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D'ART, n. [Gr., a spear or lance.]

1. A pointed missile weapon to be thrown by the hand; a short lance.

2. Any missile weapon; that which pierces and wounds.

And from about her shot darts of desire.

D'ART, v.t.

1. To throw a pointed instrument with a sudden thrust; as, to dart a javelin.

2. To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send; to emit; to shoot; applied to small objects, which pass with velocity; as, the sun darts his beams on the earth.

Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart. Pope.

D'ART, v.i.

1. To fly or shoot, as a dart; to fly rapidly.

2. To spring and run with velocity; to start suddenly and run; as, the deer darted from the thicket.
1913 Definition
Dart (dart)
n.(?)
Dart
[OF. dart, of German origin; cf. OHG. tart javelin, dart, AS. dara(?), daro(?), Sw. dart dagger, Icel. darra(?)r dart.]
  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 Sa. xviii. 14.

  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.     Hannan More.

  3. A spear set as a prize in running.
    [Obs.] Chaucer.
  4. A fish; the dace. See Dace.

    Dart sac (Zoöl.), a sac connected with the reproductive organs of land snails, which contains a dart, or arrowlike structure.

  5. To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon] to hurl or launch.
  6. 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? Pope.

  7. To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart.
  8. To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket.
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