daringly
1: in an original manner; "daringly he took the first step" 2: in an adventurous manner; "daringly, he set out on a camping trip in East Africa"
Darius I
1: king of Persia who expanded the empire and invaded Greece but was defeated at the Battle of Marathon (550-486 BC) [syn: {Darius the Great}]
Darius III
1: king of Persia who was defeated by Alexander the Great; his murder effectively ended the Persian Empire (died in 330 BC)
Darius Milhaud
1: French composer of works that combine jazz and polytonality and Brazilian music (1892-1974) [syn: {Milhaud}]
Darius the Great
1: king of Persia who expanded the empire and invaded Greece but was defeated at the Battle of Marathon (550-486 BC) [syn: {Darius I}]
dark
1: devoid or partially devoid of light or brightness; shadowed or black or somber-colored; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "the theater is dark on Mondays"; "dark as the insi...
dark adaptation
1: the process of adjusting the eyes to low levels of illumination; cones adapt first; rods continue to adapt for up to four hours
Dark Ages
1: the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance [syn: {Middle Ages}]
dark blue
1: a dark shade of blue [syn: {navy}, {navy blue}]
dark bread
1: bread made with whole wheat flour [syn: {whole wheat bread}, {whole meal bread}, {brown bread}]
dark chocolate
1: chocolate liquor with cocoa butter and small amounts of sugar and vanilla; lecithin in usually added [syn: {bittersweet chocolate}, {semi-sweet chocolate}]
dark comdey
1: a comdey characterized by grim or satiric humor; a comedy having gloomy or disturbing elements
dark field illumination
1: a form of microscopic examination of living material by scattered light; specimens appear luminous against a dark background [syn: {dark ground illumination}]
dark glasses
1: spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun; "he was wearing a pair of mirrored shades" [syn: {sunglasses}, {shades}]
dark ground illumination
1: a form of microscopic examination of living material by scattered light; specimens appear luminous against a dark background [syn: {dark field illumination}]
dark horse
1: a political candidate who is not well known but could win unexpectedly 2: a racehorse about which little is known
dark lantern
1: a lantern with a sliding panel to conceal the light
dark matter
1: (cosmology) a hypothetical form of matter that is believed to make up 90 percent of the matter in the universe; it is invisible (does not absorb or emit light) and does not collide with atomic part...
dark meat
1: the flesh of the legs of fowl used as food
dark red
1: a red that reflects little light
dark-blue
1: having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; "October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson; "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke" [syn: {blue}, {bluish}, {blueish}, {light-...
dark-brown
1: of a color similar to that of wood or earth [syn: {brown}, {brownish}]
dark-eyed junco
1: common North American junco having gray plumage and eyes with dark brown irises [syn: {slate-colored junco}, {Junco hyemalis}]
dark-field microscope
1: light microscope that uses scattered light to show particles too small to see with ordinary microscopes [syn: {ultramicroscope}]
dark-green
1: similar to the color of fresh grass; "a green tree"; "green fields"; "green paint" [syn: {green}, {greenish}, {light-green}]
dark-haired
1: having hair of a dark color; "a dark-haired beauty" [syn: {black-haired}, {brown-haired}]
dark-skinned
1: having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "the dark races"; "dark-skinned peoples" [syn: {colored}, {coloured}, {dark}] 2: naturally having...
darken
1: become dark or darker; "The sky darkened" [ant: {brighten}] 2: become or make darker; "The screen darkend"; "He darkened the colors by adding brown" [syn: {dim}] [ant: {brighten}] 3: tarnish or sta...
darkened
1: (of fabrics and paper) grown dark in color over time; "the darkened margins of the paper" 2: become or made dark by lack of light; "a darkened house"; "the darkened theater"
darkening
1: becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over; "the darkening sky" 2: characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predi...
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darkey
1: offensive term for Black people [syn: {darky}, {darkie}]
darkie
1: offensive term for Black people [syn: {darky}, {darkey}]
darkish
1: slightly dark; "darkish red"
darkling
1: uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure; "a darkling glance"; "secret operatives and darkling conspiracies"-Archibald MacLeish 2: (poetic) occurring in the dark or night; "a darkling journey"
darkling beetle
1: sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain [syn: {darkling groung beetle}, {tenebrionid}]
darkling groung beetle
1: sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain [syn: {darkling beetle}, {tenebrionid}]
darkly
1: without light; "the river was sliding darkly under the mist" [syn: {in darkness}] 2: in a dark glowering menacing manner; "he stared darkly at her"
darkness
1: absence of light or illumination [syn: {dark}] [ant: {light}] 2: an unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness" [syn: {dark}, {shadow}] 3: absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers...
darkroom
1: a room in which photographs are developed
darky
1: offensive term for Black people [syn: {darkie}, {darkey}]
darling
1: dearly loved [syn: {beloved}, {dear}] n 1: a special loved one [syn: {favorite}, {favourite}, {pet}, {dearie}, {deary}, {ducky}] 2: an Australian river; tributary of the Murray River [syn: {Darling...
darling pea
1: either of two Australian plants of the genus Swainsona that are poisonous to sheep [syn: {poison bush}]
Darling River
1: an Australian river; tributary of the Murray River [syn: {Darling}]
Darlingtonia
1: one species: California pitcher plant [syn: {genus Darlingtonia}]
Darlingtonia californica
1: marsh or bog herb having solitary pendulous yellow-green flowers and somewhat twisted pitchers with broad wings below [syn: {California pitcher plant}]
Darmera
1: 1 species [syn: {genus Darmera}, {Peltiphyllum}, {genus Peltiphyllum}]
Darmera peltata
1: rhizomatous perennial herb with large dramatic peltate leaves and white to bright pink flowers in round heads on leafless stems; colonizes stream banks in the Sierra Nevada in California [syn: {umb...
darn
1: a euphemism for `damn' 2: something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks" [syn: {damn}, {hoot}, {red cent}, {shit}, {shucks}, {tinker's da...
darned
1: expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll d...
darnel
1: weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous [syn: {tare}, {bearded darnel}, {cheat}, {Lolium temulentum}]
darning
1: the act of mending a hole in a garment with crossing threads
darning needle
1: a long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or embroidery thread [syn: {embroidery needle}] 2: slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; ad...
DARPA
1: the central research and development organization for the United States Department of Defense; responsible for developing new surveillance technologies since 9/11 [syn: {Defense Advanced Research P...
Darrow
1: United States lawyer famous for his defense of lost causes (1857-1938) [syn: {Clarence Darrow}, {Clarence Seward Darrow}]
Darryl Francis Zanuck
1: United States filmmaker whose works include the first feature-length film with sound sequences (1902-1979) [syn: {Zanuck}, {Darryl Zanuck}]
Darryl Zanuck
1: United States filmmaker whose works include the first feature-length film with sound sequences (1902-1979) [syn: {Zanuck}, {Darryl Francis Zanuck}]
Darsana
1: (from the Sanskrit word for `to see') one of six orthodox philosophical systems or viewpoints on the nature of reality and the release from bondage to karma
dart
1: a small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot 2: a tapered tuck made in dressmaking 3: a sudden quick movement [syn: {flit}] v 1: move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart [syn: {flit}, ...
dart board
1: a circular board of wood or cork used as the target in the game of darts [syn: {dartboard}]
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