Dare \Dare\, n. 1. The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash. [R.]
It lends a luster . . . A large dare to our great enterprise. --Shak.
2. Defiance; challenge.
Childish, unworthy dares Are not enought to part our powers. --Chapman.
Sextus Pompeius Hath given the dare to C[ae]sar. --Shak.
Dare \Dare\, v. i. [OE. darien, to lie hidden, be timid.] To lurk; to lie hid. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Dare \Dare\, v. t. To terrify; to daunt. [Obs.]
For I have done those follies, those mad mischiefs, Would dare a woman. --Beau. & Fl.
{To dare larks}, to catch them by producing terror through to use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them. --Nares.
Dare \Dare\ (d[^a]r), v. i. [imp. {Durst} (d[^u]rst) or {Dared} (d[^a]rd); p. p. {Dared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Daring}.] [OE. I dar, dear, I dare, imp. dorste, durste, AS. ic dear I dare, imp. dorste. inf. durran; akin to OS. gidar, gidorsta, gidurran, OHG. tar, torsta, turran, Goth. gadar, gada['u]rsta, Gr. tharsei^n, tharrei^n, to be bold, tharsy`s bold, Skr. Dhrsh to be bold. [root]70.] To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.
I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. --Shak.
Why then did not the ministers use their new law? Bacause they durst not, because they could not. --Macaulay.
Who dared to sully her sweet love with suspicion. --Thackeray.
The tie of party was stronger than the tie of blood, because a partisan was more ready to dare without asking why. --Jowett (Thu?yd.).
Note: The present tense, I dare, is really an old past tense, so that the third person is he dare, but the form he dares is now often used, and will probably displace the obsolescent he dare, through grammatically as incorrect as he shalls or he cans. --Skeat.
The pore dar plede (the poor man dare plead). --P. Plowman.
You know one dare not discover you. --Dryden.
The fellow dares not deceive me. --Shak.
Here boldly spread thy hands, no venom'd weed Dares blister them, no slimy snail dare creep. --Beau. & Fl.
Note: Formerly durst was also used as the present. Sometimes the old form dare is found for durst or dared.
Dare \Dare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Daring}.] 1. To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake.
What high concentration of steady feeling makes men dare every thing and do anything? --Bagehot.
To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes. --The Century.
2. To challenge; to provoke; to defy.
Time, I dare thee to discover Such a youth and such a lover. --Dryden.
Dare \Dare\, n. [See {Dace}.] (Zo["o]l.) A small fish; the dace.
Dace \Dace\ (d[=a]s), n. [Written also dare, dart, fr. F. dard dase, dart, of German origin. Dace is for an older darce, fr. an OF. nom. darz. See {Dart} a javelin.] (Zo["o]l.) A small European cyprinoid fish ({Leuciscus leuciscus}, formerly {Squalius leuciscus} or {Leuciscus vulgaris}); -- called also {dare}. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Note: In America the name is given to several related fishes of the genera {Squalius}, {Minnilus}, etc. The black-nosed dace is {Rhinichthys atronasus} the horned dace is {Semotilus corporalis}. For red dace, see {Redfin}.
I was about to step forth on a dare from my editor when a spaced-out blonde weaved out of the crowd.
Since Midas, perhaps since Adam, the consequences of risky business have been spurned to the peril of those who dare to pursue happiness a little too voraciously.
Few dare to speak out in fear of reprisal.
President Bush worked the telephones hard Sunday, calling British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, five Republican candidates around the country and a Houston woman whose name he picked from the phone book on a dare.
A high grade is a prediction that (a worker) will perform well 10 years from now under conditions nobody would dare foretell.
"I still can't believe that UNO won," Maritza Arguello, wife of a coffee grower, said Tuesday. "I'm just sitting quietly until it actually happens." "They didn't dare celebrate in the streets.
The only other travelers who regularly dare this gauntlet are Pashtun-speaking tribesmen taking their scrawny camels to meat markets in Kabul.
Many small-business owners claim they've already trimmed their companies as much as they dare.
As for Saddam, stalling any further is a dare to come and get him.
"I think I am far better than him _ I dare say it straight to his face _ because I can do things he can, but he can't do things I can," the baby-faced Chan boasted in a recent interview.
"These folks want to run the presidency from Capitol Hill, and they want to have the Supreme Court enact the laws that Capitol Hill does not dare," Bork said.
Everything has to follow a prearranged program from which only the most senior officials dare to stray.
Sasha, a 24-year-old Soviet, said young people didn't dare act out for fear of reprisals from the omnipresent law enforcement authorities.
"We expect that nobody would dare to attack the Red Cross," said one of deserter there, 20-year-old Darius Baceulis.
But observers characterize the men who have led the government since he stepped down as long-time associates of Ne Win who dare not make any major move without his assent.
It prefers Israeli occupation, though it dare not say so.
The United States should "dare not ignore" signals that gas emissions may be heating up the Earth, but it's too early to set limits on carbon dioxide exhaust, the nation's environmental chief said.
One is that it dare not further alienate constituents by adding the insult of a confusing new defence philosophy to the injury of reduced military spending.
NBC News "Today" anchor Bryant Gumbel, on a dare from weatherman Willard Scott, showed some on-air versatility.
Last week, ice around the holes was so thin biologists did not dare walk on it.
Because, unlike Hispanics, nobody would dare suggest that those people need to be `protected' from advertising." Duran said many Hispanic publications would collapse if the government bans tobacco and alcohol advertising.
It appears that however disillusioned investors are with the outlook for consumer spending, they dare not be out of the most obvious recovery sector.
Like the food retailers last year, the stronger players must be tempted to get in first and challenge their weaker competitors to follow if they dare.
"There would be people who would not dare to be (off) ill if their employer controlled" sick payments, she said.
If it is done, and done well, I dare say we will look kindly upon the turbines of the West Riding.
She soared west across the Atlantic on a celebrated dare 52 years ago, and then fell into obscurity.
There's no one on the horizon who would dare go up against the AARP."
Or, even if they know they cannot, they dare not admit it. But when I say someone cannot write, I am not branding them illiterate.
I didn't dare to ask them.'
Such high energy levels will undoubtedly be needed to persuade City investors to put money into a company situated in an area which many of them would not even dare visit. And not without good reason.