Dare , n. [See Dace.]
(Zoöl.) A small fish; the dace.
Dare , v. t. To terrify; to daunt. [Obs.]
For I have done those follies, those mad mischiefs,
Would dare a woman.
Beau. & Fl. To dare larks, to catch them by
producing terror through
to use of
mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so
that they lie still till a net is thrown over them. Nares.
Dare , v. i. [OE. darien, to lie hidden, be timid.]
To lurk; to lie hid. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Dare , n.
1. The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash. [R.]
It lends a luster . . .
A large dare to our great
enterprise.
Shak.
2. Defiance; challenge.
Childish, unworthy
dares
Are not enought
to part our
powers.
Chapman.
Sextus Pompeius
Hath given the dare to Cæsar.
Shak.
Dare , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dared; p. pr. & vb. n. Daring.]
1. To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do
or to undertake.
What high concentration of steady feeling makes men dare every thing and do anything?
Bagehot.
To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its
solitudes.
The Century. 2. To challenge; to provoke; to defy.
Time, I dare thee to discover
Such a youth
and such a lover.
Dryden.
Dare (?), v. i. [imp.
Durst (?) or Dared
(&?;); p. p.
Dared; p. pr. & vb. n. Daring.]
[OE. I dar, dear, I dare, imp.
dorste, durste, AS. ic dear I dare, imp. dorste. inf.
durran; akin to OS. gidar, gidorsta, gidurran, OHG.
tar, torsta, turran, Goth. gadar, gadaúrsta, Gr.
tharsei^n, tharrei^n, to be
bold, tharsy`s
bold, Skr. Dhrsh to be bold. √70.] 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 durst not, because they could not.
Macaulay. Who dared
to sully her sweet love with suspicion.
Thackeray.
The tie of party was
stronger than the tie of blood,
because a partisan was more ready to
dare without asking why.
Jowett (Thu&?;yd.). &fist; The present tense, I dare, is really an old
past tense, so that the third person is he dare, but the form he
dares is now often used, and will probably displace the obsolescent he dare, through grammatically
as incorrect as he shalls or he cans. Skeat.
The pore
dar plede (the poor man dare plead).
P. Plowman. You know one
dare not discover you.
Dryden. The fellow dares not deceive me.
Shak. Here boldly spread thy hands, no venom'd weed
Dares blister
them, no slimy snail dare creep.
Beau. & Fl. &fist; Formerly durst was also used as the present. Sometimes the old form dare is found for durst or dared.
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