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dart

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1. dart - Noun

2. dart - Verb

3. Dart - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds like a dart.

A spear set as a prize in running.

A fish; the dace. See Dace.

To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.

To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams.

To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart.

To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start. Jean de La Fontaine

Like a young eagle who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom, See their own feathers pluck'd to wing the dart Which rank corruption destines for their heart. Thomas Moore

The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board. Dennis Miller

The poison dart hidden in the raisin tart.... Christopher Paolini

She wondered if she could put a dart in his eye. It would not kill him, but it might take the edge off his cockiness. Alastair Reynolds

Malignity, therefore, may dart its shafts, but no earthly power can deprive me of the consolation of knowing that I have not, in the whole course of my Administration (however numerous they may have been) committed an intentional error. George Washington

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