† dactilev.
Obsolete.
? v. intransitive. To run quickly and nimbly. (If not a misprint for ductile adj., as treated by Gifford, or for tactile.)
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a1637 B. Jonson Fall of Mortimer i. ii. 62 in Wks. (1640) III Thy forme doth feast mine eye, thy voyce mine eare..And softnesse of thy skin, my very touch: As if I felt it dactile through my blood.
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v.a1637- to scamble out
- to scamp off, over
- to scan out
- to scant out
- to scape or escape a scouring
- to scape scathely
- to scare a person blue
- to scare a person rigid
- to scare a person silly
- to scare a person stupid
- to scare out
- to scare out of one's senses
- to scare seven bells out of a person
- to scare someone's daylights out
- to scare the daylight out of
- to scare the daylights out of
- to scare the lights out of
- to scare the lights out of a person
- to scare the lights out of a thing
- to scare the liver and lights out of
- to scare the liver and lights out of a person
- to scare the liver and lights out of a thing
- to scare the living daylight out of
- to scare the living daylights out of
- to scare the living shit, hell, etc, out of