Durst

Verb
durst


 * Four and Twenty tailors went to kill a snail; the best man among them durst not touch her tail...
 * 1) * 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 6, Monk Samson
 * nor was there a monk who durst speak to me, nor a laic who durst bring me food except by stealth.
 * 1) * 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
 * Captain Smollett, the squire, and Dr. Livesey were talking together on the quarterdeck, and, anxious as I was to tell them my story, I durst not interrupt them.
 * 1) * 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXX, lines 1-2:
 * Others, I am not the first,
 * ''Have willed more mischief than they durst'
 * 1) * William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 2, Scene 2, lines 82-83
 * Pretty soul, she durst not lie, near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.
 * Pretty soul, she durst not lie, near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.

Derived terms

 * dursn't

Anagrams

 * turds

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