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Webster 1913 Edition

Dart

Dart

(därt)
,
Noun.
[OF.
dart
, of German origin; cf. OHG.
tart
javelin, dart, AS.
darað
,
daroð
, Sw.
dart
dagger, Icel.
darraðr
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.
(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.

Dart

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Darted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
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
?
Pope.

Dart

,
Verb.
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
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Dart

D'ART

,
Noun.
[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

,
Verb.
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.

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