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denn.1

Brit. /dɛn/, U.S. /dɛn/
Forms: Old English–Middle English denn, Middle English–1600s denne, (Middle English deen), Middle English– den.
Etymology: Old English dęnn habitation of a wild beast < Old Germanic type *danjom, corresponding in form to Old High German tenni (neuter), Middle High German tenne (neuter, feminine), German tenne (feminine) floor, thrashing-floor, Old Low German *denni, early modern Dutch denne ‘floor, pavement, flooring of a ship, also cave, cavern, den’ (Kilian): compare also Middle Dutch dan(n (masculine) forest, abode of wild beasts, waste place, open country. The same root dan- appears in dean, Old English dęnu ( < dani-) vale: the root-meaning is uncertain.
1. The lair or habitation of a wild beast.
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the world > animals > by habitat > habitat > [noun] > dwelling place or shelter
houseOE
denOE
holdc1275
lying-placea1382
coucha1398
homea1398
logis1477
starting-hole1530
cabbage1567
lodge1567
lair1575
lay1590
squat1590
hover1602
denning1622
start-holea1641
bed1694
niche1725
shed1821
lying1834
basking-hole1856
lie1869
homesite1882
holt1890
lying-ground1895
the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > cave
covec950
denOE
cavec1220
rochea1300
spelunk13..
cavernc1374
cabin1377
speke1377
antruma1398
minea1398
thurse-house?c1450
crypt?a1475
vault1535
chamber1575
antre1585
underground1594
Peak1600
lustre?1615
open?1644
cunicle1657
subterranean1714
subterrane1759
loch1767
purgatory1797
vug1818
OE Beowulf 2759 Geseah [he]..wundur on wealle, ond þæs wyrmes denn.
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 187/1 Lustra, wilddeora holl and denn.
c1220 Bestiary 13 Ðe leun..driueð dun to his den ðar he him berȝen wille.
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 15 And so dide..þe prophete danyel in þe deen of lyonys.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16762 + 110 Þe fox has his den and ilk foghel is nest.
a1400 Octouian 582 The lady wente..To the tygre denne.
1585 J. B. tr. P. Viret School of Beastes: Good Housholder sig. Bijv It is a signe of rayne..when the Ante bringeth out of her hole and denne al her egges.
1611 Bible (King James) Job xxxvii. 8 Then the beastes goe into dennes: and remaine in their places. View more context for this quotation
1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. xiv. 338 And dar'st thou then To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall?
2. A place hollowed out of the ground, a cavern (†occasionally a pit). Obsolete or blended with senses 1 or 3.
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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Heb. xi. 38 Thei erringe in..dennys, and cauys of erthe.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 315 Þe lond of Sicilia is holow and ful of dennes [L. cavernosa].
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4185 Tac we him [sc. Joseph] out of yon den.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 212/2 Den, a hole in the grounde, cauerne.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cxcj [They] lurked in dennes and wholes secretly.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 215 Aron, and thou looke downe into this den . View more context for this quotation
1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 1 I lighted on a certain place, Where was a Denn; And I laid me down in that place to sleep. View more context for this quotation
1726 tr. J. Cavalier Mem. Wars Cevennes i. 101 I..had already search'd into several Denns and Caverns of the Mountains.
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 157 No churl immured in cave or den.
3. transferred and figurative.
a. A place of retreat or abode (likened to the lair of a beast); a secret lurking-place of thieves or the like (cf. Matthew xxi. 13).
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun] > lair, den > of thieves
denc1275
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > dwelling of specific types of people > of thieves or criminals
denc1275
case?1536
ken1567
nest1617
lumber1753
c1275 Pains of Hell 176 in Old Eng. Misc. 152 Vvrþer þer beoþ olde men Þat among neddren habbeþ heore den.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 14745 Ȝe hit make..A den to reset inne þeues.
c1450 How Wise Man tauȝt Sonne (Lamb. 853) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 52 How litil her good dooþ hem a-vaile Whanne þei be doluen in her den.
1588 E. Spenser Virgils Gnat 96 No such sad cares..Do ever creepe into the shepheards den.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 204 [They would have] made the Island a Den of Thieves.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 8 The cavern, where 'tis told A giant made his den of old.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxiii. 167 The very type of a robber den.
b. A small confined room or abode; esp. one unfit for human habitation.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > vile or miserable
hell-holec1400
dogholec1450
cabin1594
sty1605
hole1616
hogsty1688
gourbi1738
rathole1770
pigsty1798
hell's kitchen1827
den1836
kennel1837
pigpen1872
rural slum1886
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 15 The musicians were securely confined in an elevated den.
1840 T. A. Trollope Summer in Brittany I. 315 The frightful dens of some of the Manchester operatives.
1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon II. 100 The filthy den where her mother lived.
c. colloquial. A small room or lodging in which a man can seclude himself for work or leisure; as, ‘a bachelor's den’.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > private or inner room > study
studya1400
study place1563
closeta1600
studiolo1765
den1771
thinking box1911
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 238 So saying, he retreated into his den.
1816 W. Scott Let. 26 Nov. (1933) IV. 302 A little Boudoir..a good eating-room and a small den for myself in particular.
1882 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 709 [He] went off in the direction of his own den, a little room in which he smoked and kept his treasures.
4. The name given in the Lowlands of Scotland, and north of England, to the conventional enclosure or place of safety in boys' out-of-door games, called elsewhere the home, bay, or base.
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1901 R. C. Maclagan Games Argyleshire 22 Equal sides being chosen, a ‘den’..sufficiently large to contain the whole of the side who are ‘in’ is fixed.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren viii. 150 Den or denny. Occasionally used as truce term, from the ‘den’ or sanctuary of certain catching games.
1968 Proc. Leeds Philos. Soc., Lit. & Hist. Section XIII. ii. 56 There is the den, in which players line up to take their turn in striking.
5. ‘A deep hollow between hills; a dingle’ (Jamieson). Scottish regional. [‘Often applied to a wooded hollow’ (Jamieson), and then nearly synonymous with dean n.2; but not the same word.] In many place names, as Dura Den near Cupar Fife, The Den near Kirkcaldy, Hawthornden in Mid Lothian; but as a termination often representing earlier dene, dean.
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1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. Prol. f. iv In the vail or den quharin yow vsit to commit ydolatrie.
1786 R. Burns Poems 211 We'll sing auld Coila's..banks an' braes, her dens an' dells.
a1800 Ballad ‘The dowie dens of Yarrow.’
1806 W. Forbes Beattie II. 51 (Jam.) I have made several visits of late to the Den of Rubislaw. Note. A Den, in the vernacular language of Scotland..is synonymous with what in England is called a Dingle.
6. Anatomy. A cavity or hollow. Obsolete.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [noun] > depression or cavity
pita1275
holec1300
cella1398
den1398
follicle?a1425
purse?a1425
pocketa1450
fossac1475
cystis1543
trench1565
conceptory1576
vesike1577
vesicle1578
vault1594
socket1601
bladderet1615
cistern1615
cavern1626
ventricle1641
bladder1661
antrum1684
conceptaculum1691
capsule1693
cellule1694
loculus1694
sinus1704
vesicula1705
vesica1706
fosse1710
pouch1712
cyst1721
air chamber1725
fossula1733
alveole1739
sac1741
sacculus1749
locule1751
compartment1772
air cell1774
fossule1803
umbilicus1811
conceptacle1819
cœlia1820
utricle1822
air sac1835
saccule1836
ampulla1845
vacuole1853
scrobicule1880
faveolus1882
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iii. xxii. 70 Oute of a denne of the lyfte syde of the herte comyth a veyne.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 609 The implanted Ayre concluded within the dennes or cauities of the Eares.
1683 A. Snape Anat. Horse iii. xiv. 140 The Caverns or Cavities, by some called Dens.

