Pronunciations (2)
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/dæn/
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/dɑn/
Noun
A title of honour or respect similar to "master" or "Sir", used of historical and legendary figures of the past.
Usage- Obsolete
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Dan Phoebus, he with many a low'ring look / Had her beheld in yore in angry wise.
Old Dan Geoffrey, in whose gentle spright / The pure well-head of Poesy did dwell.
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This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, dan Cupid.
The patriarchal age, / What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land.
He did—and in a moment press'd / The place—in Paradise the best, / As by Dan Moses said.
Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath / Preluded those melodious bursts, that fill / The spacious times of great Elizabeth / With sounds that echo still.
Dan Neptune says that "ere a twelvemonth pass, / The Senate shall to Ireland go to grass."
Oh, me' name is Dan Homer, I'm blind, as the Jews, / And I travels around with my head full av news.
Noun
A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
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Noun
A rank of black belt in martial arts.
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Someone who has achieved a level of black belt.
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Noun
Synonym of picul: a traditional unit of weight and mass, chiefly used as a dry measure of grains.
A traditional unit of equivalent volume, now officially equal to 100 liters.
Noun
A dan buoy.
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Carrying away of 25 great-lines, 3 dans, buoys, &c., of steam liner 'Star of the East'[…]
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Dumping dans. Dan buoys laid to mark a dumping ground. They are fitted with a topmark in the shape of a St. Andrews cross formed by battens 2 feet in length. Live dan. Dan buoy for which a[…]