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Dart   /dɑrt/   Listen
noun
Dart  n.  
1.
A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow. "And he (Joab) took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom."
2.
Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds like a dart. "The artful inquiry, whose venomed dart Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart."
3.
A spear set as a prize in running. (Obs.)
4.
(Zool.) A fish; the dace. See Dace.
Dart sac (Zool.), a sac connected with the reproductive organs of land snails, which contains a dart, or arrowlike structure.


verb
Dart  v. t.  (past & past part. darted; pres. part. darting)  
1.
To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.
2.
To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams. "Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart?"


Dart  v. i.  
1.
To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart.
2.
To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket.





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"Dart" Quotes from Famous Books



... operation—as a time of comparative peace. She had been able then, she remembered, to sit still, to pursue, if not a train of thought, at least a set of connected images; but now her whole spirit seemed to be seething with a sort of poison that made her muscles jerk and start and her mind dart and faint. Then she had foreseen loss through the fate common to humanity; now she foresaw it through the action of her own tyrannical contempt for anything that seemed to ...
— The Happiest Time of Their Lives • Alice Duer Miller
... look of anger from her eyes distinctly dart, For ANNIE was a woman, and had pity in her heart! She wished him a good evening—he answered with a glare; She only said, "Remember, for ...
— More Bab Ballads • W. S. Gilbert
... again. As he did so a ragged dart of lightning glinted evilly in his eyes. With a leap something bounded from the shadows behind him and ...
— Diane of the Green Van • Leona Dalrymple
... from the rookery was flying in the same direction. Soon he discovered its goal—a marsh of considerable extent which was the feeding-ground. Numbers of the long-legged egrets were wading in the shallow water, stopping now and then to dart their long, sharp bills into the throngs of fish dashing about their feet. Others stood motionless on the margin, like statuettes hewn out of purest marble; though seemingly dozing, they were very ...
— The Black Phantom • Leo Edward Miller
... "Thou dost prate like an ass, For were I to bend my bow, I could send a dart quite thro' thy proud heart, Before thou couldst strike me ...
— Journeys Through Bookland V3 • Charles H. Sylvester


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