Compounds

den-dreadful adj. dreadful with dens of wild beasts.
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1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis i. 8 Now past den-dreadfull Manalus confines [L. Maenala..latebris horrenda ferarum].

Draft additions 1993

A local meeting-place for Cub Scouts; hence (now the usual sense), a small subdivision of a Cub Scout pack. U.S.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > specific youth organizations > subdivision of
den1930
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > public building > [noun] > meeting-hall or house > for cub scouts
den1930
1930 Survey 15 Dec. 330/1 In each neighborhood is a ‘den’ where the boys meet.
1946 Parents' Mag. Jan. 52/2 Our den elected to have refreshments at each meeting.
1965 B. Grant Boy Scout Encycl. 51/2 A den is made up of from two to eight boys.
1985 Stockholm Stud. in Eng. 62 26 It is common for the mother of a Cub Scout to take charge of the home-centred subdivision of the Cub Scout Pack, the Den.

Draft additions 1993

den mother n. North American (originally U.S.) the woman leader of a den of Cub Scouts; also transferred.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > specific youth organizations > members of scouts or guides
Boy Scout1908
patrol leader1908
scout1908
scoutmaster1908
tenderfoot1908
captain1909
Girl Guide1909
Girl Scout1909
lieutenant1909
pathfinder1911
sea scout1911
rosebud1914
brownie1916
sixer1916
tenderpad1916
Brown Owl1918
rover1918
Rover Scout1918
ranger1920
tawny owl1921
Cub1922
Akela1924
scouter1930
Guider1931
den mother1936
Queen's Guide1946
Queen's Scout1952
Venture Scout1966
Beaver1975
skipper1986
1936 National Republic Feb. 4/2 The Den Mother is usually the kind of a mother whose yard..is usually full of boys anyway.
1961 M. Beadle These Ruins are Inhabited (1963) viii. 107 I put away my damask tablecloths years ago, and so did most American housewives, because we haven't time to wash and iron them and still be Den Mothers.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 4 Dec. 22/1 Linda's Pictures, for instance, is a collection of photographs by Linda McCartney, den mother to the Beatles.
1986 B. Freemantle Kremlin Kiss xxxvii. 269 You'll be here for years. You're going to become the den mother of the diplomatic wives.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

