Dardn.1adj.
/dɑːd/ A. n.1
a. A member of any of several peoples of Dardistan, in the extreme north-west of the Indian sub-continent.
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1875 F. Drew Jummoo & Kashmir xviii. 422 The existence of the Dārds as a separate race, as well as something of their language, have..been facts within the reach of readers of travels.
1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 598/1 The Dards are described as decidedly Aryan in features.
1920 Blackwood's Mag. May 620/1 The ‘Indians’ to whom Herodotus refers are none other than the Dards.
b. Any of the Indo-Aryan languages of these peoples.
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1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 729/2 Eleven different languages, which have all been usually classed together under the name Dard.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to these peoples or their languages.
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1873 G. W. Leitner Results Tour Dardistan I. iii. p. ii He might have studied..my Dardu ‘Vocabularies and Dialogues’..and then would have been enabled to have added something to our knowledge of..the Dard languages.
1875 F. Drew Jummoo & Kashmir xix. 442 I think that the Dārd character, at all events of the lower classes, is generally straightforward.
1920 Blackwood's Mag. May 620/1 In Ladakh to this day we find pure Dard settlements.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
dardn.2
/dɑːd/ Botany.
(See quots.)
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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > bough or branch > spur or stump of branch or bud
stubc1405
snag1577
brunt1623
skeg1625
stud1657
argot1693
spur1704
stump1707
wood-bud1763
nog1802
branch-bud1882
knee1889
knee-process1889
dard1925
1925 W. R. Dykes tr. L. Lorette Lorette System of Pruning p. xxviii The dart (dard) is an eye which has not grown beyond a certain point and which is surrounded by a rosette of two or three leaves. It is the sign of fruitfulness in the pear.
1925 W. R. Dykes tr. L. Lorette Lorette System of Pruning p. xxviii In ordinary circumstances, the dart..swells and adds to itself a rosette of leaves, which gradually increase in number from three to five. Continuing to develop, the dart is finally crowned with seven leaves and is then known as a fruit-spur (lambourde).
1946 W. R. Dykes tr. L. Lorette Lorette System of Pruning (ed. 2) 5 We have..adopted the original French spelling of dard and brindille, written in the first English edition dart and brindle—for both the latter have meanings totally unrelated to the objects referred to as dard and brindille.
1946 W. R. Dykes tr. L. Lorette Lorette System of Pruning (ed. 2) 24 The dard is a bud which has not grown beyond a certain point [etc.].
1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) II. 638/2 Dard, a bud on an apple or pear tree... It may develop into shoot if it receives too much sap, but usually with a steady supply of sap..becomes a spur carrying a fruit bud.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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