
	noun (n.) First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.
	verb (v. i.) To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.
	verb (v. i.) To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.

daysman

noun (n.) An umpire or arbiter; a mediator.

daywoman

noun (n.) A dairymaid.

deacon	noun (n.) An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, a person admitted to the lowest order in the ministry, subordinate to the bishops and priests. In Presbyterian churches, he is subordinate to the minister and elders, and has charge of certain duties connected with the communion service and the care of the poor. In Congregational churches, he is subordinate to the pastor, and has duties as in the Presbyterian church.
	noun (n.) The chairman of an incorporated company.
	verb (v. t.) To read aloud each line of (a psalm or hymn) before singing it, -- usually with off.
	verb (v. t.) With humorous reference to hypocritical posing: To pack (fruit or vegetables) with the finest specimens on top; to alter slyly the boundaries of (land); to adulterate or doctor (an article to be sold), etc.

deadborn

adjective (a.) Stillborn.

deaden	adjective (a.) To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound.
	adjective (a.) To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway.
	adjective (a.) To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine.
	adjective (a.) To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.
	verb (v. t.) To render impervious to sound, as a wall or floor; to deafen.

dealbation

noun (n.) Act of bleaching; a whitening.

deambulation

noun (n.) A walking abroad; a promenading.

dean	noun (n.) A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.
	noun (n.) The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.
	noun (n.) The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.
	noun (n.) A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.
	noun (n.) The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy.

dearborn

noun (n.) A four-wheeled carriage, with curtained sides.

dearn	adjective (a.) Secret; lonely; solitary; dreadful.
	verb (v. t.) Same as Darn.

deathsman

noun (n.) An executioner; a headsman or hangman.

deauration

noun (n.) Act of gilding.

debacchation

noun (n.) Wild raving or debauchery.

debarkation

noun (n.) Disembarkation.

debellation

noun (n.) The act of conquering or subduing.

debilitation

noun (n.) The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.

debituminization

noun (n.) The act of depriving of bitumen.

debulition

noun (n.) A bubbling or boiling over.

decachordon	noun (n.) An ancient Greek musical instrument of ten strings, resembling the harp.
	noun (n.) Something consisting of ten parts.

decagon

noun (n.) A plane figure having ten sides and ten angles; any figure having ten angles. A regular decagon is one that has all its sides and angles equal.

decagynian

adjective (a.) Alt. of Deccagynous

decahedron

noun (n.) A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces.

decalcification

noun (n.) The removal of calcareous matter.

decameron

noun (n.) A celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related in ten days; -- written in the 14th century, by Boccaccio, an Italian.

decandrian

adjective (a.) Alt. of Decandrous

decantation

noun (n.) The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.

decapitation

noun (n.) The act of beheading; beheading.

decarbonization

noun (n.) The action or process of depriving a substance of carbon.

decarburization

noun (n.) The act, process, or result of decarburizing.

decentralization

noun (n.) The action of decentralizing, or the state of being decentralized.

deception	noun (n.) The act of deceiving or misleading.
	noun (n.) The state of being deceived or misled.
	noun (n.) That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false representation; artifice; cheat; fraud.

decerption	noun (n.) The act of plucking off; a cropping.
	noun (n.) That which is plucked off or rent away; a fragment; a piece.

decertation

noun (n.) Contest for mastery; contention; strife.

decession

noun (n.) Departure; decrease; -- opposed to accesion.

decillion

noun (n.) According to the English notation, a million involved to the tenth power, or a unit with sixty ciphers annexed; according to the French and American notation, a thousand involved to the eleventh power, or a unit with thirty-three ciphers annexed. [See the Note under Numeration.]

decimation	noun (n.) A tithing.
	noun (n.) A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment.
	noun (n.) The destruction of any large proportion, as of people by pestilence or war.

