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▪ I. daring, vbl. n.1|ˈdɛərɪŋ|
[f. dare v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the verb dare1; adventurous courage, boldness, hardihood.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. ix. (1632) 596 Incredible darings..were not wanting. 1651Hobbes Leviath. i. xv. 80 As if not the Cause, but the Degree of daring, made Fortitude. 1874Green Short Hist. vii. §6. 406 The whole people had soon caught the self-confidence and daring of their Queen.
▪ II. † ˈdaring, vbl. n.2 Obs.
[f. dare v.2]
The action of the verb dare2; esp. the catching of larks by dazing or fascinating them (see dare v.2 5).
c1440Promp. Parv. 113 Darynge, or drowpynge, licitacio, latitatio. 1602Carew Cornwall (1811) 96 Little round nets fastened to a staff, not much unlike that which is used for daring of larks. 1704Dict. Rust., Clap-net and Looking-glass; this is otherwise called Doring or Daring. 1766Pennant Zool. I. 150 What was called daring of larks.
b. attrib. and Comb., as daring-glass, daring-net.
1590Greene Neuer too late (1600) 8 They set out their faces as Foulers doe their daring glasses, that the Larkes that soare highest, may stoope soonest. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 712 You..shall with your horse and Hawke ride about her..till you come so neere her that you may lay your daring-net over her. 1659Gauden Tears of Church 197 New notions..are many times..the daring-glasses or decoyes to bring men into the snares of their..damnable doctrines.
▪ III. ˈdaring, ppl. a.1
[f. dare v.1 + -ing2.]
1. Of persons or their attributes: Bold, adventurous; hardy, audacious.
1582Stanyhurst æneis, etc. (Arb.) 143 A loftye Thrasonical huf snuffe..in phisnomye daring. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, v. i. 91, I do not thinke a brauer Gentleman..More daring, or more bold, is now aliue. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 129 Half way he met His daring foe. 1758S. Hayward Serm. xvii. 539 The daring insolence..of prophane Sinners. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 325 Montague, the most daring and inventive of financiers.
2. transf. and fig.
1617Middleton & Rowley Fair Quarrel i. i. 314 To walk unmuffl'd..Even in the daring'st streets through all the city. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) III. 202 Witness Wimbleton in this county, a daring structure. 1697Addison Ess. on Georgics, The last Georgic has indeed as many metaphors, but not so daring as this. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. V. 39 This daring legal fiction.
†3. In quasi-advb. comb. with another adj., as daring-hardy. Obs.
1593Shakes. Rich. II, i. iii. 43 On paine of death, no person be so bold Or daring hardie as to touch the Listes.
▪ IV. ˈdaring, ppl. a.2 Obs.
Also 4 dareand.
[f. dare v.2]
Staring, trembling, or crouching with fear, etc.: see the vb.
1333Minor Poems, Halidon Hill 39 Now er þai dareand all for drede, Þat war bifore so stout and gay. 1611Cotgr., Blotir, to..lye close to the ground, like a daring Larke, or affrighted fowle. |