Vocabulary : Dandy to Danegelt

Dandy : One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb. ;; A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set. ;; A small sail carried at or near the stern of small boats; -- called also jigger, and mizzen. ;; A dandy roller. See below.
Dandy-cock : Alt. of Dandy-hen
Dandy-hen : A bantam fowl.
Dandyise : To make, or to act, like a dandy; to dandify.
Dandyish : Like a dandy.

Dandyism : The manners and dress of a dandy; foppishness.
Dandyling : A little or insignificant dandy; a contemptible fop.
Dane : A native, or a naturalized inhabitant, of Denmark.
Danegeld : Alt. of Danegelt
Danegelt : An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm.

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