decision	noun (n.) Cutting off; division; detachment of a part.
	noun (n.) The act of deciding; act of settling or terminating, as a controversy, by giving judgment on the matter at issue; determination, as of a question or doubt; settlement; conclusion.
	noun (n.) An account or report of a conclusion, especially of a legal adjudication or judicial determination of a question or cause; as, a decision of arbitrators; a decision of the Supreme Court.
	noun (n.) The quality of being decided; prompt and fixed determination; unwavering firmness; as, to manifest great decision.

declamation	noun (n.) The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students.
	noun (n.) A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
	noun (n.) Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation.

declaration	noun (n.) The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; exposition; as, the declaration of an opinion; a declaration of war, etc.
	noun (n.) That which is declared or proclaimed; announcement; distinct statement; formal expression; avowal.
	noun (n.) The document or instrument containing such statement or proclamation; as, the Declaration of Independence (now preserved in Washington).
	noun (n.) That part of the process in which the plaintiff sets forth in order and at large his cause of complaint; the narration of the plaintiff's case containing the count, or counts. See Count, n., 3.

declension	noun (n.) The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
	noun (n.) A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc.
	noun (n.) Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.
	noun (n.) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.
	noun (n.) The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc.
	noun (n.) Rehearsing a word as declined.

declination	noun (n.) The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.
	noun (n.) The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline.
	noun (n.) The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal.
	noun (n.) The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness.
	noun (n.) The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward.
	noun (n.) The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or between the meridian and the plane, reckoned from the north or south.
	noun (n.) The act of inflecting a word; declension. See Decline, v. t., 4.

decoction	noun (n.) The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues.
	noun (n.) An extract got from a body by boiling it in water.

decollation	noun (n.) The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.
	noun (n.) A painting representing the beheading of a saint or martyr, esp. of St. John the Baptist.

decoloration

noun (n.) The removal or absence of color.

decomposition	noun (n.) The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound; disintegration; as, the decomposition of wood, rocks, etc.
	noun (n.) The state of being reduced into original elements.
	noun (n.) Repeated composition; a combination of compounds.

deconcentration

noun (n.) Act of deconcentrating.

decoration	noun (n.) The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
	noun (n.) That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament.
	noun (n.) Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc.

decortication

noun (n.) The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.

decreation

noun (n.) Destruction; -- opposed to creation.

decrepitation

noun (n.) The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting.

decretion

noun (n.) A decrease.

decrustation

noun (n.) The removal of a crust.

decubation

noun (n.) Act of lying down; decumbence.

decuman

adjective (a.) Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively.

decurion

noun (n.) A head or chief over ten; especially, an officer who commanded a division of ten soldiers.

decursion

noun (n.) A flowing; also, a hostile incursion.

decurtation

noun (n.) Act of cutting short.

decussation

noun (n.) Act of crossing at an acute angle, or state of being thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an X; as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc.

dedalian

adjective (a.) See Daedalian.

dedecoration

noun (n.) Disgrace; dishonor.

dedentition

noun (n.) The shedding of teeth.

dedication	noun (n.) The act of setting apart or consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as, the dedication of Solomon's temple.
	noun (n.) A devoting or setting aside for any particular purpose; as, a dedication of lands to public use.
	noun (n.) An address to a patron or friend, prefixed to a book, testifying respect, and often recommending the work to his special protection and favor.

dedition

noun (n.) The act of yielding; surrender.

deduction	noun (n.) Act or process of deducing or inferring.
	noun (n.) Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend.
	noun (n.) That which is deduced or drawn from premises by a process of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion.
	noun (n.) That which is deducted; the part taken away; abatement; as, a deduction from the yearly rent.

deduplication

noun (n.) The division of that which is morphologically one organ into two or more, as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluster.

deerskin

noun (n.) The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it.

defalcation	noun (n.) A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set- off.
	noun (n.) That which is lopped off, diminished, or abated.
	noun (n.) An abstraction of money, etc., by an officer or agent having it in trust; an embezzlement.

defamation

noun (n.) Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion.

defatigation

noun (n.) Weariness; fatigue.

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