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De - Pt| English Dictionary: 'Dangerous | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Dangerous \Dan"ger*ous\, a. [OE., haughty, difficult, dangerous, fr. OF. dangereus, F. dangereux. See {Danger}.] 1. Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous. --Shak. It is dangerous to assert a negative. --Macaulay. 2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury. If they incline to think you dangerous To less than gods. --Milton. 3. In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. [Colloq.] --Forby. Bartlett. 4. Hard to suit; difficult to please. [Obs.] My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; My lord to me is hard and dangerous. --Chaucer. 5. Reserved; not affable. [Obs.] [bd]Of his speech dangerous.[b8] --Chaucer. -- {Dan"ger*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Dan"ger*ous*ness}, n. | |
