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darts

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dart  (därt)
n.
1.
a. A slender, pointed missile, often having tail fins, thrown by hand, shot from a blowgun, or expelled by an exploding bomb.
b. An object likened to a slender, pointed missile either in shape, use, or effect.
2. The stinger of an insect.
3. darts (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Games A game in which small, slender, pointed missiles are thrown at a target.
4. A sudden, rapid movement.
5. A tapered tuck sewn to adjust the fit of a garment.
v. dart·ed, dart·ing, darts
v.intr.
To move suddenly and rapidly: The dog darted across the street.
v.tr.
1. To thrust or throw suddenly and rapidly.
2. To cause to move swiftly and abruptly: The squirrel darted its head from side to side before scampering up the tree.
3. To shoot (an animal) with a tranquilizing dart.

[Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin.]

darts
Noun
a game in which darts are thrown at a dartboard
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.dartsdarts - a game in which small pointed missiles are thrown at a dartboard
board game - a game played on a specially designed board
Translations
darts [dɑːts] ndardos mpl
darts [dɑːts] dart njeu m de fléchettes
darts [dɑːts] dart nDarts nt, Pfeilwurfspiel nt
darts [dɑːts] ntiro al bersaglio (con freccette)


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And, lastly, the Owl, seeing an archer approach, predicted that this man, being on foot, would contrive darts armed with feathers which would fly faster than the wings of the Birds themselves.
Several times she made little darts, as if at last resolved to escape from that detestable street, and faltered and returned like a bird to the weasel.
As he watches the spasmodic shoots and darts that break out of her face and limbs, like fitful lightning out of a dark sky, some contagion in them seizes upon him: insomuch that he has to withdraw himself to a lean arm-chair by the hearth--placed there, perhaps, for such emergencies--and to sit in it, holding tight, until he has got the better of this unclean spirit of imitation.
 
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