Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Dart"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Dart
an instrument of war; a light spear. "Fiery darts" (Eph. 6:16)
are so called in allusion to the habit of discharging darts from
the bow while they are on fire or armed with some combustible
material. Arrows are compared to lightning (Deut. 32:23, 42; Ps.
7:13; 120:4).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dart \Dart\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Darted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Darting}.]
1. To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or
other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.
2. To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to
shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams.
Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart? --Pope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dart \Dart\, v. i.
1. To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart.
2. To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along;
as, the deer darted from the thicket.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dart \Dart\, n. [OF. dart, of German origin; cf. OHG. tart
javelin, dart, AS. dara?, daro?, Sw. dart dagger, Icel.
darra?r dart.]
1. A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the
hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed
missile weapon, as an arrow.
And he [Joab] took three darts in his hand, and
thrust them through the heart of Absalom. --2 Sa.
xviii. 14.
2. Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or
wounds like a dart.
The artful inquiry, whose venomed dart Scarce wounds
the hearing while it stabs the heart. --Hannan More.
3. A spear set as a prize in running. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
4. (Zo["o]l.) A fish; the dace. See {Dace}.
{Dart sac} (Zo["o]l.), a sac connected with the reproductive
organs of land snails, which contains a dart, or arrowlike
structure.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dart
n 1: a small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot
2: a tapered tuck made in dressmaking
3: a sudden quick movement [syn: {flit}]
v 1: move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart [syn: {flit}, {flutter},
{fleet}]
2: run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the
yard" [syn: {dash}, {scoot}, {scud}, {flash}, {shoot}]
3: move with sudden speed; "His forefinger darted in all
directions as he spoke"
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