n. [ Prob. from Crandall, a proper name. ] (Stonecutting) A kind of hammer having a head formed of a group of pointed steel bars, used for dressing ashlar, etc. -- v. t. To dress with a crandall. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. pl. [ F. dalle a tube, gutter, trough. ] A rapid, esp. one where the channel is narrowed between rock walls. [ Northwestern U. S. & Canada ]

The place below, where the compressed river wound like a silver thread among the flat black rocks, was the far-famed Dalles of the Columbia. F. H. Balch. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ From Dally. ] 1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. [ 1913 Webster ]

Look thou be true, do not give dalliance
Too much the rein. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

O, the dalliance and the wit,
The flattery and the strife! Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Delay or procrastination. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Entertaining discourse. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who fondles; a trifler; as, dalliers with pleasant words. Asham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a tall tufted perennial tropical American grass (Paspalum dilatatum) naturalized as pasture and forage grass in the southern U.S.
Syn. -- paspalum, Paspalum dilatatum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Etymol. unknown. ] A tuft or clump. [ Obs. ] Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Dallied p. pr. & vb. n. Dallying. ] [ OE. dalien, dailien; cf. Icel. pylja to talk, G. dallen, dalen, dahlen, to trifle, talk nonsense, OSw. tule a droll or funny man; or AS. dol foolish, E. dull. ] 1. To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle. [ 1913 Webster ]

We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer. Calamy. [ 1913 Webster ]

We have put off God, and dallied with his grace. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not dallying with a brace of courtesans. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our aerie . . . dallies with the wind. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To delay unnecessarily; to while away. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dallying off the time with often skirmishes. Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ See Dally. ] To loiter or trifle; to waste time. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a feudal manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In periods of seven days; weekly. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Heimdal.
Syn. -- Heimdal, Heimdallr. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Same as Heimdal.
Syn. -- Heimdall, Heimdal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a capacious bag or basket.
Syn. -- carryall, tote, tote bag. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or pertaining to a medal, or to medals. “Our medallic history.” Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. médaillion, It. medaglione, augm. of medaglia. See Medal. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A large medal or memorial coin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A circular or oval (or, sometimes, square) tablet bearing a figure or figures represented in relief. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a modal manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

A compound proposition, the parts of which are united modally . . . by the particles “as” and “so.” Gibbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle; a pedaler.
Syn. -- pedaler. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. Like a pyramid. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) The meadow fescue (Festuca elatior). See under Grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a sigmoidal manner. [ 1913 Webster ]