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De - Pt| English Dictionary: (den) | by the DICT Development Group |
| 3 results for (den) | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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DenDen\Den\, n. [AS. denn; perh. akin to G. tenne floor, thrashing floor, and to AS. denu valley.] 1. A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den; a dendenof robbers. 2. A squalid place of resort; a wretched dwelling place; a haunt; as, a dendenof vice. [bd]Those squalid dens, which are the reproach of great capitals.[b8] --Addison. 3. Any snug or close retreat where one goes to be alone. [Colloq.] 4. [AS. denu.] A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell. [Old Eng. & Scotch] --Shak. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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DenDen\Den\, v. i. To live in, or as in, a den. The sluggish salvages that dendenbelow. --G. Fletcher. | |
| From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
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DenDen a lair of wild beasts (Ps. 10:9; 104:22; Job 37:8); the hole of a venomous reptile (Isa. 11:8); a recess for secrecy "in dens and caves of the earth" (Heb. 11:38); a resort of thieves (Matt. 21:13; Mark 11:17). Daniel was cast into "the dendenof lions" (Dan. 6:16, 17). Some recent discoveries among the ruins of Babylon have brought to light the fact that the practice of punishing offenders against the law by throwing them into a denden of lions was common. | |