denn.2

Forms: also dene, deyn.
Etymology: Variant of Dan n.1
Scottish. Obsolete.
Sir, master; = Dan n.1
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [noun] > for gentleman
masterlOE
Danc1330
gentleman1416
denc1425
mastership1438
mister1523
maship1526
mast?1548
esquire1552
masterdom1575
squire1645
gentlemanship1653
Mus'1875
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. x. 92 (Jam.) The Abbot of Abbyrbrothok than, Den Henry.
c1480 (a1400) St. Mary of Egypt 1110 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 328 To ȝour abbot, dene Iohne, say.
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 199 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 101 Gret ganeris..That war demyt but dowt denyss douchty.
1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour l. 4670-2 in Wks. (1931) I All Monkrye..Ar callit Denis, for dignite; Quhowbeit his mother mylk the kow, He man be callit Dene Androw.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

denv.1

Brit. /dɛn/, U.S. /dɛn/
Etymology: < den n.1
1. reflexive (or passive). To ensconce or hide oneself in (or as in) a den.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > secrete oneself [verb (reflexive)]
denc1220
burrow1837
c1220 Bestiary 36 Wu he dennede him in ðat defte meiden, Marie bi name.
1613 T. Heywood Siluer Age iii. sig. G If he be den'd, Il'e rouze the monstrous beast.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vii. 315 A pit digged to hide the Gunner..the Gunner lay denned, and durst not stirre.
1823 J. Galt Entail II. xvii. 157 Hae ye ony ark or amrie..where a body might den himsel till they're out o' the gate and away?
2. intransitive. To live or dwell in a den; to escape into, or hide oneself in, a den. to den up: to retire into a den for the winter, as a hibernating animal. (U.S. colloquial.)
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > inhabit type of place [verb (intransitive)] > dwell in or as in other buildings
cabin1586
den1610
stable1651
hut1691
templea1711
bog-trota1734
sty1748
village1819
shanty1840
shack1895
flat1966
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > be or hide in secret place [verb (intransitive)]
squata1425
den1610
hole1828
to hole up1890
the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (intransitive)] > hibernate
latibulize1802
hibernate1816
to den up1843
to hole up1890
1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 30 The sluggish saluages, that den belowe.
1724 P. Dudley in Philos. Trans. 1722–3 (Royal Soc.) 32 295 They generally den among the Rocks in great Numbers together.
1843 Amer. Pioneer 2 171 In that climate [sc. of Canada] the bears usually den up in the winter, and lie in something of a torpid state.
c1860 Tom Taylor in Thornbury Two Cent. of Song (1867) 261 In a dingier set of chambers no man need wish to stow, Than those, old friend, wherein we denned, at Ten, Crown Office Row.
1894 Home Missionary (N.Y.) Jan. 463 Our people..are inclined to ‘den up’ in the hot weather, as certain animals..do in the cold season.
1918 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 187/1 The brown bear usually ‘dens up’ early in the season.
3. to den out: to drive (a beast) out of its den; to unearth. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (transitive)] > drive from lair or cover
starta1393
raisec1425
to put upa1475
rear1486
uprear1486
to start out1519
rouse1531
uncouch?a1562
to den outa1604
dislodge1632
tufta1640
draw1781
jump1836
a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 203 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) [They] burned their Cabbans and Cottages, and such as dwelt in caves and rockes under ground (as the manner is to denne out Foxes) they fired and smothered to death.

Derivatives

denned adj. and n. /dɛnd/
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [adjective] > of animal: lurking in a den
denned1854
1854 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 21 165 Arousing a denned lion.
denning n.
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the world > animals > by habitat > habitat > [noun] > dwelling place or shelter
houseOE
denOE
holdc1275
lying-placea1382
coucha1398
homea1398
logis1477
starting-hole1530
cabbage1567
lodge1567
lair1575
lay1590
squat1590
hover1602
denning1622
start-holea1641
bed1694
niche1725
shed1821
lying1834
basking-hole1856
lie1869
homesite1882
holt1890
lying-ground1895
1622 S. Ward Woe to Drunkards (1627) 45 In such townes this Serpent hath no nestling, no stabling, or denning.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

denv.2

Etymology: Etymology doubtful: compare dem v.1
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To dam up.
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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [verb (transitive)] > impound water > dam
stop1398
demc1400
stem?c1450
den1487
dam1563
bay1605
stanch1643
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiv. 354 This fals tratour his men had maid..The ysche of a louch to den [rhyme men].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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