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▪ I. † dant1 Obs.
[Cf. obs. Du. dante ‘ambubaia, mulier ignava’.]
‘A profligate woman’ (Halliwell).
a1529Skelton Elynor Rumm. 515 In came another dant She had a wide wesant.
▪ II. dant2 Obs. or local.
[Derivation unknown: perh. more than one word.]
(See quots.)
1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 24/1 Dants or Sulphury Damps..all proceed from dry and hot slimy Vapours. Ibid. iii. 97/1 Down, is the Dant, or pure soft airy Feathers which have no Quills. Ibid. iii. 316/1 The Bolted Meal was put to fall into the Wheel..and the pure Dant, or second sort of Meal to fall into the Ark. 1888Greenwell Coal-trade Terms Northumb. & Durh., Dant, soft sooty coal found at backs, and at the leaders of hitches and troubles.
▪ III. dant, -ar
obs. or Sc. forms of daunt, -er. |