Word Meanings - OVERDARE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To dare too much or rashly; to be too daring.

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• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• DARREIN
  Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.
• DARKNESS
  1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. 2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27. 3. A state of ignorance or
• DARING
  Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.
• RASHLY
  In a rush manner; with precipitation. He that doth anything rashly, must do it willingly; for he was free to deliberate or not. L'Estrange.
• DARE
  To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture. I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Shak. Why then did not the ministers use their new law Bacause they
• DARKENING
  Twilight; gloaming. Wright.
• DARLINGTONIA
  A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves.
• DARER
  One who dares or defies.
• DARKLING
  In the dark. So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling. Shak. As the wakeful bird Sings darkling. Milton.
• DARKLE
  To grow dark; to show indistinctly. Thackeray.
• DARR
  The European black tern.
• DARWINIAN
  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. Note: This theory was put forth by Darwin in 1859 in a work entitled "The Origin
• DARG; DARGUE
  A day's work; also, a fixed amount of work, whether more or less than that of a day.
• DART
  A fish; the dace. See Dace. Dart sac , a sac connected with the reproductive organs of land snails, which contains a dart, or arrowlike structure. (more info) 1. A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance;
• DARBY
  A plasterer's float, having two handles; -- used in smoothing ceilings, etc.
• DARTLE
  To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly: -- frequentative of dart. My star that dartles the red and the blue. R. Browning.
• DARLING
  One dearly beloved; a favorite. And can do naught but wail her darling's loss. Shak.
• DARWINIANISM
  Darwinism.
• DARKY
  A negro.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• PANDARISM
  See SWIFT
• PANDARIZE
  To pander.
• CEDARN
  Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood.
• GENDARMERY
  The body of gendarmes.
• REDARGUE
  To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict. How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has,
• ZEMINDARY; ZEMINDARI
  See ZAMINDARY
• HEBDOMADARY
  A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to officiate in the choir, and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors.
• PINDARICAL
  Pindaric. Too extravagant and Pindarical for prose. Cowley.
• BORDAR
  A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier. The cottar, the bordar, and the laborer were bound to aid in the work of the home farm. J. R. Green.
• RESSALDAR
  In the Anglo-Indian army, a native commander of a ressala.
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• OVERDARE
  To dare too much or rashly; to be too daring.
• KALENDAR
  See CALENDAR
• CHEDDAR
  Of or pertaining to, or made at, Cheddar, in England; as, Cheddar cheese.